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DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The work of Mr. and Mrs. J. Young Hunter
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Mr. & Mrs. J. Young Hunter
and has not been merely fostered in him by the Lady's Garden, which appeared in that year, was
associations of his childhood or the surroundings an admirable exposition of his beliefs; and it was
of his student days. The son of Mr. Colin so evidently one of the best pictures in the exhibi-
Hunter, an associate of the Royal Academy and tion that it was purchased by the Chantrey Fund
a well-known painter of landscapes and marine Trustees. Since then he has been represented by
subjects, he was trained in the Royal Academy Judith Shakespeare (1900), Come Lasses and Lads
schools. Neither the work which he has been (1901), and Forest Lovers (1902), and some smaller
accustomed to see in his father's studio, nor the canvases; and he has this year another small
teaching which he received at Burlington House, work, The Nightingale.
would be likely to incline him as a matter of Mrs. Hunter also was trained in the Royal
course to follow the particular line which has led Academy Schools, where she distinguished herself
him already to such significant results. It was, by taking four medals. Her first appearance as an
indeed, not until 1899—after he had exhibited a exhibitor was made in the Academy of 1900, when
picture, The Crofter's Home, in 1897, and a full- she showed a Dante and Beatrice episode, The
length portrait of a lady in 1898—that he showed Denial, and a second picture, The Duke's High
at the Academy a convincing proof of the hold Dame; and she has sent since to Burlington
which romanticism had gained over him. Mv House Joy and the Labourer (1901), Seekers (1902),
and The Road Menders
this year. The marriage
of these two clever artists
took place in the autumn
of 1899, and they went
immediately to Italy,
where they spent eight
months. During the
greater part of this time
they occupied a studio
at Florence, but they
visited also Perugia,
Assisi, Siena, Bologna,
Ravenna, Verona,
Venice, and several
other Italian towns, and
on their way home they
saw Munich, Nurem-
burg, Rothenburg,
Brussels, and Antwerp.
This stay abroad, and
this experience of places
full of inspiring sugges-
tions to everyone
possessed of a receptive
temperament, have cer-
tainly had an effect
upon their subsequent
work. The new point
of view which they ac-
quired then undoubtedly
confirmed them both in
the artistic inclinations
to which they have since
yielded, and guided them
into paths of practice
which suit them to perfec-
" EVERY DAY IS A FRESH BEGINNING, BY MARY Y. HUNTER
EVERY MORN IS THE WORLD MADE NEW"
276
and has not been merely fostered in him by the Lady's Garden, which appeared in that year, was
associations of his childhood or the surroundings an admirable exposition of his beliefs; and it was
of his student days. The son of Mr. Colin so evidently one of the best pictures in the exhibi-
Hunter, an associate of the Royal Academy and tion that it was purchased by the Chantrey Fund
a well-known painter of landscapes and marine Trustees. Since then he has been represented by
subjects, he was trained in the Royal Academy Judith Shakespeare (1900), Come Lasses and Lads
schools. Neither the work which he has been (1901), and Forest Lovers (1902), and some smaller
accustomed to see in his father's studio, nor the canvases; and he has this year another small
teaching which he received at Burlington House, work, The Nightingale.
would be likely to incline him as a matter of Mrs. Hunter also was trained in the Royal
course to follow the particular line which has led Academy Schools, where she distinguished herself
him already to such significant results. It was, by taking four medals. Her first appearance as an
indeed, not until 1899—after he had exhibited a exhibitor was made in the Academy of 1900, when
picture, The Crofter's Home, in 1897, and a full- she showed a Dante and Beatrice episode, The
length portrait of a lady in 1898—that he showed Denial, and a second picture, The Duke's High
at the Academy a convincing proof of the hold Dame; and she has sent since to Burlington
which romanticism had gained over him. Mv House Joy and the Labourer (1901), Seekers (1902),
and The Road Menders
this year. The marriage
of these two clever artists
took place in the autumn
of 1899, and they went
immediately to Italy,
where they spent eight
months. During the
greater part of this time
they occupied a studio
at Florence, but they
visited also Perugia,
Assisi, Siena, Bologna,
Ravenna, Verona,
Venice, and several
other Italian towns, and
on their way home they
saw Munich, Nurem-
burg, Rothenburg,
Brussels, and Antwerp.
This stay abroad, and
this experience of places
full of inspiring sugges-
tions to everyone
possessed of a receptive
temperament, have cer-
tainly had an effect
upon their subsequent
work. The new point
of view which they ac-
quired then undoubtedly
confirmed them both in
the artistic inclinations
to which they have since
yielded, and guided them
into paths of practice
which suit them to perfec-
" EVERY DAY IS A FRESH BEGINNING, BY MARY Y. HUNTER
EVERY MORN IS THE WORLD MADE NEW"
276