DOI issue:
No. 166 (May 1915)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21212#0293
Studio-Talk
is there a nervous vitality in the handling of the
needle which has enabled the artist to extract an
interest and beauty from, in two cases at any rate,
unpromising and rather prosaic subjects. These
three plates, together with another one or two,
including a delightful study of an Oriel Window
at Cerne Abbas, comprise at present the artist’s
entire oeuvre as an etcher, but as he has already
shown even in these earliest efforts an ability to
manipulate the etching needle with expressive effect
his further development should be interesting.
The National Portrait Society’s tourth annual
exhibition, recently held at the Grosvenor Gallery,
has been an outstanding one from the inclusion of
the President, Mr. Augus-
tus John’s portrait, Miss
Iris Tree, and Mr. Am-
brose McEvoy’s large
painting Madame. Both
of these works have at-
tracted much comment in
the critical press, the
former by its learned sim-
plification and originality
of design, the latter by a
haunting literary sugges-
tiveness which almost
places it outside the cate-
gory of portraiture proper,
and the subtleties of
shadow and reflection of
a figure artificially lighted.
Mr. Philip Connard is
another artist who by his
William Cleverly Alex-
ander Esq. and Portrait oj
a Child has advanced his
reputation. Mr. W. Strang
contributed The Mirror
and The Red Fez — re-
painted works calling for
comment in their new
aspect. The exhibition
was enriched by the art
of three interesting Bel-
gians, J. Ensor, Van
Rysselberghe, and the
sculptor Victor Rousseau.
Among other exhibitors
with whom the strength
of the exhibition generally
rested, Mr. John Lavery,
A.R.A., Mr. Walter
Sickert, Mr. W. B. E. Ranken, Mr. G. F. Kelly,
Mr. Howard Somerville, Mr. P. A. de Laszld and
Miss Flora Lion should be mentioned.
DUBLIN.—The eighty-sixth Exhibition
of the Royal Hibernian Academy of
Arts now open in Dublin, the proceeds
of which will be given to the Belgian
Relief Fund, is chiefly noteworthy for the many
interesting works shown by local artists. The
younger painters, especially, are well to the fore,
and the stimulating effect of Mr. William Orpen’s
influence as professor of painting .at the Dublin
Metropolitan School of Art is evident in their
work. There is, indeed, a wave of keen enthusiasm
PORTRAIT OF “GEORGE BIRMINGHAM” (CANON J. O. HANNAY) BY
DERMOD O’BRIEN, P. R.H.A.
(Royal Hibernian Academy)
287
is there a nervous vitality in the handling of the
needle which has enabled the artist to extract an
interest and beauty from, in two cases at any rate,
unpromising and rather prosaic subjects. These
three plates, together with another one or two,
including a delightful study of an Oriel Window
at Cerne Abbas, comprise at present the artist’s
entire oeuvre as an etcher, but as he has already
shown even in these earliest efforts an ability to
manipulate the etching needle with expressive effect
his further development should be interesting.
The National Portrait Society’s tourth annual
exhibition, recently held at the Grosvenor Gallery,
has been an outstanding one from the inclusion of
the President, Mr. Augus-
tus John’s portrait, Miss
Iris Tree, and Mr. Am-
brose McEvoy’s large
painting Madame. Both
of these works have at-
tracted much comment in
the critical press, the
former by its learned sim-
plification and originality
of design, the latter by a
haunting literary sugges-
tiveness which almost
places it outside the cate-
gory of portraiture proper,
and the subtleties of
shadow and reflection of
a figure artificially lighted.
Mr. Philip Connard is
another artist who by his
William Cleverly Alex-
ander Esq. and Portrait oj
a Child has advanced his
reputation. Mr. W. Strang
contributed The Mirror
and The Red Fez — re-
painted works calling for
comment in their new
aspect. The exhibition
was enriched by the art
of three interesting Bel-
gians, J. Ensor, Van
Rysselberghe, and the
sculptor Victor Rousseau.
Among other exhibitors
with whom the strength
of the exhibition generally
rested, Mr. John Lavery,
A.R.A., Mr. Walter
Sickert, Mr. W. B. E. Ranken, Mr. G. F. Kelly,
Mr. Howard Somerville, Mr. P. A. de Laszld and
Miss Flora Lion should be mentioned.
DUBLIN.—The eighty-sixth Exhibition
of the Royal Hibernian Academy of
Arts now open in Dublin, the proceeds
of which will be given to the Belgian
Relief Fund, is chiefly noteworthy for the many
interesting works shown by local artists. The
younger painters, especially, are well to the fore,
and the stimulating effect of Mr. William Orpen’s
influence as professor of painting .at the Dublin
Metropolitan School of Art is evident in their
work. There is, indeed, a wave of keen enthusiasm
PORTRAIT OF “GEORGE BIRMINGHAM” (CANON J. O. HANNAY) BY
DERMOD O’BRIEN, P. R.H.A.
(Royal Hibernian Academy)
287