H. Hughes-Stanton
spirited work entitled Un Bourrasque, a sudden rushing
storm which the artist had seen in Sussex and en-
deavoured to render in the somewhat difficult medium
of oils. It was highly praised by the French critics,
who, while finding certain faults with the painting, did
not hesitate to hail the young Englishman as a true
follower of the great school of Constable. Seen the
same year, a Lever du Soleil excited less comment,
though its serener graces were not without admirers.
The work called The Mill was, like Un Bourrasque,
exhibited on its completion in Paris, where its lowering
clouds and rain-swept stretch of sodden earth appealed
to the lovers of realism in landscape. Even more attrac-
tive, because at once more decorative and more modern
in spirit, was A Spring Pastoral, a poetic effort exhibited
in the Royal Academy in 1903, and kindly lent for
decorative panel by h. hughes-stanton
at ballard coombe
(By permission of W. Cleaver, Esq.)
brook, cradled by the frozen fields,
stretches a cold finger to the distant
woods. The moment is late afternoon,
and the grey skies are touched by the
rays of the dying sun. Weeding after
Rain and The Mill in the Valley both
preceded the important picture called
The Garden of England, in which,
taking a typical English theme, Mr.
Hughes-Stanton depicted a hop-garden
overlooking the famous weald of Kent.
I should mention that the essay called
The Mill in the Valley was first seen in
the" Grafton Gallery in 1894, and subse-
quently in the Salon of 1895. In the at ballard coombe
Champs Elysees also was shown the (By permission of W. Cleaver; Esq.)
decorative panel by h. hughes-stanton
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spirited work entitled Un Bourrasque, a sudden rushing
storm which the artist had seen in Sussex and en-
deavoured to render in the somewhat difficult medium
of oils. It was highly praised by the French critics,
who, while finding certain faults with the painting, did
not hesitate to hail the young Englishman as a true
follower of the great school of Constable. Seen the
same year, a Lever du Soleil excited less comment,
though its serener graces were not without admirers.
The work called The Mill was, like Un Bourrasque,
exhibited on its completion in Paris, where its lowering
clouds and rain-swept stretch of sodden earth appealed
to the lovers of realism in landscape. Even more attrac-
tive, because at once more decorative and more modern
in spirit, was A Spring Pastoral, a poetic effort exhibited
in the Royal Academy in 1903, and kindly lent for
decorative panel by h. hughes-stanton
at ballard coombe
(By permission of W. Cleaver, Esq.)
brook, cradled by the frozen fields,
stretches a cold finger to the distant
woods. The moment is late afternoon,
and the grey skies are touched by the
rays of the dying sun. Weeding after
Rain and The Mill in the Valley both
preceded the important picture called
The Garden of England, in which,
taking a typical English theme, Mr.
Hughes-Stanton depicted a hop-garden
overlooking the famous weald of Kent.
I should mention that the essay called
The Mill in the Valley was first seen in
the" Grafton Gallery in 1894, and subse-
quently in the Salon of 1895. In the at ballard coombe
Champs Elysees also was shown the (By permission of W. Cleaver; Esq.)
decorative panel by h. hughes-stanton
277