DOI Heft:
No. 203 (February, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20969#0070
Studio-Talk
will be remembered was the most conspicuous
feature in the Academy Exhibition of 1908,
contains fourteen full-size portraits of members,
those assembled being the President, Sir Edward
Poynter; Mr. Ernest Crofts, the Keeper; Mr.
T. G. Jackson, the Treasurer; Mr. Sargent, Mr.
Seymour Lucas, Mr. Ouless, Mr. David Murray,
Mr. Briton Riviere, Mr. S. J. Solomon, Mr. J. M.
Swan, Mr. T. Brock, Mr. B. W. Leader, and the
painter himself. Mr. Eaton, the Secretary, is
also present. The painting is now hung in the
National Gallery of British Art at Milbank.
By his will Dr. Ludwig Mond, director of the
firm of Brunner, Mond & Co., left important
bequests to tbe nation from his magnificent collec-
tion of Italian pictures, and we are told was
guided largely in the particular bequests made by
a desire to represent masters at present unrepre-
sented or inadequately so in the National Galleries.
At the Fine Art Society’s Galleries in New Bond
Street are to be seen some interesting pictures of
Northern and Central India, in which Mr. Frank
Dean once more proves himself a painter of dis-
tinct ability, well equipped as regards accuracy of
vision and power of expression, and with a refined
feeling for colour. Those who have admired his
pictures of Egypt will find him equally interesting
in the works now on view. Most of them are
executed in water-colour, undoubtedly the most
suitable medium for depicting the subtle yet often
fierce beauties of an Eastern scene. Amongst the
sixty drawings there are several which call for
especial notice. Benares, the great religious centre
of India, has evidently appealed very strongly to
the artist, and has furnished him with some of his
most imposing subjects. The Well of Knowledge,
with its great white mosque in the background,
set against a sky of exquisite blue, is a remarkably
fine achievement, admirable alike in composition
and execution. The Bathing Ghats, which is re-
produced here in colour (p. 45), is another
impressive work, impregnated, as is also The
Burning Ghats, with the spirit and atmosphere
of India. In these two drawings it will be noticed
that each group of figures is placed with due
regard to the composition and balance of the
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will be remembered was the most conspicuous
feature in the Academy Exhibition of 1908,
contains fourteen full-size portraits of members,
those assembled being the President, Sir Edward
Poynter; Mr. Ernest Crofts, the Keeper; Mr.
T. G. Jackson, the Treasurer; Mr. Sargent, Mr.
Seymour Lucas, Mr. Ouless, Mr. David Murray,
Mr. Briton Riviere, Mr. S. J. Solomon, Mr. J. M.
Swan, Mr. T. Brock, Mr. B. W. Leader, and the
painter himself. Mr. Eaton, the Secretary, is
also present. The painting is now hung in the
National Gallery of British Art at Milbank.
By his will Dr. Ludwig Mond, director of the
firm of Brunner, Mond & Co., left important
bequests to tbe nation from his magnificent collec-
tion of Italian pictures, and we are told was
guided largely in the particular bequests made by
a desire to represent masters at present unrepre-
sented or inadequately so in the National Galleries.
At the Fine Art Society’s Galleries in New Bond
Street are to be seen some interesting pictures of
Northern and Central India, in which Mr. Frank
Dean once more proves himself a painter of dis-
tinct ability, well equipped as regards accuracy of
vision and power of expression, and with a refined
feeling for colour. Those who have admired his
pictures of Egypt will find him equally interesting
in the works now on view. Most of them are
executed in water-colour, undoubtedly the most
suitable medium for depicting the subtle yet often
fierce beauties of an Eastern scene. Amongst the
sixty drawings there are several which call for
especial notice. Benares, the great religious centre
of India, has evidently appealed very strongly to
the artist, and has furnished him with some of his
most imposing subjects. The Well of Knowledge,
with its great white mosque in the background,
set against a sky of exquisite blue, is a remarkably
fine achievement, admirable alike in composition
and execution. The Bathing Ghats, which is re-
produced here in colour (p. 45), is another
impressive work, impregnated, as is also The
Burning Ghats, with the spirit and atmosphere
of India. In these two drawings it will be noticed
that each group of figures is placed with due
regard to the composition and balance of the
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