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#0307
Sir Charles Holroyd
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and musical sentences. He etches as the practised perception of the relation which detail should bear
orator speaks—with a conviction that people are to the general mass in a pictorial arrangement, so
more readily persuaded by fluent and easy that he never fritters away the dignity of his effect
argument to listen to serious truths, than by loud by overlaying a subject with more accessories than
and dogmatic assertion. The graceful speakers it will bear. In his tone combinations, he often
carry their audiences with them by sheer charm of affects some degree of sombreness, but his darks
method, while the blatant
possessors of loud voices,
who may have just as good
a cause to plead, repel
listeners who are quite
willing to be convinced.
He has clearly learned
— probably during those
wanderings in Italy, which
have helped so much to
develop him as a painter
—that the greatness of the
Old Masters came from the
perfect balance which
they were able to establish
in the qualities of their
art, and from the strenuous
way in which they used
their powers to produce
beautiful things ; and he is
doing his best to apply
their secret in his own
practice.
Over the mechanism
of etching he has very
complete control. To be-
gin with, he is a particu-
larly sound draughtsman
of the figure, and this
capacity serves him as well
in his landscapes as in
his figure compositions.
He has, too, a true "a midnight scene in Venice" from an etching by sir charles holroyd
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and musical sentences. He etches as the practised perception of the relation which detail should bear
orator speaks—with a conviction that people are to the general mass in a pictorial arrangement, so
more readily persuaded by fluent and easy that he never fritters away the dignity of his effect
argument to listen to serious truths, than by loud by overlaying a subject with more accessories than
and dogmatic assertion. The graceful speakers it will bear. In his tone combinations, he often
carry their audiences with them by sheer charm of affects some degree of sombreness, but his darks
method, while the blatant
possessors of loud voices,
who may have just as good
a cause to plead, repel
listeners who are quite
willing to be convinced.
He has clearly learned
— probably during those
wanderings in Italy, which
have helped so much to
develop him as a painter
—that the greatness of the
Old Masters came from the
perfect balance which
they were able to establish
in the qualities of their
art, and from the strenuous
way in which they used
their powers to produce
beautiful things ; and he is
doing his best to apply
their secret in his own
practice.
Over the mechanism
of etching he has very
complete control. To be-
gin with, he is a particu-
larly sound draughtsman
of the figure, and this
capacity serves him as well
in his landscapes as in
his figure compositions.
He has, too, a true "a midnight scene in Venice" from an etching by sir charles holroyd
290