, as above colours of Sir Edward Poynter (887) and
the excellent drawings with which the all a record of costume, and we should Mr.
the excellent drawings with which the all a record of costume, and we should Mr.
Athenaeum - London - 1912a
E.
A.
Minchin,
V. -P. , in the chair. -Mr. R. I. Pocock exhibited
Royal, 4. 30. Theory of a New Mechanism for marving the
Volume of Discharge in the Rotating Slider Crank Form in
May 9. - Sir Archibald Geikie, President, in a skin and a living specimen of a fawn variety of
the Chamber Crank Chain of Rouleaux, Mr. 8. 8. Hele
the chair. -Mr. A. Vernon Harcourt read a paper the brown rat (Epimys norvegicus) which had
Shaw: 'A New Treatment of Optical Aberrations, Prof.
R. A. Sampaon; "On the Extinction of Light by an
On the Variation with Temperature of the Rate been caught on an island in the middle of Lough
Illuminated Retina Bir W. de W. Annoy: Optical
of a Chemical Change. '—Dr. C. Chree read a Corrib, co. Galway, and presented to the Society
Measurements at High Pressures,' Mr. w. Wahl; and other
paper on Some Phenomena of Sunspots and of by Lord Headley. Mr. Pocock remarked that Society of Antiquaries, 8 30.
Terrestrial Magnetism at Kew Observatory. ' although similarly coloured varieties of this rat
Linnean, 3. - Annual Meeting.
An investigation made some years ago by the had been caught now and again in different parts
Royal Institution, g. - Recent Advances in Agriculturai
author indicated the probability that a relation of England, it was especially interesting to put
Science: the Fertility of the soil, Mr. A. D. Hall.
Royal Institution, 3. - Interpretation in Song: (3) Songo
and their Classification,' Mr. 4. Plunket Groene.
6
-
6
Prof. W. Bateson.
Jenkins. (Colonial Section. )
W. M. Acworth and G. Paish.
-
Skulls. ' Dr. R. J. Gladstone.
--
are
Sondes, Mr. K. 8. Bruce.
and Colonies," Mr. J. B. Caldecott.
Economic Aspect, Prof. H. T. Barnes.
papers.
PRI.
BAT.
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571
THE excessive temperature of 82°. 6 in The state of culture in Colombia when
Science Gossip.
the shade at Greenwich, on Saturday last, the Spaniards arrived there presented
was the highest reading on record for some striking contrasts : people who wore
MR. A. F. R. WOLLASTON'S account of the that particular calendar date, though there
a minimum of clothing and practised
expedition of the British Ornithologists'
Union to Dutch New Guinea in 1910-11 earlier in the year. It is seldom, however, cannibalism, and others who lived under
will be published by Messrs. Smith & Elder that the shaded thermometer stands as high a progressive political system and exer-
on the 31st inst. , with illustrations and as 80° in the first half of May. In 1868 the cised various handicrafts. Of these the
maps, under the title 'Pygmies and Papuans:maximum temperature was 820. 3 on May 3rd; most interesting is the working of gold,
the Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea. ' in 1867 it was above 83° on May 6th and 7th; great numbers of ornaments and vessels of
The book deals with a hitherto unknown and in 1848 the thermometer stood above that metal having been found. In pottery
part of one of the least-known countries 80° on the three days May 13th, 14th, and they did not know the use of the wheel.
in the world. The Pygmy natives of New
Guinea discovered by the expedition are of temperature as high as 80° in the first They were fond of ornament representing
here described for the first time. The fortnight of May from 1841 to 1905. more or less conventional types of human
book also contains some account of the
faces.
other living creatures of the country.
Incidentally to Ecuador, Mr. Joyce
ELECTRICITY has been successfully applied
FINE ARTS
suggests, as an explanation of the tradi-
to prevent the destruction of fruit blossoms
tion that the reigns of the ante-Incan
by night frosts. In California a thermometer
rulers were short, the belief that as they
is installed in the orchards which, by means
of a platinum connexion, rings a bell in the South American Archæology: an Intro- soul of the community was incorporated,
were divine persons, in whom the collective
farmer's bedroom when the temperature duction to the Archæology of the South it was necessary in the interests of the
falls beyond the danger point. He can American Continent, with Special Refer- general prosperity to remove them as soon
then, by pressing a button, set light to pre- ence to the Early History of Peru. By as they showed signs of age, so that that
viously arranged fires between the trees,
which by the heavy smoke they diffuse
Thomas A. Joyce. (Macmillan & Co. )
soul might always be incorporated in a
among the branches protect the blossom This publication is timely from two points body possessing the full vigour of youth.
against the risk of frost until the sun begins of view. The meeting in London, on the One ruler of a still earlier dynasty was
to gain power.
27th of the present month, of the Con- supposed to have ascended to heaven with
SIR WILLIAN CROOKES has found that the
metals of the platinum group are not, as
gress of Americanists will draw attention wings; and another retired and starved
was supposed, absolutely resistant to heat to the subject, and many will desire to himself to death in secret that the people
at temperatures lower than their melting have such a general exposition as Mr. might believe in his immortality. Mr.
point of 2,300° to 2,400° C. While platinum Joyce offers. The progress of recent dis- Joyce refers to the ante-Incan period the
itself at 900° remains unchanged, at 1,300° it covery in many directions, the growth of heavy stone chairs supported on a crouch-
volatilizes and deposits crystals of metal, collections of South American objects in ing human or animal figure, of which
which, Sir William states, are due to a true the museums of Europe and America, nearly all the great museums of Europe
sublimation. Palladium is three times as
and the valuable historical and archæo have specimens, and the stone slabs
volatile as platinum ; iridium oxidizes, and
conventionalized human
is therefore partly volatile, at 1,000° ; ruthe- logical works which have recently thrown carved with
zium. loses 25 per cent of its weight at light on many complicated questions, figures found in Manabi, on the coast,
1,300°; and rhodium alone resists at the same justify the issue of a book in which these the traditional scene of the immigration.
temperature. The result of this is that additions to knowledge are summed up. The stone temples in Quito with their
crucibles of the platinum group of metals The Hon. Secretary of the Royal An- monolithic pillars also belong to an early
can no longer be depended upon for che- thropological Institute is well qualified period.
mical research work at high temperatures, for this work.
iridium, of which from its extreme hardness
The chapters relating to Peru are
Sir William had great hopes, proving itself
Mr. Joyce's arrangement is strictly partly historical, partly descriptive and
more volatile than platinum itself. A geographical. He begins with two chap- archæological. Mr. Joyce has devoted
communication giving the details of the ters on Colombia, in which Venezuela is less attention than might have been
experiments upon which his deductions are incidentally referred to. After a chapter expected to the strictly anthropological
based has been made to the Royal Society, on Ecuador, six chapters are devoted to branch of his subject. He has furnished
and appears in the current number of the Peru, and one to the southern provinces no physical types, no anthropometric
Proceedings.
of the Peruvian Empire ; one to the statistics, and only one plate of skulls,
M. STÉPHANE LEDUC (of Nantes) has pub- Southern Andes and plains, and one to which, indeed, itself illustrates the arti-
lished some particulars of the experiments East and Central South America. This ficial deformation rather than the natural
on the effect of electricity upon the brain
which have previously been described in arrangement allows only of a sketchy cranial form. The human figures from
The Athenaeum. He uses
a direct low- treatment of the last term, which covers the vases, and the objects of pottery in
tension galvanic current with a hundred an area equal in extent to the whole of the shape of human heads, are too con-
intermissions per second, which has some- the others put together, including the ventional to be of value from this point
times been called the “ Leduc current. " vast territories of Brazil, Uruguay, Para- of view; but material might have been
He finds that by applying this from the guay, and a portion of Argentina. It may obtained elsewhere--for example, from
loins to the forehead with gradually in- / be conceded that the archæological and the collections made by the Créqui-
duced, in which all the functions of the higher far inferior to that of Peru and the western Mr.
