in order when the exhibition opens in
May. Commissioners have visited every
part of Europe, and have arranged for
the loan of a large number of interest-
ing and valuable examples of the
artistic productions of the Moham-
medan world, including many import-
ant works belonging to early periods.
The exhibition will thus be of an inter-
national character ; and not only will
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qualities of bold draughtsmanship, strong colouring
and a refined sentiment such as is a' characteristic
of the art of the contemporary Scottish school of
painting. The talent of G. M. Stevens was once
again evinced in delightful pictures of graceful
femininity, among which Le dipart pour le tmnis
was particularly worthy of notice. G. Lemmen,
who exhibited a large and very varied selection ā
studies from the nude, landscapes, and flower-
pieces ā must be classed in the foremost rank of
painters of rare talent and unexpected and
charming colouring. The rugged Finnish land-
scapes of W. Finch ; the English landscapes of
Hazledine; the cool orchards of W. Schlobach,
with some fine statuettes; a beautiful group by
P. Dubois, and patient studies of animals by
Gaspar, completed an exhibition of exceptional
charm.
In the " Cercle Artistique de Bruxelles," a Dutch
artist, M. van Andringa, showed recently a collec-
tion of pictures and drawings which attracted a
large number of lovers of good painting to these
PORTRAIT
BY A. CLUVSBNAAR
BRUSSELS. ā It appears that
the rooms at the Art' Gallery
are no longer sufficient to
contain all the numerous
productions of the painters and sculp-
tors of Brussels, and already several
exhibitions have been organised success-
full/ in the Salle Boute; but so far I
have seen no show there which could
compare in interest with the recent
one, in which we had an opportunity
of seeing the work of the figure painters,
A. Cluysenaar, G. Lemmen, and G. M.
Stevens ; of the landscapists, W. Finch,
Hazledine, and W. Schlobach; and of
the sculptors, P. Dubois and Gaspar.
Mons. Cluysenaar's pictures were of
considerable importance, and comprised
female portraits, portraits of children,
studies, and a few landscapes. One hears
it said frequently of his painting that it
is solide et savoureuse, but it should also
be added that there are inherent in it
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'SUMMER EVENING'
BY EDWARD DUFNER
galleries. 'ITiis artist, who is above all a colourist,
seeks always for decorative effect. His large panel,
Des CoquelicotSy is consummately composed and
of very sumptuous colouring. F. K.
PHILADELPHIA.ā A high sUndard in the
quality of the work shown in the Seventh
Annual Exhibition of the Philadelphia
Water-colour Club, held in the galleries
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, gave
the visitor interested in that form of pictorial art a
most agreeable impression. Not that all the pic-
tures there to be seen were water- colours in the
sense generally accepted as such a few years back,
for many of them were really paintings in gouache
or distemper on tinted- papers, brown or grey,
assisted sometimes by the use of pastel chalk or
crayon, in fact any medium except oil - colour
found suitable for the purpose of arriving at the
desired result. The effects obtained were in many
cases quite equal to the use of oil pigment on
canvas, as, for instance, in the works of Mr. Alex-
ander Robinson, who exhibited a group of eight
excellently painted studies of Holland and Italy,
masterful in every touch, glowing with warm, sub-
dued colour and low in tone. The picturesque
boats of the Zuyder Zee furnished motifs for some of
the most successful of them.
Very interesting in a different way were the works
in water colours of Mr. Alfred East, so well known
to the readers of The Studio. An exhibition of
his works in oil has recently been held at the
Academy, but he had not before shown aquarelles
at Philadelphia. Admirable in drawing, careful
and painstaking in detail, these drawings delighted
the connoisseur of English landscape painting.
His views of A Suffolk Village and Knaresbro^
Castle deserve special mention as characteristic
examples of his craft. Mr. D. Y. Cameron was
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well represented by some capital bits of Old Cairo,
and a number of pictures of Scottish mountain
scenery that were very successful in the use of
washes of pure colour unaided by any touching
of opaque lights. The fantastic, almost incredible
colouring of certain districts of the Far West was
well rendered by Mr. Albert GroU in his views of
The Painted Desert^ Arizona, Mr. Dwight W.
Tryon exposed a group of delightfully poetic ren-
ditions of the moonlit sea, delicate in colour only
as he knows how to make them. Mr. Charles
Warren Eaton's Lake Comn (p 334) ably sustained
the reputation of this well-known landscape painter
in its truth to the facts in nature and withal no lack
of feeling for sentiment. Several examples of the
work of Mr. Herman Tudley Murphy, reminding
one decidedly of certain of Whistler's symphonies
in colour, were to be seen here. Mr. Edward
Dufner's Summer Evenings idyllic in conception,
skilful in execution, and Miss Blanche Dillaye's
Moonlight^ mysteriously suggestive each in its own
way, added much to the interest of the collection.
