DOI Heft:
No. 111 (June, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Some paintings and sculpture at the London spring exhibitions
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19876#0046
London Spring Exhibitions
surprising. He has never before shown such an attractive of the canvases he has sent to the
appreciation of refinements of style nor such a Academy, is hardly less admirable in its exquisite
sense of colour arrangement, he has rarely dis- treatment of a delightful subject and in its
played so perfect an insight into subtleties of command over delicacies of execution. Among
character, and he has never been more brilliant in other portraits which have an unquestionable right
his display of technical facility. As he matures he to be placed in the first rank there are Professor
seems to gain in sureness and confidence without von Herkomer's The Earl of Albemarle, one of the
losing any of his spontaneity, and to add more and strongest and most sympathetic pieces of painting
more those little delicacies of design which at one he has ever produced; Mr. H. de T. Glazebrook's
time he needed to soften down the vehemence ot George Joachim, First Viscount Goschen, and His
his realism. Excellency, Lord Milner, both of them marked by
One of the few artists who can be said to rival fine qualities of observation and interpretation;
Mr. Sargent is Mr. J. J. Shannon. He is not so Mr. W. Llewellyn's delightful picture of Mrs. P. C.
startling in his confidence nor so insistent in his Priestley, which holds its own perfectly at the New
methods, but he is more definitely endowed with a Gallery, even in the company of Mr. Sargent's and
love of beauty, and he seizes more readily upon the Mr. Shannon's achievements ; Mr. Orchardson's
personal charm of his sitter. His best picture, the Alexander Asher, Esq., and Sir John Leng; Mr.
small portrait of Lady Diana, Daughter of the R. Peacock's William LLolman Hunt, Esq. ; Sir
Marquis and Marchioness of Granby, is at the New George Reid's Professor G. D. Liveing; and the
Gallery, but his Ladv Marwrie .Manners, the most State portrait of the King by Mr. Luke Fildes, an
'TAKE, O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY BY ELIZABETH STAN HOPE FORBES
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surprising. He has never before shown such an attractive of the canvases he has sent to the
appreciation of refinements of style nor such a Academy, is hardly less admirable in its exquisite
sense of colour arrangement, he has rarely dis- treatment of a delightful subject and in its
played so perfect an insight into subtleties of command over delicacies of execution. Among
character, and he has never been more brilliant in other portraits which have an unquestionable right
his display of technical facility. As he matures he to be placed in the first rank there are Professor
seems to gain in sureness and confidence without von Herkomer's The Earl of Albemarle, one of the
losing any of his spontaneity, and to add more and strongest and most sympathetic pieces of painting
more those little delicacies of design which at one he has ever produced; Mr. H. de T. Glazebrook's
time he needed to soften down the vehemence ot George Joachim, First Viscount Goschen, and His
his realism. Excellency, Lord Milner, both of them marked by
One of the few artists who can be said to rival fine qualities of observation and interpretation;
Mr. Sargent is Mr. J. J. Shannon. He is not so Mr. W. Llewellyn's delightful picture of Mrs. P. C.
startling in his confidence nor so insistent in his Priestley, which holds its own perfectly at the New
methods, but he is more definitely endowed with a Gallery, even in the company of Mr. Sargent's and
love of beauty, and he seizes more readily upon the Mr. Shannon's achievements ; Mr. Orchardson's
personal charm of his sitter. His best picture, the Alexander Asher, Esq., and Sir John Leng; Mr.
small portrait of Lady Diana, Daughter of the R. Peacock's William LLolman Hunt, Esq. ; Sir
Marquis and Marchioness of Granby, is at the New George Reid's Professor G. D. Liveing; and the
Gallery, but his Ladv Marwrie .Manners, the most State portrait of the King by Mr. Luke Fildes, an
'TAKE, O TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY BY ELIZABETH STAN HOPE FORBES
34