DOI Heft:
No. 130 (January, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The paintings & etchings of Sir Charles Holroyd
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0300
Sir Charles Holroyd
THE PAINTINGS & ETCHINGS is individual rather than conventional, the product
OF SIR CHARLES HOLROYD. of a scholarly and well-trained intelligence; and its
BY A. L. BALDRY. breadth of scope proves that he has chosen a
direction which leads him where he can find the
It can justly be said of Sir Charles Holroyd most ample opportunities for the satisfaction of his
that he is one of those sincere artists who aims aesthetic inclinations.
more at the expression of his own aesthetic con- He seems to have known his own mind very
victions than at pleasing the general public by early in life, for it was with a specific intention that
bringing his work down to the popular level. He he went to study at the Slade School and put him-
has from the first kept consistently along certain self under the tuition of Professor Legros, who was
well-considered lines, and has sought to give form then at the head of that institution. He had seen
to a set of ideas which are partly temperamental some examples of the work of Legros, and they
and partly the outcome of the associations of his had made upon him so strong an impression that
student days. The qualities of his art, whatever he decided to choose that master as his guide,
may be the form it takes, reflect in a very definite Before he elected to follow the artistic profession he
manner a train of thought which he has been had gone through his general education in the
following ever since he commenced the study of Grammar School at Leeds—in which town he was
his profession. There is never anything tentative born on April 9th, 1861—and he had commenced
or uncertain in his practice. Few men, indeed, the study of mining engineering at the Yorkshire
show more logically their adherence to a creed College of Science. Whatever may have been his
deliberately adopted and unhesitatingly accepted; chances of success as an engineer—there is plenty
and fewer still display a more assured confidence of evidence in his art work that he possesses a
in the correctness of their preference. Yet he is marked constructive faculty and a great deal of
very far from being either a mannerist or a pedant, creative ingenuity—he was certainly well-advised in
and he certainly does not narrow his achievement his resolve to become an artist. The four years that
within limits which impose upon him the necessity he spent as a student in the Slade School brought
of merely repeating a few stock ideas. His work him a full measure of distinction. He won the
"siena from the osservansa " from an etching by sir charles holroyd
XXX. No. 130.—January, 1904. 283
THE PAINTINGS & ETCHINGS is individual rather than conventional, the product
OF SIR CHARLES HOLROYD. of a scholarly and well-trained intelligence; and its
BY A. L. BALDRY. breadth of scope proves that he has chosen a
direction which leads him where he can find the
It can justly be said of Sir Charles Holroyd most ample opportunities for the satisfaction of his
that he is one of those sincere artists who aims aesthetic inclinations.
more at the expression of his own aesthetic con- He seems to have known his own mind very
victions than at pleasing the general public by early in life, for it was with a specific intention that
bringing his work down to the popular level. He he went to study at the Slade School and put him-
has from the first kept consistently along certain self under the tuition of Professor Legros, who was
well-considered lines, and has sought to give form then at the head of that institution. He had seen
to a set of ideas which are partly temperamental some examples of the work of Legros, and they
and partly the outcome of the associations of his had made upon him so strong an impression that
student days. The qualities of his art, whatever he decided to choose that master as his guide,
may be the form it takes, reflect in a very definite Before he elected to follow the artistic profession he
manner a train of thought which he has been had gone through his general education in the
following ever since he commenced the study of Grammar School at Leeds—in which town he was
his profession. There is never anything tentative born on April 9th, 1861—and he had commenced
or uncertain in his practice. Few men, indeed, the study of mining engineering at the Yorkshire
show more logically their adherence to a creed College of Science. Whatever may have been his
deliberately adopted and unhesitatingly accepted; chances of success as an engineer—there is plenty
and fewer still display a more assured confidence of evidence in his art work that he possesses a
in the correctness of their preference. Yet he is marked constructive faculty and a great deal of
very far from being either a mannerist or a pedant, creative ingenuity—he was certainly well-advised in
and he certainly does not narrow his achievement his resolve to become an artist. The four years that
within limits which impose upon him the necessity he spent as a student in the Slade School brought
of merely repeating a few stock ideas. His work him a full measure of distinction. He won the
"siena from the osservansa " from an etching by sir charles holroyd
XXX. No. 130.—January, 1904. 283