DOI issue:
Nr. 207 (June 1910)
DOI article:The royal academy exhibition, 1910
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20970#0032
The Royal Academy Exhibition, igio
others, like Mr. Loudan’s Reflections, Mr. Patry’s
Rouge et Noir, Mr. Richard Jack’s The Spirit of
the Stream, Mr. C. W. Wyllie’s When the Skips
Come Home, Sir James Linton’s St. Valentine's
Day, and Mr. George Henry’s The Nightingale,
which show a thoroughly sound sense of technical
responsibility. They all of them help to keep up
the standard of the collection. With them must
be included the two ambitious open-air studies,
Boys, and Flying a Kite, by Mrs. Laura Knight,
the first of which is a bold and reasonably success-
ful attempt to paint an effect of strong sunlight,
and the other a breezy and luminous landscape
with figures; and there is much to commend in
Mr. Harold Knight’s Afternoon Tea; Mr. Camp-
bell Taylor’s small domestic scene, Bubbles; Mr.
Lee Hankey’s The Young Mother; Mr. Byam
Shaw’s Love is too young to know what conscience is;
and the two small pictures, Old Cronies and The
Green Mantelshelf, by Mr. Stanhope Forbes.
Some of the most noteworthy examples of
serious and well directed craftsmanship are to be
found among the portraits; in this section of the
exhibition there is, indeed, a full measure of good
things. Three exquisite canvases by that con-
summate master, Sir William Orchardson, prove
most definitely what an irreparable loss British art
has sustained by his death, and show how splendidly
his powers were maintained even to the last. Four
remarkable paintings of men by Sir Hubert von
Herkomer are conspicuous as acute studies of
character realized with even more than his accus-
tomed intimacy of vision and certainty of touch,
and as marking what is in some ways a new de-
parture in his technical method. A charming por-
trait study, Black and Silver, by Mr. J. J. Shannon,
is fascinating in its frank and expressive vivacity
of style and in its delightful freshness of colour;
and a magnificent family group, The Birthday,
by Mr. George Harcourt, stands out as one of
the indisputable “ pictures of the year,” and as
an achievement which definitely sets the seal upon
the reputation of an artist whose progress towards
the front rank has been rapid and continuous.
“MISCHIEF
BY CHARLES SIMS, A.R.A.
others, like Mr. Loudan’s Reflections, Mr. Patry’s
Rouge et Noir, Mr. Richard Jack’s The Spirit of
the Stream, Mr. C. W. Wyllie’s When the Skips
Come Home, Sir James Linton’s St. Valentine's
Day, and Mr. George Henry’s The Nightingale,
which show a thoroughly sound sense of technical
responsibility. They all of them help to keep up
the standard of the collection. With them must
be included the two ambitious open-air studies,
Boys, and Flying a Kite, by Mrs. Laura Knight,
the first of which is a bold and reasonably success-
ful attempt to paint an effect of strong sunlight,
and the other a breezy and luminous landscape
with figures; and there is much to commend in
Mr. Harold Knight’s Afternoon Tea; Mr. Camp-
bell Taylor’s small domestic scene, Bubbles; Mr.
Lee Hankey’s The Young Mother; Mr. Byam
Shaw’s Love is too young to know what conscience is;
and the two small pictures, Old Cronies and The
Green Mantelshelf, by Mr. Stanhope Forbes.
Some of the most noteworthy examples of
serious and well directed craftsmanship are to be
found among the portraits; in this section of the
exhibition there is, indeed, a full measure of good
things. Three exquisite canvases by that con-
summate master, Sir William Orchardson, prove
most definitely what an irreparable loss British art
has sustained by his death, and show how splendidly
his powers were maintained even to the last. Four
remarkable paintings of men by Sir Hubert von
Herkomer are conspicuous as acute studies of
character realized with even more than his accus-
tomed intimacy of vision and certainty of touch,
and as marking what is in some ways a new de-
parture in his technical method. A charming por-
trait study, Black and Silver, by Mr. J. J. Shannon,
is fascinating in its frank and expressive vivacity
of style and in its delightful freshness of colour;
and a magnificent family group, The Birthday,
by Mr. George Harcourt, stands out as one of
the indisputable “ pictures of the year,” and as
an achievement which definitely sets the seal upon
the reputation of an artist whose progress towards
the front rank has been rapid and continuous.
“MISCHIEF
BY CHARLES SIMS, A.R.A.