Studio: international art (59.1913)

Studio-Talk

taneity of his sketch of Madame Montagu Jannez,
and the powerful characterisation of his study of
Mrs. Haldane Macfall claim the sincerest admira-
tion, and not less worthy of attention is the de-
lightful drawing of the Duchess of Portland as a
typical illustration of yet another side of his practice.
There is certainly no direction in which his work
fails to appeal for the most serious consideration.

Mr. Tom Mostyn has just been exhibiting, at the
Grafton Galleries, a collection of his paintings which
by its admirably sustained interest and its definite
assertion of his remarkable artistic personality made
a most unusual impression upon all lovers of
strikingly original art. For some years past Mr.
Mostyn has been a man
to whom attention could
by no means be denied;
he has ranked as a painter
with a lofty conception of
his responsibilities and
with an essentially indi-
vidual outlook, and he has
produced much genuinely
ambitious and accom-
plished work. But in this
recent exhibition he has
proved himself to be, be-
yond dispute, one of the
most inspired romanticists
that the British school can
claim. He showed a
series of pictures memor-
able quite as much for
their qualities of imagina-
tion and poetic suggestion
as for their robust charm
of colour and their splendid
confidence of technical
statement; and he showed,
too, in them, that he has
the courage to break away
from the ordinary conven-
tions of pictorial art and
to take without hesitation
a line entirely his own.

His place among the
leaders of British art has
been settled once for all
by this exhibition.

The Fine Art Society
is just now holding an

exhibition of etchings by modern Dutch etchers
which deserves to be recorded as a quite convincing
display of sound accomplishment. The chief
feature of the show is a series of important plates
by M. Bauer, the distinction of whose work, its
originality of manner and charm of method are
most attractively asserted. But there are, besides,
notable things by Matthew Maris, Anton Mauve,
J. C. Poortenaar, a young etcher of indisputable
power and originality, and Witsen, whose firm and yet
delicate technical quality makes his contributions
of the greatest interest; and there are other works
by Jan Boon, P. Dupont, Van Angeren, and one or
two more which can be sincerely praised for their
excellence of craftsmanship and their judicious
regard for sane tradition.