DOI Heft:
No. 80 (November, 1899)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Artists' treasures, [1]: Mr. E. A. Waterlow's collection
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0112
A rtists Treasures
round his helmet. Beyond the figures a swan is
swimming on the pool, and the background is a
moonlit sky. No colour is introduced, the design
is carried out in a monochrome of warm brown,
yet the hint of atmospheric effect and of the
mystery of twilight is curiously correct. A little
composition of two figures, Paolo and Francesca, is
also of real interest, and"is worthy of remark as
well on account of its coincidence of general design
with the Orpheus and Eurydice of Mr. G. F. Watts.
In the London Garden the faculty which Pinwell
possessed for recording with few touches and abso-
lute economy of labour the salient features of his
subject is especially well illustrated. The motive
of the sketch is trivial enough, but its exactness
of observation is beyond question.
More detailed than the Pinwell sketches, but
yet agreeable in their ready directness, are such
little pictures as Surprised by Mr. Seymour Lucas,
and The Heath by Mr. E. F. Brewtnall. Mr.
Seymour Lucas has dealt with one of those scenes
from the domestic life of bygone centuries that
he understands so well—a tete-a-tete between two
young people interrupted by the appearance of an
unwelcome parent—and has painted it with com-
mendable vivacity and enjoyment of the point of
the story. Mr. Brewtnall has set himself, as he is
apt to do, to depict the turmoil of nature and the
effective contrasts of a vehement atmospheric
effect. The Heath is really a study of stormy sun-
set, with wild windy clouds hurrying across the sky
and dark trees swaying in the breeze. A small
figure of a traveller on a white horse riding along
the road that winds over the moor helps to make
effective the sentiment of the whole design. A
fairer aspect of nature is given by Mr. G. H.
Boughton in his Girls Nutting, a fresh sunny
landscape touched with the warm tints of early
autumn, and delightfully delicate in its gentle har-
mony of colour; or in the little water-colours by
Mr. J. Aumonier, and the late G. P. Boyce, which
are included among Mr. Waterlow's treasures.
Mr. F. G. Cotman, however, like Mr. Brewtnall,
enjoys stronger fare. There is a Sunset by him
that is of amazing force, a study of dark clouds
half veiling a flaming sky which is reflected below
STUDIES
94
BY LORD LEIGHTON, P. R.A.
round his helmet. Beyond the figures a swan is
swimming on the pool, and the background is a
moonlit sky. No colour is introduced, the design
is carried out in a monochrome of warm brown,
yet the hint of atmospheric effect and of the
mystery of twilight is curiously correct. A little
composition of two figures, Paolo and Francesca, is
also of real interest, and"is worthy of remark as
well on account of its coincidence of general design
with the Orpheus and Eurydice of Mr. G. F. Watts.
In the London Garden the faculty which Pinwell
possessed for recording with few touches and abso-
lute economy of labour the salient features of his
subject is especially well illustrated. The motive
of the sketch is trivial enough, but its exactness
of observation is beyond question.
More detailed than the Pinwell sketches, but
yet agreeable in their ready directness, are such
little pictures as Surprised by Mr. Seymour Lucas,
and The Heath by Mr. E. F. Brewtnall. Mr.
Seymour Lucas has dealt with one of those scenes
from the domestic life of bygone centuries that
he understands so well—a tete-a-tete between two
young people interrupted by the appearance of an
unwelcome parent—and has painted it with com-
mendable vivacity and enjoyment of the point of
the story. Mr. Brewtnall has set himself, as he is
apt to do, to depict the turmoil of nature and the
effective contrasts of a vehement atmospheric
effect. The Heath is really a study of stormy sun-
set, with wild windy clouds hurrying across the sky
and dark trees swaying in the breeze. A small
figure of a traveller on a white horse riding along
the road that winds over the moor helps to make
effective the sentiment of the whole design. A
fairer aspect of nature is given by Mr. G. H.
Boughton in his Girls Nutting, a fresh sunny
landscape touched with the warm tints of early
autumn, and delightfully delicate in its gentle har-
mony of colour; or in the little water-colours by
Mr. J. Aumonier, and the late G. P. Boyce, which
are included among Mr. Waterlow's treasures.
Mr. F. G. Cotman, however, like Mr. Brewtnall,
enjoys stronger fare. There is a Sunset by him
that is of amazing force, a study of dark clouds
half veiling a flaming sky which is reflected below
STUDIES
94
BY LORD LEIGHTON, P. R.A.