DOI issue:
No. 123 (June, 1903)
DOI article:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The spring exhibitions - The Royal Academy
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0068
The Spring
every man, Mr. George Clausen's The Haymakers,
Miss E. F. Brickdale's Rosamond, Mrs. Young
Hunter's The Road-mender, Mr. St. George Hare's
sound piece of flesh painting, Miserere Domine, The
Water Babies by Mr. Charles Sims, Mowgli made
Leader of the Bandar-log by Mr. J. C. Dollman,
and Mr. Hacker's delightful fantasy, Leaf Drift
—all of these are of appreciable value in the
exhibition.
The landscapes are, if anything, more important
than the figure pictures. Mr. East's Morning in a
Berkshire Meadow is the most attractive of his
contributions; but his nobly decorative Tintern,
his strong colour-note, The Castle ofCmir de Lion,
and his study in tones of grey, The Turn of the
Road, are hardly less fascinating. Sir E. A.
Waterlow is admirably represented by his Crossing
the Heath and The Banks of the Loing, as well as
by his Warkworth Castle; and Mr. J. Aumonier
has done nothing more masterly than his expansive
and atmospheric Herefordshire Common. Mr.
David Murray's The Orwell from Wolverstone Park
Exhibitions
is the most complete of his canvases, but there is
excellent naturalism in his river-meadow subject,
Ln the Country of Constable, and in his June and
River Blossoms. Mr. David Farquharson's Winter
is one of the great landscapes of the year; and Mr.
La Thangue's Mowing Bracken, with its harmony of
rich colour; Mr. Edward Stott's Echo, a rural scene
very ably rendered; Mr. George Clausen's Dusk,
Mr. Arnesby Brown's The Coming Day, Mr.
Joseph Farquharson's Winter Sunset, Mr. J. Coutts
Michie's Home from the Hills, and Mr. Yeend
King's The Home Croft, have sterling qualities
which claim full recognition.
It cannot be denied that the show suffers some-
what this year from the comparative weakness of
Mr. Sargent. Though, as has been already men-
tioned, there are portraits by other men which have
very definite interest, the fact that only one of his
is of first-rate importance is a matter for regret.
However, besides the contributions of Professor
von Herkomer, Mr. J. J. Shannon, Sir George
Reid, Mr. G. Spencer Watson, and Mr. C. W
1/ ' 1
"round the camp fire"
by stanhope a. forbes, a.r.a.
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every man, Mr. George Clausen's The Haymakers,
Miss E. F. Brickdale's Rosamond, Mrs. Young
Hunter's The Road-mender, Mr. St. George Hare's
sound piece of flesh painting, Miserere Domine, The
Water Babies by Mr. Charles Sims, Mowgli made
Leader of the Bandar-log by Mr. J. C. Dollman,
and Mr. Hacker's delightful fantasy, Leaf Drift
—all of these are of appreciable value in the
exhibition.
The landscapes are, if anything, more important
than the figure pictures. Mr. East's Morning in a
Berkshire Meadow is the most attractive of his
contributions; but his nobly decorative Tintern,
his strong colour-note, The Castle ofCmir de Lion,
and his study in tones of grey, The Turn of the
Road, are hardly less fascinating. Sir E. A.
Waterlow is admirably represented by his Crossing
the Heath and The Banks of the Loing, as well as
by his Warkworth Castle; and Mr. J. Aumonier
has done nothing more masterly than his expansive
and atmospheric Herefordshire Common. Mr.
David Murray's The Orwell from Wolverstone Park
Exhibitions
is the most complete of his canvases, but there is
excellent naturalism in his river-meadow subject,
Ln the Country of Constable, and in his June and
River Blossoms. Mr. David Farquharson's Winter
is one of the great landscapes of the year; and Mr.
La Thangue's Mowing Bracken, with its harmony of
rich colour; Mr. Edward Stott's Echo, a rural scene
very ably rendered; Mr. George Clausen's Dusk,
Mr. Arnesby Brown's The Coming Day, Mr.
Joseph Farquharson's Winter Sunset, Mr. J. Coutts
Michie's Home from the Hills, and Mr. Yeend
King's The Home Croft, have sterling qualities
which claim full recognition.
It cannot be denied that the show suffers some-
what this year from the comparative weakness of
Mr. Sargent. Though, as has been already men-
tioned, there are portraits by other men which have
very definite interest, the fact that only one of his
is of first-rate importance is a matter for regret.
However, besides the contributions of Professor
von Herkomer, Mr. J. J. Shannon, Sir George
Reid, Mr. G. Spencer Watson, and Mr. C. W
1/ ' 1
"round the camp fire"
by stanhope a. forbes, a.r.a.
51