Studio: international art (84.1922)

THE VICTOR RIENAECKER COLLECTION

Collection is a charming pencil drawing,
entitled The Wayfarers, by George
Morland (signed and dated 1795). It
shows a man, accompanied by a woman,
a child and a dog, crossing a plank over a
stream with trees in the background.
Speaking of Samuel Prout's renderings of
the character of old buildings, John Ruskin
says, " they are as perfect and as heartfelt
as I can conceive possible; nor do I
suppose that anyone will ever hereafter
equal them." He went to Italy in 1824,
and The Rialto, Venice, is one of the
results of this visit. It was executed with
those brilliant effects of colour with light
and shade, for which he is noted. a
John Sell Cotman is represented by
Ruins, a powerful drawing, and Anglers ;
both were recently exhibited at the special

exhibition of that artist's works at the
Tate Gallery. Scenery on the Continent
is shown in A Street Scene by Richard
Parkes Bonington, who unfortunately died
before he attained twenty-seven years of
age. It is a bright example of his rare
work. Those by other hands are often
attributed to him. He lived and painted
almost wholly in France, and he was the
first to teach the French artists the capa-
bilities of water-colour drawing. James
Duffield Harding, who was also a litho-
grapher as well as a painter, and executed
on stone some of Bonington's drawings,
depicted Vico on the Bay of Naples,
between Castellamare and Sorrento. It
was engraved in " The Landscape Annual"
in 1832. There are some coast scenes in
the collection. That of Unloading Casks