DOI Heft:
No. 159 (June, 1906)
DOI Artikel:The Royal Academy exhibition, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0025
The Royal Academy. Second Notice
PORTRAIT OF A LADY BY RALPH PEACOCK
with sensitiveness against the almost mosaic
background of the other faces and figures, so
giving indication of Mr. Craig’s powers more
than any other part of the picture; the painting
of this head is carried by its treatment farther
than it is possible for him to reach in the
definite and matter-of-fact handling which
characterises the rest of the picture. It is
interesting to note that this picture is among
those which have been acquired under the
terms of the Chantrey Bequest.
A painting by a young artist evidently at
the beginning of his reputation is the little work
called Battledore, by Mr. L. Campbell Taylor,
an artist who apparently holds to that tradition
ot fine painting which makes his panel seem
old-fashioned.
Mr. Bramley’s frankly painted Summer has
charm of subject with clever treatment. In
Haru-ro- Yuki (Snow in Spring) the colour and
the difficult problem carried out are amongst Mr.
“MADONNA AND CHILD” BY BERTRAM MACKENNAL
painter into delicate changes of tone, which it
seems difficult to associate with the brave speed
of brushwork, such as we apparently have here,
but which otherwise best suits perhaps the
spontaneous grouping Mr. Bacon has chosen.
Illustrators often in their paintings set them-
selves to attain rich decorative schemes of
colour, little regarding the influence of atmo-
sphere. The great illustrator, Mr. Abbey, is a
noteworthy case, and Mr. Craig, in style of
painting, his follower, and an illustrator of note,
is no exception. In his Heretic he has con-
cerned himself with facial character. The faces
in procession one behind the other, in the
canvas seem all to come to the fore, clear-cut
and minutely painted. Certainly the frankness
of the aim at decoration makes this to an extent
legitimate. The girl’s face, however, is put in
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PORTRAIT OF A LADY BY RALPH PEACOCK
with sensitiveness against the almost mosaic
background of the other faces and figures, so
giving indication of Mr. Craig’s powers more
than any other part of the picture; the painting
of this head is carried by its treatment farther
than it is possible for him to reach in the
definite and matter-of-fact handling which
characterises the rest of the picture. It is
interesting to note that this picture is among
those which have been acquired under the
terms of the Chantrey Bequest.
A painting by a young artist evidently at
the beginning of his reputation is the little work
called Battledore, by Mr. L. Campbell Taylor,
an artist who apparently holds to that tradition
ot fine painting which makes his panel seem
old-fashioned.
Mr. Bramley’s frankly painted Summer has
charm of subject with clever treatment. In
Haru-ro- Yuki (Snow in Spring) the colour and
the difficult problem carried out are amongst Mr.
“MADONNA AND CHILD” BY BERTRAM MACKENNAL
painter into delicate changes of tone, which it
seems difficult to associate with the brave speed
of brushwork, such as we apparently have here,
but which otherwise best suits perhaps the
spontaneous grouping Mr. Bacon has chosen.
Illustrators often in their paintings set them-
selves to attain rich decorative schemes of
colour, little regarding the influence of atmo-
sphere. The great illustrator, Mr. Abbey, is a
noteworthy case, and Mr. Craig, in style of
painting, his follower, and an illustrator of note,
is no exception. In his Heretic he has con-
cerned himself with facial character. The faces
in procession one behind the other, in the
canvas seem all to come to the fore, clear-cut
and minutely painted. Certainly the frankness
of the aim at decoration makes this to an extent
legitimate. The girl’s face, however, is put in
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