Joyce has, in other respects, made
duced, in which all the functions of the higher ethnological interest of these countries is Montfort expedition
into Bolivia, of which
and respiration are unimpaired. If a current part generally, of the South American good use. To have descended into the
of from fifty to a hundred volts be employed, continent, and that the materials for necessary technical details would not,
according to the size of the animal, ex- study are fewer. The specimens which however, have made the book more read-
perimental epilepsy. ” is the result, all the the author has selected to illustrate the able, and would have greatly added to its
symptoms of grinding of the teeth, biting chapter in question are curious, and bulk. Even within the limited scope
tonic and clonic convulsions being present. would, perhaps, have warranted more which Mr. Joyce allows himself, the
tonic and clonic convulsions being present. detailed treatment ; but, as Mr. Joyce multitudinous facts he has to deal with
most advantageously employed for observes, a mere catalogue of finds, where tend rather to overweight the work for
electrocution, perfect insensibility taking materials do not exist for their proper the average reader, who is mostly an
place at once, which becomes permanent classification and interpretation, might indolent person. To show how inex-
if the current be maintained for two minutes. become rather wearisome. Regions where haustible the subject is, we note that,
His greatest discovery, if it stands the test
the arts have been more highly developed while several illustrations are given of
of future investigation, is that of "centres
of synergy,” as when all the extensor or
are naturally more attractive, and these the characteristic drawings of military
flexor muscles, although not related either of themselves are sufficiently extensive to and other scenes from Truxillo, the
curious
by neighbourhood or innervation, can be call for great compression in their treat- groups from that place in the Berlin
inhibited.
ment.
Museum, where a soldier is represented
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carrying a small monkey or other animal
artifices which mask the lack of backbone
THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
confined in his girdle, are not included,
in a picture only for the unobservant.
(Third Notice. )
nor is there any adequate representation
Somewhat after the manner of Mr. Sims,
of the multiple snake head-dresses which
THERE is no portrait of outstanding vitality The Ambuscade (88), by Mr. Pickering
form a remarkable feature of early Peru- the material outlook which seemed to be of tones and little discoveries of colour
among the paintings of this year's Academy, Walker, has a much better basis in a sequence
vian art. Several excellent specimens implied in Mr. Sargent's example being of greater charm.
There is far more
from the collection of Chimu ceramic everywhere paramount. There are a fair creative power than Mr. Sims shows in
ware recently acquired by the British number of canvases which convince us of Mr. Marcus Stone's stage group, An
Museum are figured. At p. 145 is a the corporal solidity of the person repre- Appeal for Mercy (142). Without being a
drawing of a “ mummy" from the ceme- sented, but the difficulty of achieving this work of genius, this little picture comes
teries explored by Reiss and Stubel, and
seems usually to exhaust the artist before he clearly from one who knows his business;
has been able to endow his sitter with and we recognize a similar workmanliko
Mr. Joyce objects to its being so described
character in the more staccato drawing of
on the ground that there is no evidence cesses of Mr. Sargent were with picturesque Mr. Douglas Almond’s The Barber (603),
that any preservative preparation was characters, and it is these we recall in looking and The Expert Player (232) of Miss Anna
injected into the body. There is, how- at Mr. William Orpen's witty and accom- Airy, a capable piece of student's work
ever, in the Trocadéro Museum a mummy plished rendering of a theatrical manner in on an unreasonably large scale. The latter
largely trepanned, and there seems to be Harry Brittain, Esq. (467), or in Mr. Jack's picture is a decided advance on the artist's
more pronounced version of a similar theme previous work in that, though it may
that the hole made by trepanning might pictures have a superficial air of life which less than hitherto a piecing together of
that the hole made by trepanning might in No: 813, George Belcher, Esq. Both these represent an odd jumble of things, it is
have been used either for the removal of is wanting in Mr. Orpen's other works, in the morceaux of painting. There is some at-
the brain or for the introduction into it wooden decorum of Mr. Charles Shannon's tempt at the realization of the close inter-
of some aromatic substance as a part of group. (476), or in the rather colourless, dependence of every element in a scene
the process
of mummification. Other though capable works of Mr. G. F. Kelly which makes good painting of even the
mummies in the same collection indicate (86), Mr. Harold Knight (352), and Mr. most realistic sort stimulating to laymen.
the difference of treatment of the rich and Oesterman (80). Mr. Cowper's fancy-dress The lack of this quality frequently detracts
the after death.
portrait of Sir Eyre Coote (478) is as over- from the vividness of Mr. Tuke's studies
poor
weighted by its elaborate costume as Mr. of sea bathers, wherein, instead of the pose
Mr. Joyce complains that the collection Birley's Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty (371). The of the figure being dependent on the form
of South American objects in the British latter gentleman, however, seems to have a of the rocks, the rocks seem accommodated to
Museum is small. It certainly suffers by highly humorous appreciation of his own fit the pose, or else, as in No. 595, Sun-bather,
comparison with those of the great Conti- appearance, and on that side the picture the figure might as suitably be on a sofa.
Other works which deserve remark are: Mr.
nental museums, but it is rich enough to is worthy of consideration. It is perhaps
have supplied
him with a large number of inevitable that a State - Portrait of Her Andrew Douglas's well-observed cattle-piece,
Majesty Queen Mary (150) should be re- An Autumn Afternoon (501), a vivid snow-
typical specimens.
garded by the artist, Mr. William Llewellyn, piece by Mr. Dugdale (551), and the water-
It is interesting to note that some of who was last week made A. R. A.
, as above colours of Sir Edward Poynter (887) and
the excellent drawings with which the all a record of costume, and we should Mr. Byam Shaw (869). Mr. Frank Emanuel's
work is embellished are due to Mrs. be grateful to him for having at least Kensington Interior (104), purchased for the
Joyce, and that the author has profited refrained from the cheap sentiment which Chantrey Collection, is a careful piece of
by correspondence with Dr. Uhle, the has been usual in such works hitherto. Mr. elaboration, but worked out with a curious
Director of the Museum
more impassivity which forbids stress on any
at Lima, pictorial purpose in The Muslin Dress (737), large comparisons, whether of form
which contains the two specimens of but his picture hardly amounts to portraiture colour, which might have emerged even
pottery from Nasca represented in the Mr. Greiffenhagen's harshly painted Sir from so complicated a subject before the
coloured frontispiece. In the chapter on Henry Sutton (61) and Mr. Clausen's Mervyn, vision of a more responsive painter The
the sequence of cultures Mr. Joyce sums Son of Sir J. Herbert Roberts, Bart. (499), central tones of colour are set rather dully
up the archæological evidence with great both make an attempt at intimate character for the vividly emergent note of red in the
skill, and reserves with commendable ization which lifts them a little above the middle of the picture.
spiritual level of Academy portraiture, The bronze Shepherd Boy (1978), by Mr.
