Studio: international art (75.1918)

Studio- Talk

. these is the portrait of Mrs.
Edward White by Romney,
which, when first purchased
by Sir Hugh Lane, appeared
to be a portrait of the
school of Lawrence. When
cleaned, however, the handi-
work of Romney appeared,
and on the removal of the
whole of the later paint,
Romney's portrait was
found underneath it, un-
hurt. There is also an
attractive Portrait of a
Mandarin by George Chin-
nery, an early nineteenth-
century Irish painter who
spent nearly fifty years in
the East, and whose bril-
liant pictures of Chinese
life and scenery are only
now receiving the recogni-
tion they deserve. Amongst
the French and Flemish
pictures may be mentioned
two delightful Chardins,77k?
Young Governess and a still-
life piece ; four classical sub-
ject pictures by Poussin ; a
cool and charming land-

" autumn fruits" [Salon Fan's, Barcelona) by j. de mart! GARcfis scape by Claude; a mag-
nificent Rembrandt por-

At the National Gallery, the pictures presented trait of a young woman, which was formerly in

during the donor's lifetime, as well as those the Demidoff collection, and a particularly fine

now added, are temporarily hung in three of the example of the art of the Dutch landscape

smaller rooms. The works of the Italian and painter, Jan van Goyen. E. D.
Spanish schools, which are hung together,

include two interesting early Florentine Cassone "1 "V ARCELONA.—The past art season

panels by an unknown hand, compositions of I J here has been an exceptionally fruitful

many figures, representing the battle of Anghiari | ''• \ one, the exhibitions, collective and

and the taking of Pisa respectively; Titian's J—J individual, having been very nu-

great portrait of Baldassare Castiglione ; El merous. To give some idea of the extent to

Greco's St. Francis in Ecstasy ; a masterly which art is indulged in Barcelona, it is sufficient

portrait of a Spanish girl by Goya ; and a fine to mention that we have nearly a dozen art

male portrait by Bernardo Strozzi, II Cappuccino salons where, from week to week, exhibitions

Genovese, a Genoese painter who flourished in follow one another, in addition to which the

the early years of the seventeenth century. galleries of our Municipal Palace of Art are

-- dedicated to manifestations on a larger scale.

One room is devoted to pictures of the British Our city has always been an art centre of im-

schools, and here the great masters of eighteenth- portance, and the abnormal circumstances

century portrait painting—Gainsborough, Ho- which continue to prevail throughout Europe

garth, Romney, Reynolds, Lawrence—are all have, without doubt, operated still further in its

represented by important works. Amongst favour from this point of view, as a considerable

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