Occupying a conspicuous position in the large
gallery was a pastel portrait entitled Shadows^ by
Mr. Thomas P. Anshutz; the subject, a hand-
some young American woman in creamy draperies,
is treated in the artist's happiest vein, and gave
kclat to the show. Portraits by May Hallowell
Lond and by Jessie Willcox Smith deserve par-
ticular mention. Mr. Adam Emory Albright, in
Little Faces at the Window^ showed fine technique
and at the same time interesting studies of child
life. A group of sketches in water-colours by Miss
Alice Schille, boldly handled, delightfully juicy in
treatment, should be especially praised. Quite
different in management of colour and
yet very successful in effect were Mr.
George Walter Dawson's admirable
studies of gardens and roses, painted
with careful attention to detail without
losing any of the general glow of bril-
liant colour sought for. Mr. Chas. W.
Hudson exhibited a number of most
remarkably fascinating pictures of the
great pine-trees of the Maine woods.
* SHADOWS
BY THOMAS P. ANSHUTZ
The exhibition of miniatures included
about one hundred-and- fifty works and
showed the great advance of the art
during the past decade and also its
increasing popularity. Most of the best
known painters were represented in this
collection. No longer limited to por-
traiture, they have ventured into the
field of the figure painter, with gratify-
ing results. Miss Laura Coombs Hills*
Nymph was probably the best example
of this form of miniature painting to be
seen in the show. Excellent portraits
were exhibited by Mrs. Emily Drayton
Taylor, Miss Margaretta Archambault
and Miss Sarah Yocum MacFadden.
E. C
The National Gallery of South Aus-
tralia has acquired by purchase two
pictures by Mr. Algernon Talmage
recently exhibited at the Goupil Gallery,
viz., Tlie Glittering Stream (reproduced
in The Studio of February last), and
Snowstorm in the Strand,
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'LAKB COMO'
BY CHARLES WARREN EATON
{Set Philadelphia Studio-Talk)
ART SCHOOL NOTES.
LONDON.ā Sir Edward Poynter,
at the prize -giving of the
Royal Academy schools last
^ month, devoted most of his
address to the subject of the scheme
of re-organisation, which was fore-
shadowed in these notes in the autumn.
It has been no secret for some time
that the Academicians were disap-
pointed with the results of the revised
rules that came into force in 1903,
and Sir Edward's announcement of
the forthcoming return to the earlier
methods of teaching caused little sur-
prise. The rules of 1903 were com-
piled with the idea of making the
Royal Academy schools a place in
which the student who had been well
grounded elsewhere could complete his
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education, and he was supposed to
have acquired a reasonable proficiency
in drawing, painting, or modelling from
the life before entering. Now, however,
all ā or nearly all ā is to be changed
again. The Lower School is to be
restored this year, wth drawing from
the antique as a prominent feature of
the curriculum; and the students,
admitted at a lower standard, will
have to show satisfactory elementary
work before admission to the Upper
School. The exhibition of prize works
at the Royal Academy will be referred
to in these notes next month.
Sir Hubert von Herkomer, who has
suffered lately from ill-health, has re-
signed the Professorship of Painting
at the Royal Academy. Sir Hubert
was originally elected to the Professor-
ship in 1899, and with the delivery of
his addresses in January, 1900, com-
menced the revival of public interest
in the Academy lectures that has been
maintained to the present time. He
resigned in March, 1900, but resumed
office three years ago, on the expira-
tion of Mr. Clausen's term. Sir
Hubert's successor is Sir William
Richmond, who held the professorship
from 1895 to 1899.
**THE END OF THE DAY** (FIRST PRIZE, GILBERT - GARRET
COMPETITION) BY MILDRED H. CONGDON WHITE
{Calderon School of Animal Painting)
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**A CLOUDY day" (FIRST PRIZB, GILBERT-GARRET COMPETITION)
[South Kensington Sketch Club) BY R. w. STBWABT
gained the first prize in
his own club competition;
the second by Mr. Heath-
cote, of Heatherley*s, and
the third by Miss Sibyl
Taw^e, of Lambeth. In
this section a special prize
of ;^*2 was "given person-
ally by Mr. F. Cadogan
Cowper to Mr. C. B.
