Studio: international art (16.1899)

Studio- Talk

discontinued owing to a large secession of members.
The schools, however, were still carried on, and
then came the establishment of the Liverpool
Autumn Exhibition in 1870.

Among deceased members appear prominently
the names of S. Austin, J. W. Oakes, R.A.,
Richard Andsell, R.A., Robert Tonge, William
Davis, William Huggins, Alfred Hunt, R.W.S., and
S. Williamson.

In the new movement nearly every artist and
professional art-worker of note in the city and
neighbourhood is enrolled, and Mr. G. Hall Neale
is acting as hon. secretary. Convenient rooms
have been secured in a central position, and a
thoroughly representative exhibition of local art
is confidently expected. The exhibition opens on
May 15. H. B. B.

AMSTERDAM.— The first place
amongst all Josef Israels' paintings
will very likely be assigned one day to
his most recent work entitled Saul and
David. No one who has seen Israels
moving nimbly about on the wooden scaffolding in
front of this large picture could believe that he is
an old man of well-nigh eighty years, who tells us
with so much enthusiasm of the preliminary studies
that he has made for this work, of all the patient
labour of months before he arrived at the splendid
result which is now nearing completion.

Saul, the wretched King of Judah, is tossing to
and fro on his couch with the restlessness of in-
cipient insanity, one tightly-clenched hand folded
on his knee, the other convulsively clutching his
long, unkempt hair. His daughter, David's future
wife, is seated near her father's couch, trying to
soothe his anguish with patient, gentle words.
Deep shadows are falling over this part of the