DOI article:
Holland, Clive: Artistic photography in Great Britain
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GREAT BRITAIN
beautiful architectural studies which have gained him his well-
deserved position in the forefront of the ranks of latter-day pictorial
workers. Few of those who have a fairly extended acquaintance
with his work can have failed to notice that its technical excellence
is as remarkable a feature as its pictorial merit. Amongst the most
successful of his portrait studies are those of a fellow-worker, Mr.
F. Holland Day, Professor G. A. Storey, A.R.A., and Mr. G.
Bernard Shaw. The architectural study reproduced herein, “A Sea
of Steps, Wells Cathedral,” not only shows a wonderful range of
tonality, but also a most difficult and interesting subject treated, let
us say, as only Mr. Evans can. In its impressiveness and beauty it
gives the key to much other work by the same hand.
It is now some eight years ago since Mr. Eustace Calland, with an
originality which at once attracted attention and ensured a large
amount of praise and criticism, sent his picture of “ St. Martin’s
Church,” seen from beneath the portico of the National Gallery, to the
Salon, following up thereby previous successes gained with his pictures
“ Brompton Road,” hung in the Salon of 1895, and “The Mall.”
He has produced, comparatively speaking, few pictures—that is to
say, when compared with the more prolific workers—but he has
entered several fields other than architecture, notably that of decora-
tive work and landscape.
The example of Mr. Calland’s work, reproduced in the present
volume, “ St. George’s, Hanover Square,” is interesting, as showing
some of the pictorial qualities and skilful choice of subject and
point of view which have always distinguished his pictures.
Another pictorialist whose work may be said to be somewhat similar
in character to that of Mr. Calland is the comparatively new comer
Mr. Walter Benington, whose “Church of England” attracted so
much notice in the Salon of 1903. A characteristic example of his
work is furnished by “ Amongst the House Tops,” reproduced else-
where. Mr. Benington has also done figure studies and landscape
marked by originality, but up to the present time his greatest
successes have been won in the field represented by the picture
chosen for reproduction.
Amongst the leaders in the school of marine pictorial photography
must be placed Mr. F. J. Mortimer, Mr. C. F. Juston, Mr.
Frank M. Sutcliffe and Mr. W. J. Day ; although it must be
granted that almost all of these workers have gained distinction in
other branches.
The first-named has, by his really magnificent studies of the sea
under varying conditions of calm and storm, gained for himself a
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beautiful architectural studies which have gained him his well-
deserved position in the forefront of the ranks of latter-day pictorial
workers. Few of those who have a fairly extended acquaintance
with his work can have failed to notice that its technical excellence
is as remarkable a feature as its pictorial merit. Amongst the most
successful of his portrait studies are those of a fellow-worker, Mr.
F. Holland Day, Professor G. A. Storey, A.R.A., and Mr. G.
Bernard Shaw. The architectural study reproduced herein, “A Sea
of Steps, Wells Cathedral,” not only shows a wonderful range of
tonality, but also a most difficult and interesting subject treated, let
us say, as only Mr. Evans can. In its impressiveness and beauty it
gives the key to much other work by the same hand.
It is now some eight years ago since Mr. Eustace Calland, with an
originality which at once attracted attention and ensured a large
amount of praise and criticism, sent his picture of “ St. Martin’s
Church,” seen from beneath the portico of the National Gallery, to the
Salon, following up thereby previous successes gained with his pictures
“ Brompton Road,” hung in the Salon of 1895, and “The Mall.”
He has produced, comparatively speaking, few pictures—that is to
say, when compared with the more prolific workers—but he has
entered several fields other than architecture, notably that of decora-
tive work and landscape.
The example of Mr. Calland’s work, reproduced in the present
volume, “ St. George’s, Hanover Square,” is interesting, as showing
some of the pictorial qualities and skilful choice of subject and
point of view which have always distinguished his pictures.
Another pictorialist whose work may be said to be somewhat similar
in character to that of Mr. Calland is the comparatively new comer
Mr. Walter Benington, whose “Church of England” attracted so
much notice in the Salon of 1903. A characteristic example of his
work is furnished by “ Amongst the House Tops,” reproduced else-
where. Mr. Benington has also done figure studies and landscape
marked by originality, but up to the present time his greatest
successes have been won in the field represented by the picture
chosen for reproduction.
Amongst the leaders in the school of marine pictorial photography
must be placed Mr. F. J. Mortimer, Mr. C. F. Juston, Mr.
Frank M. Sutcliffe and Mr. W. J. Day ; although it must be
granted that almost all of these workers have gained distinction in
other branches.
The first-named has, by his really magnificent studies of the sea
under varying conditions of calm and storm, gained for himself a
G B I3