caution ma y questions which cannot be the latter securing, indeed, something of the Mortimer Brown, which is the other Chantrey
satisfactorily solved in the present state artificial delicacy of a well-bred child on purchase, has the same refusal to treat a
of our knowledge. A supplementary note his good behaviour. The colour - design theme rhythmically which we are, how-
to that chapter deals with the issue, since and delicate tentative handling confirm ever, more accustomed to find in sculpture
it was prepared, of Dr. Hrdlicka's pre- this atmosphere, but the picture suffers than in painting—or at least painting out-
liminary report on his researches at from the failure of the solid figure to unite side the Academy. Natural form knows no
Truxillo and Pachicamac, which may help with the flat conventional landscape. Mr. monotony, but art cannot suggest infinite
towards the solution of some of these Sims's portrait alongside (494) has the same variety, except on some basis of measured
defect, but not the same charm. Por- | movement. Few British sculptors in the
questions.
traiture of a vigorous order, perhaps because Academy seem able to tolerate the mental
The historical chapters are particularly unweighted by the demands of full pictorial discipline necessary to keep a work thus in
interesting and well written. The growth realism, is to be found in Mr. John Cameron's one key throughout, and we see Sir George
of the Peruvian Empire, and the evolution drawing, A Portrait (1390), in the black- Frampton's group Protection (1791) losing
by the Inca, as Mr. Joyce puts it, “if and white room; and in sculpture in Mr. its plastic coherence by the fashion in which
not of a civilization, at least of a very lifelike bust, Edward Carlisle, Esq. , K. C. for the sake of undercutting a finger or
a sequence of enclosing planes is broken
magnificent barbarism,” as well as of
good organization and government, are
The charm-
(1927), and the two small figures wherein rendering the texture of a robe.
Mr. Henry Poole and Mr. John Tweed ing expression of the huddled child shows
clearly traced. The daily life and occu- demonstrate that a figure in historic costume that the artist is capable of being moved,
pations of the peoples, their arts and crafts, need not be absurd.
but he seems hardly to be moved primarily
their religious observances, and their In dealing with the remaining subject through the medium of plastic structure.
burial customs are described.
pictures at the Academy, it is with extreme A similar want of adherence to a measured
An Appendix contains a short biblio- regret that we record the decadence of Mr. interval of form is shown in less degree in
Sims's talent. Anything like invention is Mr. Alexander Fisher's Spielmann (1972),
graphy, giving some idea of the great rare in modern picture exhibitions, but its but the subject is one which by its move-
body of literature from which Mr. Joyce possession appears to have led on the ment demands such a conventional basis
has derived his material; but it does not artist to the point of throwing over his more urgently. Slightly too much continuity
claim to be complete, and might well be interest in natural structure or desire to in surface, and a certain lack of it in the
supplemented by reference to other works. utilize it as a basis for his designs. His elemental direction lines wherever they occur
The book is the result of extensive principal picture-The Shower (83)—is a throughout the figure, make it too actual
research, and should certainly “stimu- with a semblance of unity by the cheap rather uncomfortably suggests that it should
mixture of unrelated vignettes, endowed to be accepted for its expressiveness. It
late interest in the early remains of South device of distributing marks of violent be judged as actuality, which is disturbing
America, some of which are among the contrast—here a spot of vermilion upon not only on account of the violent action
most remarkable in the world. ”
green, there a mass of white on black portrayed, but even from the small scale.
to
or
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573
I.
06
& crown.
8
66
66
a
serene
" by appointment. ” One of these belongs to being-is strongly represented. His im-
MINIATURES AT BRUSSELS. the Baroness G. de Rothschild of Paris (who press on the art of his day is clearly seen in
THE ENGLISH SEOTION.
contributes many choice works, by the the work of his far more gifted pupil Cooper.
way). Very similar to it are two belonging That he painted a sound, manly style of
to the present writor, which came from portrait is undeniable, and, as is tho case
THE “ Exposition de la Miniature ” now on Penshurst Place, and may once have been with most of these miniaturists of the
show at Brussels is pronounced on all sides Sir Philip Sidney's. All are in elaborate seventeenth century, his portraits of men
to be un succès éclatant. ” Organized dresses, and in one the Virgin Queen wears are better than those of most of their
under the auspices of the Government, it
Then we have her again in a most women contemporaries.
has had such influential patronage extended curious small piece from Madresfield, show-
From the Amsterdam Gallery come
to it that success, so far as contributions of ing her young, with a slender waist, in a red Henrietta Maria,“ the Queen of Hearts," and
valuable miniatures could ensure it, has robe with a long train. She is distributing some more doubtful examples of Hoskins from
boen certain from the outset. One soon Maundy money in 1563.
English sources-e. g. , 213, which seems to
finds on entering the Hôtel Goffinet, where Another, from the Rijks Museum at mo certainly not Anne of Denmark. It
the collection is handsomely installed, a Amsterdam, shows her in a fancy dress, may be Mary II. Perhaps the finest
real “ embarras de richesses. "
with naked arms, and flowers in her hair ; Hoskins here is Sir Arthur Haselrige (No.
It is obviously impossible to deal with she is indeed, as described in the catalogue, 214, owned by General Davies), the man
even a tithe of the miniatures here shown. en coiffure de fantaisie. ” But the most who commanded the regiment of Cavaliers
I can refer only to examples which appear important of all these portraits of Elizabeth called “the Lobsters,” and used_the men
to me exceptionally noteworthy. The exi. I should judge to be one belonging to
on the Parliament side in the Great Rebellion.
gencies of arranging so large a collection are Baroness Groeninx van Zoelen. This minia. It is somewhat “ bricky" in tone, but other-
great, and where, as in the case of many of ture (835) has a pedigree, and bears on wise good, and very like his pupil's portraits
the foreign contributors, the collection of the back of it the following inscription : hanging close by.
The visitor who has
each individual has been kept together, the · La Serenissime Reine d'Angleterre reached the caso containing the Hoskinses
effect is ofton marred by what appears envoyé ce sien pourtraict à Mons. de Man, will be irresistibly drawn to the fine display
injudicious juxtaposition. Moreover, the trésorier général de Zeelande, par les mains of the work by the “ incomparable Samuel
search after examples of favourite masters de Mons. le comte de Licester [sic]. ” It is Cooper. ” Nevertheless, although_there are
scattered throughout several rooms and a in fine condition, less faded-looking than is over twenty-five miniatures in this Exhibition
large number of glass cases is very fatiguing. wont with Hilliard's work. The most ascribed to him, I am not sure that his
In this respect
la Section Anglaise has
Queen's" dress is exceptionally reputation is enhanced by what is shown
the advantage of having its principal sumptuous, being a richly figured and here ; in fact, few of them are up to_the
exhibits grouped chronologically, with jewelled pink under-dress ; over which she standard of examples known to me in Eng-
the result of showing a number of works of wears a green cloak lined with gold thread | land, in such collections as those at Windsor,
the same artist side by side, and demonstrat- and also jewelled, the outside sown with Montagu House, and Welbeck, for example.
ing their various styles and characteristics design in gold thread. She wears feathers There is not one of the importance of some
in an instructive and delightful way. But, at the back of her head. Elizabeth is not I could name, whilst the ascription of such
apart from details of arrangement, in over-handsome in this picture and royal inferior work as the so-called * Portrait of
which, we may be sure, the Belgian Com present, but it is indubitably a precious and Monmouth, aged 23,, to Cooper is, to my
mittee have done all that was possible, genuine portrait.
mind, quite unallowable. J. J. FOSTER.
having regard to the wishes of the owners, One of the Baroness G. de Rothschild's
the beauty and high standard of quality exhibits (837), termed Portrait de jeune
of the British miniatures shown are gener-Femme,' I should say is Anne of Denmark ;
ously and freely admitted.
and 840, ‘Portrait d'Homme,' is no less RAEBURN, REYNOLDS, GAINSBOROUGH,
Adopting tho chronological method, we clearly James I. The latter is inscribed,
AND HOPPNER.
