DOI Heft:
No. 301 (April 1918)
DOI Artikel:Wedmore, Frederick: Albert Goodwin, R.W.S.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21356#0090
Albert Goodwin, R.JV.S.
admired and cared for amongst his often finely " But both must be done by them. Land-
chosen treasures. scape-painters, unhappily, are indulged by the
There were placed in my hands, by a friend of Public in never learning their business ; but
Mr. Albert Goodwin's, before they were sent, they never can command their public unless
by Mr. Goodwin's generosity, to the Red Cross they do."
Sale at Christie's, half a hundred, I should And then Mr_ Ruskin recommends exactly
suppose, of the letters of Ruskin to our artist, what objects young Goodwin shall draw, and
who in many particulars has been a painter after tells hilri) <• YoUr day's study ought to be two-
Ruskin's heart. They are letters of various thirds Form and one-third Colour. You can't
periods, and they end tolerably late. I allow much better your coiour." Tfiat was already
myself to quote from two of them. excellent, he means—and also less under the
The first is an undated letter, written early artist's control. " But in Form you may go on
in the acquaintance of Writer and Painter. It learning for ever."
was penned at Denmark Hill. Ruskin had still at an early time—the date was 1876, and
evidently been remonstrating as to something the place from which the letter was dispatched
that had been done, or left undone ; but young was Venice—Mr. Goodwin has become " my
Mr. Goodwin had understood that the remon- dear Albert " :
strance had been in no way unfriendly. Mr. , . , ,, .
, ., . I am very happy m your letter received
Ruskin has, however, to reiterate or reinforce J J
his plea :
to-day: grateful for the regard and glad to
think of your wise and happy life—to be more
" That you must work for bread is the very brought into sweet entanglement with joy."
reason for your learning to draw forthwith. No
figure-painter ever expects to sell his studies of He refers> 1 thmk< to Mr- Goodwin's marriage,
anatomy, nor any opera-singer to live by letting " But 1 must not let the day pass without
the Public hear her practise scales. saying what seems to me the answer to your
"VITZNAU, LAKE OF LUCERNE " WATER-COLOUR BY ALBERT GOODWIN, R.W.S.
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admired and cared for amongst his often finely " But both must be done by them. Land-
chosen treasures. scape-painters, unhappily, are indulged by the
There were placed in my hands, by a friend of Public in never learning their business ; but
Mr. Albert Goodwin's, before they were sent, they never can command their public unless
by Mr. Goodwin's generosity, to the Red Cross they do."
Sale at Christie's, half a hundred, I should And then Mr_ Ruskin recommends exactly
suppose, of the letters of Ruskin to our artist, what objects young Goodwin shall draw, and
who in many particulars has been a painter after tells hilri) <• YoUr day's study ought to be two-
Ruskin's heart. They are letters of various thirds Form and one-third Colour. You can't
periods, and they end tolerably late. I allow much better your coiour." Tfiat was already
myself to quote from two of them. excellent, he means—and also less under the
The first is an undated letter, written early artist's control. " But in Form you may go on
in the acquaintance of Writer and Painter. It learning for ever."
was penned at Denmark Hill. Ruskin had still at an early time—the date was 1876, and
evidently been remonstrating as to something the place from which the letter was dispatched
that had been done, or left undone ; but young was Venice—Mr. Goodwin has become " my
Mr. Goodwin had understood that the remon- dear Albert " :
strance had been in no way unfriendly. Mr. , . , ,, .
, ., . I am very happy m your letter received
Ruskin has, however, to reiterate or reinforce J J
his plea :
to-day: grateful for the regard and glad to
think of your wise and happy life—to be more
" That you must work for bread is the very brought into sweet entanglement with joy."
reason for your learning to draw forthwith. No
figure-painter ever expects to sell his studies of He refers> 1 thmk< to Mr- Goodwin's marriage,
anatomy, nor any opera-singer to live by letting " But 1 must not let the day pass without
the Public hear her practise scales. saying what seems to me the answer to your
"VITZNAU, LAKE OF LUCERNE " WATER-COLOUR BY ALBERT GOODWIN, R.W.S.
84
1