DOI Heft:
No. 239 (February 1913)
DOI Artikel:Brown, Eric: The National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0038
The National Art Gallery of Canada
figures, full of lustrous colour and quaint charm.
These pictures are typical of their time and
ideals; their colour is pure and strong and in a
wonderful way the emotional endeavour to realise
their subject has overcome their technical
limitations. A fine Caravaggio, Portrait of a
Cardinal, shows the tremendous power of direct-
ness with which that unfettered individuallity was
to create a new age in painting.
Frans Snyders is there with a magnificent paint-
ing of a dead swan, lustrous and masterly; J. D.
De Heem also, and there is a Still Life by
Chardin in which the fruits and vegetables have all
the subtle characterisation of portrait masterpieces.
Then to the eighteenth-century English school
of portrait painting, which, beginning with portraits
by Hogarth and his father-in-law Sir James Thorn-
hill, contains examples of the work of Reynolds
{Col. Charles Churchill), Gainsborough {Ignatius
Sancho), Hoppner {Hookham Frere, Esq.), Beechey
{Aubrey Beauclerk, Esq. and H.R.H. The Duke of
Kent, the latter recently presented by Princess
Louise) and Lawrence {Thomas Taylor, Esq.).
Holman Hunt, Sir J. E. Millais and Lord
Leighton are represented by portraits, and G. F.
Watts by a replica of his Time, Death and Judge-
ment now hanging in St. Paul's. John Lavery's
Mary in Green is a much treasured possession.
The Barbizon school is represented by a charm-
ing group of small pictures by Rousseau, Daubigny,
Decamps, and Marilhat, and is further strengthened
with drawings by Millet, Corot, Dupre, Jacque,
Vollon, and others. There is a magnificent blue
Boudin, Vue d'Etaples, and of modern French
Impressionists (according to the present day ap-
plication of the word) there are works by Le
Sidaner, D'Espagnat, Maufra and the Canadians
Morrice, E. Lawson and W. H. Clapp.
These last names bring us to the main part of
the collection, which is Canadian. All or nearly
all of the Canadian painters are well represented
and in this department there is constant addition
" STILL LIFE "
16
BY J. CHARDIN
figures, full of lustrous colour and quaint charm.
These pictures are typical of their time and
ideals; their colour is pure and strong and in a
wonderful way the emotional endeavour to realise
their subject has overcome their technical
limitations. A fine Caravaggio, Portrait of a
Cardinal, shows the tremendous power of direct-
ness with which that unfettered individuallity was
to create a new age in painting.
Frans Snyders is there with a magnificent paint-
ing of a dead swan, lustrous and masterly; J. D.
De Heem also, and there is a Still Life by
Chardin in which the fruits and vegetables have all
the subtle characterisation of portrait masterpieces.
Then to the eighteenth-century English school
of portrait painting, which, beginning with portraits
by Hogarth and his father-in-law Sir James Thorn-
hill, contains examples of the work of Reynolds
{Col. Charles Churchill), Gainsborough {Ignatius
Sancho), Hoppner {Hookham Frere, Esq.), Beechey
{Aubrey Beauclerk, Esq. and H.R.H. The Duke of
Kent, the latter recently presented by Princess
Louise) and Lawrence {Thomas Taylor, Esq.).
Holman Hunt, Sir J. E. Millais and Lord
Leighton are represented by portraits, and G. F.
Watts by a replica of his Time, Death and Judge-
ment now hanging in St. Paul's. John Lavery's
Mary in Green is a much treasured possession.
The Barbizon school is represented by a charm-
ing group of small pictures by Rousseau, Daubigny,
Decamps, and Marilhat, and is further strengthened
with drawings by Millet, Corot, Dupre, Jacque,
Vollon, and others. There is a magnificent blue
Boudin, Vue d'Etaples, and of modern French
Impressionists (according to the present day ap-
plication of the word) there are works by Le
Sidaner, D'Espagnat, Maufra and the Canadians
Morrice, E. Lawson and W. H. Clapp.
These last names bring us to the main part of
the collection, which is Canadian. All or nearly
all of the Canadian painters are well represented
and in this department there is constant addition
" STILL LIFE "
16
BY J. CHARDIN