shall look for examples of Hans Holbein the though this is not mentioned in the Cata- FRIDAY, the 10th inst. , was a great occasion for
younger, to whom, in this country at any logue, as aged 42, and dated 1608, which the masters of the Early British School, for on
rate, the honour of being the first exponent exactly tallies with the age of the British
that day, at the sale by Messrs. Christie of the
of portrait painting in miniature is assigned. Solomon in that year, he having been born in
collections of the late Mr. C. Wertheimer and
others,
I say this without forgetting Master Lucas 1566.
a portrait by Raeburn fetched over
22,0001. ; four by Reynolds over 9,0001. , 8,0001. ,
Horebout Hornebout, who
The group (993), also belonging to the 6,0001. , and 5,00/1. respectively, two by Gains-
paynter " at the Court of Henry VIII. , and Baroness G. de Rothschild, is, I have very borough over 8,0001, and 4,0001; ; and two by
to whom, according to Van Mander, Holbein little doubt, after Hilliard, engraved by Hoppner over 3,0009, and 2,0001. The total of
owed instruction in the art. We shall look Simon de Passe, and represents the “ Queen obtained for the Raeburn, it did not equal that
in vain, however, for examples from Eng; of Hearts,” her ill-fated husband Frederick, paid a year ago for his portrait of Mrs. Robertson
land by the great Augsburg, limner. But Elector Palatine, and one of their sons. It Williamson, which realized 23,4151. (Athen. ,
there are no less than eloven in the Foreign has, I think, a counterpart in a group of May 27, 1911; 7; 60%. ?
Section attributed to him, of which those James I. , Anne of Denmark, and Charles formerly belonging to the late Mr. William
belonging to the Queen of Holland are the when a boy. There is a curious Charles I. Lowther. J. Ferneley, A Boy on a Pony, with
most important, viz. , a youth in a brown ascribed to I. Oliver (10014), from the Musée a terrier running before them, 4201. Reynolds,
doublet (846) and three portraits of men de Gotha, in which the unfortunate King, Capt. Holdane, full face, with powdered hair and
(847–9). That of the Garçon en pourpoint who does not look at all melancholy, by white stock, the figure lightly sketched in, 8611.
brun’ is rather rubbed on the cheek, otherwise the way, has aggressively red hair !
Two Raeburns were sold by order of the
executor of Col. W. B. R. Hall : Mrs. Lucy
all are in fair condition, and show the master's The two Olivers, father and son, make a Davidson, wife of Duncan Davidson of Tulloch,
powers in a convincing manner. They are brave show here, no less than seventeen in white dress, with deep yellow scarf over her
anonymous, which is to be regretted, as examples being attributed to Isaac, and shoulders and crossed at her waist, seated, in a
they clearly are highly characteristic por about half as many to Peter. The Queen of landscape, 3,3601. ; Duncan Davidson of Tulloch,
traits, and particularly is this true of 849, Holland again loads the way with the works
in green coat, with black roll collar and brass
buttons, white vest and stock, seated in an arm-
a somewhat forbidding-looking man wearing of these fine painters.
chair, 1,4171.
a cloak edged with fur, his hollow cheek and A place of honour is given to 996, which A Gainsborough was the property of the
sour expression being obviously true to life. is suggested as being the Duke of Bucking- Staffordshire General Infirmary : John Eld, Esq. ,
Among the finest of the treasures belonging ham, an opinion I cannot endorse. The
of Seighford Hall, Stafford, inscribed at the base
of a column “ By the Command and at the Ex-
to La Reine des Pays-Bas is 847, a man in miniature is dated 1614, and the age of the
pence of the Subscribers,” 4,2001.
black wearing a long fair beard. His Tudor original is painted upon it as being 30. The following were the property of the late
cap surmounts a very English-looking face ; George Villiers was born in 1592; that Mr. C. J. Wertheimer. Pastels by J. Russell :
he is, perhaps, 37 years of age, and one alone seems to me sufficient to dispose of the
Mrs. Earle and her Daughter, the mother in
would like to know who was the original of identity in question. But it is as fine a piece daughter, 4201. ; & st. Giles Songstress, singing
white dress with yellow sash, holding her infant
this highly characteristic piece.
of work of the older school as can be found from a scroll which she holds in her hands, 2201. ;
From Holbein we naturally turn to in the Exhibition.
Mrs. Raikes, in white dress with fichu, and blue
Hilliard, who tells that he learnt An interesting scrap of evidence concern-
sash, 4411.
from him. We find seventeen examples ing the life of the elder of the Olivers, of
Pictures : Early English School, A Young
of his, besides one by his son Laurence,
Boy with a Hoop, 3151. Gainsborough, The
which we know so little, is the inscription on
Artist's Daughters, Mrs. Fischer and Miss Gains-
owned by Earl Beauchamp, and dated 1593. the back of No. 254, a portrait of Sir Andrew borough, the elder girl seated, with a portfolio
These Hilliards, as the earliest miniature Talbot. This bears Oliver's full signature, on her knee, and holding a crayon in her right
portraits by a strictly British artist, are with the addition of “painted in Venice hand; behind stands her sister in profile, wearing
specially interesting. They comprise half a 13th May, 1596. "
a blue dress, and resting her arm on the back of a
dozen of Queen Elizabeth. This causes no Hoskins I mean the elder, for the younger standing full face, in pale pink dress showing
chair, 8,4001. Reynolds, Lady Anne Stanhope,
surprise, for Hilliard was her Court painter I still remains somewhat problematical 'white under-sleeves, with blue sash, 8,4051. ;
or
was
us
8
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66
Lady Sarah Bunbury, sacrificing to the Graces,
and kneeling at a footstool before a flaning
Fine Art Gossip.
tripod, over which the triad of the Graces look
MUSIC
down upon her, a kneeling attendant behind,
pours wine from a flagon, 8,6101. ; Lady Blake
MR. ADRIAN KLEIN'S ' Compositions in the
as Juno, standing, wearing a long pink dress Music of Colour,' shown in Chester Square,
and blue cloak, and extending her right hand to S. W. , might, if verbally described, seem From Mendelssohn to Wagner : being the
Venus, who appears in the clouds, 5,2501. ; The related to the Futurist pictures recently Memoirs of J. W. Davison, Forty Years
Misses Paine, three-quarter figures, seated to the
right, at a harpsichord, 9,0301.
seen in London.
They appear, in fact,
Music Critic of 'The Times. ' Compiled
The remaining pictures were from various
to be based rather on acquaintance with the
Son Henry Davison from
properties, the first fetching the highest price of latest experiments of Turner, and perhaps
Memoranda and Documents. (Reeves. )
the day : Raeburn, Mrs. Hay. (née Elizabeth the collection of colour - arrangements left
Robinson of Banft, married in 1784. Major to the city of Paris among the other works THE memoirs of the man who for nearly
General Andrew Hay of Mountblairy), in white of Gustave Moreau. They are by no means
inuslin dress, cut low at the neck, and with long
sleeves ; pale blue waistband and pale blue cap;
so competent as either, but a few of them, forty years was musical critic of The
seated, slightly to the left, on a green chair, like Nos. 2, 4, and 16, show some power of Times cannot fail to be interesting, for
22,2601. ; General Andrew Hay of Mountblairy, using paint coherently without definitely during that period occurred the long
in scarlet military coat with yellow facings, collar, suggesting any natural subject-matter, and warfare between the classicists and those
and cuffs, and yellow sword-hanger, his claymore
suspended at his side ; standing, in a landscape,
some dexterity in using a brush in varied, who were opening up new paths.
