DOI Heft:
No. 159 (June, 1906)
DOI Artikel:The Royal Academy exhibition, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20715#0029
The Royal Academy. Second Notice
Clausen, A.R. A., is represented this year by pictures
in which there is the same earnest search after certain
difficult truths connected with natural effect.
Portraiture by younger men includes a portrait
of Miss Edith Miller which is worthy in every way
of Mr. Harold Speed, and a Portrait of a Lady
interestingly treated by Mr. Ralph Peacock.
Mr. Charles Sims exhibits some excellent painting
in his picture The Land of Nod. A work attract-
ing attention is by Miss Marion Powers. An
extremely difficult subject has been taken up for
treatment, and the fascination which still-life evi-
dently exercises over the artist’s talent has carried
her through its difficulties in a manner nothing
less than brilliant.
The water-colour, black-and-white, and archi-
tectural rooms were all full of interest this year.
It seems a pity that more schemes for interior
possessions of this year’s exhi-
bition.
Mr. George Henry in The Blue
Goivn leaves his former works
behind. The picture has a re-
velation to make of thoughtful
painting in treating the colour
problems of the dress. Its
qualities are those which cannot
be achieved in any summary
treatment. Something elusive
too in the lady’s expression
belongs to the realm of thought,
to a world at any rate without
the studio doors; only instinct
can take a painter to its secret,
such an instinct as Gainsborough
and Romney seemed to have
about every one of their sitters.
Mr. Edward Stott’s Washing
Day in character is somewhat of
a departure for the new Asso-
ciate, but it is worthy of his
debut as such on the Academy
walls, with its evasive but charm-
ing colour and its analysis of a
difficult effect. In his one pic-
ture Sir L. Alma-Tadema returns
to his old manner with his former
success. His art has always
been selective, and from this
springs its extreme perfection
in one direction with its limita-
tion in others. Mr. George
Alfred East’s most interesting achievements. That
the picture arrests the attention it deserves is in no
sense due to the judgment of the hanging commit-
tee. The prevailing note of colour in the picture,
which is very delicate, is almost killed by the picture
next to it, in which a figure in close juxtaposition
with Mr. East’s work is painted in exaggerated
colour of the same scheme. Amongst other
interesting English landscapes is a snow scene of
unusual distinction by Mr. Buxton Knight.
The Venetian Ficneral is a subdued painting
for Mr. Brangwyn. There is the symbol of sorrow
in its sombre colour, the torches just burn away
the darkness and the heavily laden gondola almost
drifts; a cluster of flowers at the end of the gondola
lightens the picture. This picture shows the extra-
ordinary quality of strength in Mr. Brangwyn’s
work, existing none the less for the lowered scale
of colours. The whole has a
beauty which is one of the rich
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PORTRAIT OF MISS EDITH MILLER
BY HAROLD SPEED
Clausen, A.R. A., is represented this year by pictures
in which there is the same earnest search after certain
difficult truths connected with natural effect.
Portraiture by younger men includes a portrait
of Miss Edith Miller which is worthy in every way
of Mr. Harold Speed, and a Portrait of a Lady
interestingly treated by Mr. Ralph Peacock.
Mr. Charles Sims exhibits some excellent painting
in his picture The Land of Nod. A work attract-
ing attention is by Miss Marion Powers. An
extremely difficult subject has been taken up for
treatment, and the fascination which still-life evi-
dently exercises over the artist’s talent has carried
her through its difficulties in a manner nothing
less than brilliant.
The water-colour, black-and-white, and archi-
tectural rooms were all full of interest this year.
It seems a pity that more schemes for interior
possessions of this year’s exhi-
bition.
Mr. George Henry in The Blue
Goivn leaves his former works
behind. The picture has a re-
velation to make of thoughtful
painting in treating the colour
problems of the dress. Its
qualities are those which cannot
be achieved in any summary
treatment. Something elusive
too in the lady’s expression
belongs to the realm of thought,
to a world at any rate without
the studio doors; only instinct
can take a painter to its secret,
such an instinct as Gainsborough
and Romney seemed to have
about every one of their sitters.
Mr. Edward Stott’s Washing
Day in character is somewhat of
a departure for the new Asso-
ciate, but it is worthy of his
debut as such on the Academy
walls, with its evasive but charm-
ing colour and its analysis of a
difficult effect. In his one pic-
ture Sir L. Alma-Tadema returns
to his old manner with his former
success. His art has always
been selective, and from this
springs its extreme perfection
in one direction with its limita-
tion in others. Mr. George
Alfred East’s most interesting achievements. That
the picture arrests the attention it deserves is in no
sense due to the judgment of the hanging commit-
tee. The prevailing note of colour in the picture,
which is very delicate, is almost killed by the picture
next to it, in which a figure in close juxtaposition
with Mr. East’s work is painted in exaggerated
colour of the same scheme. Amongst other
interesting English landscapes is a snow scene of
unusual distinction by Mr. Buxton Knight.
The Venetian Ficneral is a subdued painting
for Mr. Brangwyn. There is the symbol of sorrow
in its sombre colour, the torches just burn away
the darkness and the heavily laden gondola almost
drifts; a cluster of flowers at the end of the gondola
lightens the picture. This picture shows the extra-
ordinary quality of strength in Mr. Brangwyn’s
work, existing none the less for the lowered scale
of colours. The whole has a
beauty which is one of the rich
8
PORTRAIT OF MISS EDITH MILLER
BY HAROLD SPEED