Studio: international art (63.1914/15)

Studio-Talk

Returning to the exhibits in oil, water-colour,
tempera and pastel, which number 1338 of the
2148 catalogue items, it must suffice to say that
one finds many of the chief pictures of the Spring
exhibitions in town well reinforced by a judicious
selection from the Royal Scottish Academy. F.
Cadogan Cowper's Chantrey Bequest picture of
Lucretia Borgia playing Pope, is shown to greatest
advantage between two sombre grey-green land-
scapes by the late Sir Alfred East, which in turn
gain in subtlety by the association with Mr. Cowper's
trenchant crimsons. The Master by Richard Jack,
Gemmell Hutchison's Caller Herriri, Pilade Ber-
tieri's Dame aux fourrures noires, Oswald Birley's
In Sutherlandshire — Children of Leopold Hirsch,
Esq., and Gerald F. Kelly's La Maja, are all in
the first room, where also are excellent landscapes
by Niels M. Lund, E. T. Compton, F. Spenlove-

" startled" bronze statuette by r-Aui.

r. montforo
( Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)

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bust of d. y. cameron, a.r.a.

by tercy portsmouth
( Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)

Spenlove, Herbert Royle, Alice Fanner, Arthur
Streeton, and some admirable portraits. The other
six rooms devoted to pictures in oil are equally
well provided. The customary "one-man" col-
lection is provided by Mr. Arthur Hacker, whose
thirty-seven exhibits, daintily arranged, provide a
restful contrast to the hanging of the other rooms.
Mr. Hacker's selection is a good one, and his
refined art bears the severe test well.

Local painters who have done especially well
are chiefly portraitists. G. Hall Neale, in addition
to a clever small-scale full length of the Lord
Mayor of Liverpool, has a portrait of Mr. Arthur
H. Read, which is the best he has produced.
R. E. Morrison deals well with the scarlet prob-
lem in his Moyor of Birkenhead, and F. T.
Copnall, who scarcely succeeds in a similar essay,
redeems his credit with a well-handled and effec-