Studio: international art (65.1915)

The Royal Academy Exhibition, igifl

LEAD FIGURE FOR A FOUNTAIN BY RUBY W. BAILEY

French Artillery crossing the flooded Aisne; Mr,
Olivier’s large painting of the meeting between King
George and the King of Belgium, Where Belgium
greeted Britain, a sound rendering of a very difficult
subject, and the clever little topical canvas Some-
where at the Front, by Mr. Fred Roe ; and there
are a few other things deserving of mention, which
are not capable of exact classification, like Mr. H.

S. Power’s Australian Bullock Team ; Mr. Wynford
Dewhurst’s The Grand Promenade, Versailles ; Mr.

T. C. Gotch’s Chantons, Beiges, Chantons; Mr.
Alfred Hartley’s The Blue Bowl; Mr. G. C. Haite’s
The Ba-bel El Soc, Tangiers ; Mr. Arthur Wardle’s
The Deer-stealer, and The Market, Douarnenez by
Mr. Terrick Williams.

Mr. Sargent’s two portraits, of Lord Curzon and
Mr. F. J. H. Jenkinson, Librarian to the University
of Cambridge, are in every way worthy of him and
have a singularly arresting power; and of the other
paintings in this class which make a strong claim to
consideration the most notable are Mr. Orpen’s
delightful Miss Lily Car stairs and The Marchioness
of Headfort, both of which should be ranked unques-
tionably among the very few really outstanding works

in the show; Mr. W. Llewellyn’s Mrs. Claud Pease ;
Mr. Hacker’s Miss Elaine Bar ran; Mr. LaThangue’s
Mrs. Marion I. Illingworth; Mr. J. J. Shannon’s
dignified full-length of Mrs. Phipps, and his
admirably painted Reginald Blomfield, Esq., R.A. ;
Mr. George Henry’s Admiral Sir Albert Hastings
Markham, K. C.B., and William Wilson, Esq. J.P.;
Mr. Solomon J. Solomon’s Mrs. Mathieson and
Benjamin Nussey, Esq., Mr. George Harcourt’s The
late Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A., and Mr. Oswald
Birley’s Montague Robb, Esq, and Lord Knutsford.
The portrait studies, Sisters by Mr. Melton Fisher,
A Blue Butterfly by Mr. Arthur Garratt, The Friend,
and Fire Opal by Mr. Nicolet, and The Khaki
Scarf by Mr. Talbot Hughes, are also of real
importance—Mr. Melton Fisher’s group is, indeed,
one of the most attractive things in the show.

The sculpture seems at first sight less impressive
than usual as there is no great amount of ideal work
on an important scale. But there is a large statue,
Premier Matin, by Mons. E. Rombeaux which is full
of power, and there is another of real distinction,
The Bather by Mr. Albert Toft, one of the three
works selected by the President and Council of
the Academy for purchase under the terms of the
Chantrey Bequest; and there are memorials of
much interest by Sir W. Goscombe John, Sir
George Frampton, Mr. Nicholson Babb and Mr.
Harno Thornycroft. The bust of the Queen by
Sir George Frampton, the statuette, The Fallen
Idol, by the young Australian sculptor, Mr. Web-
Gilbert, the fantasy, The Kelpie of the Burn by Mr.
C. L. Hartwell, the new Associate, Mr. and Mrs.
Stabler’s glazed earthenware group Children with
Bull and the Lead Figure for a Fountain by Mrs.

R. W. Bailey, deserve particular note, and there
are other things by Sir Thomas Brock, Mr. Drury,
Mr. Derwent Wood, Mr. Reynolds-Stephens, Mr.

S. D. Jolly, Mr. W. R. Colton, Mr. H. Pegram,
Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Lynn Jenkins, Mr. Gilbert Bayes
and Mr. Mackennal, which are of the greatest
assistance to the exhibition.

Though the collection of water-colours, displayed
as was the case last year in Galleries X and XI,
contains little if anything of exceptional signifi-
cance, there will be found in it numerous examples
of work by accomplished artists which are worthy of
particular attention, and taking this section as a whole
it can be said that it represents a distinctly high level
of achievement in the use of the aqueous medium.
The Black and White room, too, yields a good
few etchings and drawings which are individually
interesting, though here again there is not much that
stands out conspicuously above the general level.

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