DOI issue:
No. 347 (February 1922)
DOI article:Manson, James Bolivar: Some pictures and drawings an Sir James Murray's collection
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21395#0079
SIR JAMES MURRAY'S COLLECTION
Sir David Murray's Rye, and Swan's Polar ]
Bears and others which have had their day, 1
are kept in the Aberdeen house. The gems ;
of the collection are in London, Sir James ;
Murray's friends and daily companions ]
—a goodly collection whose worth has been 1
proved by the best of all tests, that of i
constant communion. 0 0 0
Among them—and most of them are
masterpieces—are Troyon's Vaches sous 1
bois (1853), admirably solid and simple ; i
beautifully drawn ; a quiet picture which \
appeals to nothing less than to real and (
complete understanding. Jacob Maris's 1
On the Canal, an ordinary scene (without j
distinction to the vulgar eye), but full of <
quiet poetry and painted with sensitive j
craft; his romantic Windmill and his
Little Bridge, small, but perhaps most 1
delightful of all; a homely Israels, The <
Convalescent, brilliantly finished ; a lyrical <
painting by Mauve of a peasant girl 1
leading cows home under trees ; Bastien
Lepage's Going to School, painted at <
Damvillers in 1862; a beautiful little
head by Ribot of The Artist's Daughter ;
a charming lyrical little Ziem, for once not
a gaudy Venetian picture painted for
profiteers, but a tender evening effect; a
translucid Boudin, Blanchisseuses, by a
riverside ; a subtle Carriere, Jeune
Alsacienne, pearly in colour ; a Lepine
Street Scene, bathed in moonlight; Stott's
beautiful picture of a mother and child, The
Kiss; D. G. Rossetti's Bocca Baciata, better
painted than most of his work, and The
Gipsy Encampment, by Mr. J. S. Sargent, a
model of brilliant painting, and those lovely
panels by Mr. John, which he has never
surpassed, including The Blue Pond and
Lady in a Sealskin Coat (reproduced in
The Studio, November, 1921), and which
the generosity of Sir James Murray has
enabled the public to see at the Tate
Gallery, and other oil-paintings, all gems of
varying degree, if not all of the first water.
The drawings and water-colours in-
clude several notable things, of which the
62
" THE CARPENTER'S SHOP.” PASTEL
BY EDWARD STOTT, A.R.A.
Sir David Murray's Rye, and Swan's Polar ]
Bears and others which have had their day, 1
are kept in the Aberdeen house. The gems ;
of the collection are in London, Sir James ;
Murray's friends and daily companions ]
—a goodly collection whose worth has been 1
proved by the best of all tests, that of i
constant communion. 0 0 0
Among them—and most of them are
masterpieces—are Troyon's Vaches sous 1
bois (1853), admirably solid and simple ; i
beautifully drawn ; a quiet picture which \
appeals to nothing less than to real and (
complete understanding. Jacob Maris's 1
On the Canal, an ordinary scene (without j
distinction to the vulgar eye), but full of <
quiet poetry and painted with sensitive j
craft; his romantic Windmill and his
Little Bridge, small, but perhaps most 1
delightful of all; a homely Israels, The <
Convalescent, brilliantly finished ; a lyrical <
painting by Mauve of a peasant girl 1
leading cows home under trees ; Bastien
Lepage's Going to School, painted at <
Damvillers in 1862; a beautiful little
head by Ribot of The Artist's Daughter ;
a charming lyrical little Ziem, for once not
a gaudy Venetian picture painted for
profiteers, but a tender evening effect; a
translucid Boudin, Blanchisseuses, by a
riverside ; a subtle Carriere, Jeune
Alsacienne, pearly in colour ; a Lepine
Street Scene, bathed in moonlight; Stott's
beautiful picture of a mother and child, The
Kiss; D. G. Rossetti's Bocca Baciata, better
painted than most of his work, and The
Gipsy Encampment, by Mr. J. S. Sargent, a
model of brilliant painting, and those lovely
panels by Mr. John, which he has never
surpassed, including The Blue Pond and
Lady in a Sealskin Coat (reproduced in
The Studio, November, 1921), and which
the generosity of Sir James Murray has
enabled the public to see at the Tate
Gallery, and other oil-paintings, all gems of
varying degree, if not all of the first water.
The drawings and water-colours in-
clude several notable things, of which the
62
" THE CARPENTER'S SHOP.” PASTEL
BY EDWARD STOTT, A.R.A.