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The Royal Academy exhibition, 1908
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The Royal Academy Exhibition, igo8
Frank Bramley, A.R.A., which makes the richer
qualities of Mr. J. J. Shannon’s work quite refresh-
ing, and the work of Mr. George Henry, A.R.A.,
more than ever distinguished, though Mr. Henry
seems to be good for one great effort every year,
in which he touches heights not reached in his
other pictures. This year his Silk a?id Ermine,
full as it is of individuality and beauty, is the
effort which contributes most largely to his
laurels.
Of the more notable pictures contributed from
outside, Mr. Campbell Taylor’s Practice for the
Ballet, 1830, is one of the best. The picture
is one full of variety, and the problems in the
drawing and in the colour which have been so
well overcome, have been of the most difficult
nature. The chintz curtains remind us of Mr.
W. W. Russell’s picture, The Letter, remarkable
for the resource shown in
the management of values.
Mr. Russell has, perhaps,
spent his enthusiasm on
the lighted chintz, the
dress, the carpet, and the
footstool, for the seated
figure seems lacking in that
personal force, that interest,
by which her beautifully
painted clothes and environ-
ment would gain an intenser
and more compelling force.
This criticism we can ex-
tend to the portrait groups
by Mr. G. W. Lambert.
In his A Lady and Her
Child7-en there is a decora-
tive rhythm in the folds
and tucks of the boys’
blouses and the lady’s dress,
and the same sort of re-
peated touch carried out in
the leafy background. This
is Mr. Lambert’s conven-
tion, and this feeling for
drapery is a very important
item in his work.
Mr. Harold Speed’s Roses
and Chintz is a slight de-
parture for him in the
nature of the subject, and
he contributes a portrait.
Mr. John da Costa’s portrait
of Mrs. Evan Dick is a pic-
“a melody: miss adelina leon ” by thomas c. dugdale. ture of a most interesting
two portraits—-J. J. Weinberg, Esq., and Nurse
Charles (Mrs. W. H. Wood), the latter painted in
the light key in which he has painted so many of
his later subject pictures. Mr. J. W. Waterhouse,
R.A., has sent The Soul of the Rose, a work
characteristic in sentiment, and in the type of
beauty which he has painted with no falling off in
power, and by Apollo and Daphne, a canvas fully
representative of the qualities associated with his
name. There is this year more harmony in Mr.
William Strang’s picture, The Surprise, than he has
accustomed us to. It is perhaps one of the finest
paintings which he has yet produced; the addition
of this quality of unity of effect to those contrasts
of movement and colour which he has always given
is very desirable. There is a tendency to superficial,
flat, thin painting in the portraits of Mr. Solomon
J. Solomon, R.A., J. H. F. Bacon, A.R.A., and Mr.
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Frank Bramley, A.R.A., which makes the richer
qualities of Mr. J. J. Shannon’s work quite refresh-
ing, and the work of Mr. George Henry, A.R.A.,
more than ever distinguished, though Mr. Henry
seems to be good for one great effort every year,
in which he touches heights not reached in his
other pictures. This year his Silk a?id Ermine,
full as it is of individuality and beauty, is the
effort which contributes most largely to his
laurels.
Of the more notable pictures contributed from
outside, Mr. Campbell Taylor’s Practice for the
Ballet, 1830, is one of the best. The picture
is one full of variety, and the problems in the
drawing and in the colour which have been so
well overcome, have been of the most difficult
nature. The chintz curtains remind us of Mr.
W. W. Russell’s picture, The Letter, remarkable
for the resource shown in
the management of values.
Mr. Russell has, perhaps,
spent his enthusiasm on
the lighted chintz, the
dress, the carpet, and the
footstool, for the seated
figure seems lacking in that
personal force, that interest,
by which her beautifully
painted clothes and environ-
ment would gain an intenser
and more compelling force.
This criticism we can ex-
tend to the portrait groups
by Mr. G. W. Lambert.
In his A Lady and Her
Child7-en there is a decora-
tive rhythm in the folds
and tucks of the boys’
blouses and the lady’s dress,
and the same sort of re-
peated touch carried out in
the leafy background. This
is Mr. Lambert’s conven-
tion, and this feeling for
drapery is a very important
item in his work.
Mr. Harold Speed’s Roses
and Chintz is a slight de-
parture for him in the
nature of the subject, and
he contributes a portrait.
Mr. John da Costa’s portrait
of Mrs. Evan Dick is a pic-
“a melody: miss adelina leon ” by thomas c. dugdale. ture of a most interesting
two portraits—-J. J. Weinberg, Esq., and Nurse
Charles (Mrs. W. H. Wood), the latter painted in
the light key in which he has painted so many of
his later subject pictures. Mr. J. W. Waterhouse,
R.A., has sent The Soul of the Rose, a work
characteristic in sentiment, and in the type of
beauty which he has painted with no falling off in
power, and by Apollo and Daphne, a canvas fully
representative of the qualities associated with his
name. There is this year more harmony in Mr.
William Strang’s picture, The Surprise, than he has
accustomed us to. It is perhaps one of the finest
paintings which he has yet produced; the addition
of this quality of unity of effect to those contrasts
of movement and colour which he has always given
is very desirable. There is a tendency to superficial,
flat, thin painting in the portraits of Mr. Solomon
J. Solomon, R.A., J. H. F. Bacon, A.R.A., and Mr.
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