Studio: international art (85.1923)

THE COLLECTION OF MR. WILLIAM BURRELL

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER”
OIL PAINTING BY AUGUS-
TIN THEODULE RIBOT

duced to Scotland and mainly to Glasgow,
where it was enthusiastically received by
the then small band of amateurs of the fine
arts. In this connection the dealer Craibe
Angus deserves, and has had repeatedly,
honourable mention, but it was left to
another of the confraternity, Alexander
Reid, of Glasgow, to extend and widen
this influence so as to cover almost the
whole field of the best French art, both
last century and recent. It was in such
an atmosphere, familiar with the activities
of the enlightened Reid, and perhaps not
uninfluenced by the propaganda of the
Glasgow School of Painters, then at its
zenith, that Mr. Burrell was aesthetically
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speaking, “ raised/' At any rate the
provincial, the pretty, and the futile in
painting never seem to have appealed to
him. From the first he headed straight
for excellence. 0 0 a 0

Of the older masters in Mr. Burrell's
collection the earliest are the little Annun-
ciation (Westphalian School), a clear and
cheerful little work, reflecting the piety and
naivety of the early painters, and two
pictures by Lucas Cranach, the larger of
which, The Stag Hunt, is eclipsed, fine as
it is, by the smaller Venus and Cupid.
Marianne of Austria as a Child, by
Velasquez, a lovely arrangement of silver
and red, perhaps not altogether uncon-