Studio: international art (59.1913)

The Royal Academy Exhibition

artists. They suggest a compromise which has
left him halting between two points of view.

Then there must be counted among the more
salient features of the exhibition Mr. Sargent’s
amazing tone studies, the Hospital at Granada,
Weavers, and Spanish Gipsies, records of effects
of illumination painted with superlative directness
and technical confidence; and the same artist’s
portrait Study, Rose Marie, which is good without
quite attaining greatness. Deservedly prominent,
too—fully entitled to places among the leading
pictures of their class in this year’s exhibition—are
such canvases as Mr. Edgar Bundy’s cleverly handled
Finance ; Mr. Richard Jack’s admirable composi-
tions, The Toast, and The String Quartette; and
Mr. Melton Fisher’s Sleep, a picture which in its
daintiness of sentiment, its power of handling, and its
beauty of colour, goes appreciably beyond anything
he has hitherto produced; while Mr. F. O. Salisbury’s
The Wonders of the Sea, is an excellent study of
children. Mr. Hacker’s monumental composition
Vale, is more impressive, but not so attractive as his
domestic scene, The Little Mother, which is one of
the best pictures he has shown for quite a long while.
He contributes, too, a London subject Beneath the
Dome, which is entirely acceptable, and a couple of
portraits, the more notable of which is his excel-
lently characterised three-quarter length of Sir
Arthur Liberty.

Among other portraits of superlative interest
this year must be counted the Viscount Morley,
O.M., P.C., by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, who is
especially well represented this year by a series of
splendid character studies, Mr. William Orpen’s
masterly portrait of a lady, his sole contribution
on this occasion, Mr. J. J. Shannon’s charming
Mrs. Wynne Chapman, Mr. W. Llewellyn’s
dignified and well designed full-length of the
Queen, painted for the United Service Club,
Mr. Solomon J. Solomon’s Jonman Mosley, Esq.,
C.B., Mr. Harold Speed’s Margaret Morris, and
Mr. George Henry’s Mrs. John Lnnes, and J. N.
Hare, Esq. Mr. Lavery’s large Royal group,
though not wholly successful, is a work of much
distinction and his full-length of Lady Gwendoline
Spencer Churchill has dignity and suavity of
line. Other things of note are Mr. G. A.
Storey’s portrait of himself, Mr. G. W. Lambert’s
Miss Olave Cunningham Graham, Mr. Nicolet’s
Why Notl a clever portrait study, Mr. Glazebrook’s
Mrs. W. P. B., and The Earl of Crawford and
Balcarres by Mr. Fiddes Watt.

In landscapes the exhibition is decidedly strong.
Sir Ernest Waterlow, breaking new ground, is

represented by some mountain subjects which do
him thegreatest credit; Mr. David Murraybya series
of Venetian pictures full of light and colour, and
by a couple of subjects nearer home, Away and
away to the lowlands low, and Birk and Bracken :
The Trossachs, which are typical examples of his
art; Mr. Hughes-Stanton by a large and strongly
expressive picture, The Road through the Dunes ;
and Sir Alfred East by two of his most character-
istic transcriptions of nature, The Rainbow, and
From Rivington Pike, Bolton, both of them memor-
able for their breadth and decorative quality. There
is a magnificent landscape with cattle, Ln Suffolk, by
Mr. Arnesby Brown who is as masterly as ever in
his handling of a supremely difficult subject, and
there are such fine things as Mr. Clausen’s The
Houses at the Back: Frosty Morning, Mr. Tuke’s
Genoa, Mr. Gwelo Goodman’s The Coast of England,
Mr. Walter West’s Sunshine, Breeze, and Blossom:
Lake Como, Mr. Campbell Mitchell’s Ben
Cruachan, Mr. J. L. Henry’s Passing Clouds, Mr.
A. J. Black’s sea-piece, The Stags of Lnis Bofin,
and the brilliantly painted An Autumnal Load, by
Mr. Stanhope Forbes. From Mr. Adrian Stokes
come four landscapes beautifully tender in colour
and delicate in quality, and from Mr. Terrick
Williams, Mr. Oliver Hall, Mr. R. Vicat Cole, Mr.
Montague Smyth, and Mr. Albert Goodwin, works
of characteristic excellence.

Among the other contributors of pictorial work
who must not by any means be overlooked are Mr.
L. Campbell Taylor, Mr. James Clark, Mr. Young
Hunter, Mr. Talbot Hughes, Mr. F. Appleyard,
Mr. Alfred Hitchens, Mr. F. G. Swaish, the Hon.
John Collier, whose Fallen Idol will, as usual, set
the public speculating, Mr. H. W. B. Davis, Mr.
Napier Hemy, Mr. Robert Little, Mr. Mark Fisher,
Mr. Lee Hankey, Mr. A. Streeton, Mr. R. W.
Allan, Miss Hilda Fearon, and Mr. Yeend King.

The sculpture, though better arranged, is on the
whole of rather less importance than usual, but
small works of great merit are sufficiently numerous,
and artists like Sir Thomas Brock, Sir George
Frampton, Sir W. Goscombe John, Mr. Drury,
Mr. Reynolds-Stephens, Mr. Mackennal, Mr. Gilbert
Bayes, Mr. H. Pegram, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr.
Thornycroft, and Mr. Lynn Jenkins, are well re-
presented.

The works purchased under the Chantrey
Bequest comprise Mr. Sims’ The Wood beyond the
World, Mr. Walter West’s Sunshine, Breeze, and
Blossom, and three water-colours by Mr. E. E.
Briggs, Mr. W. Hatherell, R.I., and Mr. H. Watson
respectively.