Studio: international art (84.1922)

THE VICTOR RIENAECKER COLLECTION

THE RIALTO, VENICE." BY
SAM PROUT (1783-1852)

of Wine at Lisbon, by Julius Caesar
Ibbetson, was executed while on his way
to China in 1788 with Lord Cathcart's
Embassy; Off Dover, by Samuel Atkins,
who also went to the East in the eighteenth
century; A Shipping Scene, by Samuel
Owen ; and A Shore Scene, by Francois
L. T. Francia, a Frenchman, who though
he was born and died at Calais, spent most
of his life in England. 000

Amongst the works of artists who
painted animals should be mentioned
Landscape with Deer, by Samuel Howitt,
who spent many years in India and painted
hunting scenes there. Also Driving Home
the Flock and A Farmyard near Sevenoaks,
by Robert Hills. He sometimes worked
in conjunction with George Fennell Robson
and George Barret, jun., and added cattle
to their landscapes, 0000

Of the works of lesser known men, the
following are good topographical draw-
ings : Richmond Hill, showing the old
" Star and Garter," and Sir Joshua

Reynolds's residence, by John Inigo
Richards, who was for a time secretary
to the Royal Academy ; Magdalen College,
Oxford, signed and dated 1795, by the
Reverend R. Nixon, a brother of James
Nixon, A.R.A.; Leckbarrow, by F.Sunder-
land ; View from Boxley Hill, near Maid-
stone, by W. Pearson ; and Battle Abbey,
by Thomas Richard Underwood, all of
whom nourished at the end of the
eighteenth and the beginning of the
nineteenth century. 0000
Mr. Victor Rienaecker has recently
parted with two very representative early
topographical drawings, one of them a
view of Edinburgh Castle, by Joseph Far-
ington, R.A., and the other Wookey Hole,
Somersetshire, by Michael Angelo Rooker,
A.R.A. The former drawing has gener-
ously been presented to the National
Gallery of Scotland, and the latter to the
Victoria and Albert Museum, South Ken-
sington. 00000
(To be continued.)

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