DOI Heft:
No. 159 (June, 1906)
DOI Artikel:The Royal Academy exhibition, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0024
THE STUDIO
HE ROYAL ACADEMY EX-
HIBITION. SECOND NOTICE.
Than the Baltimore group of Mr. Sargent,
there has not been exhibited in the Academy
at any time m this generation a piece of painting
more profound in catholic grasp of character
and easy management of almost insurmountable
difficulties. The faults which are sometimes
Mr. Sargent s do not creep in here. Its perfection
must make a general appeal. Without wishing to
justify popular sympathy or to enlist it, for often
as not that is the one reward left for the but partially
equipped artist, things seem to us as they should
be when, as in this case, popular appreciation can
be justified, and exaggerated arguments refuted as
to the average person’s inability to be conscious
of the presence of larger truths in the work of
art before them. Besides this group we have" his
portrait of The Hon. Mrs. Guest, one of his best por-
traits of women, because one of the most sympathetic.
Amongst other notable achievements in por-
traiture this year is Sir George Reid’s Lord
Bishop of Salisbury, taking a place in the history
of academic portraiture; within a scheme of colour-
ing, restrained but perfected, the modelling of the
face, the indication of character, are given with
vigour. Mr. J. J. Shannon is chiefly represented
by a portrait group of Mrs. Herbert Sears and her
daughters. In his very methods the painter attains
some suggestion of the fashionable atmosphere,
the air and manners of each of his sitters.
Mr. Bacon’s aims have apparently not been dissimi-
lar in his picture A Fairy Tale. Something of
the wayward restlessness of childhood has been
captured in a picture with a kind of deliberate
untidiness in its composition. The scheme goes
right through in white ; such a scheme carries a
HE ROYAL ACADEMY EX-
HIBITION. SECOND NOTICE.
Than the Baltimore group of Mr. Sargent,
there has not been exhibited in the Academy
at any time m this generation a piece of painting
more profound in catholic grasp of character
and easy management of almost insurmountable
difficulties. The faults which are sometimes
Mr. Sargent s do not creep in here. Its perfection
must make a general appeal. Without wishing to
justify popular sympathy or to enlist it, for often
as not that is the one reward left for the but partially
equipped artist, things seem to us as they should
be when, as in this case, popular appreciation can
be justified, and exaggerated arguments refuted as
to the average person’s inability to be conscious
of the presence of larger truths in the work of
art before them. Besides this group we have" his
portrait of The Hon. Mrs. Guest, one of his best por-
traits of women, because one of the most sympathetic.
Amongst other notable achievements in por-
traiture this year is Sir George Reid’s Lord
Bishop of Salisbury, taking a place in the history
of academic portraiture; within a scheme of colour-
ing, restrained but perfected, the modelling of the
face, the indication of character, are given with
vigour. Mr. J. J. Shannon is chiefly represented
by a portrait group of Mrs. Herbert Sears and her
daughters. In his very methods the painter attains
some suggestion of the fashionable atmosphere,
the air and manners of each of his sitters.
Mr. Bacon’s aims have apparently not been dissimi-
lar in his picture A Fairy Tale. Something of
the wayward restlessness of childhood has been
captured in a picture with a kind of deliberate
untidiness in its composition. The scheme goes
right through in white ; such a scheme carries a