DOI Heft:
Nr. 102 (Septembre 1901)
DOI Artikel:D'Anvers, N.: Robert Weir Allan and his work
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0261
7?. IV. Allan
Royal Academy, where it attracted considerable with equal effect, their simple narratives of what
attention on account of its vivid truth of atmos- actually came under their own observation would
pheric effect. In spite of these successes, however, be far more interesting than any imaginary tale,
the young artist felt very strongly that he needed however finely conceived.
something more in the way of instruction and As the wife of one of Robert Allan's fellow-
experience than he could gain in Scotland, and he students, it was the privilege of the present writer
took what was then the somewhat bold step of to be admitted into the inner circle of the little
going, not, as most of his fellow-countrymen did, community of English-speaking artists who in the
to London, but straight to the fountain-head of art early eighties were still keeping up the traditions
production, Paris, where he worked hard in the of hard work and frugal living which were, as a
atelier of Julian and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, rule, inseparable from the probation time even of
under Cabanel, forming friendships amongst his the most gifted. What careful yet careless days
fellow-students which have lasted his life-time. those were ! How ready all the young fellows
Of a deeply interesting personality, with a rare were to rejoice in each other's successes and to
power of winning the hearts of those with whom he condole with each other in their far more numerous
was brought in contact, Robert Allan as a young disappointments, for students met on equal terms
student is remembered with warm affection by from the Beaux-Arts, where Cabanel, Gerome and
many who knew him in the good old days when Lehmann were then teaching, and from the ateliers
hope was strong and all things seemed possible to of masters of aims and methods so different as those
those who could work and wait. Much has been of Carolus Duran, Laurens, Henner, Lefebvre,
written on student life in Paris, a subject which Robert Fleury, Boulanger, Bougereau, and the
appears to exercise an irresistible fascination on Austrian, Munkacsy.
all readers, whether they belong to the initiated or Outside the academic world, Bastien Lepage,
to the outside world, but it is rare indeed for an whose tragic end was even then rapidly approach-
artist to tell the story of his own early struggles, ing, was the special idol of the students, every-
Could the great wielders of the brush use the pen thing he produced and everything he did being
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MARKET MORNING, ANTIUES " BY R. W. A1LAN
23O
Royal Academy, where it attracted considerable with equal effect, their simple narratives of what
attention on account of its vivid truth of atmos- actually came under their own observation would
pheric effect. In spite of these successes, however, be far more interesting than any imaginary tale,
the young artist felt very strongly that he needed however finely conceived.
something more in the way of instruction and As the wife of one of Robert Allan's fellow-
experience than he could gain in Scotland, and he students, it was the privilege of the present writer
took what was then the somewhat bold step of to be admitted into the inner circle of the little
going, not, as most of his fellow-countrymen did, community of English-speaking artists who in the
to London, but straight to the fountain-head of art early eighties were still keeping up the traditions
production, Paris, where he worked hard in the of hard work and frugal living which were, as a
atelier of Julian and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, rule, inseparable from the probation time even of
under Cabanel, forming friendships amongst his the most gifted. What careful yet careless days
fellow-students which have lasted his life-time. those were ! How ready all the young fellows
Of a deeply interesting personality, with a rare were to rejoice in each other's successes and to
power of winning the hearts of those with whom he condole with each other in their far more numerous
was brought in contact, Robert Allan as a young disappointments, for students met on equal terms
student is remembered with warm affection by from the Beaux-Arts, where Cabanel, Gerome and
many who knew him in the good old days when Lehmann were then teaching, and from the ateliers
hope was strong and all things seemed possible to of masters of aims and methods so different as those
those who could work and wait. Much has been of Carolus Duran, Laurens, Henner, Lefebvre,
written on student life in Paris, a subject which Robert Fleury, Boulanger, Bougereau, and the
appears to exercise an irresistible fascination on Austrian, Munkacsy.
all readers, whether they belong to the initiated or Outside the academic world, Bastien Lepage,
to the outside world, but it is rare indeed for an whose tragic end was even then rapidly approach-
artist to tell the story of his own early struggles, ing, was the special idol of the students, every-
Could the great wielders of the brush use the pen thing he produced and everything he did being
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
MARKET MORNING, ANTIUES " BY R. W. A1LAN
23O