Studio: international art (82.1921)

STUDIO-TALK

' MA WAT IBN NUEI SHAALAN "
BY ERIC KENNINGTON

(Leicester Galleries)]

might do worse than lavish it on master- of many celebrities who have sat to him

pieces, and one must remember that during the past thirty years. It occurs

wealthy Americans have been very in his narrative of sittings given him by

generous in their endowment of public Herbert Spencer, who, he says, quoted

art galleries and museums. Perhaps Carlyle as exclaiming when he beheld the

some day the Blue Boy will find a home signs of Millais's prosperity, " Men are

in one of these and give pleasure to greater fools than I thought them." The

myriads, while if it had remained here version, however, which the philosopher

very few might have seen it. a a usually quoted was, " There are more

Carlyle's utterance, to which allusion fools in the world than I thought there

has just been made, is referred to by Mr. were." Everyone, of course, is familiar

McLure Hamilton in his book " Men I with the Chelsea sage's contemptuous

have painted," published a few weeks opinion of us Britons as " mostly fools "

ago,. in which he gives his impressions —and certainly it must be confessed that

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