5,2501. ; Lord Craig, in crimson gown with white yet orderly fashion. The oily paint is often
cape, large white cuffs, and white wig ; seated unpleasant
J. W.
V. -P. , in the chair. -Mr. R. I. Pocock exhibited
Royal, 4. 30. Theory of a New Mechanism for marving the
Volume of Discharge in the Rotating Slider Crank Form in
May 9. - Sir Archibald Geikie, President, in a skin and a living specimen of a fawn variety of
the Chamber Crank Chain of Rouleaux, Mr. 8. 8. Hele
the chair. -Mr. A. Vernon Harcourt read a paper the brown rat (Epimys norvegicus) which had
Shaw: 'A New Treatment of Optical Aberrations, Prof.
R. A. Sampaon; "On the Extinction of Light by an
On the Variation with Temperature of the Rate been caught on an island in the middle of Lough
Illuminated Retina Bir W. de W. Annoy: Optical
of a Chemical Change. '—Dr. C. Chree read a Corrib, co. Galway, and presented to the Society
Measurements at High Pressures,' Mr. w. Wahl; and other
paper on Some Phenomena of Sunspots and of by Lord Headley. Mr. Pocock remarked that Society of Antiquaries, 8 30.
Terrestrial Magnetism at Kew Observatory. ' although similarly coloured varieties of this rat
Linnean, 3. - Annual Meeting.
An investigation made some years ago by the had been caught now and again in different parts
Royal Institution, g. - Recent Advances in Agriculturai
author indicated the probability that a relation of England, it was especially interesting to put
Science: the Fertility of the soil, Mr. A. D. Hall.
Royal Institution, 3. - Interpretation in Song: (3) Songo
and their Classification,' Mr. 4. Plunket Groene.
6
-
6
Prof. W. Bateson.
Jenkins. (Colonial Section. )
W. M. Acworth and G. Paish.
-
Skulls. ' Dr. R. J. Gladstone.
--
are
Sondes, Mr. K. 8. Bruce.
and Colonies," Mr. J. B. Caldecott.
Economic Aspect, Prof. H. T. Barnes.
papers.
PRI.
BAT.
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THE excessive temperature of 82°. 6 in The state of culture in Colombia when
Science Gossip.
the shade at Greenwich, on Saturday last, the Spaniards arrived there presented
was the highest reading on record for some striking contrasts : people who wore
MR. A. F. R. WOLLASTON'S account of the that particular calendar date, though there
a minimum of clothing and practised
expedition of the British Ornithologists'
Union to Dutch New Guinea in 1910-11 earlier in the year. It is seldom, however, cannibalism, and others who lived under
will be published by Messrs. Smith & Elder that the shaded thermometer stands as high a progressive political system and exer-
on the 31st inst. , with illustrations and as 80° in the first half of May. In 1868 the cised various handicrafts. Of these the
maps, under the title 'Pygmies and Papuans:maximum temperature was 820. 3 on May 3rd; most interesting is the working of gold,
the Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea. ' in 1867 it was above 83° on May 6th and 7th; great numbers of ornaments and vessels of
The book deals with a hitherto unknown and in 1848 the thermometer stood above that metal having been found. In pottery
part of one of the least-known countries 80° on the three days May 13th, 14th, and they did not know the use of the wheel.
in the world. The Pygmy natives of New
Guinea discovered by the expedition are of temperature as high as 80° in the first They were fond of ornament representing
here described for the first time. The fortnight of May from 1841 to 1905. more or less conventional types of human
book also contains some account of the
faces.
other living creatures of the country.
Incidentally to Ecuador, Mr. Joyce
ELECTRICITY has been successfully applied
FINE ARTS
suggests, as an explanation of the tradi-
to prevent the destruction of fruit blossoms
tion that the reigns of the ante-Incan
by night frosts. In California a thermometer
rulers were short, the belief that as they
is installed in the orchards which, by means
of a platinum connexion, rings a bell in the South American Archæology: an Intro- soul of the community was incorporated,
were divine persons, in whom the collective
farmer's bedroom when the temperature duction to the Archæology of the South it was necessary in the interests of the
falls beyond the danger point. He can American Continent, with Special Refer- general prosperity to remove them as soon
then, by pressing a button, set light to pre- ence to the Early History of Peru. By as they showed signs of age, so that that
viously arranged fires between the trees,
which by the heavy smoke they diffuse
Thomas A. Joyce. (Macmillan & Co. )
soul might always be incorporated in a
among the branches protect the blossom This publication is timely from two points body possessing the full vigour of youth.
against the risk of frost until the sun begins of view. The meeting in London, on the One ruler of a still earlier dynasty was
to gain power.
27th of the present month, of the Con- supposed to have ascended to heaven with
SIR WILLIAN CROOKES has found that the
metals of the platinum group are not, as
gress of Americanists will draw attention wings; and another retired and starved
was supposed, absolutely resistant to heat to the subject, and many will desire to himself to death in secret that the people
at temperatures lower than their melting have such a general exposition as Mr. might believe in his immortality. Mr.
point of 2,300° to 2,400° C. While platinum Joyce offers. The progress of recent dis- Joyce refers to the ante-Incan period the
itself at 900° remains unchanged, at 1,300° it covery in many directions, the growth of heavy stone chairs supported on a crouch-
volatilizes and deposits crystals of metal, collections of South American objects in ing human or animal figure, of which
which, Sir William states, are due to a true the museums of Europe and America, nearly all the great museums of Europe
sublimation. Palladium is three times as
and the valuable historical and archæo have specimens, and the stone slabs
volatile as platinum ; iridium oxidizes, and
conventionalized human
is therefore partly volatile, at 1,000° ; ruthe- logical works which have recently thrown carved with
zium. loses 25 per cent of its weight at light on many complicated questions, figures found in Manabi, on the coast,
1,300°; and rhodium alone resists at the same justify the issue of a book in which these the traditional scene of the immigration.
temperature. The result of this is that additions to knowledge are summed up. The stone temples in Quito with their
crucibles of the platinum group of metals The Hon. Secretary of the Royal An- monolithic pillars also belong to an early
can no longer be depended upon for che- thropological Institute is well qualified period.
mical research work at high temperatures, for this work.
iridium, of which from its extreme hardness
The chapters relating to Peru are
Sir William had great hopes, proving itself
Mr. Joyce's arrangement is strictly partly historical, partly descriptive and
more volatile than platinum itself. A geographical. He begins with two chap- archæological. Mr. Joyce has devoted
communication giving the details of the ters on Colombia, in which Venezuela is less attention than might have been
experiments upon which his deductions are incidentally referred to. After a chapter expected to the strictly anthropological
based has been made to the Royal Society, on Ecuador, six chapters are devoted to branch of his subject. He has furnished
and appears in the current number of the Peru, and one to the southern provinces no physical types, no anthropometric
Proceedings.
of the Peruvian Empire ; one to the statistics, and only one plate of skulls,
M. STÉPHANE LEDUC (of Nantes) has pub- Southern Andes and plains, and one to which, indeed, itself illustrates the arti-
lished some particulars of the experiments East and Central South America. This ficial deformation rather than the natural
on the effect of electricity upon the brain
which have previously been described in arrangement allows only of a sketchy cranial form. The human figures from
The Athenaeum. He uses
a direct low- treatment of the last term, which covers the vases, and the objects of pottery in
tension galvanic current with a hundred an area equal in extent to the whole of the shape of human heads, are too con-
intermissions per second, which has some- the others put together, including the ventional to be of value from this point
times been called the “ Leduc current. " vast territories of Brazil, Uruguay, Para- of view; but material might have been
He finds that by applying this from the guay, and a portion of Argentina. It may obtained elsewhere--for example, from
loins to the forehead with gradually in- / be conceded that the archæological and the collections made by the Créqui-
duced, in which all the functions of the higher far inferior to that of Peru and the western Mr.
