Studio: international art (84.1922)

THE VICTOR RIENAECKER COLLECTION

first inspired the Barbizon School. It is
signed "John Constable, A.R.A., 1824."
Frederick Waters Watts was born in
1800, it is believed at Bath, and after
living nearly the whole of his life at
Hampstead died there in 1870. He was
greatly attracted by Constable, under
whom he studied, and exhibited numerous
views of Hampstead at the Royal Academy.
Watts had no great appreciation of his own
work, and ceased painting ten years before
his death. Haymaking and Windsor by him
show the influence of the master. Another
little-known artist, George Burrell Will-
cock, also painted scenes of Hampstead.
His work bears a strong resemblance to
that of Constable, and he may also have
been influenced by him. A View from
Hampstead is painted by Willcock in the
same fresh and breezy manner. 0 a
John Crome is well represented by three
beautiful works : An Old Water Mill (see
illustration), Pockthorpe, and A Woody
Landscape. There is a Landscape with

figure by John Sell Cotman ; it was lent
to the recent exhibition of that artist's
works at the Tate Gallery. By other
members of the Norwich School, A View
of Whitlingham by James Stark, and
two landscapes by George Vincent, one
possibly a scene in Scotland, where he
went on one occasion before he dis-
appeared, are good examples of the work
of these two prominent pupils of " Old "
Crome. An admirable work by Alfred
Stannard, another Norwich artist, is A
Sluice-gate on the river Wensum. 0 a
There are paintings by the early men,
Philip Reinagle, R.A., and Julius Caesar
Ibbetson. One by the former is a landscape
with sportsmen, executed in his usual
manner under Dutch influence, and two
Welsh scenes, Llanrwst Bridge and The
Entrance to Llangollen, by the latter. In both
of them figures are introduced, as was his
wont. Old Portsmouth Harbour by George
Webster, who was painting in the early
part of the nineteenth century, is a good

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"COAST SCENE." OIL PAINTING BY
JOHN CONSTABLE, E.A. (1776-1837)