DOI Heft:
No. 240 (March 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0163
Shidio- Talk
shown to the influence we speak of. It is mastery We are reproducing an oil portrait by Mr.
in the most difficult formula of painting, where Howard Somerville, entitled Joyce and a Manila
colour and tone are thought of together, that Shawl, recently purchased by the Walker Art
is evident in this exhibition ; showing a tradition Gallery, Liverpool. Mr. Howard Somerville is a
without exhaustion and with sufficient life, as in the portrait painter of exceptional talent. He too is
case of the paintings of Mr. Strang, to adorn itself represented in the National Portrait Society's ex-
with many of the features of pure colour fantasy hibition by a portrait which has added greatly to
which obsess the imagination of the Post-Impres- his reputation,
sionist school at the expense of everything else.
Other contributors of notable works to this exhi-
bition are Mr. Lavery, A.R.A., with his full-length Mr. Louis Sargent's paintings exhibited in
of Comtesse de B-and Lady in Black; Mr. February at the Leicester Gallery represented a
George Henry, A.R.A., with his portrait of a lady in young artist whose work has always claimed close
a garden, expressive of a charming sensibility in its consideration. For some time Mr. Sargent con-
conception and style, and Mr. Glyn Philpot, with a fined himself to romantic genre, depending upon
Negro in Black and. Silver—which in its refinement colour for the mood to be enforced without quite
and knowledge surpasses all he has yet done—and succeeding in convincing us of exceptional quality
a full-length portrait of Lady Balcarres (Countess in his colour; but in the recent exhibition we saw
of Crawford) in which the influence of Venetian him chiefly striving direct with nature in rugged
painting is beautifully apparent. coast scenes ; and it is in the canvases of this kind
-- that he seems to show us the resources of his art
One of the most interesting of English women and originality of vision,
portrait painters at present
exhibiting is Miss Flora
Lion, who has perhaps
never done anything better
than the portrait of Mr.
H. V. Lanchester, the well-
known architect. This
portrait is in the National
Portrait Society's exhibi-
tion which we have just
been noticing. Mr.
Lanchester, with his
partner, Mr. E. A. Rickards,
has been responsible for
some of our most impor-
tant public buildings, in-
cluding the Wesleyan
Central Hall, Westminster,
the Cardiff City Hall and
Law Courts, and the Dept-
ford Town Hall. He was
for a time editor of "The
Builder," but resigned when
called in by the Govern-
ment of India to report on
the laying-out of the new
capital of India at Delhi,
and he has been engaged
in the preparation of im-
provement schemes for the
Indian cities of Lashkar,
. PORTRAIT OF H. V. LANCHESTER, F.R.I.B.A. BY FLORA LION
Ujjain, and Indore. (National Portrait Society's Exhibition)
140
shown to the influence we speak of. It is mastery We are reproducing an oil portrait by Mr.
in the most difficult formula of painting, where Howard Somerville, entitled Joyce and a Manila
colour and tone are thought of together, that Shawl, recently purchased by the Walker Art
is evident in this exhibition ; showing a tradition Gallery, Liverpool. Mr. Howard Somerville is a
without exhaustion and with sufficient life, as in the portrait painter of exceptional talent. He too is
case of the paintings of Mr. Strang, to adorn itself represented in the National Portrait Society's ex-
with many of the features of pure colour fantasy hibition by a portrait which has added greatly to
which obsess the imagination of the Post-Impres- his reputation,
sionist school at the expense of everything else.
Other contributors of notable works to this exhi-
bition are Mr. Lavery, A.R.A., with his full-length Mr. Louis Sargent's paintings exhibited in
of Comtesse de B-and Lady in Black; Mr. February at the Leicester Gallery represented a
George Henry, A.R.A., with his portrait of a lady in young artist whose work has always claimed close
a garden, expressive of a charming sensibility in its consideration. For some time Mr. Sargent con-
conception and style, and Mr. Glyn Philpot, with a fined himself to romantic genre, depending upon
Negro in Black and. Silver—which in its refinement colour for the mood to be enforced without quite
and knowledge surpasses all he has yet done—and succeeding in convincing us of exceptional quality
a full-length portrait of Lady Balcarres (Countess in his colour; but in the recent exhibition we saw
of Crawford) in which the influence of Venetian him chiefly striving direct with nature in rugged
painting is beautifully apparent. coast scenes ; and it is in the canvases of this kind
-- that he seems to show us the resources of his art
One of the most interesting of English women and originality of vision,
portrait painters at present
exhibiting is Miss Flora
Lion, who has perhaps
never done anything better
than the portrait of Mr.
H. V. Lanchester, the well-
known architect. This
portrait is in the National
Portrait Society's exhibi-
tion which we have just
been noticing. Mr.
Lanchester, with his
partner, Mr. E. A. Rickards,
has been responsible for
some of our most impor-
tant public buildings, in-
cluding the Wesleyan
Central Hall, Westminster,
the Cardiff City Hall and
Law Courts, and the Dept-
ford Town Hall. He was
for a time editor of "The
Builder," but resigned when
called in by the Govern-
ment of India to report on
the laying-out of the new
capital of India at Delhi,
and he has been engaged
in the preparation of im-
provement schemes for the
Indian cities of Lashkar,
. PORTRAIT OF H. V. LANCHESTER, F.R.I.B.A. BY FLORA LION
Ujjain, and Indore. (National Portrait Society's Exhibition)
140