Studio: international art (89.1925)

THE ROYAL ACADEMY

and Lord Dewar of Homestall, Mr. Glyn
Philpot's dramatic subject picture, A Street
Accident, Mr. Arnesby Brown's impressive
landscapes, The Farm on the Hill and The
Cloud, Mr. Russell Flint's delightful
decoration, Spring Caprice, and the ani-
mated fair scene, The Coming Storm, by
Mr. A. J. Munnings, are all excellently
representative, and there is by Mr. Russell
Flint another picture, Shipyard Gleaners,
which ranks among the best that the
Academy has to show. Again, to the list
of prominent contributors must be added
Mr. Terrick Williams with his exquisite
La Tournette, Lac d'Annecy and some
persuasive Venetian twilights, Mr. Clausen
with his dignified Summer Morning and
Sunset on Duton Hill, Mr. Harry Morley
with his interesting figure composition,
The Outing, Mr. Melton Fisher with a
series of able portraits and a masterly
flower painting, Azaleas, Miss Anna Airy
with a couple of brilliantly clever canvases,
Mr. Foottet with a landscape, Blossom
Time, of characteristic beauty, and Sir
David Murray with half a do^en luminous
and atmospheric records of nature painted
with great delicacy and sense of style, 0
Then there are Mr. Greiffenhagen who
shows, in addition to several portraits,
a figure picture, The Offerings, Mr. Harold
Speed whose Bather at the Falls is the best
example in the exhibition of regard for the
classic tradition, Mr. Connard with a couple
of pleasant decorative landscapes, Mr. W.
E. Webster with one of his dainty fantasies,
Pierrot Beguiled, Mr. Louis Ginnett with
a skilful study, Jacinta, and Mr. R. Vicat
Cole, who has found in Hyde Park a
motive for an important romantic land-
scape. Among the other painters who
give a good account of themselves can be
reckoned Mr. Oliver Hall, Sir Herbert
Hughes-Stanton, Mr. Fred Roe, Mr.
Moffat Lindner, Mr. Stanhope Forbes,
Mr. Richard Jack, Mr. Gunning King,
Mr. W. W. Russell, Mr. de Glehn, and
Mr. Spencer Watson. The two portraits
by Mr. Sargent, though by no means his
best, emphasise the greatness of the loss
that British Art has sustained by his death.
The finer of the two is the three-
quarter length of George A, Macmillan,
Esq.; The Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston
is not so sure in statement and is techni-

cally less convincing, though its charm is
undeniable. 00000
In the water-colour room, the Mountains
Near Chiavenna, by Mr. C. A. Hunt, and
Pembroke Castle by Mr. Burleigh Bruhl,
have conspicuous merit, and there are
other things of some distinction from Mr.
Russell Flint, Mr. R. W. Allan, Mr.
Moffat Lindner, and Mr. Raine Barker.
The sculpture is well up to the average
and though, as usual, it is too crowded
together to be seen to proper advantage,
it is worthy of more attention than people
generally give to it. The statues, Perseus,
by the late F. W. Pomeroy, and Hope, by
Mr. Reynolds-Stephens, are noteworthy
achievements, and the busts of Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Sickert, by Mr. Derwent
Wood, Sir Luke Fildes, by Sir W. Gos-
combe John, The Hon. Sir J. Langdon
Bonython, by Mr. Drury, Marjorie and
Betty, by Sir B. Mackennal, and Mrs.
Bessemer, by Mr. Reid Dick, are tho-
roughly satisfying. Among other con-
tributors, Mr. Nicholson Babb, Mr.
Richard Garbe, Mr. A. Toft, Mr. A. G.
Walker, Mr. W. McMillan, and Sir Hamo
Thornycroft, must be noted as sculptors
who are personal in outlook and thoroughly
capable in technical practice. 0 0

" THE OFFERINGS." BY MAU-
RICE GREIFFENHAGEN, R.A.

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