Joyce has, in other respects, made
duced, in which all the functions of the higher ethnological interest of these countries is Montfort expedition
into Bolivia, of which
and respiration are unimpaired. If a current part generally, of the South American good use. To have descended into the
of from fifty to a hundred volts be employed, continent, and that the materials for necessary technical details would not,
according to the size of the animal, ex- study are fewer. The specimens which however, have made the book more read-
perimental epilepsy. ” is the result, all the the author has selected to illustrate the able, and would have greatly added to its
symptoms of grinding of the teeth, biting chapter in question are curious, and bulk. Even within the limited scope
tonic and clonic convulsions being present. would, perhaps, have warranted more which Mr. Joyce allows himself, the
tonic and clonic convulsions being present. detailed treatment ; but, as Mr. Joyce multitudinous facts he has to deal with
most advantageously employed for observes, a mere catalogue of finds, where tend rather to overweight the work for
electrocution, perfect insensibility taking materials do not exist for their proper the average reader, who is mostly an
place at once, which becomes permanent classification and interpretation, might indolent person. To show how inex-
if the current be maintained for two minutes. become rather wearisome. Regions where haustible the subject is, we note that,
His greatest discovery, if it stands the test
the arts have been more highly developed while several illustrations are given of
of future investigation, is that of "centres
of synergy,” as when all the extensor or
are naturally more attractive, and these the characteristic drawings of military
flexor muscles, although not related either of themselves are sufficiently extensive to and other scenes from Truxillo, the
curious
by neighbourhood or innervation, can be call for great compression in their treat- groups from that place in the Berlin
inhibited.
ment.
Museum, where a soldier is represented
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carrying a small monkey or other animal
artifices which mask the lack of backbone
THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
confined in his girdle, are not included,
in a picture only for the unobservant.
(Third Notice. )
nor is there any adequate representation
Somewhat after the manner of Mr. Sims,
of the multiple snake head-dresses which
THERE is no portrait of outstanding vitality The Ambuscade (88), by Mr. Pickering
form a remarkable feature of early Peru- the material outlook which seemed to be of tones and little discoveries of colour
among the paintings of this year's Academy, Walker, has a much better basis in a sequence
vian art. Several excellent specimens implied in Mr. Sargent's example being of greater charm.
There is far more
from the collection of Chimu ceramic everywhere paramount. There are a fair creative power than Mr. Sims shows in
ware recently acquired by the British number of canvases which convince us of Mr. Marcus Stone's stage group, An
Museum are figured. At p. 145 is a the corporal solidity of the person repre- Appeal for Mercy (142). Without being a
drawing of a “ mummy" from the ceme- sented, but the difficulty of achieving this work of genius, this little picture comes
teries explored by Reiss and Stubel, and
seems usually to exhaust the artist before he clearly from one who knows his business;
has been able to endow his sitter with and we recognize a similar workmanliko
Mr. Joyce objects to its being so described
character in the more staccato drawing of
on the ground that there is no evidence cesses of Mr. Sargent were with picturesque Mr. Douglas Almond’s The Barber (603),
that any preservative preparation was characters, and it is these we recall in looking and The Expert Player (232) of Miss Anna
injected into the body. There is, how- at Mr. William Orpen's witty and accom- Airy, a capable piece of student's work
ever, in the Trocadéro Museum a mummy plished rendering of a theatrical manner in on an unreasonably large scale. The latter
largely trepanned, and there seems to be Harry Brittain, Esq. (467), or in Mr. Jack's picture is a decided advance on the artist's
more pronounced version of a similar theme previous work in that, though it may
that the hole made by trepanning might pictures have a superficial air of life which less than hitherto a piecing together of
that the hole made by trepanning might in No: 813, George Belcher, Esq. Both these represent an odd jumble of things, it is
have been used either for the removal of is wanting in Mr. Orpen's other works, in the morceaux of painting. There is some at-
the brain or for the introduction into it wooden decorum of Mr. Charles Shannon's tempt at the realization of the close inter-
of some aromatic substance as a part of group. (476), or in the rather colourless, dependence of every element in a scene
the process
of mummification. Other though capable works of Mr. G. F. Kelly which makes good painting of even the
mummies in the same collection indicate (86), Mr. Harold Knight (352), and Mr. most realistic sort stimulating to laymen.
the difference of treatment of the rich and Oesterman (80). Mr. Cowper's fancy-dress The lack of this quality frequently detracts
the after death.
portrait of Sir Eyre Coote (478) is as over- from the vividness of Mr. Tuke's studies
poor
weighted by its elaborate costume as Mr. of sea bathers, wherein, instead of the pose
Mr. Joyce complains that the collection Birley's Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty (371). The of the figure being dependent on the form
of South American objects in the British latter gentleman, however, seems to have a of the rocks, the rocks seem accommodated to
Museum is small. It certainly suffers by highly humorous appreciation of his own fit the pose, or else, as in No. 595, Sun-bather,
comparison with those of the great Conti- appearance, and on that side the picture the figure might as suitably be on a sofa.
Other works which deserve remark are: Mr.
nental museums, but it is rich enough to is worthy of consideration. It is perhaps
have supplied
him with a large number of inevitable that a State - Portrait of Her Andrew Douglas's well-observed cattle-piece,
Majesty Queen Mary (150) should be re- An Autumn Afternoon (501), a vivid snow-
typical specimens.
garded by the artist, Mr. William Llewellyn, piece by Mr. Dugdale (551), and the water-
It is interesting to note that some of who was last week made A. R. A.
, as above colours of Sir Edward Poynter (887) and
the excellent drawings with which the all a record of costume, and we should Mr. Byam Shaw (869). Mr. Frank Emanuel's
work is embellished are due to Mrs. be grateful to him for having at least Kensington Interior (104), purchased for the
Joyce, and that the author has profited refrained from the cheap sentiment which Chantrey Collection, is a careful piece of
by correspondence with Dr. Uhle, the has been usual in such works hitherto. Mr. elaboration, but worked out with a curious
Director of the Museum
more impassivity which forbids stress on any
at Lima, pictorial purpose in The Muslin Dress (737), large comparisons, whether of form
which contains the two specimens of but his picture hardly amounts to portraiture colour, which might have emerged even
pottery from Nasca represented in the Mr. Greiffenhagen's harshly painted Sir from so complicated a subject before the
coloured frontispiece. In the chapter on Henry Sutton (61) and Mr. Clausen's Mervyn, vision of a more responsive painter The
the sequence of cultures Mr. Joyce sums Son of Sir J. Herbert Roberts, Bart. (499), central tones of colour are set rather dully
up the archæological evidence with great both make an attempt at intimate character for the vividly emergent note of red in the
skill, and reserves with commendable ization which lifts them a little above the middle of the picture.
spiritual level of Academy portraiture, The bronze Shepherd Boy (1978), by Mr.
caution ma y questions which cannot be the latter securing, indeed, something of the Mortimer Brown, which is the other Chantrey
satisfactorily solved in the present state artificial delicacy of a well-bred child on purchase, has the same refusal to treat a
of our knowledge. A supplementary note his good behaviour. The colour - design theme rhythmically which we are, how-
to that chapter deals with the issue, since and delicate tentative handling confirm ever, more accustomed to find in sculpture
it was prepared, of Dr. Hrdlicka's pre- this atmosphere, but the picture suffers than in painting—or at least painting out-
liminary report on his researches at from the failure of the solid figure to unite side the Academy. Natural form knows no
Truxillo and Pachicamac, which may help with the flat conventional landscape. Mr. monotony, but art cannot suggest infinite
towards the solution of some of these Sims's portrait alongside (494) has the same variety, except on some basis of measured
defect, but not the same charm. Por- | movement. Few British sculptors in the
questions.
