Studio: international art (42.1908)

Studio- Talk

very successful this year in his Meadows, which has
an intimate sentiment of English landscape ; other
successes are Mr. J. W. North's Stubble, Mr. James
Paterson's Moret, Mr. Henry Henshall's Waifs and
Strays, Mr. R. W. Allan's Yameimon Gate, Nikko,
Japan, Mr. Colin B. Phillip's Winter Day, New-
quay, Mr. Tom Lloyd's The Bank of the Stream,
Mr. Robert Little's Morning Haze on the Seine,
Miss Rose Barton's Motherhood; and we cannot
remember anything for a while from Mrs. Stanhope
Forbes equal to the Molly Trefusis here.

The exhibitions of the Royal Society of British
Artists have received an impetus in the right direc-
tion since the election to the Presidency of Mr.
Alfred East, whose achievements dominate the
present Exhibition, where there is much of interest
to be seen. Mr. A. Talmage's pictures of London
(one of which is reproduced in this number),
Mr. John Muirhead's A Breezy Day on the Ouse,
Mr. Giffard Lenfesty's The Lone Barn, Mr. T. F.
M. Sheard's Madge the Gleaner, call for particular
notice; and Mr. Wallace Rimington's The Peace of
the Mountains, Mr. Louis Griet's The Silent River,
Mr. Walter Fowler's Approaching Rain, Mr. A. C.
Gould's Packhorse Bridge, Horner Woods, Mr. D.
Murray Smith's The End of the Hill, are other
pictures to which reference should be made.

At the Exhibition of the New English Art Club,
The Fountain and The Morain are two of those
wonderful specimens of Mr. Sargent's art which
he seems to reserve for exhibition at the Club.
The landscape Brandsby, by Mr. W. W. Russell,
also claims particular attention. The qualities of
Mr. H. Tonk's The Birdcage cannot be appreciated
in the Club's small gallery. Mr. Wilson Steer con-
tributes A Profile, and the little canvas contains
some of his finest painting. He also exhibits a
notable landscape, The Grand Place, Montreuil,
and a beautiful water-colour, St. Cloud. The wall
of drawings and water-colours is somewhat of a
disappointment. The drawings of Mr. Muirhead
Bone have not the interest of his usual exhibits,
and Mr. John's drawings are on the whole inferior
in their order to those he generally shows, though
in some places the line-work is as miraculous and
resourceful as ever. Mr. D. S. MacColl's River-
side, Twickenham, is a fine example of his power
to suggest by a sketch the spirit and beauty of a
scene. Mr. Walter Sickert's work is particularly
interesting, and space should at all cost be found
for the mention of Mr. A. W. Rich's Rochester,
Mr. David Muirhead's The Farmyard, Mr. A.

Jamieson's Vue de Moret, Mr. D. Lees' The
Farm, Mrs. Evelyn Cheston's Swanage, and the
paintings contributed by Mr. W. G. von Glehn.

At the Portrait Painters' Exhibition there is
an early work by Sargent, perhaps one of that
artist's greatest paintings — the portrait of W.
Graham Robertson. The Gallery is exhibiting
more than one remarkable portrait, for there are
two very fine Frank Holls and an early Orchardson
lent to the Exhibition. Without Mr. Sargent's
picture and without the loan exhibits, perhaps the
Society is not as successful in its show as usual.
Mr. Lavery is not the only one of the best
known members who is disappointing. Mr.
Charles Shannon is successful in Mrs. T. M.
Legge and Child. In his Marble Torso, Portrait
of the Artist, the still-life painting is full of the
finest qualities of his art, but the face, which is
of some importance in a portrait, seems painted
without the vitality and inspiration which sustained
his brush in interpreting surfaces of the accessories.
Mr. W. G. von Glehn's Evening, Mrs. Jamieson's
Peggy, Mr. Arthur Garratt's The Old Whip, Mr.
Walter W. Russell's Lady with a Muff, are all
highly successful canvases; and important works
are Mr. S. E. Blanche's Walter Sickert, Mr. E.
A. Walton's Lady Smiley, Mr. H. de T. Glaze-
brook's Viscount Goschen. A Sketch by Lamplight
of Mr. Borough Johnson's calls attention to itself,
as does the portrait of Mrs. Harry Hertslet, by
Mr. Glyn Philpot, in the same room. M. Seroff's
H.M. The Emperor of Russia is a feature of the
exhibition. Mr. Ellis Roberts is at his best in The
Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew. A picture of consider-
able distinction is Mr. Gerald Kelly's portrait of
Mrs. Harrison. We refer to Mr. Orpen's painting
in a note further on.

The Institute of Oil Painters included with its
more notable exhibits this year Mr. John da Costa's
Laughing Girl, Sir E. A. Waterlow's A Little
Stream, Mr. J. S. Sargent's The Mountains of
Moab, The Camp of Refuge by Frank Walton
(President), Cherry Blossom by Mr. George
Clausen, A.R.A, the portrait by Sir George Reid
of Sir Henry Littlejohn, M.D., and sculpture by
Mr. F. W. Pomeroy, A.R.A., Mr. H. Poole and
Mr. F. M. Taubman.

Gifts at this season of the year so often take the
shape of books that the occasion is opportune for
bringing to the notice of our readers a group of
examples of bookbindings which, during the last

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