DOI Heft:
No. 89 (Aug. 1900)
DOI Artikel:D'Anvers, N.: James Aumonier and his work
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0174
James Aumonier
coloured relief by g. e. moira and f. l. jenkins
(See article on " The Decorations of the Peninsular and Oriental Pavilion "J
on the "Art of England " in the Universal Review, scape painters, and combines with them an almost
who says : " Mr. Aumonier is a painter who more equal care for and efficiency of composition, is
worthily carries on the traditions of English land- nevertheless very marked by later nineteenth-
scape than perhaps any other now living, though century feeling, and is in no sense an echo of the
possibly he may be said to be rivalled in this motive, though it repeats the quality, of a former
respect by Mr. Thomas Collier, Mr. Hine the elder time." It is, perhaps, with the satisfying effects of
and Mr. George Fripp. He should be ranked above full summer that Mr. Aumonier is most truly in
all these in the respect of originality, and especially touch, but he is no less successful in dealing with
in the great merit of belonging to his time, for the quieter aspects of autumn and of winter, for
Mr. Aumonier's work, though it possesses much of like all true lovers he can suit his own mood at
the freshness and apparent ease which were such any time to meet the varying needs of the many-
distinguishing characteristics of old English land- sided object of his devotion. Nancy Bell.
peninsular and oriental pavilion (entrance front)
t. e. collcutt, architect; g. e. moira and f. l. jenkins, decorators.
(See article on " The Decorations of the Peninsular and Oriental Pavilion")
148
coloured relief by g. e. moira and f. l. jenkins
(See article on " The Decorations of the Peninsular and Oriental Pavilion "J
on the "Art of England " in the Universal Review, scape painters, and combines with them an almost
who says : " Mr. Aumonier is a painter who more equal care for and efficiency of composition, is
worthily carries on the traditions of English land- nevertheless very marked by later nineteenth-
scape than perhaps any other now living, though century feeling, and is in no sense an echo of the
possibly he may be said to be rivalled in this motive, though it repeats the quality, of a former
respect by Mr. Thomas Collier, Mr. Hine the elder time." It is, perhaps, with the satisfying effects of
and Mr. George Fripp. He should be ranked above full summer that Mr. Aumonier is most truly in
all these in the respect of originality, and especially touch, but he is no less successful in dealing with
in the great merit of belonging to his time, for the quieter aspects of autumn and of winter, for
Mr. Aumonier's work, though it possesses much of like all true lovers he can suit his own mood at
the freshness and apparent ease which were such any time to meet the varying needs of the many-
distinguishing characteristics of old English land- sided object of his devotion. Nancy Bell.
peninsular and oriental pavilion (entrance front)
t. e. collcutt, architect; g. e. moira and f. l. jenkins, decorators.
(See article on " The Decorations of the Peninsular and Oriental Pavilion")
148