Studio: international art (57.1913)

The Grosvenor Gallery

place must be assigned to Mr. William Orpen’s The
Blue Hat, a charming picture of an Irish girl painted
with consummate skill, and Mr. Glyn Philpot’s
character study, The Sicilian Actor, a noteworthy
example of the practice of a young painter who is
rapidly forcing his way to the front rank by the
sheer strength of his personality. A very different
type of art was illustrated in The Coming of Spring
by Mr. Charles Sims, an exquisite fantasy painted
with extraordinary daintiness and delicacy of senti-
ment, and full of subtle beauty. It is one of his
most charming efforts, delightfully imagined and
perfectly realised. Mr. G. W. Lambert’s Portrait
Group with its quaintness of arrangement and a
certain novelty of manner is a work displaying
much executive ability and one that has an ad-
ditional interest as embodying the portraits of some
well-known artists; and Mr. Frank Craig’s The
Abbe Pichot, though seen elsewhere recently, lost
none of its interest in its new surroundings.

Mrs. Rackham’s Girl in
a Spotted Frock claims
particular mention as a
painting which has both
soundness of technical
treatment and definite grace
of manner. Its lowness of
tone was not unpleasant
and its reticence hinted at a
reserve of strength which is
rather stimulating to the
imagination. Mr. Spencer
Watson’s Study, too, was a
picture which had a distinct
measure of speculative in-
terest; and Mr. Maurice
Greiffenhagen’s Portrait
was again quite as attractive
for what it suggested as for
what it made apparent.

All these three canvases
were valuable additions to
the exhibition.

Among the other works
which well deserve the
places given them in this
excellent collection must
be counted Mr. Von Glehn’s
agreeable colour note, The
Garden Window, Mr.

Spencer Watson’s Troop op
Centaurs, Mr. Ludovici’s
Time and Tide, Mr. J. da
Costa’s skilful Sketch for
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Portrait, Mr. W. Graham Robertson’s tender colour
arrangement, Miss Kitty Cheatham, Mr. Harrington
Mann’s Kathleen, Mr. W. B. E. Ranken’s The
Bronze Group, Versailles, the admirable still-life
study, Eggs, by Mr. H. M. Livens, and the charac-
teristic composition, Jeu diEnfant, by Mr. F.
Cayley Robinson; and there were two noteworthy
compositions by Mr. Robert Anning Bell, The
Fainting Nymph and The Two Marys at the
Sepulchre, which represented excellently an artist
of great distinction.

Mrs. Von Glehn’s portrait of Gladys Cooper,
Mr. Muirhead Bone’s pastels, Mr. Pennell’s
lithographs, and the sculpture by Mr. Derwent
Wood and Mr. R. F. Wells must by no means be
overlooked ; they, and Mr. Hartrick’s Weary, Mr.
Crawhall’s water-colour, The Cow, and the two
lovely flower studies by Mr. Francis James, helped
very appreciably to keep up the level of one of the
best exhibitions seen in London for some time.

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BY H. M. LIVENS