DOI issue:
No.127 (October, 1903)
DOI article:Veer, Lenore van der: The London sketch club and its members
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0057
The London Sketch Club
richness of tone and depth of character. His touch over Aldin's shoulders ; but, if it has, it has taken
is quick and nervous, but it is seldom anything on the Aldin personality so completely that the
but sure, and his sense of beauty and refinement last vestige of its former wearer has gone, and gone
is wholly satisfying. for ever; for Aldin holds a place in the English
Perhaps the extreme popularity of time sketches mind and in the great public outside our gates, at
as well as the prominent position this branch of once distinctly and deservedly personal, and while
art-work has reached during the last ten years, is his humour helps to keep us going, his skill in line
due in a considerable degree to the strenuous and action is a constant source of wonderment,
energy put into the movement by Mr. G. C. Haite, He, also, is one of the founders of the club,
R.I., R.B.A., an artist of much talent in many and has always taken a great interest in its
directions, and particularly so in the dexterous success.
dashing-off of delightfully charming and finished The work of Mr. Walter Fowler, R.B.A., the
pictures in two hours' time. Quick-time sketches hard-working hon. sec. and treasurer, is as far
have a wonderful fascination for Mr. Haite, and removed from that of Aldin's as the most abnormal
his familiarity with the most intricate mysteries of stretch of fancy could well make it. His art is
art-work gives him a facility of expression at once dignified always, and has the breath of the wood-
forcible and true. Mr. Haite does not know what land and the poetry of moving clouds about it; for
it means to feel any hesitancy when an idea for a while his methods are vigorous, and distinguished
sketch has once suggested itself;
it is scarce in his mind before it
begins to take form on his
canvas, and nothing short of dire
straits can make him lay down
his brushes until it is all there,
complete before his eyes. For
the time being he is lost to
everything but the one idea in
his brain which must be put in
colour, and with no time to lose
in doing so — this is George
Haite, the cleverest quick-time
sketch artist of the day.
In writing of the club, I am
more and more impressed by the
delightful variety of the men
working there, and the widely
varying lines along which their
individual talents lie. There is
Cecil Aldin, R.B.A., a man
whose work is known from one
end of the world to the other,
known for its cleverness and its
captivating sense of humour, for
Aldin is unquestionably one of
the chief exponents of modern-
humorous and sporting life—and
his dog — the Aldin dog — is
there anybody living who does
not know this over-developed
canine philosopher with his
benign countenance and all-too-
knowing orbs ? Some there are
who assert that the mantle of
Randolph Caldecott has fallen "charge of indian cavalry" from the drawing by rene bull
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richness of tone and depth of character. His touch over Aldin's shoulders ; but, if it has, it has taken
is quick and nervous, but it is seldom anything on the Aldin personality so completely that the
but sure, and his sense of beauty and refinement last vestige of its former wearer has gone, and gone
is wholly satisfying. for ever; for Aldin holds a place in the English
Perhaps the extreme popularity of time sketches mind and in the great public outside our gates, at
as well as the prominent position this branch of once distinctly and deservedly personal, and while
art-work has reached during the last ten years, is his humour helps to keep us going, his skill in line
due in a considerable degree to the strenuous and action is a constant source of wonderment,
energy put into the movement by Mr. G. C. Haite, He, also, is one of the founders of the club,
R.I., R.B.A., an artist of much talent in many and has always taken a great interest in its
directions, and particularly so in the dexterous success.
dashing-off of delightfully charming and finished The work of Mr. Walter Fowler, R.B.A., the
pictures in two hours' time. Quick-time sketches hard-working hon. sec. and treasurer, is as far
have a wonderful fascination for Mr. Haite, and removed from that of Aldin's as the most abnormal
his familiarity with the most intricate mysteries of stretch of fancy could well make it. His art is
art-work gives him a facility of expression at once dignified always, and has the breath of the wood-
forcible and true. Mr. Haite does not know what land and the poetry of moving clouds about it; for
it means to feel any hesitancy when an idea for a while his methods are vigorous, and distinguished
sketch has once suggested itself;
it is scarce in his mind before it
begins to take form on his
canvas, and nothing short of dire
straits can make him lay down
his brushes until it is all there,
complete before his eyes. For
the time being he is lost to
everything but the one idea in
his brain which must be put in
colour, and with no time to lose
in doing so — this is George
Haite, the cleverest quick-time
sketch artist of the day.
In writing of the club, I am
more and more impressed by the
delightful variety of the men
working there, and the widely
varying lines along which their
individual talents lie. There is
Cecil Aldin, R.B.A., a man
whose work is known from one
end of the world to the other,
known for its cleverness and its
captivating sense of humour, for
Aldin is unquestionably one of
the chief exponents of modern-
humorous and sporting life—and
his dog — the Aldin dog — is
there anybody living who does
not know this over-developed
canine philosopher with his
benign countenance and all-too-
knowing orbs ? Some there are
who assert that the mantle of
Randolph Caldecott has fallen "charge of indian cavalry" from the drawing by rene bull
40