DOI Heft:
No. 359 (January 1923)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: Etty's pictures in Lord Leverhulme's collection
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21397#0023
THE STUDIO
ETTY'S PICTURES IN LORD
LEVERHULME'S COLLECTION. BY
MALCOLM C. SALAMAN.
HOW many English painters, I wonder,
who during the first half of the nine-
teenth century won a measure of popu-
larity and academic reputation, could to-
day creditably stand the test of having
some thirty of their pictures hung together
in a dwelling-house with decorative pur-
pose i Yet that is just what William Etty
does at “ The Hill,” Viscount Lever-
hulme's famous residence on Hampstead
Heath. Around the spacious Arcade Land-
ing and up the staircase leading to it the
walls are hung with Etty’s pictures, in
which beauty of the nude female form is
characteristically the dominant artistic
motive, and, hung as they are with a due
sense of decorative balance, the general
effect is harmonious in colour and design.
Yet it is the single-mindedness of their
painter's art that makes them, after
their long scattering, hang together with
such a unity of charm. How long Lord
Leverhulme has been collecting his Etty's
I do not know, but I remember seeing
them on the Arcade Landing some twelve
years ago, since when, as they increased in
numbers, they have invaded the adjacent
bedrooms, while one, the most important,
The Judgment of Paris, reproduced here,
has gone to hang in the Lady Lever Art
Gallery at Port Sunlight. But always his
pride and pleasure in collecting these pic-
tures have been spurred by the conviction
that William Etty has not been even yet
appreciated as widely and thoroughly as he
will be. With this, I think, many art lovers
must agree, especially if they enjoy the
experience of seeing a goodly number of
Etty's pictures together, all expressing the
painter's joy in dedicating his art to de-
picting the form and colour of woman in
her native beauty. That Etty from the first
loved landscape, 44 because the sky was so
beautiful with its effects of light and cloud,'*
Vol. LXXXV.—No. 358, January 1923.
ETTY'S PICTURES IN LORD
LEVERHULME'S COLLECTION. BY
MALCOLM C. SALAMAN.
HOW many English painters, I wonder,
who during the first half of the nine-
teenth century won a measure of popu-
larity and academic reputation, could to-
day creditably stand the test of having
some thirty of their pictures hung together
in a dwelling-house with decorative pur-
pose i Yet that is just what William Etty
does at “ The Hill,” Viscount Lever-
hulme's famous residence on Hampstead
Heath. Around the spacious Arcade Land-
ing and up the staircase leading to it the
walls are hung with Etty’s pictures, in
which beauty of the nude female form is
characteristically the dominant artistic
motive, and, hung as they are with a due
sense of decorative balance, the general
effect is harmonious in colour and design.
Yet it is the single-mindedness of their
painter's art that makes them, after
their long scattering, hang together with
such a unity of charm. How long Lord
Leverhulme has been collecting his Etty's
I do not know, but I remember seeing
them on the Arcade Landing some twelve
years ago, since when, as they increased in
numbers, they have invaded the adjacent
bedrooms, while one, the most important,
The Judgment of Paris, reproduced here,
has gone to hang in the Lady Lever Art
Gallery at Port Sunlight. But always his
pride and pleasure in collecting these pic-
tures have been spurred by the conviction
that William Etty has not been even yet
appreciated as widely and thoroughly as he
will be. With this, I think, many art lovers
must agree, especially if they enjoy the
experience of seeing a goodly number of
Etty's pictures together, all expressing the
painter's joy in dedicating his art to de-
picting the form and colour of woman in
her native beauty. That Etty from the first
loved landscape, 44 because the sky was so
beautiful with its effects of light and cloud,'*
Vol. LXXXV.—No. 358, January 1923.