Studio: international art (65.1915)

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Royal Academy) be notified that the Trustees of
the National Gallery are not in future prepared to
accept pictures (or sculpture) in the selection of
which they have had no voice, but for which they
are expected to find accommodation, and, failing
such legislation, they recommend that the Trustees
shall exercise more efficaciously their existing rights
of storage and loan as a means of withdrawing from
permanent exhibition works which they deem
unworthy of that honour. Another important
recommendation concerns the future of the Tate
Gallery, which the Committee propose should be
gradually converted into a gallery of British art in
general (and not exclusively modern British art),
the present collection being reinforced by many of
the works by British artists which are now at the
National Gallery; and the Report also advocates
the establishment of a gallery entirely devoted to
water-colours and administered by the Trustees of
the Tate Gallery. The Committee further recom-
mend the extension of the loaning powers now
possessed by the Trustees
of the National Collections
so as to enable loans to be
made to public galleries in
all parts of the Empire.

The exhibition of the
Royal Society of Portrait
Painters at the Grafton
Galleries contained, as was
to be expected, a large
number of military portraits ;
a very great percentage of
the works shown were dis-
tinctly able and, no doubt,
satisfactory as likenesses,
but it is a pity that so
many among our portrait
painters are content with
the photographic standard.
Mr. Sargent’s Millicent,
Duchess of Sutherland, a
finely decorative equestrian
portrait of Lord Roberts by
Charles Furse, Herkomer’s
Lord Fisher, Mr. Lavery’s
Winston Churchill, were
among the contributions,
interesting alike from the
point of view of sitter and
painter. Mr. Sargent also
showed a fine charcoal draw-
ing, The i Ladv Randolph

Chur chill, send among other noteworthy exhibits must
be counted Mr. J. McLure Hamilton’s dignified The
Rev. Canon Armour, Mr. J. J. Shannon’s gracious
presentation of a white-haired lady, Mrs. Walter
Thornton, Mr. Frank Salisbury’s Captai?i the Hon.
H. C. O' Callaghan Prittie, an easy and attractive
portrait, F. W. Pomeroy, Esq., A.R.A., by Mr.
Richard Jack, who also showed a clever portrait of
Lieut. R. J. Jack, marred a little by somewhat
unpleasant flesh tones in the face, Mr. R. G. Eves’
agreeably posed Miss Olga Andreae, and Mr. Wm.
B. E. Ranken’s dexterously painted The Lady
Maud Hoare. Of two portraits by Mr. Frederic
Whiting of The Hon. Sir Stephen Gatty, K.C.,
and Lady Gatty, the former seemed a little forced
in the red shadows of the face, but both were well
composed and fresh and attractive in colour. A
brusquely but vivaciously treated portrait of a little
girl, Eva, was another contribution from this artist.
Works which also call for mention were the beauti-
ful Portrait, refined in quality of paint and in

66 AGAINST THE WIND BY CHARLES W. SIMPSON, R.I., R.B.A.