Studio: international art (35.1905)

The Royal Academy

clever piece of fancy, His Own Poems; Mr.
Sargent’s strong and expressive portrait of Senor
Manuel Garcia ; Mr. Byam Shaw’s large, sincere,
and dignified symbolical composition, The Greatest
of all Heroes is One; and a very sound little
character study, The Woodman, by Mr. Stanhope
Forbes. In the second room are Mr. Solomon J.
Solomon’s family group, Papa Painting, an in-
genious and well-handled picture; Mr. j. W.
Waterhouse’s beautiful Lamia, one of his most
admirable fantasies; Mr. Harold Speed’s very
successful portrait ot The King; Mr. Arnesby
Brown’s typical rural scene, The Pyway; two
brilliant canvases, A Sussex Orchard and A
Ligurian Mill-race, by Mr. La Thangue ; and five
very good landscapes, Mr. Buxton Knight’s
Showery Morning., Mr. Alfred East’s In the Thames
Valley, Mr. J. Coutts Michie’s Crofter’s Harvest,
Mr. R. Vicat Cole’s The Brimming River, and Sir
Ernest Waterlow’s Moonrise on the Ouse.

In the large room most of the line space is
occupied by the contributions of Academicians and
Associates. Here are Sir E. J. Poynter’s The Cup
of Tantalus, Sir L. Alma-Tadema’s The Finding
of Moses, Mr. Sargent’s The Countess of Warwick,
Sir Ernest Waterlow’s Evening at Warkworih, Mr.
David Murray’s The River Meadow, Mr. R. W.
Macbeth’s The Nightingale’s Song, Mr. East’s
Dance and Provencal Song, and the painfully
commonplace portrait of Queen Alexandra, by Mr.
Luke Fildes ; and here, too, is what is in nuny
ways the best painting in the show, Mr. Orchard-
son’s portrait of Howard Colls, Esq. Outsiders are
also well represented by such excellent productions
as Mr. R. W. Allan’s Home and Shelter, Mr.
Spencer Watson’s Aphrodite, Mr. Loudan’s The
Sundial., Mr. Hughes Stanton’s Swanage Bay, Mr.
Gerald Moira’s Sunshine and Life, Mr. Gotch’s La
Reine Clothilde, and Mr. Aumonier’s dramatic
landscape The Black Mountains.

The chief things in the fourth room are Mr.
A. S. Cope’s sturdy and effective full length of
H.L.M. the German Emperor, Mr. Sargent’s sump-
tuous group, The Marlborough Family, Mr. Melton
Fisher’s pretty picture, The Prelude, and two not-
able landscapes, Swedes and The Tithe Barns, by
Mr. David Murray; and in rooms five and six are
Mr. J. J. Shannon’s best picture, Lady Dickson
Poynder and her Daughter foan, Professor von
Herkomer’s vigorous portrait of W. A. Bell, Esq.,
and his huge composition, Communal Sitting of the
Burghers of Landsberg, Mr. East’s Early Morning
in the Cotswolds, Sir Ernest Waterlow’s graceful
landscape, The Thames from Richmond Hill, Mr.

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W. Llewellyn’s The Fairy Story, Mr. J. Walter
West’s The Guardian, the Hon. John Collier’s
The Cheat, one of his customary society episodes,
and a very subtle twilight landscape, ’Tween the
Gloaming and the Murk, by Mr. David Murray;
with some other interesting works by Mr. Harold
Speed, Mr. Arthur Hacker, Mr. Edward Patry,
Mr. Hughes Stanton, Mr. Warne Browne, Mr.
Charles Kerr, and Mr. Westley Manning.

A delightful landscape with figures, The Kite, by
Mr. Charles Sims, hangs in the seventh room with
Mr. Sargent’s graceful portrait of Lady Helen
Vincent, Mr. J. Young Hunter’s Celia, Joan and
Alac, Mr. Alfred Hartley’s November in Ltaly, and
other pictures by Miss Lucy Kemp-Welch, Mr.
Yeend King, Mr. W. L. Wyllie, and Mr. Shannon;
and in the next are two specially memorable can-
vases by recently deceased members of the
Academy, Mr. G. H. Boughton’s Winter in the
Marshes, and Mr. C. W. Furse’s The Children oj
Lycett Green, Esq. Here also are placed Mr.
Clausen’s pastoral, The Ploughman's Breakfast,
portraits of Lady Gorst and Sir A. K. Rollit by
Professor von Herkomer, Mr. F. Bramley’s enor-
mous canvas, Grasmere Rush-bearing., Mr. A. J.
Black’s A Scattered Harvest, an important picture,
Home-along, by Mr. Stanhope Forbes, Mr. J. L.
Pickering’s Corsican Upland', and a very vigorous
and well-suggested woodland landscape, Nature’s
Cathedral Aisle, by Mr. Buxton Knight. The
ninth room, where the little pictures are gathered
together, is more than ordinarily interesting this
year because it contains one of the best portraits
Mr. Sargent has ever painted—his Monsieur Leon
Delafosse; and among the other “gems” are two
landscapes by Mr. Alfred Parsons, a good portrait
sketch by Mr. Macbeth, Mr. Clausen’s The
Listener, Mr. James Clark’s Firelight Harmonies,
and Mr. Stott’s only contribution, The Shepherd.

Some particularly successful productions have
been placed in the last two rooms, for example,
Mr. East’s best picture, Autumn in the Valley of
the Ouse, a magnificent arrangement in tones of
gold and brown ; Mr. W. Llewellyn’s most accom-
plished portrait of an old man, Thos. W. Meates,
Esq., one of the finest things he has ever ex-
hibited ; Mr. George Henry’s fascinating portrait
study, The Chinese Kylin, and a very good land-
scape, The Watering Place, well handled and with
much charm of style, by Mr. J. L. Henry.
Among the other pictures there which call for
mention are Mr. J. da Costa’s Pierette, Mr.
Dampier May’s The Bath, Whiffing by Mr.

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