New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-05
THE CHRONICLE OF ARTS.
EXHIBITIONS AND OTHER TOPICS.

ENGLISH ANIMAL PAISTING-MR. NErTLEsHIP's
| P,srr1a OF VILE BEASTS AND BIRDs-soME
| WATER coIoRs-MR. BURSEJoNEs AND
| HIS LOST pICrURE-A MEMORIAL
! FOUNTAIN IN LONDON
! MI, r ,,,,,;,,op at the Academy OF Design
cores 20 an e,d in less than fortnight IL Is not
alone the principal show now open but III soi'e re-
snects 10 unlikely to be equalled by any o'her
during the entire winter. The beauty an" ''
of the antique terra-cottas, porcea'hs ar, "Vu'
cannot be too frequently commences 20 ,"e pun
and our first and last word in this preliminary anu
| M, o,,or,dod norton OF the season Is reitera-
tion nj tho oo,nion that no one should MISS seeihs
| the collection Next Thursday an exhibition Oh PIC
| lures may be expected to open at 'he ono' i1e.
| Club the first In a monthly series WHICH '"'s :"
| be delightful If it is anything IKE ,"o'e s'u -
the past by the club The first monthly meeting Vi
| ,ho cro,,or C,rh has been held. IL brought fortn
not pictures but bindings which VIII be access'p'e
| to the public between 10 a. III ana ';'o p III s'ey
day until the 18th. Visitors presenting .,u' "
| members will be admitted. 1t Ii annouhceu ny 'e
| Ncw-York Water Color Club that WORKS -, we
| fourth annual exhibition must be delivered AT 'he
,h,, 90 entrance of the American Fine Arts
| Sociotvs Ruilding on Saturday and MONDAY NO
| yernber II and 10. The exhibition VIII open NJ
| yombor % and close December s. The Sherborn ana
| Zorn exhibition at the Keppel gallery VIII open To-
! morrow.
| II 10 curious TO watch the development OF natu-
| ralism among English painters. They are ho', 10
a school, in sympathy with the movement 10 wiz"
| their own Constable contributed sucn ''''iei'e
| imno,uo Tbev studv nature industrously and give
| I'm their landscapes particularly version OF her
that Is often veracious. but 1t Is rarely ina. 'e'
| transfer her energy, as 1t were 10 canvas. ''
sometimes breathes in their pctures she Is seioi',
| dramatic or mretuous there This fact Is hoticeu
/ 49,, ytttflin M
whose talents were hardly more thah respec'aoe,
was totally without nervous force In his ART anu
| has yet been a tradition In England ior years
| His successor In public estimation to-uay 10 p''o'
| Riviere, who has trife more Ntah'y' ou' 10
| still cold still kind of subimated mediocrty
| Only two contemporary Englishmen nave ura""
| animals we'll j. NJ Swan and j. T. NettIeship
| The former has been known here for several years
in various oil paintings and water coiors Vi "o'"
| and tigers. He is a brilliant artist perhaps 'he
| finest Of animal painters since Barge. vi MI
| NettIeships calibre Americans are for the hrst
time given an opportunity to Judge by an exhibition
| OF pastels at the Wunderlch gallery. They are
presented as having been studied from the re' ana
| the best testimony to their merit Is that they
| convey an impression as Of sucn an Origin IL"
| stanly Mr. Nettlcship is uneven. In No. L, heru
| of Wapiti Deer" and No. 30, Caribou stag MS
contours are inHexibe the touch Is hard. There ID
| O possibility however that the defects in these
drawings may have sprung from comparative UNI
| familiarity with the antlered tribe or iuKewarm
| admiration for It, In his studies OF biacK pears'
for example, he Is astonishingy faithful ana cieVer
In all of these he is strong as to texture ana tohe
| and in one No. g. "Crzzy Bear Travelling, ne
has caught the accent of powerful, oncoming move
ment, and caught 1t supremacy well. LOOK at the
| foreshortening of the unwiedy bear In No. l, ana
| at the furry quality which he obtains in all his
| studies Of ursine models. They show the closest
| study and a genuine faculty for expression. With
the anatomy and characteristics of the great cats
| Of the forest Mr. Nettleship shows equal fami-
! arity, equal power in handling them, but shade
| less charm. There IS in his pictures OF IONS
| tigers jaguars and panthers just as much science
perhaps just as much feeling. as in his bear pict-
| ures but they are not spontaneous nor so
| finished as the latter This. though 1t VIII De
| perceived. is a criticism having to do with relative
| degrees of merit. Litheness, elasticity, reserve
| power and the strange quivering motion or the
| feline race are expressed with abundant skill In
| pictures Of lions such Nos. Z. II and q. and
| in studies of tigers like No. 2, one OF the best
| color arrangements Mr.. Nettleship has produced
This artist Is not original colorist, but ne mas
| taste is simple and even rich in some OF his
| pictures Din the tiger study just mentioned, 1or
| instance), and, what is perhaps Of most import
| ance handles his difficult medium with mastery
Pastel is difficult to manage, difficult, that Is, TO
| get really solid effects with, and the deep musical
| vibrations which are most to be desired usea
sometimes with great facility and brio. 1t appears
| emineny, and so it is, but 1t Is also capable Oh
| Welding quality akin to that of oil painting il
| the artist is capable. Mr.. Nettleship is such an
| artist. He has delicasy when necessary tsee NOS
| g. SO and 25 picturesque bird sketches), but ne
| more often works with vgor and breadth lie Is
| a draughtsman whom 1t is pleasant to know
The carnivorae have movements and color, outlines
| and modulations OF form, which are only little
| less interesting than those Of the human body.
| Hardly any one ever paints them ably and Mr..
Ncttleshp is of the few who have arrived
At the Knoedler Gallery there fifteen or
| twenty water colors of Nuremberg and Rouen By
| Mr. James Knsella. He has treated with tolerabe
adequacy a number of architectural and street sub
| iects whose pcturesqueness has attracted him and
will attract others in his sketches He has frank,
/ fluent manner color that might be purer. but Is
ct least bright and plausible and, while his draw
| ing lacks crspness in details, like those of Gothic
tracery there is snap In the general effect Of
| his work. There is fine example of the
| beauty to be extracted from water color exhibited
| in this gallery, picture OF staircase at the VIVA
! dEste by Martin Rico. The opportunity was
rare one tie great villa at Tivoli being one of the
very ovelicst In all Italy and Rico rose to 1t wor-
| thny. At his best Rico is a really great master
| of water-color painting. He has exquisite lghtness
combined with exquisite sureness of touch, MS
| color sense Is refined, and in sentiment he is an
! Italian OF tho Italians. though he was born IN
| Madrid All the best qualities of his art are typi-
| fed in the water color at knoedlers. racing H.
as though to show how nfelictous he can be when
| Ne leaves his accustomed ground, is sketch he
| made at Nuremberg. 1t is we'll done, OF course,
but the happy touch of the Tivoli picture is in this
not to be discovered
| The picture by Mr.. Burne-Jones. Love Among
| the Ruins of which the destruction was an
| nonccd by cable a few weeks since, is not, after
all to evanish utterly. 1t will leave an echo OF Its
frail and hectic beauty in the shape of replica.
| ha cd hat
| ruined through the stupidity of photographer in
| whose hands it had been placed for reproduction.
| He supposed it an oil picture-it was executed In
| water color-and In the course of his preparations