New-York tribune., 1907-06-23

collections. The portraits include a Reynolds.
Romney, a Lawrence g. Raeburn and two
Hoppners. The Reynolds Is Mary, Countess or
Cardigan, afterward Duchess OF Montagu. a
great lady painted with distinction in charming
draperies OF blue and gray. dignifed in pose
and vivid in flesh tints The Romney Is Will
lam Petrie. Governor of Prince Of Wales Island.
with book In hand and handsome, manly face
above the dark coat. 1t Is as fresh In color as
though it had been painted yesterday, and is q
fine example OF the painters art of imparting
charm to portraiture. The Lawrence is Mrs
Michel. IN black gown and hat. with waving
feathers, with bare arms and shapely neck, and
q face brimrning with vitality-a stately and
impressive portrait The Raeburn is beauti-
full child portrait-Master John Campbell. OF
Saddell-panted with simplicity and grace. The
more brilliant Hoppner is a full length portrait
of Mrs. Denison. the mother OF a bishop and a
speaker OF the House Of Commons. Tall and
graceful. with dark hair and eyes to match
her black dress, she Is commanding ngure IN
the open air with fine background. her robes
being managed with unwonted skill. even for
a painter conspicuous for richness OF color IN
costumes. The second Hoppner is white-robed
Miss Grinstone with bare arms and neck and
q string OF dull red coral beads.
The best landscape In this group OF fifty pict-
ures is a Gainsborough. which has recently been
purchased in the West of England It is a pas
toral scene with rocky landscape and trees as
uxurlant in foliage as can be seen anywhere IN
England during this moist. belated spring; and a
peasant Is chatting idly with a mikmaid and a
cowherd, and three cows are on the edge OF a
pool. It is a characteristics work with every de-
tail OF composition in perfect balance. There
dozen Constables nearly all sketches. but
fine in color. There are several Crones. among
them "Harling Gate" and moonlit scene, with
windmill and water IN steel gray light and cot
tages in masses OF dark; and there are two fine
! Boningtons-a Normandy coast scene and q
French landscape with old mill and ferryboat
Landseers seldom seen IN salesrooms. and
here is good one. "a Challenge" with the timid
and suspicious kinds showing every sign OF
alarm and broad landscape full OF atmosphere.
The Morlands numerous and varied. the most
brilliant one being sparkling landscape with
gypsies. There is a group of Starks East
Anglian landscapes. the best being Near
Cromer." fine IN atmosphere that It may
easily be taken for a Crome; there is one OF
Mdller's market scenes. and there are examples
OF Wilson, David Cox. Stanfeld. Nasmyth.
Chambers, Linneu and Vincent. with an early
and excellent cattle piece by Cooper. Exhibi-
tions OF this class unusual at this time OF
year, and American visitors ought 70 make an
effort TO this one.
Whenever anything historic comes into market
in England through the owners inability or re-
luctance to maintain it for public benefit there
will be vague but serviceable rumors that the
graspng Americans are after II. Why they
should want TO capture and remove ruins ike
Tintern Stonehenge and Glastonbury when 1t
OF a motor drive with the characteristic back
ground OF English landscape, is inexplicable. but
the dread Of American conquest always is con-
jured with when hallowed ground with storied
associations Is to be disposed OF by any one who
does not wish TO remain the unrewarded Gus
todIan OF national traditions. For long time
American ruin grabbers have been suspected OF
plotting against the stones which mark the fab
ulous site of the first British church founded by
Joseph Of Arimathea, and the poetic isle OF Ava
lon where King Arthur and Queen Guinevere
were buried and there have been appeals for
national purchase in defence OF golden link
binding the Established Church with primitive
Christianity. Even at the last moment. when
the six and thirty acres with mansion and ruined
monastery and church. We're auctioned off, the
American intruders were reported 10 be in the
background with an invincible determination to
possess the remnant OF the famous abbey
These Yankee Vaccinations were thwarted by
Mr. Ernest Jardine. OF Nottingham. the Conser-
vative candidate for the eastern division OF
Somerset. He earned the gratitude OF all the
electors of the division by purchasing the estate
for 10000 and preventing the spoliation OF his
torc ground by the terribly pushful Americans
who never will be satisfied until they buy up the
tight little island and make II their own!
i. n. F.