DOI issue:
Nr 76 (July 1899)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0147
Studio-Talk
curiously artificial but extremely attrac-
tive work. Many of them are portraits
of pretty children, and elegant young
women whose fashionable graces he has
a knack of treating most seductively.
Apart from their subjects, however, these
examples of his work are full of interest
on account of the beauty of technical
performance which they display. They
are handled with consummate skill, and
have in the highest degree the charm that
belongs to exquisite craftsmanship.
Some very important pictures by great
foreign artists have lately been on view
at Messrs. Obach’s Gallery—canvases by
Corot, Jacque, Diaz, Rousseau, Troyon,
Harpignies, and other men of like con-
viction. Hardly anything was included
in the collection which was not marked
by technical merits of the most notable
kind, and the general atmosphere of the
show was eminently impressive. The
one picture which overshadowed all the
rest was a magnificent landscape, The
Harvest Moon, by Daubigny, one of those
EMBROIDERED PANEL
BY PHILIP AINSWORTH
EMBROIDERED PANEL
BY PHILIP AINSWORTH
superbly constructed and
exquisitely understood re-
cords of nature which he
could, at his best, produce
with a degree of mastery
that scarcely any of his
contemporaries could
equal. Its qualities of
handling, its subtlety of
atmosphere, and charm of
colour, were quite super-
lative, and its presence in
the show added a touch of
rare distinction to a col-
lection already remarkable.
Up - to - dateness is not
usually a feature of designs
intended for embroidery,
and it is with all the more
pleasure, therefore, that we
give illustrations of two
panels by Mr. Philip Ains-
worth, which show a dis-
tinctly modern feeling.
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curiously artificial but extremely attrac-
tive work. Many of them are portraits
of pretty children, and elegant young
women whose fashionable graces he has
a knack of treating most seductively.
Apart from their subjects, however, these
examples of his work are full of interest
on account of the beauty of technical
performance which they display. They
are handled with consummate skill, and
have in the highest degree the charm that
belongs to exquisite craftsmanship.
Some very important pictures by great
foreign artists have lately been on view
at Messrs. Obach’s Gallery—canvases by
Corot, Jacque, Diaz, Rousseau, Troyon,
Harpignies, and other men of like con-
viction. Hardly anything was included
in the collection which was not marked
by technical merits of the most notable
kind, and the general atmosphere of the
show was eminently impressive. The
one picture which overshadowed all the
rest was a magnificent landscape, The
Harvest Moon, by Daubigny, one of those
EMBROIDERED PANEL
BY PHILIP AINSWORTH
EMBROIDERED PANEL
BY PHILIP AINSWORTH
superbly constructed and
exquisitely understood re-
cords of nature which he
could, at his best, produce
with a degree of mastery
that scarcely any of his
contemporaries could
equal. Its qualities of
handling, its subtlety of
atmosphere, and charm of
colour, were quite super-
lative, and its presence in
the show added a touch of
rare distinction to a col-
lection already remarkable.
Up - to - dateness is not
usually a feature of designs
intended for embroidery,
and it is with all the more
pleasure, therefore, that we
give illustrations of two
panels by Mr. Philip Ains-
worth, which show a dis-
tinctly modern feeling.
124