Martin, of the Crystal
Palace School, for his
quaint study of elves
gathering luscious red
berries from a bush.
The recent Gilbert - Garret competi-
tion brought forth a great number of
sketches and studies from London art
students, more, probably, than in any
previous year, and, taken altogether, the
exhibition at South Kensington showed
a distinct advance. In certain direc-
tions, however, the Gilbert-Garret com-
petition should be capable of further
development. There is nothing in it
at present directly to encourage applied
art, and nothing for the designer except .
the Poster and Award of Honour Certi-
ficate competitions ; and this means
the shutting out of many students whose
talents lie in other directions than those
of figure composition and landscape
painting. The judges in the recent
competition were Mr. David Murray,
R.A., Mr. F. Cadogan Cowper, A.R.A.,
Mr. Bertram Mackennal, A.RA., and
Mr. John Hassall, R.I. They gave to
the South Kensington (Royal Collie
of Art) the Award of Honour for the
best collection of sketches. For figure
composition (subject "Labour") the
first prize was taken by Mr. A. Cooper,
of South Kensington, with the clever "labour" (first prize, gilbert-
study in oil that had a few weeks earlier {South Kensington Sketch
In landscape (subject
"A Cloudy Day") Mr. R.
Stewart, of South Ken-
sington, was first, and
Miss F. Briscoe, of Clap-
ham, second. Three third
prizes were given for land-
scape ā one to another
Clapham student, Miss J.
garret competition)
Club) BY A. COOPER
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Harland, of St. Martin's, in the order given.
Honourable mentions were given to most of the
Clubs, some of which, however, considering their
high general average, were curiously unlucky in
failing to gain a prize. This applies particularly
to the Gilbert-Garret, Grosvenor, and City and
Guilds Institute Clubs, the last named of which
had an excellent show of modelling. W. T. W.
POSTBR (FIRST PRIZR, GILRRRT-GARRET COMPETITION)
\Ueatherley s) by s. w. Stanley
Milner ; one to Mr. J. D. Revel, of South Kensing-
ton, and one to Miss Innes, of Westminster. Miss
Mildred H. Congden White, of the Calderon
School, won the first prize for animal composi-
tion (subject, " 1 he End of the Day "), with the
sketch now reproduced. Two second prizes were
given in this section to Miss Green and Miss
Foster, both representing the Royal Academy
Sketching Club, and both past students of the
Calderon School. A third prize was awarded to
Mr. P. H. Jowett, of South Kensington. The
poster competition (subject, "A Poster for a
Pageant") resulted in a triumph for Heatherley's,
Mr. S. W. Stanley repeating his achievement of
last year by carrying off the first prize, and his
fellow student, Mr. F. Holmes, taking the second.
Equal third prizes were given to Mr. F. J.
Whincap, of St Martin's, Miss Billing, of South
Kensington, and Mr. A. J. Dillon, of Clapham.
Mr. Dillon's amusing and vigorous poster of an
early Briton on a bicycle seemed to be worthy
of a higher award. The sculptors' prizes (subject
"Samson and Delilah"), fell to Mr. C. Ledward,
Mr. C. Vyse, of South Kensington, and Mr. George
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REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
The Rubaiydt of Omar Khayyam, Illustrated
by Edmund Dulac. 155. net. ā The Song of the
English, By Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated by
W. Heath Robinson. 15^. net. ā The Fables of
/Esop, Illustrated by Edward J. Detmold.
Vellum, 42X. net ā Shakespear^s Comedy of The
Mercliani of Venice, Illustrated by Sir James D.
Linton, P.R.I. \os, J^d, net ā Shakespeare's
Comedy of As You Like It, Illustrated by Hugh
Thomson, iox. (^d, net ā British Sporty Past and
Present, By E. D. Cuming. With illustrations
by G. Denholm Armour. 20s, net (London :
Hodder & Stoughton.) Here is a parcel of
delightful volumes which should prove acceptable
to all book-lovers, and especially to those who
are interested in the work of present-day illus-
trators. Those of us who have followed the
successful career of Mr. Edmund Dulac are
convinced that few European artists living at
the present time are better qualified to illustrate
Omar's Rubaiydt, and we have therefore awaited
with interest the appearance of the work. His
drawings for the edition of " The Arabian Nights,"
published a year or two ago, showed him to be
in complete sympathy with Eastern legend, and
to possess an aptitude for absorbing all its
mystery and romance. Admirable as that series
was, he has surpassed it in the set of drawings
for the Rubaiydt just published. Here he has
surrendered himself to the influence of the great
Persian poet, whose immortal work has inspired
him to produce some delightful illustrations in
which he has been able to give full play to his
great individual talents. His fertile imagination,
his fine sense of design, his unerring draughtsman-
ship and his harmonious blending of rich and
beautiful colours are displayed at their best, while,
almost without exception, the drawings reveal that
dignified restraint so characteristic of his art The
frontispiece, ffea^fn but the Vision of fulfilled desire^
is a charming study in blues and mauves; while
amongst the other drawings ā Here with a little
Bread beneath the Bough; And one by one crept
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sUenlly to rest; And hidden by the sleeve of Night
and Mom ; Ohy plagued no more with Human or
Divine; and Oh Thou^ who Man of baser Earth didst
make, are worthy to rank with the best work Mr.
