Studio: international art (83.1922)

THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION, 1922

“ A GENTLE AMAZON.” BY
W. RUSSELL FLINT, R.W.S.

and dignity; finely decorative and yet
thoroughly alive, it is full of delicately
expressed character, and treated through-
out with a remarkable sense of style. Of
the many notable works which Mr.
Sims has produced this is in many ways
the most masterly and the most complete,
and the most winning, too, in its appeal.

Sir William Orpen's Sir Charles Villiers
Stanford, D.C.L., is by far the best of the
portraits he shows this year, and is excep-
tionally interesting in its strength of
characterisation and its amusing uncon-
ventionality. 0000a

Mr. Sargent also has painted the
Countess of Rocksavage, and his portrait,
though differing essentially from Mr.
Sims's, also reveals the hand of a master.

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On the other hand his huge group of Some
General Officers of the Great War does
him less than justice—though good in
detail it is in the entirety more like a
diagram than a picture, and it is on too
large a scale. Of more interest pictori-
ally are the portraits by Sir J. J. Shannon,
Mr. W. W. Russell and Mr. Melton
Fisher, all of whom are well represented,
and there are good things in the same class
by Mr. Anning Bell, Mr. Glyn Philpot,
Mr. Solomon, Mr. Richard Jack and Mr.
McBey, Mr. A. J. Munning's equestrian
portrait. The Drummer of His Majesty’s
First Life Guards is a particularly able
performance and well displays his
brilliant craftsmanship and his sense of
design. 00000