DOI Heft:
No. 348 (March 1922)
DOI Artikel:The Kirkhope bequest to the National Gallery of Scottland
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21395#0152
THE KIRKHOPE BEQUEST
“ TOWN HALL AT HOORN.” WATER-
COLOUR BY JOHANNES BOSBOOM
of which, however, it may be said, although
the mdse en scene is duly arranged, that the
real motif is the colour scheme of cool
blues and emerald greens, relieved by warm
and orange tones. The design of this
powerful drawing is somewhat disjointed,
and it lacks the completion and unity of
Waiting for the Sultan, his other work, a
harmony in tones of rose and ivory. a
Modesty, in his well-known Rembrandt-
esque manner, is the better of the two pic-
tures by that sincere and poetic painter,
George Paul Chalmers, who grafted the
manner of the great Dutchman on to
Scottish models and Scottish landscape,
where somehow it seems to sit naturally
enough, racial and climatic conditions
being favourable. It represents the head
and bust of a young girl in a red jacket, and
has much of the elusiveness and mystery
of the immortal exemplar. Alexander
Fraser, who, influenced by the work of
Thomson of Duddingston and Horatio
McCulloch, if he lost something of their
more classic style, got closer to Nature,
is seen to great advantage in the little
Sheepfold, Haslemere. It is curious that
Fraser, who at one time painted a good
deal in England and Wales, seemed always
to carry his Scottish atmosphere with him
to these southern regions. The Sheepfold,
but for the title, might almost be a High-
land crofter’s stackyard. The other and
larger Fraser is not so interesting. There
are also by J. C. Wintour two landscapes
in which the influence of Thomson afore-
said and Alexander Fraser, who was his
(Wintour’s) contemporary, seems strug-
ling for the mastery, with the not unhappy
result of some classical grace wedded to
naturalism. Two small pictures by the
popular and anecdotal Sam Bough, and
a good example of the promising George
Manson, the young Edinburgh artist who
so untimely died, completes the list of
pictures. 00000
The collection of prints formed by Mr.
James Kirkhope, which as stated above
were accepted en bloc, are for the most part
proofs before letters of the great English
mezzotint engravers, and are a welcome
addition to the Print Room of the Gallery.
A selection of the best of them has been
placed on view. T. C. M.
135
“ TOWN HALL AT HOORN.” WATER-
COLOUR BY JOHANNES BOSBOOM
of which, however, it may be said, although
the mdse en scene is duly arranged, that the
real motif is the colour scheme of cool
blues and emerald greens, relieved by warm
and orange tones. The design of this
powerful drawing is somewhat disjointed,
and it lacks the completion and unity of
Waiting for the Sultan, his other work, a
harmony in tones of rose and ivory. a
Modesty, in his well-known Rembrandt-
esque manner, is the better of the two pic-
tures by that sincere and poetic painter,
George Paul Chalmers, who grafted the
manner of the great Dutchman on to
Scottish models and Scottish landscape,
where somehow it seems to sit naturally
enough, racial and climatic conditions
being favourable. It represents the head
and bust of a young girl in a red jacket, and
has much of the elusiveness and mystery
of the immortal exemplar. Alexander
Fraser, who, influenced by the work of
Thomson of Duddingston and Horatio
McCulloch, if he lost something of their
more classic style, got closer to Nature,
is seen to great advantage in the little
Sheepfold, Haslemere. It is curious that
Fraser, who at one time painted a good
deal in England and Wales, seemed always
to carry his Scottish atmosphere with him
to these southern regions. The Sheepfold,
but for the title, might almost be a High-
land crofter’s stackyard. The other and
larger Fraser is not so interesting. There
are also by J. C. Wintour two landscapes
in which the influence of Thomson afore-
said and Alexander Fraser, who was his
(Wintour’s) contemporary, seems strug-
ling for the mastery, with the not unhappy
result of some classical grace wedded to
naturalism. Two small pictures by the
popular and anecdotal Sam Bough, and
a good example of the promising George
Manson, the young Edinburgh artist who
so untimely died, completes the list of
pictures. 00000
The collection of prints formed by Mr.
James Kirkhope, which as stated above
were accepted en bloc, are for the most part
proofs before letters of the great English
mezzotint engravers, and are a welcome
addition to the Print Room of the Gallery.
A selection of the best of them has been
placed on view. T. C. M.
135