Studio: international art (41.1907)

The New Gallery

which keeps up its vitality, there are several which ment and refinement of tone; and Mr. W.
can be praised without any reservations. Sir Llewellyn's Confirmation is quite the most delight-
George Reid's magnificent character studies of ful suggestion of the dainty grace of girlhood which
The Very Rev. Principal Robert H. Story, D.D., he has exhibited for many years. Mr. C. W. Bart-
and Sir Charles B. Logan, LL.D., are wholly lett's Festival Dance, Mr. Austen Brown's At the
acceptable examples of his powers at their best; Window, Mr. F. M. Skipworth's The Golden ButterHy
Mr. W. Logsdail's full length of a lady in black and The Embroidered Panel, Mr. F. S. Anderton's
is vigorously handled and has a remarkable degree Jessica, Mr. S. Melton Fisher's delicate little
of vitality; Mr. R. Jack's masculine representation nude, The Wood Nymph, and Mr. James Clark's
of Arthur J. Ryle, Esq., has real distinction of magnificent arrangement of sumptuous colour, The
manner; and Mr. J. J. Shannon's prettily arranged Sower of the Good Seed, are all valuable additions
and pleasantly individual portrait study, The Silver to the collection, and there are two decorative
Ship, is certainly one of the best things he is panels by Mr. C. E. Halle which must be noted,
exhibiting this year. His Capt. fosceline Bagot The best of the pictures in which figures are com-
is also to be much commended. Mr. Sargent's bined with landscape are Mr. W. Lee Hankey's
large full length of The Rev. Edmond Warre, D.D., admirably painted rustic subjects, The Goose Girl
is dignified and impressive, and is certainly not and An Unimportant Task, the low-toned garden
lacking in character, and his smaller picture of scene, Perfumed Twilight, by Mr. Talbot Hughes,
Mrs. Harold Harmsworth is very
cleverly painted, though it inclines
a little towards prettiness. Of
excellent quality, too, are Mr.
George Henry's Mrs. Innes, Mr.
G. Spencer "Watson's Arthur a

Beckett Terrell, Esq., Mr. W. '' liplfeta, ' 1

Llewellyn's Constance, wife of the
Rev. Arthur Luckock, and Mollie,
Daughter of Campbell S. Holberton,
Esq., the Hon. John Collier's Pro-
fessor Arthur Schuster, Mr. Har-
rington Mann's Kathleen, Mr. H.
Harris Brown's The Hon. Mrs.
Alfred Lyttelton, and Professor von

Herkomer's robusl and well under- '^Hv

stood three-quarter length of Sir

Richard Biddulph Martin, and there

is by Mr. Percy F. S. Spence a

portrait of The Right Hon. John

Burns, M.P., which takes high rank

as an able record of a characteristic

type.

The figure pictures of exceptional
importance are much less numerous.
Sir James Linton's mediaeval sub-
ject, The Admonition, has all his
accustomed soundness of method,
and is memorable especially for its

fine treatment of rich textures. Mr. ,

Harry Becker's episode from the

history of the town of Colchester

is good in colour and is painted

with excellent breadth ; Lady Alma-

Tadema's Love at t/ie Mirror is very

charming in its daintiness of senti- "confirmation" . by w. llewei.i.yn

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