Studio: international art (85.1923)

REVIEWS

prevalent habitof calling this artist Janssens,
a form never adopted by the artist himself.
He was born in London in 1593, of parents
who came from the Low Countries. The
portraits he painted before he left England
on the outbreak of the Civil War include
many persons of note in that eventful
period ; no fewer than eighty of them are
reproduced in this volume, the last being
the portrait of William III as a boy, which
belongs to the National Portrait Gallery.
Mr. H. M. Hake, of the British Museum
Print Room, who has succeeded Mr.
Finberg as Honorary Secretary of the
Society, deals with some contemporary
records relating to Francis Place, engraver
and draughtsman (1646-1728), and gives a
catalogue of Place's engraved work ; Mr.
Reginald Wright, of the Victoria Art

Gallery, Bath, has an interesting article on
Farleigh Castle, Somerset, and one of the
illustrations shows a beautiful pair of gilded
iron gates leading to the Lady Chapel of
the Castle ; and finally Mrs. Finberg com-
municates some additional notes on Cana-
letto in England, with reproductions of
three pictures which have come to light
since her first paper was published, one of
them being the interior of King's College
Chapel, Cambridge. The reproductions
throughout are excellent. 00a
British Artists Series. Edited by S. C.
Kaines Smith, M.A. (London : Philip
Allan and Co.) 5s. net each. For this series
an interesting programme has been
arranged, embracing many of the most
eminent representatives of the British
School, and some whose merits have not

“ CONGREGATION.” BY TONY NELL

(Pennsylvania Academy Water-colour
Exhibition)

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