DOI Heft:
No. 90 (September, 1900)
DOI Artikel:The work of Arnesby Brown
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0248
The Work of Ames by Brown
LABOURERS BY ARNESBY BROWN
soundess of construction; and by constant practice and this year the End oj the Harvest; and to the
under thoughtful supervision he acquired the com- Institute went A Son oj the Soil. His record,
plete grasp of technical details that was necessary indeed, for the last ten years is an excellent one,
for the free statement of the ideas that he wished and does the fullest credit both to his industry
to express. and to his imaginative capacity.
His first appearance as an exhibitor was made at To most people he is probably best known as a
the Academy only a year after he entered the painter of landscape and cattle; but although
Bushey school. He exhibited a picture called A quite a large proportion of his pictures could be
Cornish Pasture, which was the result of his first classified under this heading, he is by no means
visit to St. Ives, in which place he has spent every an artist of only one direction. He has produced
wintersince. In 1891, 1892, and 1893, his chief several memorable paintings of the sea, and
canvases at the Academy were Above the Bay, several pastorals in which human interest is
Loiv-land, and The End of the Shower, all pastoral prominent, and he has scored many successes
subjects; but in 1894 he sent a sea picture, A with portraits, some of which he has exhibited.
Northerly Breeze. Another pastoral, The Drinking But whatever the subject he chooses for treatment,
Pool, appeared in 1895, and was purchased by the his manner of handling it remains always evidently
Manchester Corporation. To public galleries went marked by that desire to arrive at something
also his Homeward, bought in 1896 by the Borough beyond the merely crude assertion of his capacity
of Preston, and the Herald of Night, bought in for seeing. Year by year the mental quality has
1897 by the City of AVorcester. In 1898 he ex- become more important in his pictures, and
hibited Labourers; in 1899, The Marsh Farm; steadily the simple imitation of details that any
and this year he was represented by After Heat oj observer with good eyesight and a fairly retentive
Day, which has been acquired by the City of memory can record has given way to more intel-
Auckland Gallery, New Zealand. In addition to lectual and imaginative analysis of the deeper truths
these Academy works there have been many im- of Nature. As his powers ripen his pictures become
portant paintings shown at the New Gallery, the more impressive; and, remarkable as his success
Institute, and other shows. The New Gallery had has been so far, we may fairly expect him to far sur-
his Fading Day in 1895, Tlie Hayfield in 1899, pass in coming years the best of his present record.
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LABOURERS BY ARNESBY BROWN
soundess of construction; and by constant practice and this year the End oj the Harvest; and to the
under thoughtful supervision he acquired the com- Institute went A Son oj the Soil. His record,
plete grasp of technical details that was necessary indeed, for the last ten years is an excellent one,
for the free statement of the ideas that he wished and does the fullest credit both to his industry
to express. and to his imaginative capacity.
His first appearance as an exhibitor was made at To most people he is probably best known as a
the Academy only a year after he entered the painter of landscape and cattle; but although
Bushey school. He exhibited a picture called A quite a large proportion of his pictures could be
Cornish Pasture, which was the result of his first classified under this heading, he is by no means
visit to St. Ives, in which place he has spent every an artist of only one direction. He has produced
wintersince. In 1891, 1892, and 1893, his chief several memorable paintings of the sea, and
canvases at the Academy were Above the Bay, several pastorals in which human interest is
Loiv-land, and The End of the Shower, all pastoral prominent, and he has scored many successes
subjects; but in 1894 he sent a sea picture, A with portraits, some of which he has exhibited.
Northerly Breeze. Another pastoral, The Drinking But whatever the subject he chooses for treatment,
Pool, appeared in 1895, and was purchased by the his manner of handling it remains always evidently
Manchester Corporation. To public galleries went marked by that desire to arrive at something
also his Homeward, bought in 1896 by the Borough beyond the merely crude assertion of his capacity
of Preston, and the Herald of Night, bought in for seeing. Year by year the mental quality has
1897 by the City of AVorcester. In 1898 he ex- become more important in his pictures, and
hibited Labourers; in 1899, The Marsh Farm; steadily the simple imitation of details that any
and this year he was represented by After Heat oj observer with good eyesight and a fairly retentive
Day, which has been acquired by the City of memory can record has given way to more intel-
Auckland Gallery, New Zealand. In addition to lectual and imaginative analysis of the deeper truths
these Academy works there have been many im- of Nature. As his powers ripen his pictures become
portant paintings shown at the New Gallery, the more impressive; and, remarkable as his success
Institute, and other shows. The New Gallery had has been so far, we may fairly expect him to far sur-
his Fading Day in 1895, Tlie Hayfield in 1899, pass in coming years the best of his present record.
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