Studio- Talk
is one of his most recent works, and is fortunate in Paris he is one of the best known. He was
in its promise of better things to come. born in Peru, being the descendant of an old Irish
- family which emigrated three generations ago to
We are able to reproduce this month three illus- South America. His artistic education has been
trations of the excellent work that Mr. George developed in Europe, his first studies having been
Frampton, R.A., has carried out for Lloyd's made in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and
Registry. The three statues, at once so delicate in the studio of Maria Augustin Gabriel Ferrier.
P
and so manly in their gracious style, are all -
symbols of commerce and the sea—or, rather, of His first essays were illustrations in black-and-
the means by which the products of commerce white for Balzac's " Pere Goriot"; "La Dame
are carried by sea from one country to another. aux Camelias," of Alexandre Dumas ; " Son Altesse
^ - la femme," by Uzanne, in the popular editions of
ARIS.—Albert Lynch is a painter of genre Quantin, and for " Les Lettres et les Arts," pub-
and an excellent portrait painter. Though lished by the firm of Boussod-Valadon. Since
young, he has already achieved many 1890, his name has figured every year among the
successes, and among the foreign artists exhibitors of the Salon of the Societe des Artistes
Francais. His first pic-
ture, En Mer ! gained
him a medal of the third
class. In 1892, he sent in
Panneau decoratif, an im-
mense and majestic com-
position, and obtained a
medal of the first class.
Eloreal and Madeleine
were also two pictures
of deep feeling ; Tete de
-Femme, a sober note of
expression and remarkable
in execution; the Crepus-
cule d'Automne and Les
Parfitms, two decorative
panels, in which the beauty
of the form, the purity of
the colouring, and the sim-
plicity of the inspiration
recall the painters of the
eighteenth century. But
his best known work is
that vivid scene from
Manon Lescaut, by the
Abbe Prevost, exhibited in
the Salon in 1896, and
belonging to M. Auban
Moet. Since that time
Lynch has devoted himself
exclusively to portrait paint-
ing. He understands the
human intelligence in an
extraordinary degree ; he
summarises and analyses
the character of his models,
brings out the moral features
a portrait study by a. lykch and harmonises physical
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is one of his most recent works, and is fortunate in Paris he is one of the best known. He was
in its promise of better things to come. born in Peru, being the descendant of an old Irish
- family which emigrated three generations ago to
We are able to reproduce this month three illus- South America. His artistic education has been
trations of the excellent work that Mr. George developed in Europe, his first studies having been
Frampton, R.A., has carried out for Lloyd's made in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and
Registry. The three statues, at once so delicate in the studio of Maria Augustin Gabriel Ferrier.
P
and so manly in their gracious style, are all -
symbols of commerce and the sea—or, rather, of His first essays were illustrations in black-and-
the means by which the products of commerce white for Balzac's " Pere Goriot"; "La Dame
are carried by sea from one country to another. aux Camelias," of Alexandre Dumas ; " Son Altesse
^ - la femme," by Uzanne, in the popular editions of
ARIS.—Albert Lynch is a painter of genre Quantin, and for " Les Lettres et les Arts," pub-
and an excellent portrait painter. Though lished by the firm of Boussod-Valadon. Since
young, he has already achieved many 1890, his name has figured every year among the
successes, and among the foreign artists exhibitors of the Salon of the Societe des Artistes
Francais. His first pic-
ture, En Mer ! gained
him a medal of the third
class. In 1892, he sent in
Panneau decoratif, an im-
mense and majestic com-
position, and obtained a
medal of the first class.
Eloreal and Madeleine
were also two pictures
of deep feeling ; Tete de
-Femme, a sober note of
expression and remarkable
in execution; the Crepus-
cule d'Automne and Les
Parfitms, two decorative
panels, in which the beauty
of the form, the purity of
the colouring, and the sim-
plicity of the inspiration
recall the painters of the
eighteenth century. But
his best known work is
that vivid scene from
Manon Lescaut, by the
Abbe Prevost, exhibited in
the Salon in 1896, and
belonging to M. Auban
Moet. Since that time
Lynch has devoted himself
exclusively to portrait paint-
ing. He understands the
human intelligence in an
extraordinary degree ; he
summarises and analyses
the character of his models,
brings out the moral features
a portrait study by a. lykch and harmonises physical
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