Studio: international art (84.1922)

THE VICTOR RIENAECKER COLLECTION

LANDSCAPE. OIL PAINTING
BY W. SHAYER (1788-1879)

Academy in 1847, it afterwards belonged
to the McCormick collection, and it is
an unusual case of a painting by an
Englishman finding its way back from
America to this country. The Asinelli
Tower, Bologna, is an example of Richard
Parkes Bonington's painting in oils, which
he took up towards the end of his short
life, and was executed from a sketch made
during his visit to Italy in 1822. Two
coast scenes in Normandy, with children
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in the foreground, by T. Shotter Boys,
display his natural vigour. 0 a a
Almost all the oil pictures owned by
Mr. Rienaecker are, with a very few ex-
ceptions, by painters who worked in both
oils and water-colours. Two views of
Venice, by James Holland, are painted
with the same brilliancy as his drawings,
and a scene at the mouth of a Dutch river
is an example of his great ability in paint-
ing landscapes and sea-pieces equally well