Dulac has given us. The volume is excellently
produced in every respect, and should enjoy a
well deserved success. Mr. Heath Robinson has,
by shetr merit, gained for himself a prominent
position amongst Eng ish illustrators of the day,
and he has in this branch of art produced nothing
finer than the series of coloured and pen-and-mk
drawngs for Kipling's "Song of the English."
The black-and-white illustrations are particularly
good, and show a breadth of feeling and execution
and a facility for suggesting effects which are at
once satisfying and convincing; indeed it is sur-
prising that with the paucity of inspiration to be
gathered from the letterpress he should have been
able to accomplish so much. Many of the
coloured drawings, too, are excellent, especially
The wrecks dissolve above us; Auckland; Cape Town;
and Calcutta, This book again is well presented,
and should be popular not only amongst the
many admirers of Kipling, but also with those who
appreciate the work of a talented illustrator. With
regard to Mr. Edward Detmold's illustrations of
" The Fables of ^Esop," we must admit a certain
feeling of disappointment. The subjects are such
as must have appealed very strongly to this original
and clever artist, and yet the drawings fail to
convince us of the fact. It is possible the
coloured reproductions do not do full justice to
the originals, but of this we are not able to form
an opinion. Some of the simpler compositions,
notably The Ants and the Grasshopper; The
Mountain in Labour; The Monkey and the Fisher-
man; and The Hare and the Tortoise ^^.xq delightful;
but those in which the artist has introduced a more
extensive arrangement of colours are often confus-
ing, and appear to us to lack those high decorative
qualities which we are accustomed to associate with
his work. We are compelled to judge the art of
Mr. Detmold, and that of his late brother, by a
high standard, and we cannot help feeling that in
some of these twenty-five illustrations he has
failed to do himself full justice. Nevertheless,
there is much to admire in this volume for those
who are interested in the work of Mr. Detmold,
and he has an extensive public. The two
Shakespearian books are produced in an attractive
form and at a reasonable price. Mr. Thomson's
forty dainty drawings lend themselves admirably
to the process of reproduction in colour, while Sir
James Linton is invariably seen at his best when
depicting Shakespearian characters and episodes.
Mr. Cuming's book is one which will appeal very
strongly to the devotee of the open-air life. The
average sportsman is not much of a reader, but he
will find here an abundance of matter to entertain
him, for the book deals with a large range of out-
door sports other than those usually classed as
athletic. Besides chapters on hunting, shooting
and fibbing of various kinds, there are others on
coaching, tandem-driving, coursing, polo, deer-
stalking, falconry, racing and steeplechasing, and
anecdote and adventure are so plentifully intro-
duced that the reader can have no reason to
comp'ain of being bored. The i lustrations, thirty-
one in number, and all in colour, fully maintain
the high reputation enjoyed by Mr. Armour in this
specialised branch of pictorial art Especially
good are those relating to the hunt, for here the
artist reigns supreme ; and remarkably successful
too are his drawings illustrating sport in the past.
An uncommon note is given to these prints by
the little drawings at the foot of each like the
remarque on the margin of an etching.
The Medici. By Colonel G. F. Young, C.B.
(London : John Murray.) 2 vols., 36X. net. ā
Many monographs dealing with individual mem-
bers of the famous house of Medici, which for
three centuries dominated the politics of Italy,
and through Italy of the whole of Europe, have
already appeared, but it has been reserved to
Colonel Young to trace the history of the family
as a whole, from the birth in 1366 of its founder,
Giovanrii de Medici, to the death in 17 J3 of his
last descendant, the Princess Anna Maria Lodovica.
