DOI Heft:
No. 372 (March 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0161
LONDON. — Two exhibitions were
opened in the galleries of the Royal
Academy in the middle of January, one of
works by Swedish artists, the other the
annual exhibition of the Royal Society of
Portrait Painters. In the Swedish collection
the most notable things were the paintings
by Zorn; he was represented by a group
of canvases which gave a good idea of his
amazing acuteness of vision and his mas-
terly command of technical processes. But,
as well, there were works by Carl Larsson,
Emerik Stenberg, Georg von Rosen, Bruno
Liljefors, Carl Wilhelmson, Oscar Bjorck,
Gustav Fjaestad and Prince Eugen, which
made very strong claims to consideration,
and several more by other artists which
were of undeniable interest. As a whole,
the show was very convincing, and it had
distinctive qualities both of intention and
achievement, 00000
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
brought together some two hundred and
fifty works, mainly by present-day painters,
but including, also, a few either by deceased
artists or by living men who produced
them some years ago. Among these
reminders of the past the most important
were the delicately dignified Miss Dorothy
Tennant, by G. F. Watts; the early por-
traits, Lady Islington and Her Daughter,
Lady Patricia Ramsay and Lady Bathurst,
by Sir J. J. Shannon; The Widow, by Sir
W. Orchardson, and the full-length of
Mrs. Roller, by Mr. Sargent; and of the
more recent productions the chief were
Sir W. Orpen’s vigorously painted The
Lord Bishop of Ripon: Mr. W. E. Webster’s
Lady in Black, Mr. E. L. Ipsen's Portrait
of John Lane, Mr. Glazebrook's Mrs.
Courtauld, the large group Drafting the
Terms of the Armistice, by Mr. H. A.
Olivier, and The Earl of Birkenhead, by
Mr. A. J. Munnings. Other things of
definite distinction came from Mr. Harold
Speed, Mr. Tom Mostyn, Mr. A. Barnes,
Mr. Spencer Watson, Mr. Fiddes Watt,
Mr. de Glehn and Sir John Lavery. 0
There have been several other exhibi-
tions lately which can be counted as im-
portant—the Modern Society of Portrait
Painters showed some capable things at
the Alpine Club Gallery; Mr. Cecil Hunt
a number of admirable water-colours of
Italian subjects in the galleries of the Fine
Art Society ; Mr. Epstein, at the Leicester
“THE THAMES AT WESTMINSTER”
ETCHING BY PERCY ROBERTSON, R.E.
(Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and
Engravers Exhibition)
143
opened in the galleries of the Royal
Academy in the middle of January, one of
works by Swedish artists, the other the
annual exhibition of the Royal Society of
Portrait Painters. In the Swedish collection
the most notable things were the paintings
by Zorn; he was represented by a group
of canvases which gave a good idea of his
amazing acuteness of vision and his mas-
terly command of technical processes. But,
as well, there were works by Carl Larsson,
Emerik Stenberg, Georg von Rosen, Bruno
Liljefors, Carl Wilhelmson, Oscar Bjorck,
Gustav Fjaestad and Prince Eugen, which
made very strong claims to consideration,
and several more by other artists which
were of undeniable interest. As a whole,
the show was very convincing, and it had
distinctive qualities both of intention and
achievement, 00000
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
brought together some two hundred and
fifty works, mainly by present-day painters,
but including, also, a few either by deceased
artists or by living men who produced
them some years ago. Among these
reminders of the past the most important
were the delicately dignified Miss Dorothy
Tennant, by G. F. Watts; the early por-
traits, Lady Islington and Her Daughter,
Lady Patricia Ramsay and Lady Bathurst,
by Sir J. J. Shannon; The Widow, by Sir
W. Orchardson, and the full-length of
Mrs. Roller, by Mr. Sargent; and of the
more recent productions the chief were
Sir W. Orpen’s vigorously painted The
Lord Bishop of Ripon: Mr. W. E. Webster’s
Lady in Black, Mr. E. L. Ipsen's Portrait
of John Lane, Mr. Glazebrook's Mrs.
Courtauld, the large group Drafting the
Terms of the Armistice, by Mr. H. A.
Olivier, and The Earl of Birkenhead, by
Mr. A. J. Munnings. Other things of
definite distinction came from Mr. Harold
Speed, Mr. Tom Mostyn, Mr. A. Barnes,
Mr. Spencer Watson, Mr. Fiddes Watt,
Mr. de Glehn and Sir John Lavery. 0
There have been several other exhibi-
tions lately which can be counted as im-
portant—the Modern Society of Portrait
Painters showed some capable things at
the Alpine Club Gallery; Mr. Cecil Hunt
a number of admirable water-colours of
Italian subjects in the galleries of the Fine
Art Society ; Mr. Epstein, at the Leicester
“THE THAMES AT WESTMINSTER”
ETCHING BY PERCY ROBERTSON, R.E.
(Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and
Engravers Exhibition)
143