DOI issue:
Nr. 75 (June 1899)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0062
Studio-Talk
be reckoned as leaders in the movements by which
their country is distinguished. The examples of
the art of such admirable painters as MM. Mat-
thew, James, and William Maris, A. Mauve, Josef
Israels, J. Bosboom, G. Poggenbeek, and A.
Neuhuys, are selected with the best of judgment,
and their subtle and earnest view of Nature is
presented with a degree of persuasiveness that
makes such a gathering of their work most accept-
able to every lover of aesthetic sincerity. But the
show is of value not only because it illustrates well
the methods of the present day, but also because it
affords an opportunity of comparing with them the
devices of the masters of bygone times. Some
small but characteristic pictures and drawings by
Rembrandt, Gerard Dow, J. De Wit, A. Stork,
Vroom, and others, hang beside the later canvases,
and help appreciably to give an air of distinction
to the gallery. If so excellent a standard of selec-
tion, and so sound a policy of management are
maintained, this new headquarters of Dutch art
will not be long in making for itself a very pro-
minent place among London exhibitions.
We give an illustration here of Mr. Alexander
Fisher’s beautiful silver and enamel triptych, now
on view at the Royal Academy.
The collection of portraits and pictures of child-
ren, which at present occupies the Goupil Gallery,
has the double attraction of dealing with an ex-
tremely popular subject, and of presenting an
array of good works by eminent artists. The chief
canvases that call for notice among the half-cen-
tury or so for which space has been found on
the walls, are Mr. Clausen’s charmingly handled
Children atid Roses, the exquisitely idealised rustic
type Jill, by Mr. G. F. Watts, Mr. J. Coutts
Michie’s Miss Muriel Dalgarno, Mrs. J. M.
Swan’s Stringing Beads,
Mr. E. A. Walton’s Miss
Cecile Walton, and the
pictures by MM. James
Maris, Harrington Mann,
B. J. Blommers, W. Maris,
and James Guthrie. A
great deal of care has been
taken in choosing for ex-
hibition works that agree
in type and character, so
that there is no touch of
discordance in the collec-
tion, and the atmosphere
of the show is perfectly
logical and appropriate.
It would not be easy to
find a better instance of
the applicability of art to
common things than is
provided by the lamp-post
which has just been exe-
cuted by Mr. Alfred
Drury, for erection in the
City Square at Leeds.
He has brought to bear
upon this strictly utilita-
rian object all his resources
of design and craftsman-
ship, and has produced as
a result something that is,
without any denial of its
triptych in silver ANn enamel ny alexanper fisher legitimate purpose, per-
47
be reckoned as leaders in the movements by which
their country is distinguished. The examples of
the art of such admirable painters as MM. Mat-
thew, James, and William Maris, A. Mauve, Josef
Israels, J. Bosboom, G. Poggenbeek, and A.
Neuhuys, are selected with the best of judgment,
and their subtle and earnest view of Nature is
presented with a degree of persuasiveness that
makes such a gathering of their work most accept-
able to every lover of aesthetic sincerity. But the
show is of value not only because it illustrates well
the methods of the present day, but also because it
affords an opportunity of comparing with them the
devices of the masters of bygone times. Some
small but characteristic pictures and drawings by
Rembrandt, Gerard Dow, J. De Wit, A. Stork,
Vroom, and others, hang beside the later canvases,
and help appreciably to give an air of distinction
to the gallery. If so excellent a standard of selec-
tion, and so sound a policy of management are
maintained, this new headquarters of Dutch art
will not be long in making for itself a very pro-
minent place among London exhibitions.
We give an illustration here of Mr. Alexander
Fisher’s beautiful silver and enamel triptych, now
on view at the Royal Academy.
The collection of portraits and pictures of child-
ren, which at present occupies the Goupil Gallery,
has the double attraction of dealing with an ex-
tremely popular subject, and of presenting an
array of good works by eminent artists. The chief
canvases that call for notice among the half-cen-
tury or so for which space has been found on
the walls, are Mr. Clausen’s charmingly handled
Children atid Roses, the exquisitely idealised rustic
type Jill, by Mr. G. F. Watts, Mr. J. Coutts
Michie’s Miss Muriel Dalgarno, Mrs. J. M.
Swan’s Stringing Beads,
Mr. E. A. Walton’s Miss
Cecile Walton, and the
pictures by MM. James
Maris, Harrington Mann,
B. J. Blommers, W. Maris,
and James Guthrie. A
great deal of care has been
taken in choosing for ex-
hibition works that agree
in type and character, so
that there is no touch of
discordance in the collec-
tion, and the atmosphere
of the show is perfectly
logical and appropriate.
It would not be easy to
find a better instance of
the applicability of art to
common things than is
provided by the lamp-post
which has just been exe-
cuted by Mr. Alfred
Drury, for erection in the
City Square at Leeds.
He has brought to bear
upon this strictly utilita-
rian object all his resources
of design and craftsman-
ship, and has produced as
a result something that is,
without any denial of its
triptych in silver ANn enamel ny alexanper fisher legitimate purpose, per-
47