DOI Heft:
No. 264 (1915)
DOI Artikel:Wood, T. Martin: The Edmund Davis collection, [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0094
The Edmund Davis Collection
diaphanous that they seem like apparitions; yet in
this collection we have a female nude as boldly
rounded and firmly painted as can be imagined.
It must be one of the pleasures of a collector who
is holden to no one type of thing to be able to add
such an out-of-the-way piece to our knowledge of
the work of a painter. Few early Corots indicate
the direction of his later development, and none
less than this matter-of-fact, but lovely, nude.
Lady Ormonde, by Reynolds. This painting is
one of those in which Reynolds interprets a favourite
theme. Painted about 1770, it retains in its present
state an extraordinary delicacy of colour, the faint
rose-red dress being peculiarly in harmony with the
mellowed whites and flesh tones. It was engraved
by James Scott, in 1865, as Maternal Love.
Reynolds’s Henry, 12th Earl oj Suffolk, already
referred to above, was painted about 1778. Of
this picture the painter made two replicas.
Miss Ltidiana (“ L>i”) Talbot, by Gainsborough.
This painting came from the collection of the
Talbot family. It represents the only daughter
of Major-General Sherington Talbot and grand-
daughter of Bishop Talbot of Durham. The Ladv
Clarges was formerly in the Sir Charles Tennant
collection. The British Museum possesses a
drawing of the first idea for the portrait, also a
study for it, in which a dog is introduced.
As will be Seen from the reproductions, Mr.
Davis is the owner of a perfect Daumier and he
also possesses a highly attractive Boudin, a scene
at the seaside, which will be reproduced as a
colour supplement in a second article on the
collection. A large part of that article we propose
to devote to contemporary paintings in the collec-
tion, and a third article to the sculptures and
drawings, both ancient and modern.
In The Studio for April 1900 an article ap-
peared describing the interior of Mr. Davis’s
house, with a description of a bedroom decorated
by Mr. Frank Brangwyn, and in the number
for April 1905 the present writer contributed
an article on the room decorated by Conder,
which forms a famous feature of the house.
diaphanous that they seem like apparitions; yet in
this collection we have a female nude as boldly
rounded and firmly painted as can be imagined.
It must be one of the pleasures of a collector who
is holden to no one type of thing to be able to add
such an out-of-the-way piece to our knowledge of
the work of a painter. Few early Corots indicate
the direction of his later development, and none
less than this matter-of-fact, but lovely, nude.
Lady Ormonde, by Reynolds. This painting is
one of those in which Reynolds interprets a favourite
theme. Painted about 1770, it retains in its present
state an extraordinary delicacy of colour, the faint
rose-red dress being peculiarly in harmony with the
mellowed whites and flesh tones. It was engraved
by James Scott, in 1865, as Maternal Love.
Reynolds’s Henry, 12th Earl oj Suffolk, already
referred to above, was painted about 1778. Of
this picture the painter made two replicas.
Miss Ltidiana (“ L>i”) Talbot, by Gainsborough.
This painting came from the collection of the
Talbot family. It represents the only daughter
of Major-General Sherington Talbot and grand-
daughter of Bishop Talbot of Durham. The Ladv
Clarges was formerly in the Sir Charles Tennant
collection. The British Museum possesses a
drawing of the first idea for the portrait, also a
study for it, in which a dog is introduced.
As will be Seen from the reproductions, Mr.
Davis is the owner of a perfect Daumier and he
also possesses a highly attractive Boudin, a scene
at the seaside, which will be reproduced as a
colour supplement in a second article on the
collection. A large part of that article we propose
to devote to contemporary paintings in the collec-
tion, and a third article to the sculptures and
drawings, both ancient and modern.
In The Studio for April 1900 an article ap-
peared describing the interior of Mr. Davis’s
house, with a description of a bedroom decorated
by Mr. Frank Brangwyn, and in the number
for April 1905 the present writer contributed
an article on the room decorated by Conder,
which forms a famous feature of the house.