DOI Heft:
No. 123 (June, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The spring exhibitions - The Royal Academy
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0061
The Spring Exhibitions
Mr. Waterhouse, indeed, has not often before
touched so high a level, admirable artist as he
always is. His Pysche is an exquisite picture, with
wonderful grace of design and draughtsmanship,
and rare subtlety 01 colour; his Wind/lowers,
a scheme of purple, green, and white, is as charming
in execution as it is persuasive in sentiment; and
his Echo and Narcissus, two figures beside a stream
with a forest background, is largely felt, and is
painted with masculine directness. Mr. Orchard-
son's Mrs. Siddons in the Study of Sir Joshua
Reynolds has in full measure those qualities of
execution, tone management and dramatic ex-
pression, which have made his works so popular
for many years past; and Sir E. J. Poynter's
The Cave of the Storm Nymphs, a larger version of
the picture he exhibited last spring, is an exception-
ally good example of his learned workmanship. It
has those faults of dull colour and thin, empty
brushwork which are hardly ever absent from his
paintings, but the academic correctness of the
drawing, and the serious accuracy of the pictorial
statement, make it distinctly worthy of attention.
It tells its story, too, with due significance.
There are other figure pictures which can be
chosen for notice because they have either sound-
ness of method or effectiveness as illustrations of
the subjects selected. Mr. G. W. Joy's Flower of
Wifely Patience is very delicately imagined, and
has beauty of style; Mr. J. H. F. Bacon's Hiding
and A Romance are clever little canvases, and his
larger picture The Homage - Giving, Westminster
Abbey, August gth, is a successful rendering of
an historical scene; Mr. J. M. Swan's Iris and
The Cascade are adequate examples of his always
individual art; Mr. Stanhope Forbes in his Nomads
and Round the Camp Fire is more than usually
decisive and vigorous; and Mr. S. Melton Fisher's
The Chess Players is especially brilliant in its
technical readiness and its gaiety of colour. Then
there are Mr. G. H. Boughton's Imogen, Mr. H. S.
Tuke's The Stowaway, Mr. E. A. Abbey's Pot-
pourri, Mr. E. P. Fox's pretty picture, A love
Storv, Mr. Byam Shaw's The Fool who would please
" THE STOWAWAY "
44
BY H. S. TUKE, A.R.A.
Mr. Waterhouse, indeed, has not often before
touched so high a level, admirable artist as he
always is. His Pysche is an exquisite picture, with
wonderful grace of design and draughtsmanship,
and rare subtlety 01 colour; his Wind/lowers,
a scheme of purple, green, and white, is as charming
in execution as it is persuasive in sentiment; and
his Echo and Narcissus, two figures beside a stream
with a forest background, is largely felt, and is
painted with masculine directness. Mr. Orchard-
son's Mrs. Siddons in the Study of Sir Joshua
Reynolds has in full measure those qualities of
execution, tone management and dramatic ex-
pression, which have made his works so popular
for many years past; and Sir E. J. Poynter's
The Cave of the Storm Nymphs, a larger version of
the picture he exhibited last spring, is an exception-
ally good example of his learned workmanship. It
has those faults of dull colour and thin, empty
brushwork which are hardly ever absent from his
paintings, but the academic correctness of the
drawing, and the serious accuracy of the pictorial
statement, make it distinctly worthy of attention.
It tells its story, too, with due significance.
There are other figure pictures which can be
chosen for notice because they have either sound-
ness of method or effectiveness as illustrations of
the subjects selected. Mr. G. W. Joy's Flower of
Wifely Patience is very delicately imagined, and
has beauty of style; Mr. J. H. F. Bacon's Hiding
and A Romance are clever little canvases, and his
larger picture The Homage - Giving, Westminster
Abbey, August gth, is a successful rendering of
an historical scene; Mr. J. M. Swan's Iris and
The Cascade are adequate examples of his always
individual art; Mr. Stanhope Forbes in his Nomads
and Round the Camp Fire is more than usually
decisive and vigorous; and Mr. S. Melton Fisher's
The Chess Players is especially brilliant in its
technical readiness and its gaiety of colour. Then
there are Mr. G. H. Boughton's Imogen, Mr. H. S.
Tuke's The Stowaway, Mr. E. A. Abbey's Pot-
pourri, Mr. E. P. Fox's pretty picture, A love
Storv, Mr. Byam Shaw's The Fool who would please
" THE STOWAWAY "
44
BY H. S. TUKE, A.R.A.