DOI Heft:
Nr 76 (July 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0146
Studio-Talk
HIGH MASS, BURGOS CATHEDRAL
BY P. FLETCHER-WATSON
and drawings by Josef Israels, Mauve, Bosboom,
and W. Maris, greatly help the show.
At the French Gallery a monumental canvas
by a noted master made a centre of interest
in an exhibition of very high quality. Turner’s
Raby Castle, Yorkshire, a superb example of his
finest and most accomplished achievement,
appeared to represent the British School at its
best, and gave visitors to the gallery an excellent
chance of comparing his robust method with the
daintier artifices of Corot or the more formal pre-
conceptions of Troyon. In this way, and as an
illustration of the practice of the French roman-
ticists, Corot’s Danse des Nymphes was scarcely
less significant than the Raby Castle ; and Troyon’s
Driving Geese was equally acceptable as an
avowal of one particular phase of artistic belief.
The juxtaposition of three such canvases was
most instructive ; and as with them were shown
other works of leading masters, the collection
altogether was exceptionally valuable as an
educational display.
The majority of our readers will be familiar with
the subtlety and charm of Mr. Martin Harvey’s
fine performance at the Prince of Wales’ Theatre
of Sydney Carton in “ The Only Way.” A clever
performance deserves a clever poster, and this has
been supplied by Mr. John Hassall. A reproduc-
tion of it appears upon the opposite page.
Mr. P. Fletcher-Watson, whose drawing, High
Mass, Burgos Cathedral, is reproduced, is well
known as the founder and first President of the
Australian Academy of Arts, an association that
has done much to spread a taste for art in the
colonies. He is a sincere and skilful artist, with a
sound knowledge of technical essentials, and has
exhibited good work from time to time in this
country.
Mr. Mortimer Menpes has, as usual, something
fresh to say in the exhibition of his work which is
now open at Messrs. Dowdeswell’s Gallery. In
addition to the portraits of Mrs. Brown Potter
referred to on page 91, he is showing a few
coloured etchings, among which is to be noted a
very successful portrait of Sir Henry Irving, and
also some pencil drawings, faintly tinted with colour,
which illustrate an original adaptation of a device
which was fashionable many years ago.
M. Paul Helleu is exhibiting some extremely
characteristic etchings and pastel drawings at
Mr. Dunthorne’s Gallery, delightful examples of his
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HIGH MASS, BURGOS CATHEDRAL
BY P. FLETCHER-WATSON
and drawings by Josef Israels, Mauve, Bosboom,
and W. Maris, greatly help the show.
At the French Gallery a monumental canvas
by a noted master made a centre of interest
in an exhibition of very high quality. Turner’s
Raby Castle, Yorkshire, a superb example of his
finest and most accomplished achievement,
appeared to represent the British School at its
best, and gave visitors to the gallery an excellent
chance of comparing his robust method with the
daintier artifices of Corot or the more formal pre-
conceptions of Troyon. In this way, and as an
illustration of the practice of the French roman-
ticists, Corot’s Danse des Nymphes was scarcely
less significant than the Raby Castle ; and Troyon’s
Driving Geese was equally acceptable as an
avowal of one particular phase of artistic belief.
The juxtaposition of three such canvases was
most instructive ; and as with them were shown
other works of leading masters, the collection
altogether was exceptionally valuable as an
educational display.
The majority of our readers will be familiar with
the subtlety and charm of Mr. Martin Harvey’s
fine performance at the Prince of Wales’ Theatre
of Sydney Carton in “ The Only Way.” A clever
performance deserves a clever poster, and this has
been supplied by Mr. John Hassall. A reproduc-
tion of it appears upon the opposite page.
Mr. P. Fletcher-Watson, whose drawing, High
Mass, Burgos Cathedral, is reproduced, is well
known as the founder and first President of the
Australian Academy of Arts, an association that
has done much to spread a taste for art in the
colonies. He is a sincere and skilful artist, with a
sound knowledge of technical essentials, and has
exhibited good work from time to time in this
country.
Mr. Mortimer Menpes has, as usual, something
fresh to say in the exhibition of his work which is
now open at Messrs. Dowdeswell’s Gallery. In
addition to the portraits of Mrs. Brown Potter
referred to on page 91, he is showing a few
coloured etchings, among which is to be noted a
very successful portrait of Sir Henry Irving, and
also some pencil drawings, faintly tinted with colour,
which illustrate an original adaptation of a device
which was fashionable many years ago.
M. Paul Helleu is exhibiting some extremely
characteristic etchings and pastel drawings at
Mr. Dunthorne’s Gallery, delightful examples of his
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