DOI issue:
No. 268 (July 1915)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21213#0149
Studio- Talk
“in the harbour”
colour, by Mrs. Inez Addams, Mr. David Alison’s
Portrait Study: Miss Annie Bearsiey, good por-
traits by Mr. Fiddes Watt, the Hon. John Collier’s
A. L. Francis, Esq., and Miss Flora Lion’s Mrs.
Percy Ogden. Among the smaller works, besides
the Sargent drawing referred to above, were two
good chalk heads by Mr. G. Spencer Watson,
sketches for Mr. Herbert A. Olivier’s Where
Belgium greeted Britain at the Academy, and two
drawings, apparently in gold-point, by Mr. A.
Bowmar-Porter.
We give two reproductions of the work of Charles
W. Simpson, R.I., R.B.A., whose well studied and
freshly drawn pictures of ducks and other birds are
among the good things to be seen at the exhibitions
in Piccadilly and Suffolk Street. He is a regular
exhibitor at the Royal Academy and elsewhere, and
on two occasions exhibitions of his work have been
held at the Baillie Gallery. Like that of so many
other painters who live and work in Cornwall, Mr.
Simpson’s work is full of a love of out-door life,
of light and air, and the bold and direct technique
and admirable sense of colour make a distinct
attraction in his paintings and water-colours.
BY CHARLES W. SIMPSON, R.I., R.B.A.
Artists and the art world in general have been
among the classes to be most severely affected by the
war; yet they have come forward nobly to aid the
various charitable organisations or relief committees.
In this connection reference must be made to the
exhibition at the Leicester Galleries of pictures by
Lady Butler. The proceeds of the sales are being
devoted by the artist to the Officers’ Families Fund,
and the exhibition was in the nature of a com-
memoration of the Waterloo Centenary. Here was
to be seen the well known Scotland for Ever,
painted in 1881, from the Leeds Art Gallery,
depicting the dashing charge of the Scots Greys at
Waterloo, as well as a number of works, for the
most part water-colours, executed last year, of
which Bringing up the Guns, a spirited study of
Horse Artillery, and the Charge of the Inniskillin6
Dragoons, were among the best; and looking at
these pictures one remembered that the same stout
and gallant hearts beat beneath the khaki tunic
to-day, as beneath the brilliant uniforms of those
heroes of a hundred years ago which Lady Butler
depicts so well. By way of antithesis to this
exhibition, there was shown at the same time a
collection of studies in water-colour by Mr. Alfred
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“in the harbour”
colour, by Mrs. Inez Addams, Mr. David Alison’s
Portrait Study: Miss Annie Bearsiey, good por-
traits by Mr. Fiddes Watt, the Hon. John Collier’s
A. L. Francis, Esq., and Miss Flora Lion’s Mrs.
Percy Ogden. Among the smaller works, besides
the Sargent drawing referred to above, were two
good chalk heads by Mr. G. Spencer Watson,
sketches for Mr. Herbert A. Olivier’s Where
Belgium greeted Britain at the Academy, and two
drawings, apparently in gold-point, by Mr. A.
Bowmar-Porter.
We give two reproductions of the work of Charles
W. Simpson, R.I., R.B.A., whose well studied and
freshly drawn pictures of ducks and other birds are
among the good things to be seen at the exhibitions
in Piccadilly and Suffolk Street. He is a regular
exhibitor at the Royal Academy and elsewhere, and
on two occasions exhibitions of his work have been
held at the Baillie Gallery. Like that of so many
other painters who live and work in Cornwall, Mr.
Simpson’s work is full of a love of out-door life,
of light and air, and the bold and direct technique
and admirable sense of colour make a distinct
attraction in his paintings and water-colours.
BY CHARLES W. SIMPSON, R.I., R.B.A.
Artists and the art world in general have been
among the classes to be most severely affected by the
war; yet they have come forward nobly to aid the
various charitable organisations or relief committees.
In this connection reference must be made to the
exhibition at the Leicester Galleries of pictures by
Lady Butler. The proceeds of the sales are being
devoted by the artist to the Officers’ Families Fund,
and the exhibition was in the nature of a com-
memoration of the Waterloo Centenary. Here was
to be seen the well known Scotland for Ever,
painted in 1881, from the Leeds Art Gallery,
depicting the dashing charge of the Scots Greys at
Waterloo, as well as a number of works, for the
most part water-colours, executed last year, of
which Bringing up the Guns, a spirited study of
Horse Artillery, and the Charge of the Inniskillin6
Dragoons, were among the best; and looking at
these pictures one remembered that the same stout
and gallant hearts beat beneath the khaki tunic
to-day, as beneath the brilliant uniforms of those
heroes of a hundred years ago which Lady Butler
depicts so well. By way of antithesis to this
exhibition, there was shown at the same time a
collection of studies in water-colour by Mr. Alfred
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