Studio: international art (38.1906)

The New Gallery

and domestic architecture do not find their way
to the last-named. The influence of Mr. Brangwyn
and of Mr. Strang is strongly felt in the black-
and-white room. We reproduce Mr. Brangwyn’s
distinguished Venice etching and a particularly
fine mezzotint by Mr. William Hyde.

In the sculpture room the general level is high,
and it is perhaps for this reason that no work
seems to stand out as immeasurably better than
the others. Principally calling for notice are
Mr. Brock’s Gainsborough-, the Bust of the Bishop
of Stepney, by Mr. John Tweed ; the interesting
work of Mr. Alfred Gilbert, R.A. ; Sir W. B.

Richmond’s Gladstone Memorial; Mr. George
Frampton’s Bust oj G. F. Watts; “ For the Right,”
a small equestrian statuette by Mr. Gilbert Bayes;

Abundance, a group by Mr. F. Derwent Wood ;
rlhe Madonna and Child by Mr. Bertram
Mackennal; and the interesting allegorical group
by Mr. W. Reynolds-Stephens.

HE EXHIBITION AT THE NEW
GALLERY.

Among the best of the paintings which
give this exhibition its particular reason for
existence must decidedly be counted the group of
five canvases by Mr. J. S. Sargent. His Syrian
Study is one of the most
remarkable pieces of vivid
observation and brilliant
execution that he has ever
exhibited, and its masterly
interpretation of an effect
of blazing sunlight deserves
absolutely unqualified
praise. His other open-air
study, The Garden of Geth-
semane, if not quite so
masterly, is amazingly facile;
and his two portraits of
Seymour Lucas, Esq., R.A.
and C. Napier Hemy, Esq.,

A.R.A., are as astonishing
as ever in their decisive
frankness of characterisa-
tion and their unhesitating
directness of handling.

They have, too, in fullest
measure that vehement
vitality which is almost
invariably a merit of Mr.

Sargent’s work in portrai-
ture. His fifth contribu- “a royal game: an allegory” by w. rey.nolds-stephens

tion, Padre Albera, the interior of a bare, untidy
room, with the figure of a black-robed priest seated
at'a table, is a rarely discreet exercise in relations
of tone.

Several other portraits of distinguished merit are
included in the collection. There is a charming
painting of Mrs. Arthur H. Lee by Mr. J. J.
Shannon, the most accomplished of all the pictures
which he is exhibiting this year. There are such
magnificently confident achievements as Professor
von Herkomer’s Mrs. S. L. Lazarus, with its
triumphant management of a most exacting colour-
scheme, and General Palmer, robustly handled and
uncompromising in its statement of the sitter’s
personality; as Sir George Reid’s Principal
Donaldson, St. Andrew’s, and Sir John Glover,
Chairman of Lloyds, painted with masculine
certainty and power; Mr. Harold Speed’s C. F. A.
Voysey, Esq., a miracle of high finish and yet free
from pedantic elaboration and from mere insistence
upon surface for surface sake; and Mr. Byam
Shaw’s Miss Constance Collier, an admirable
example of his methods which only falls short of
complete success because it misses somewhat
absolute correctness of tone, Of notable value are
also Mr. Harold Speed’s reticent and quietly
expressive General Baden Powell; Mr. Harris
Brown’s The Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, K.C.,

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