In two copiously illustrated volumes of enthralling
interest the author, whose arduous task has evi-
dently been a labour of love, after indulging in an
enthusiastic eulogy of Florence, and relating all
that is known of Giovanni, follows the fortunes,
first of the elder and then of the younger branch
of his family. Full of dramatic incidents such as
the exile and triumphant return to Florence of
Cosimo, the murder of Giuliano de Medici, and
the miraculous escape of his brother Lorenzo in
the dastardly Pazzi conspiracy, the brave defence
by Clarice de Medici of her ancestral home, and
the flight of the young Catharine de Medici,
the future wife of Henri II. of France, the
fascinating narrative also contains scholarly essays
in art and letters, with biographies of their chief
exponents, and with its appendices giving genea-
logical tables, plans, etc., it will no doubt at
once take a place amongst standard Renaissance
literature.
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The Rivers and Streams of England. Painted
by Sutton Palmer. Described by A. G. Bradley.
20S, net. ā Egyptian Birds, By Charles Whymper.
2 ox. net. ā Hungary, Painted by Adrian and
Marianne Stokes. Described by Adrian
Stokes. 2qs. net. ā Isle of Man. By W. Ralph
Hall Caine. Illustrations in colour by A. Heaton
Cooper, is. 6d. net. ā Eton. Painted by E. D.
Brinton. Described by Christopher Stone.
Reminiscences by Rev. E. D. Stone, yx. 6d. net.
ā The Flowers and Gardens of Madeira. Painted
by Ella du Cane. Described by Florence du
Cane. 75. 6d. net. (London : A. & C. Black.)
These six volumes are recent accessions to
Messrs. Black's series of Beautiful Books which
owe their popularity chiefly to the coloured illus-
trations so plentifully supplied with each volume,
though in every case the publishers have taken
care to provide interesting reading matter from the
pens of able writers. The " Rivers of England,"
treats of the principal rivers of the country ā
the Thames, the Severn, the Wye, the two Ouses,
the Dart, the Dove, the Derwent, the Tees, the
Avon, and many others, whose charming scenery
is so well portrayed by Mr. Sutton Palmer and
described by Mr. Bradley. Mr. Whymper has
had exceptional opportunities of observing and
studying the birds he has described and portrayed in
his volume, the purpose of which, he states, is to
assist the many visitors to Egypt in identifying the
birds they see in the Nile Valley. The book is
deserving of a far wider public than this obviously
limited one, for these admirable drawings, with their
faithful representation of plumage and environment,
give evidence of an intimate knowledge such as only
comes to those who devote themselves ardently
to natural history pursuits. We are glad to see a
volume devoted to Hungary, a country whose
interesting people and places are not so well known
as they ought to be. Mr. and Mrs. Stokes have
explored the country pretty thoroughly, and Mr.
Stokes has given a most entertaining narrative of
their travels and adventures. Many of the illustra-
tions remind us that the country is one in which
the inhabitants outside the large cities still retain
their traditional dress. The Isle of Man is more
familiar ground, but of the thousands who go
thither every summer we wonder how many know
even a tithe of the interesting facts concerning the
island and its institutions and legends which Mr.
R. Hall Caine narrates. The book on Eton,
which embodies the reminiscences of an "old
boy" (the Rev. E. D. Stone), appeals primarily,
of course, to other "old boys"; but the college
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has played so great a part in English history
that the book will afford pleasant reading to
many others besides. The vision of Madeira's
floral beauty, which Miss Du Cane gives, will turn
the thoughts of many to this sunny island where
vegetation of almost tropical luxuriance flourishes
throughout the year.
French Cathedrals. By Joseph & Elizabeth
Pen NELL. (London : T. Fisher Unwin.) 20s. net. ā
There is perhaps no pen-draughtsman of our time,
who, disregarding decorative restrictions, has been
able to make a spontaneous impression seem part
of the book so well as Mr. Joseph Pennell. Mr.
Pennell's illustrations are always printed the
right size. He counts on the reduction to give
them that slightness which provides a sympathetic
and unobtrusive accompaniment to the text. By
a happy co-operation with his wife in writing the
book and a draughtsman's pen, which is fresh for
every scene it encounters, no one can illustrate books
of " tours " better, or with more delicacy, variety
and freedom of pen. His drawings suggest atmo-
sphere, and an unusual sense of the picturesque
enables him to make almost anything seem pic-
turesque ; this, too, without falsification, but by the
use of a trained instinct for the salient artistic
features of any scene. There are 183 pictures in
this book, also plans and full-page reproductions