London Art Exhibitions of 1873 [pp. 162-171]

170 LONDOiV ART EXJ!JBJTfONS OF 1873. [AUGUST,
ty" which constitutes the peculiar value which are open to the artist wo4d at
of high - class water- color work. Mr. large namely, the Suffolk Street GalLinton's "Maundy-Thursday" occupies lery and the Dudley, both admitting wathe place of honor this year. A medi~- ter-colors as well as oils. Though, of
val prince or noble is on his knees, dis- course, the general average of work explaying his humility in washing the feet hibited there is below that of the Acadof a half-dozen of evil-visaged beggars, emy, they are well worfl~ examining, and
while his lady, attended by a dwarf, is one frequently encountei;s works of supreparing with evident disgust for the perior merit and many of great promise.
task before her. It is a rich, mellow As a rule, the young artist commences
picture, Titianesque in its tone, and con- with Suffolk Street, whence he emigrates
spicuous for its masterly drawing as well to the Dudley, and is finally made hapas for its refined color. Mr. Hine has py by being hung in the Royal Acadesome of his inimitable down-pictures: my, which is open to all comers, providsoft swelling hills, dotted here and there ed they come up to a standard, wl~ich is
with sheep, and under various con di- not always a very high one. A royal
tions of time and atmosphere. Mr. Col- institution, located in ample and palatial
lins, elected an associate a year ago, bids premises, the Academy naturally is the
fair to wear the mantle of David Cox, centre exhibition, and is possessed of a
whose feeling for Nature he possesses, prestige which obscures the fact that it
although he can not be said to be an is in water-color painting English art
imitator of his manner. His art is pure- finds its chief exponent, and in which it
ly a matter of feeling, and he, like Cox, compares favorably with that of other nais careless of detail, but, viewed at the tions. Too much praise can not be beproper distance, his pictures are singu- stowed upon the English school of landla~y suggestive of real out-door Nature. scape painters in that medium. AssiduMr. Collier is a colorist of very high or- ous out- door study and the thorough
der. The Institute numbers among its knowledge of the resources of their mamembers one of the best marine paint- terial, result in a delicacy of tint and
ers in England, Mr. Edwin Hayes. His tone, sense of atmosphere, and aerial
water-color drawings of the sea and of perspective, which suggest at once Natboats and shipping are equal to the pict- ure itself. Water- color art is, indeed,
ures in oil which he contributes regular- largely patronized in England, but still,
ly to the Academy every year. Mr. J. in the eyes of numbers of people, as in
C. Reed, the well - known painter of America, a piece of painted paper )~as
mountain landscape, exhibits two strik- no chance with a painted canvas, particing specimens, the one the "Three Sis- ularly when the latter presents itself on
ters of Glencoe," a gloomy mountain a large scale and in a resplendent frame.
view near the famous Pass, and "Cru- If the members of the two societies could
achan Ben," touched by the last gleam make up their minds to sink their mutual
of the setting sun. Mr. Mogford excels jealousies and re-organize in one body,
as usual in his sunsets and coast views; the peculiar value and beauty of their
and Mr. Prout treats us to some charm- charming art must needs be more fully
ingly picturesque bits of architecture and generally appreciated. They should
from the Low Countries. welcome meritorious work by outside
The water-color societies exhibit only practitioners of their art, and, in fact,
works by their respective members, but constitute themselves a separate acadethere are two other annual exhibitions my. Supplied with a titled president
in London, besides the Royal Academy, (they have one now), spacious galleries,