DOI Heft:
No. 157 (April, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Macfall, Haldane: The art of Alexander Roche, R.S.A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0226
Alexander Roche, R.S.A.
Dutch painters exhibited in the annual exhibitions into intimate touch with the colour values of nature
of the Glasgow Institute—an influence that has itself, instead of doing his work in the studio; and
had a vast effect on the whole Glasgow School; a picturesque village a few miles out of Glasgow
not so much, it should be added, by Corot as by became his workshop and the background to his
Daubigny. pictures. It is the work done at this time and
In Paris, being happily a young man and with under these conditions which gave him his greatest
fresh, quick eyes for the great artistic movements delight—which, indeed, as he himself says, he likes
of his time, amidst the fierce partisanship of the the best. The picture of this period most widely
French students of the "Quarter," young Roche and known to the public is, perhaps, the Good King
Lavery took sides, swearing allegiance under the Wenceslaus, shown at the New English Art Club at
banner of a man who had the faculty for leading Knightsbridge, in 1890.
youngsters to the heights ; a man who has, as the To Alexander Roche, together with the other
French neatly term it, " made school." Roche younger men of his time, was now vouchsafed the
and Lavery fell under the spell of Bastien Lepage, revelation of Whistler; and he was to come under
writing enthusiastic accounts of his work and aims the spell of the personality of another man, far too
to their old fellow-students in Glasgow, and con- little known outside Glasgow—a man who exer-
verting to their cause one of the most brilliant of cised a wide and powerful spell over his fellow
that brilliant group, the now well-known artist artists, and was the centre of the enthusiasm which
Guthrie, at that time a favourite and ardent pupil brought the Glasgow School to birth. W. Y. Mac-
of John Pettie. gregor had started a life-class in his Glasgow studio,
On his return to Glasgow, Alexander Roche gathering about him the young bloods who were to
determined to paint the figure out of doors, getting create the new movement, giving chief impetus to
" SPRINGTIME "
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(In the possession of /. Paton, Esq.)
BY ALEXANDER ROCHE
Dutch painters exhibited in the annual exhibitions into intimate touch with the colour values of nature
of the Glasgow Institute—an influence that has itself, instead of doing his work in the studio; and
had a vast effect on the whole Glasgow School; a picturesque village a few miles out of Glasgow
not so much, it should be added, by Corot as by became his workshop and the background to his
Daubigny. pictures. It is the work done at this time and
In Paris, being happily a young man and with under these conditions which gave him his greatest
fresh, quick eyes for the great artistic movements delight—which, indeed, as he himself says, he likes
of his time, amidst the fierce partisanship of the the best. The picture of this period most widely
French students of the "Quarter," young Roche and known to the public is, perhaps, the Good King
Lavery took sides, swearing allegiance under the Wenceslaus, shown at the New English Art Club at
banner of a man who had the faculty for leading Knightsbridge, in 1890.
youngsters to the heights ; a man who has, as the To Alexander Roche, together with the other
French neatly term it, " made school." Roche younger men of his time, was now vouchsafed the
and Lavery fell under the spell of Bastien Lepage, revelation of Whistler; and he was to come under
writing enthusiastic accounts of his work and aims the spell of the personality of another man, far too
to their old fellow-students in Glasgow, and con- little known outside Glasgow—a man who exer-
verting to their cause one of the most brilliant of cised a wide and powerful spell over his fellow
that brilliant group, the now well-known artist artists, and was the centre of the enthusiasm which
Guthrie, at that time a favourite and ardent pupil brought the Glasgow School to birth. W. Y. Mac-
of John Pettie. gregor had started a life-class in his Glasgow studio,
On his return to Glasgow, Alexander Roche gathering about him the young bloods who were to
determined to paint the figure out of doors, getting create the new movement, giving chief impetus to
" SPRINGTIME "
206
(In the possession of /. Paton, Esq.)
BY ALEXANDER ROCHE