Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-26
SHOW SUNDAY.
Peeps at he Pictures and the Men Who
Paint : hem i'll LOndon-Celebrities
Description of the President of the Royal
Academy-Studio of Alma Tademas and
Sir Everett Millais.
Correspon6ence Of the Gazette.

Correspondence of the Gazette.
LONDON, April 5.-Every year, on the last
Sunday in March, all the London fashionable
world spends the afternoon fitting about from
one studio to another, less perhaps to gaze on
the pictures, they will soon have another oP-
portunity of criticising at the academy Private
View, than to pass remarks on each others gar
ments see number of artistic or social celeb
rites and be able to say that that they at least
''did' Show Sunday. On that one
day in the year, every artists hous e
of sightseers. refreshments, tea, coffee and
wine are provided, some hosts even add to the
festival character of the occasion by having a
pianist play slow music as a httlng accompanl-
ment to what their guests have called to see.
No caller is turned away; even those utterly IN
known to the painter are welcomed and shown
whatever there is to be seen. Not
withstanding his late prolonged attack of Rus
sian influenza, Sir Frederick Leighton has more
than usual to show this year.
The president of the royal academy merits
word two of personal description. He IS
reDuted by friends end foes to be the handsomest
man of his age in London 1t is said that when
he was young man Turner ran after him in the
street, saying: Young sir, let me look at you;
you remind me of Apollo, - which, considering
the natural modesty of leighton, must have
been rather embarrassing to say the least of 1t.
Tall of stately presence with regular features
and curly gray hair, Sir Frederick has ge-
NAL expression and singularIy penetrating voice.
It is probably to this last gift that he owes the
times spends hours in his studio. AS is well
known, her royal highness is rather deaf-she
can always hear Sir Frederick Leighton. OF the
three paintings which will represent the presl-
dent this year The Bath of Venus' undoubtedly
stands first. ''The GODDESS of Love stands by
the stem of a sumptuous bath. She is lust in the
act of 1inging off her last garments; the water
at her feet reflects the exquisitely graceful form
and queenly head.
passive maiden sitting Scotch mountain
stream, 1.-THE sweet, sad lady OF the ril. - The
artist says that the idea and delicate, pure col
Oring suggested to him last autumn by the
sight of one of the loveliest and most mysterious
characteristics of Scottish highland scenery.
His third picture 1.-The Tragic Muse, - sits in
. -nIdan chair broodino modify uncsnnilv
on some past terrible episode of future horror
the deep blue sea behind her dashed to frenzy
and the iurid sky is touched here and there with
fiecks Of blood-a powerful and grqesome work.
EVERYTHING in Sir Frederick leighton studio
shows true love for the beautiful, but no I'M
due straining after artistic effects.
A very different man is Sir Everett Millais, A
r. A. It is difficult to recall those noble pre-
sentiments of deep true love. The Huguenots,
the black Brunswicker etc. when we look at
the urbane dapper man of the world lately bios
somed into baronet. Even more it is impossi-
BILE to recognize in the middle-aged, fashionably
attired lady, who receives her husbands guests
on show Sunday the woman who sat for that
splendid and thrlIIlng fireman carrying an
out of the burning house Sir Everett no longer
paints fancy pictures, he is given $4,000, it is
said for every portrait he completes.
Potboilers, an occasional landscape, are all
that now issues from his studio. This wear he
has chosen Byron's lines, THE moon was up,
vet it was not night as his text, and shows US
q lovely landscape, the moon issuing; and a
stag in the distance. 1t win be the first study
of moonlight that has ever been exhibited by Sir
Z. Millais.
The studio, and indeed house of the Alma
Tademas Is a veritable palace of entertainments,
though it must be rather chilly in winter time,
for everything that can be made of such mate
rial is of marble, relieved only by bright hued
Eastern mats and carpets, and old Roman pot
AlrYNaT NoRG 10 a sNf1PT mis-
Dutch By birth, English by adoption, his tastes
lead him in the direction of ancient Rome and
for us the daily life of the Roman
citizen and Athenian, as none other
has been able to do with palette
and brush. His latest work is styled 1.-The
Frigidarium,'' number of fair Roman dam
sells robing and disrobing at the bath. 1t is a
picture of ightness and luxurious ease; need
in with the skill for which Mr.. Tadema is IA
nous. The most remarkable thing in the
NAL painter, is the skeleton of leopard pre-
scented to the artist by some admirer many years
ago. The Zoo is Mr.. Rivieres happy hunt
iRn know him almost as well as thew
do their keepers. Sometimes he has TO wait be-
fore some one cage an hour waiting for the ami
NAL to assume the exact pose necessary for his
picture. Mr.. Briton Rivieres studies are all
done in charcoal and very rapidly. 1t may be
block. GAS for anatomy says Mr.. Riviere,
smiling, ''seme people say-Huxley. for in
stance-that artists should not 60 further than
skin-deep in their anatomy. do not agree
with that view; say the deeper the better.
In Mr.. Thadouss' studio all sorts and condi-
tions of men and womeT jostle each other-in
in bright yellow flowers; Father Andeledy, the
head of the Jesuits. he has keen but not un-
Pope smiles ON Mr. Thado1ss latest see
Mr.. w: T. Stead, the great English journalist:
late editor of the Pail Mall Gazette, portrait
that journal; radiant in white lisse and
pink silk, stands Mrs. Sam Levin, the
wife of the colossally wealthy money
lender a we'll known unit in London life lis,
ten to Mr. Thadeus on his sitters: Yes Mr..
Gladstone is quite the most delightful sitter
in all that is going on, and entertains one with
charming conversation the whole time, and then
he is quiet. never worries when posing. The
holy Fathersi ali, he was very kind, called me
my child. and seemed quite pleased to have his
portrait painted, but he fdgets about too much
to make what call good sitter.''
Mr. Frank Dicksee has completed what will be
perhaps the most important painting in this |
year IS academy. It is entitled ''The Redemp-
all Wagnerites. 1t is, apart from that, strong !
work and full of passion. The youth of Eisenacb |
having willingly borne the yoke OF Verbs. linda /
no forgiveness for his sins till he has gose
through bitter expiration. He is shown falling |
dead by the bier of his true love, Just as the |
bursting forth of the bishops crozier into green
bud proves that he has now forgiveness
Mr. Richmond has a fine show of portraits In |
his studio, charming picture of beautiful |
duchess of Manchester painted when stiIl Iadv /
Vaudeville. Lady Marlborough and other societv |
bellies have also been sitting TO the same artist /
Among the sculpture sent In to the academy /
the most important piece will undoubtedly be /
that sent in BY Mr. G. B.. Lawes, whose ma
zeppa' attracted so much attention last year It i
is q large composition in high relief and conn /
urises no fewer than nine figures. Representing /
the personihcation of the American repubIic
liberty and peace either side.
Abundance floats above, whilst below beside
two aboriginal Indians, Slavery falls, shackIed |
and despairing.
But though Art is long, life is short. or Show
Sunday comes to an end at last Soon an the
pictures will be carefully packed. wheeled of 10
Burlington House, Piccadilly, and ouly hung on
the walls Of the Royal academy. 70 await |
wider and truer verdict than that vouchsafed to |
them by the select few who go to gaze on them |