DOI Heft:
No. 171 (June, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Dibdin, E. Rimbault: Mr. E. A. Hornel's paintings of children and flowers
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0028
E. A. Hornel
in Art," and acclaimed Mr. Rathbone a true con- The public, which has grown a little more
noisseur, in splendid ignorance of the fact that tolerant in the last fifteen years, was inclined
Mr. Rathbone was just as municipal as his old in 1892 to insist on the facts in a picture being
friend and colleague, and therefore (according treated with respect. My old friend and pre-
to Mr. Moore's theory) incapable, qua councillor decessor, Mr. Charles Dyall, tells with much
and future alderman, of beginning to understand humour how his life was made a burthen, after
anything about art. I am glad to find that on this the purchase cf Summer, by people who wanted
occasion I happened to be on the side of the an explanation of it. One dear old lady came
angels, having been instantly captured by the day after day and took lessons on the subject,
charm of HornePs colour. Fortunately I left the without, however, succeeding in seeing what he
subject of the picture severely alone—a precaution saw. One day, however, she skipped into his
in which Mr. Rathbone would have done well to office with a radiant face and exclaimed, " Oh,
imitate me when he afterwards lectured on its Mr. Dyall, I do want to tell you that at last
beauties, blamed those who could or would not I've discovered one of the calves; please come
understand it, and gave a detailed description, and help me find another." That discovery
which, though clever, was wrong. The fact is that doubtless gave her more pleasure than the colour
Hornel and Henry were at that time concerned harmony which the painter had laboured to
not at all about subject; and, in their passionate produce, but which she had no skill to see.
quest of musical chords of colour, knocked their Since that time, while Hornel has never swerved
facts about in a most unfeeling manner. from his devotion to colour, and has greatly de-
" REVERIE ' BY E. A. HORNEL
6
in Art," and acclaimed Mr. Rathbone a true con- The public, which has grown a little more
noisseur, in splendid ignorance of the fact that tolerant in the last fifteen years, was inclined
Mr. Rathbone was just as municipal as his old in 1892 to insist on the facts in a picture being
friend and colleague, and therefore (according treated with respect. My old friend and pre-
to Mr. Moore's theory) incapable, qua councillor decessor, Mr. Charles Dyall, tells with much
and future alderman, of beginning to understand humour how his life was made a burthen, after
anything about art. I am glad to find that on this the purchase cf Summer, by people who wanted
occasion I happened to be on the side of the an explanation of it. One dear old lady came
angels, having been instantly captured by the day after day and took lessons on the subject,
charm of HornePs colour. Fortunately I left the without, however, succeeding in seeing what he
subject of the picture severely alone—a precaution saw. One day, however, she skipped into his
in which Mr. Rathbone would have done well to office with a radiant face and exclaimed, " Oh,
imitate me when he afterwards lectured on its Mr. Dyall, I do want to tell you that at last
beauties, blamed those who could or would not I've discovered one of the calves; please come
understand it, and gave a detailed description, and help me find another." That discovery
which, though clever, was wrong. The fact is that doubtless gave her more pleasure than the colour
Hornel and Henry were at that time concerned harmony which the painter had laboured to
not at all about subject; and, in their passionate produce, but which she had no skill to see.
quest of musical chords of colour, knocked their Since that time, while Hornel has never swerved
facts about in a most unfeeling manner. from his devotion to colour, and has greatly de-
" REVERIE ' BY E. A. HORNEL
6