DOI issue:
Nr. 118 (January 1903)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19877#0307
Studio- Talk
The exhibitions of drawings and paintings by
Mr. Bernard Partridge and of charcoal drawings
by Mr. H. S. Hopwood, which were opened in the
galleries of the Fine Art Society at the beginning of
December, must be noted as possessing somewhat
unusual features. Mr Partridge is widely known
as one of the cleverest of the artists on the staff of
" Punch," and his cartoons and comic drawings
have long enjoyed the greatest popularity. But he
has had so far only occasional opportunities or
proving that he is not less worthy of notice as a
colourist than as a draughtsman; and it is because
this exhibition gave him one of the best of these
opportunities that it claims to be specially recorded.
He showed in it a large series of the originals of
his " Punch " drawings ; but with these there were
many charming pastels and water-colours, handled
with delightful vivacity and marked by very attrac-
tive qualities of well-harmonised colour. Mr.
Hopwood's drawings contrasted definitely with Mr.
Partridge's dainty performances. Their rugged
strength, and their expressive statement of effects
of tone, made them most persuasive; and the
knowledge displayed in them of the capabilities of
the medium could not be questioned. As illustra-
tions of the value of a material which has been
little used, except for slight sketches, by artists in
this country, they made a show of real educational
importance.
GLASGOW.—It is customary in Glasgow
on the retirement of the Lord Provost
from his three years' term of office for
his portrait to be placed in the city col-
lection, while a replica is presented to his lordship.
On the last occasion the commission was given to
Mr. J. S. Sargent, R.A. ; this time the doyen of
Glasgow artists, Mr. Joseph Henderson, was selected,
and has fully justified his choice. An official
portrait may either be planned as a sumptuous
work, in which robes and hoods and chains, and
all the other pageantry of civic life, may be made
the main features ; or it may be treated simply and
severely, and show the sitter as he was known to
FROM A DRAWING BY H. S. HOPWOOD
295
The exhibitions of drawings and paintings by
Mr. Bernard Partridge and of charcoal drawings
by Mr. H. S. Hopwood, which were opened in the
galleries of the Fine Art Society at the beginning of
December, must be noted as possessing somewhat
unusual features. Mr Partridge is widely known
as one of the cleverest of the artists on the staff of
" Punch," and his cartoons and comic drawings
have long enjoyed the greatest popularity. But he
has had so far only occasional opportunities or
proving that he is not less worthy of notice as a
colourist than as a draughtsman; and it is because
this exhibition gave him one of the best of these
opportunities that it claims to be specially recorded.
He showed in it a large series of the originals of
his " Punch " drawings ; but with these there were
many charming pastels and water-colours, handled
with delightful vivacity and marked by very attrac-
tive qualities of well-harmonised colour. Mr.
Hopwood's drawings contrasted definitely with Mr.
Partridge's dainty performances. Their rugged
strength, and their expressive statement of effects
of tone, made them most persuasive; and the
knowledge displayed in them of the capabilities of
the medium could not be questioned. As illustra-
tions of the value of a material which has been
little used, except for slight sketches, by artists in
this country, they made a show of real educational
importance.
GLASGOW.—It is customary in Glasgow
on the retirement of the Lord Provost
from his three years' term of office for
his portrait to be placed in the city col-
lection, while a replica is presented to his lordship.
On the last occasion the commission was given to
Mr. J. S. Sargent, R.A. ; this time the doyen of
Glasgow artists, Mr. Joseph Henderson, was selected,
and has fully justified his choice. An official
portrait may either be planned as a sumptuous
work, in which robes and hoods and chains, and
all the other pageantry of civic life, may be made
the main features ; or it may be treated simply and
severely, and show the sitter as he was known to
FROM A DRAWING BY H. S. HOPWOOD
295