Studio: international art (47.1909)

The Royal Academy Exhibition

subject, The End of the Fair: Back to the Island.
Mr. Leslie Thomson’s Holyhead Mountain, as well,
must be included among the more remarkable of
the records of nature, so sound is it in handling
and in its beauty of illumination. Other pictures
which have a clear claim to attention are Mr. W.
Llewellyn’s The Print Collector, Mr. Clausen’s In-
terior of an Old Barn, and Twilight: Interior,

Mr. La Thangue’s Ligurian Mountains, Mr. Walter
Donne’s The Newhaven Packet and The Maritime
Alps, Mr. Edgar Bundy’s City Fathers, Mr. Arthur
Streeton’s St. Mark's, Mr. W. W. Russell’s On the
Beach, Mr. George Harcourt’s The Tracing, and
Mr. Young Hunter’s My Lady Charity.

There is, on the whole, a less convincing display
of sculpture than has been seen in the galleries in
recent years. Mr. Goscombe John’s bronze statue
of The Late Colonel Saunderson, M.P., and
memorial to The Late Bishop Lewis ; Mr. Bertram
Mackennal’s group, Tragedy Enveloping Comedy;
Mr. Derwent Wood’s Atalanta; and Mr. F. W.
Pomeroy’s Model of Recumbent Effigy of the Late
Bishop Lloyd of Newcastle-on-Tyne, are important;

and there are smaller works of great interest, like
the statuette Destiny, by Mr. F. Lynn Jenkins ;
La Belie Dame Sans Merci, by Sir George Framp-
ton; Sappho, by Mr. Mackennal; The Inception
of the Modern World., by Mr. Albert Toft; The
Late George McCulloch, a relief, by Mr. Drury;
and the statuettes by M. Fremiet; and there are
several good portrait busts Mr. Brock’s half-size
model of the Justice group which is to form part of
the Victoria Memorial represents well a sculptor
whose work is always notable; and the Memorial
for the Grave of One who Loved his Fellow Men,
by Mr. Reynolds-Stephens, is admirably ingenious
in design and accomplished in treatment. But the
general run of the contributions is only moderately
interesting.

The Trustees of the Chantrey Fund have
acquired the small picture, A Favourite Custom,
by which Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema is repre-
sented in the show. There is already one of
his works at Millbank, but this belongs to Sir
Henry Tate’s collection and was not a Chantrey
Fund purchase.