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Holland, Clive: Artistic photography in Great Britain
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GREAT BRITAIN
also in portraiture and marine work. We refer to Miss Agnes
Warburg, who is one of the most prominent lady exhibitors at
the Salon—and, indeed, at most of the other large Metropolitan,
Provincial, and even foreign exhibitions. Miss Warburg’s work is
marked by great individuality; and although her motifs are sometimes
perilously slight, there is a quality about her work which makes the
merest sketch of interest.
Amongst the leaders in the school of Portraiture who have in
the past influenced, and do in the present influence it and its
development, none are better known or more honoured than Messrs.
Reginald Craigie, J. Craig Annan, David Blount, William A. Cadby,
the Allan Bros., and the veteran Frederick Hollyer.
Mr. Reginald Craigie, who holds amongst other positions that of
Honorary Secretary to the “ Linked Ring,” has, during the last ten
years or so, made for himself, in a singularly unostentatious way, a
very enviable reputation amongst pictorial photographers who are
chiefly interested in portraiture and figure studies. His connection
with the Salon has naturally served to bring him into close touch
with nearly all that is best in the pictorial work of the last decade
in England, the United States, and France, and it is not unnatural
that his own work should show progression along the lines which
have governed the productions of other prominent and masterly
workers. The chief characteristics of his work, both in portraiture
and figure studies, have of late years been the purity and delicacy of
tone values, coupled with a tendency towards considerably diffused
rather than well-defined images. Those readers who remember his
“ A White Silk Dress ” will have before their mind’s eye an example
of subtly rendered tones and beautiful lighting scarcely excelled by
by even the work of that accomplished Frenchman, M. Pierre
Dubreuil, who is the author of so many delicate pictures of a
somewhat similar genre.
But it is, perhaps, by his portraits of celebrities and other inte-
resting people that his highest reputation is likely to rest. And in
such pictures as his “Hermann Vezin ” and “Arthur Burchett
Painter” he is seen at his best. The “Study in Tones,” herein
reproduced, is, we believe, considered by him as representative of his
best work. It is at least a clever and bold attempt, with distinct
value as exhibiting the strength which comes in photography from
a long range of tones well managed.
The work of Mr. Craig Annan, of which two representative
examples are reproduced in the present volume, has for years past
not only been a feature of most of the large Exhibitions, but also
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also in portraiture and marine work. We refer to Miss Agnes
Warburg, who is one of the most prominent lady exhibitors at
the Salon—and, indeed, at most of the other large Metropolitan,
Provincial, and even foreign exhibitions. Miss Warburg’s work is
marked by great individuality; and although her motifs are sometimes
perilously slight, there is a quality about her work which makes the
merest sketch of interest.
Amongst the leaders in the school of Portraiture who have in
the past influenced, and do in the present influence it and its
development, none are better known or more honoured than Messrs.
Reginald Craigie, J. Craig Annan, David Blount, William A. Cadby,
the Allan Bros., and the veteran Frederick Hollyer.
Mr. Reginald Craigie, who holds amongst other positions that of
Honorary Secretary to the “ Linked Ring,” has, during the last ten
years or so, made for himself, in a singularly unostentatious way, a
very enviable reputation amongst pictorial photographers who are
chiefly interested in portraiture and figure studies. His connection
with the Salon has naturally served to bring him into close touch
with nearly all that is best in the pictorial work of the last decade
in England, the United States, and France, and it is not unnatural
that his own work should show progression along the lines which
have governed the productions of other prominent and masterly
workers. The chief characteristics of his work, both in portraiture
and figure studies, have of late years been the purity and delicacy of
tone values, coupled with a tendency towards considerably diffused
rather than well-defined images. Those readers who remember his
“ A White Silk Dress ” will have before their mind’s eye an example
of subtly rendered tones and beautiful lighting scarcely excelled by
by even the work of that accomplished Frenchman, M. Pierre
Dubreuil, who is the author of so many delicate pictures of a
somewhat similar genre.
But it is, perhaps, by his portraits of celebrities and other inte-
resting people that his highest reputation is likely to rest. And in
such pictures as his “Hermann Vezin ” and “Arthur Burchett
Painter” he is seen at his best. The “Study in Tones,” herein
reproduced, is, we believe, considered by him as representative of his
best work. It is at least a clever and bold attempt, with distinct
value as exhibiting the strength which comes in photography from
a long range of tones well managed.
The work of Mr. Craig Annan, of which two representative
examples are reproduced in the present volume, has for years past
not only been a feature of most of the large Exhibitions, but also
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