traiture of a vigorous order, perhaps because Academy seem able to tolerate the mental
The historical chapters are particularly unweighted by the demands of full pictorial discipline necessary to keep a work thus in
interesting and well written. The growth realism, is to be found in Mr. John Cameron's one key throughout, and we see Sir George
of the Peruvian Empire, and the evolution drawing, A Portrait (1390), in the black- Frampton's group Protection (1791) losing
by the Inca, as Mr. Joyce puts it, “if and white room; and in sculpture in Mr. its plastic coherence by the fashion in which
not of a civilization, at least of a very lifelike bust, Edward Carlisle, Esq. , K. C. for the sake of undercutting a finger or
a sequence of enclosing planes is broken
magnificent barbarism,” as well as of
good organization and government, are
The charm-
(1927), and the two small figures wherein rendering the texture of a robe.
Mr. Henry Poole and Mr. John Tweed ing expression of the huddled child shows
clearly traced. The daily life and occu- demonstrate that a figure in historic costume that the artist is capable of being moved,
pations of the peoples, their arts and crafts, need not be absurd.
but he seems hardly to be moved primarily
their religious observances, and their In dealing with the remaining subject through the medium of plastic structure.
burial customs are described.
pictures at the Academy, it is with extreme A similar want of adherence to a measured
An Appendix contains a short biblio- regret that we record the decadence of Mr. interval of form is shown in less degree in
Sims's talent. Anything like invention is Mr. Alexander Fisher's Spielmann (1972),
graphy, giving some idea of the great rare in modern picture exhibitions, but its but the subject is one which by its move-
body of literature from which Mr. Joyce possession appears to have led on the ment demands such a conventional basis
has derived his material; but it does not artist to the point of throwing over his more urgently. Slightly too much continuity
claim to be complete, and might well be interest in natural structure or desire to in surface, and a certain lack of it in the
supplemented by reference to other works. utilize it as a basis for his designs. His elemental direction lines wherever they occur
The book is the result of extensive principal picture-The Shower (83)—is a throughout the figure, make it too actual
research, and should certainly “stimu- with a semblance of unity by the cheap rather uncomfortably suggests that it should
mixture of unrelated vignettes, endowed to be accepted for its expressiveness. It
late interest in the early remains of South device of distributing marks of violent be judged as actuality, which is disturbing
America, some of which are among the contrast—here a spot of vermilion upon not only on account of the violent action
most remarkable in the world. ”
green, there a mass of white on black portrayed, but even from the small scale.
to
or
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573
I.
06
& crown.
8
66
66
a
serene
" by appointment. ” One of these belongs to being-is strongly represented. His im-
MINIATURES AT BRUSSELS. the Baroness G. de Rothschild of Paris (who press on the art of his day is clearly seen in
THE ENGLISH SEOTION.
contributes many choice works, by the the work of his far more gifted pupil Cooper.
way). Very similar to it are two belonging That he painted a sound, manly style of
to the present writor, which came from portrait is undeniable, and, as is tho case
THE “ Exposition de la Miniature ” now on Penshurst Place, and may once have been with most of these miniaturists of the
show at Brussels is pronounced on all sides Sir Philip Sidney's. All are in elaborate seventeenth century, his portraits of men
to be un succès éclatant. ” Organized dresses, and in one the Virgin Queen wears are better than those of most of their
under the auspices of the Government, it
Then we have her again in a most women contemporaries.
has had such influential patronage extended curious small piece from Madresfield, show-
From the Amsterdam Gallery come
to it that success, so far as contributions of ing her young, with a slender waist, in a red Henrietta Maria,“ the Queen of Hearts," and
valuable miniatures could ensure it, has robe with a long train. She is distributing some more doubtful examples of Hoskins from
boen certain from the outset. One soon Maundy money in 1563.
English sources-e. g. , 213, which seems to
finds on entering the Hôtel Goffinet, where Another, from the Rijks Museum at mo certainly not Anne of Denmark. It
the collection is handsomely installed, a Amsterdam, shows her in a fancy dress, may be Mary II. Perhaps the finest
real “ embarras de richesses. "
with naked arms, and flowers in her hair ; Hoskins here is Sir Arthur Haselrige (No.
It is obviously impossible to deal with she is indeed, as described in the catalogue, 214, owned by General Davies), the man
even a tithe of the miniatures here shown. en coiffure de fantaisie. ” But the most who commanded the regiment of Cavaliers
I can refer only to examples which appear important of all these portraits of Elizabeth called “the Lobsters,” and used_the men
to me exceptionally noteworthy. The exi. I should judge to be one belonging to
on the Parliament side in the Great Rebellion.
gencies of arranging so large a collection are Baroness Groeninx van Zoelen. This minia. It is somewhat “ bricky" in tone, but other-
great, and where, as in the case of many of ture (835) has a pedigree, and bears on wise good, and very like his pupil's portraits
the foreign contributors, the collection of the back of it the following inscription : hanging close by.
The visitor who has
each individual has been kept together, the · La Serenissime Reine d'Angleterre reached the caso containing the Hoskinses
effect is ofton marred by what appears envoyé ce sien pourtraict à Mons. de Man, will be irresistibly drawn to the fine display
injudicious juxtaposition. Moreover, the trésorier général de Zeelande, par les mains of the work by the “ incomparable Samuel
search after examples of favourite masters de Mons. le comte de Licester [sic]. ” It is Cooper. ” Nevertheless, although_there are
scattered throughout several rooms and a in fine condition, less faded-looking than is over twenty-five miniatures in this Exhibition
large number of glass cases is very fatiguing. wont with Hilliard's work. The most ascribed to him, I am not sure that his
In this respect
la Section Anglaise has
Queen's" dress is exceptionally reputation is enhanced by what is shown
the advantage of having its principal sumptuous, being a richly figured and here ; in fact, few of them are up to_the
exhibits grouped chronologically, with jewelled pink under-dress ; over which she standard of examples known to me in Eng-
the result of showing a number of works of wears a green cloak lined with gold thread | land, in such collections as those at Windsor,
the same artist side by side, and demonstrat- and also jewelled, the outside sown with Montagu House, and Welbeck, for example.
ing their various styles and characteristics design in gold thread. She wears feathers There is not one of the importance of some
in an instructive and delightful way. But, at the back of her head. Elizabeth is not I could name, whilst the ascription of such
apart from details of arrangement, in over-handsome in this picture and royal inferior work as the so-called * Portrait of
which, we may be sure, the Belgian Com present, but it is indubitably a precious and Monmouth, aged 23,, to Cooper is, to my
mittee have done all that was possible, genuine portrait.
mind, quite unallowable. J. J. FOSTER.
having regard to the wishes of the owners, One of the Baroness G. de Rothschild's
the beauty and high standard of quality exhibits (837), termed Portrait de jeune
of the British miniatures shown are gener-Femme,' I should say is Anne of Denmark ;
ously and freely admitted.
and 840, ‘Portrait d'Homme,' is no less RAEBURN, REYNOLDS, GAINSBOROUGH,
Adopting tho chronological method, we clearly James I. The latter is inscribed,
AND HOPPNER.
