DOI Heft:
No. 96 (March, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The work of J. M. Swan, A.R.A., [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0101
/. M. Swan, A.R.sl.
lowing it logically and coherently even when he Bastien Le Page, and commenced a friendship
was supposed by those of his contemporaries who with Dagnan-Bouveret that has lasted to the
did not understand him to be merely wandering present day. From both of these men he learned
about in a purposeless pursuit of facts that there many things that have been of value to him in his
was no need for an artist to know. own work, and though there is now little in his
So it is not difficult to account for the laborious manner of painting to show that either of them
nature of the training to which he subjected him- had any marked influence on the formation of his
self during his long stay in Paris. He went there characteristic style, their sympathy was undoubtedly
originally, under the advice of several of the most encouraging to a man of his temperament,
distinguished English artists, because he saw that At the suggestion of M. Gerome, Mr. Swan took
the Academy schools would not give him that a step soon after he settled in Paris that has had a
range of opportunities which he desired ; but he very great deal to do with making him the unusual
went already well equipped, and with such con- artist that he is. He showed such marked inclina-
vincing evidences to show of his skill in draughts- tion to develop into a stylist in line, and to treat
manship that he was able to secure immediate the learned arrangement of form as an essential
admission to the life classes at the Beaux Arts, part of his art, that his master advised him to
There, in addition to M. Gerome, his master, he devote a portion of his time to modelling as a
was brought into intimate contact with a number corrective and assistance to his study of drawing,
of young French artists, then students in the He entered accordingly the studio of Fremiet, the
schools, who have since been enrolled among the sculptor, who shares with Barye the most dis-
best of the modern leaders. In this way he met tinguished place among the interpreters of animal
STUDY FOR "FATA MORGANA" BY J. M. SWAN, A.R.A.
(By permission of 0. Gutekunst, Esq., of Messrs. P. &f D. Colnaghi Co. J
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lowing it logically and coherently even when he Bastien Le Page, and commenced a friendship
was supposed by those of his contemporaries who with Dagnan-Bouveret that has lasted to the
did not understand him to be merely wandering present day. From both of these men he learned
about in a purposeless pursuit of facts that there many things that have been of value to him in his
was no need for an artist to know. own work, and though there is now little in his
So it is not difficult to account for the laborious manner of painting to show that either of them
nature of the training to which he subjected him- had any marked influence on the formation of his
self during his long stay in Paris. He went there characteristic style, their sympathy was undoubtedly
originally, under the advice of several of the most encouraging to a man of his temperament,
distinguished English artists, because he saw that At the suggestion of M. Gerome, Mr. Swan took
the Academy schools would not give him that a step soon after he settled in Paris that has had a
range of opportunities which he desired ; but he very great deal to do with making him the unusual
went already well equipped, and with such con- artist that he is. He showed such marked inclina-
vincing evidences to show of his skill in draughts- tion to develop into a stylist in line, and to treat
manship that he was able to secure immediate the learned arrangement of form as an essential
admission to the life classes at the Beaux Arts, part of his art, that his master advised him to
There, in addition to M. Gerome, his master, he devote a portion of his time to modelling as a
was brought into intimate contact with a number corrective and assistance to his study of drawing,
of young French artists, then students in the He entered accordingly the studio of Fremiet, the
schools, who have since been enrolled among the sculptor, who shares with Barye the most dis-
best of the modern leaders. In this way he met tinguished place among the interpreters of animal
STUDY FOR "FATA MORGANA" BY J. M. SWAN, A.R.A.
(By permission of 0. Gutekunst, Esq., of Messrs. P. &f D. Colnaghi Co. J
82