Studio: international art (20.1900)

Studio-Talk

the Irish labourer—is inevitably foredoomed to
migrate to England, the land where there is gold,
or is it that the Royal Hibernian Academicians
have reached the stage of old fogeyhood, and
cannot attract younger men to their relief. I do
not know, but the fact remains that few of
the pictures displayed each year cn the walls
of the Royal Hibernian Academy reach the
level of mediocrity, while of the existence of any
community of thought, or similarity of ideal
amongst the exhibitors, there are no traces
whatever. Good pictures are occasionally to be
found amongst those exhibited, and among
the best of the R.H.A.'s is undoubtedly Mr.
Nathaniel Hone, who still refuses to break
new ground, and gives us three or four of
his strong and breezy impressions, in all of
which his characteristic force and abhorrence
of detail and the British Philistine are equally

leaded glass mosaic by stephen adam & son

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than usual in the four pictures exhibited this
year, all of which were, I think, sold. This was
so essentially a ladies' exhibition that I find I
have made but few notes with regard to the male
exhibitors, who were, indeed, both outnumbered
and outclassed by their feminine rivals. Mr.
Bingham MacGuinness, however, deserves more
than a passing mention. He is one of the most
distinguished as well as one of the most facile
of our water-colour artists, and showed several
landscapes in which the skies were beautifully
luminous, the effect being obtained without any
apparent effort.

The exhibition of the Royal Hibernian Academy,
which is open as I write, is smaller in quantity this
year than usual, and alas ! I fail to see that rise in
quality which could be wished. Is it that the Irish leaded glass mosaic by Stephen adam & son

artist—like the Irish writer, the Irish soldier, and (See Glasgow Studio-Talk)

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