DOI Heft:
No. 163 (October, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0089
Studio-Talk
■ interior of a mill by sydney pilk1ngton
call of art. After studying
for some time in London
he joined the Antwerp
schools, where Logsdail,
Gotch and Frank Bramley
were among his fellow
students. In addition to
travelling in various Con-
tinental countries, he ex-
tended his horizon by visit-
ing Brazil, Uruguay and
the Argentine, spending
two adventurous years in
the latter republic, where
his pictures of Natives
Dancing the Zamba, the
River at Cruz del Eje and
On the Salt Plains were
painted.
the old English landscape-
painters and the romantic
surroundings. These draw-
ings of the Interior of a
Mill and The Farmyard
are sufficiently remarkable
to need no comment, being
to all appearance the work
of a mature and experienced
artist. Like many other
drawings and several paint-
ings, very varied in style
and subject, they were the
outcome of a natural artistic
gift and genuine feeling for
nature. He exhibited for
several years at the New
English Art Club. To " the farmyard" by Sydney pilkington
those who knew him young
Mr. Pilkington was a man of rare charm and de- On his return to England, Mr. Wright first
lightful humour, with something fundamental in pitched his tent in Charles Kingsley's country; a
him. In a word, he had character, and we can large picture of The Beach at Clovelly being hung
only deplore that the great sense he possessed for in the Royal Academy. Migrating to Sevenoaks
landscape-painting as the expression of a poetical in 1894, he first seriously started etching; the
nature was given so short an opportunity. He was principal works produced during that and the
only thirty-two when he died. • V. W. following year being A Flood at Ckevening, River-
head, Lone Barn and The Little Shepherdess. His
OBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKS.—Brought Academy picture of 1895, A Sunset, now hangs in
up to fill a desk in the office of his the permanent gallery of the Leeds Corporation.
R
cousin, one of the merchant princes of
Liverpool, John Wright early deserted Mr. Wright is ready to acknowledge that what
the intricate ways of the mart at the imperative he knows of etching was learnt from Mr. Frank
69
■ interior of a mill by sydney pilk1ngton
call of art. After studying
for some time in London
he joined the Antwerp
schools, where Logsdail,
Gotch and Frank Bramley
were among his fellow
students. In addition to
travelling in various Con-
tinental countries, he ex-
tended his horizon by visit-
ing Brazil, Uruguay and
the Argentine, spending
two adventurous years in
the latter republic, where
his pictures of Natives
Dancing the Zamba, the
River at Cruz del Eje and
On the Salt Plains were
painted.
the old English landscape-
painters and the romantic
surroundings. These draw-
ings of the Interior of a
Mill and The Farmyard
are sufficiently remarkable
to need no comment, being
to all appearance the work
of a mature and experienced
artist. Like many other
drawings and several paint-
ings, very varied in style
and subject, they were the
outcome of a natural artistic
gift and genuine feeling for
nature. He exhibited for
several years at the New
English Art Club. To " the farmyard" by Sydney pilkington
those who knew him young
Mr. Pilkington was a man of rare charm and de- On his return to England, Mr. Wright first
lightful humour, with something fundamental in pitched his tent in Charles Kingsley's country; a
him. In a word, he had character, and we can large picture of The Beach at Clovelly being hung
only deplore that the great sense he possessed for in the Royal Academy. Migrating to Sevenoaks
landscape-painting as the expression of a poetical in 1894, he first seriously started etching; the
nature was given so short an opportunity. He was principal works produced during that and the
only thirty-two when he died. • V. W. following year being A Flood at Ckevening, River-
head, Lone Barn and The Little Shepherdess. His
OBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKS.—Brought Academy picture of 1895, A Sunset, now hangs in
up to fill a desk in the office of his the permanent gallery of the Leeds Corporation.
R
cousin, one of the merchant princes of
Liverpool, John Wright early deserted Mr. Wright is ready to acknowledge that what
the intricate ways of the mart at the imperative he knows of etching was learnt from Mr. Frank
69