shall look for examples of Hans Holbein the though this is not mentioned in the Cata- FRIDAY, the 10th inst. , was a great occasion for
younger, to whom, in this country at any logue, as aged 42, and dated 1608, which the masters of the Early British School, for on
rate, the honour of being the first exponent exactly tallies with the age of the British
that day, at the sale by Messrs. Christie of the
of portrait painting in miniature is assigned. Solomon in that year, he having been born in
collections of the late Mr. C. Wertheimer and
others,
I say this without forgetting Master Lucas 1566.
a portrait by Raeburn fetched over
22,0001. ; four by Reynolds over 9,0001. , 8,0001. ,
Horebout Hornebout, who
The group (993), also belonging to the 6,0001. , and 5,00/1. respectively, two by Gains-
paynter " at the Court of Henry VIII. , and Baroness G. de Rothschild, is, I have very borough over 8,0001, and 4,0001; ; and two by
to whom, according to Van Mander, Holbein little doubt, after Hilliard, engraved by Hoppner over 3,0009, and 2,0001. The total of
owed instruction in the art. We shall look Simon de Passe, and represents the “ Queen obtained for the Raeburn, it did not equal that
in vain, however, for examples from Eng; of Hearts,” her ill-fated husband Frederick, paid a year ago for his portrait of Mrs. Robertson
land by the great Augsburg, limner. But Elector Palatine, and one of their sons. It Williamson, which realized 23,4151. (Athen. ,
there are no less than eloven in the Foreign has, I think, a counterpart in a group of May 27, 1911; 7; 60%. ?
Section attributed to him, of which those James I. , Anne of Denmark, and Charles formerly belonging to the late Mr. William
belonging to the Queen of Holland are the when a boy. There is a curious Charles I. Lowther. J. Ferneley, A Boy on a Pony, with
most important, viz. , a youth in a brown ascribed to I. Oliver (10014), from the Musée a terrier running before them, 4201. Reynolds,
doublet (846) and three portraits of men de Gotha, in which the unfortunate King, Capt. Holdane, full face, with powdered hair and
(847–9). That of the Garçon en pourpoint who does not look at all melancholy, by white stock, the figure lightly sketched in, 8611.
brun’ is rather rubbed on the cheek, otherwise the way, has aggressively red hair !
Two Raeburns were sold by order of the
executor of Col. W. B. R. Hall : Mrs. Lucy
all are in fair condition, and show the master's The two Olivers, father and son, make a Davidson, wife of Duncan Davidson of Tulloch,
powers in a convincing manner. They are brave show here, no less than seventeen in white dress, with deep yellow scarf over her
anonymous, which is to be regretted, as examples being attributed to Isaac, and shoulders and crossed at her waist, seated, in a
they clearly are highly characteristic por about half as many to Peter. The Queen of landscape, 3,3601. ; Duncan Davidson of Tulloch,
traits, and particularly is this true of 849, Holland again loads the way with the works
in green coat, with black roll collar and brass
buttons, white vest and stock, seated in an arm-
a somewhat forbidding-looking man wearing of these fine painters.
chair, 1,4171.
a cloak edged with fur, his hollow cheek and A place of honour is given to 996, which A Gainsborough was the property of the
sour expression being obviously true to life. is suggested as being the Duke of Bucking- Staffordshire General Infirmary : John Eld, Esq. ,
Among the finest of the treasures belonging ham, an opinion I cannot endorse. The
of Seighford Hall, Stafford, inscribed at the base
of a column “ By the Command and at the Ex-
to La Reine des Pays-Bas is 847, a man in miniature is dated 1614, and the age of the
pence of the Subscribers,” 4,2001.
black wearing a long fair beard. His Tudor original is painted upon it as being 30. The following were the property of the late
cap surmounts a very English-looking face ; George Villiers was born in 1592; that Mr. C. J. Wertheimer. Pastels by J. Russell :
he is, perhaps, 37 years of age, and one alone seems to me sufficient to dispose of the
Mrs. Earle and her Daughter, the mother in
would like to know who was the original of identity in question. But it is as fine a piece daughter, 4201. ; & st. Giles Songstress, singing
white dress with yellow sash, holding her infant
this highly characteristic piece.
of work of the older school as can be found from a scroll which she holds in her hands, 2201. ;
From Holbein we naturally turn to in the Exhibition.
Mrs. Raikes, in white dress with fichu, and blue
Hilliard, who tells that he learnt An interesting scrap of evidence concern-
sash, 4411.
from him. We find seventeen examples ing the life of the elder of the Olivers, of
Pictures : Early English School, A Young
of his, besides one by his son Laurence,
Boy with a Hoop, 3151. Gainsborough, The
which we know so little, is the inscription on
Artist's Daughters, Mrs. Fischer and Miss Gains-
owned by Earl Beauchamp, and dated 1593. the back of No. 254, a portrait of Sir Andrew borough, the elder girl seated, with a portfolio
These Hilliards, as the earliest miniature Talbot. This bears Oliver's full signature, on her knee, and holding a crayon in her right
portraits by a strictly British artist, are with the addition of “painted in Venice hand; behind stands her sister in profile, wearing
specially interesting. They comprise half a 13th May, 1596. "
a blue dress, and resting her arm on the back of a
dozen of Queen Elizabeth. This causes no Hoskins I mean the elder, for the younger standing full face, in pale pink dress showing
chair, 8,4001. Reynolds, Lady Anne Stanhope,
surprise, for Hilliard was her Court painter I still remains somewhat problematical 'white under-sleeves, with blue sash, 8,4051. ;
or
was
us
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No. 4412, May 18, 1912
66
Lady Sarah Bunbury, sacrificing to the Graces,
and kneeling at a footstool before a flaning
Fine Art Gossip.
tripod, over which the triad of the Graces look
MUSIC
down upon her, a kneeling attendant behind,
pours wine from a flagon, 8,6101. ; Lady Blake
MR. ADRIAN KLEIN'S ' Compositions in the
as Juno, standing, wearing a long pink dress Music of Colour,' shown in Chester Square,
and blue cloak, and extending her right hand to S. W. , might, if verbally described, seem From Mendelssohn to Wagner : being the
Venus, who appears in the clouds, 5,2501. ; The related to the Futurist pictures recently Memoirs of J. W. Davison, Forty Years
Misses Paine, three-quarter figures, seated to the
right, at a harpsichord, 9,0301.
seen in London.
They appear, in fact,
Music Critic of 'The Times. ' Compiled
The remaining pictures were from various
to be based rather on acquaintance with the
Son Henry Davison from
properties, the first fetching the highest price of latest experiments of Turner, and perhaps
Memoranda and Documents. (Reeves. )
the day : Raeburn, Mrs. Hay. (née Elizabeth the collection of colour - arrangements left
Robinson of Banft, married in 1784. Major to the city of Paris among the other works THE memoirs of the man who for nearly
General Andrew Hay of Mountblairy), in white of Gustave Moreau. They are by no means
inuslin dress, cut low at the neck, and with long
sleeves ; pale blue waistband and pale blue cap;
so competent as either, but a few of them, forty years was musical critic of The
seated, slightly to the left, on a green chair, like Nos. 2, 4, and 16, show some power of Times cannot fail to be interesting, for
22,2601. ; General Andrew Hay of Mountblairy, using paint coherently without definitely during that period occurred the long
in scarlet military coat with yellow facings, collar, suggesting any natural subject-matter, and warfare between the classicists and those
and cuffs, and yellow sword-hanger, his claymore
suspended at his side ; standing, in a landscape,
some dexterity in using a brush in varied, who were opening up new paths.
5,2501. ; Lord Craig, in crimson gown with white yet orderly fashion. The oily paint is often
cape, large white cuffs, and white wig ; seated unpleasant
J. W.
