The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-01
NGLHND IS ABSORBED IN PERSIAN ART AND HP flzCTINFs
Mr.. Preece's Collection
of Persian Art on VieW
Mr. Edgar Herbert Thomas and Mr. j. D. lines Exhibit Paint
ings and Directors of French Gallery in London Show
Works of Modern Dutch School,


! AS for "A Fallen Idol 1t is perfectly
simple. 1t is picture OF young wife
who is confessing something to her middle
aged husband, who is naturally very much
distressed. The fallen idol is, of course
the young wife. and her husband is dsillu-
stoned about her. AS TO what she precisely
has confessed. that has nothing to do with
the picture.
Mr.. Priest was equally explicit when
asked 10 explain the puzzle" OF "Out of
It," which depicts beautiful young wom-
an in evening dress. lying dead in a cop
pice.
My picture" he said. was inspired by
a newspaper report five or six years ago
beautiful girl is supposed 10 leave the
card table after dinner party. She goes
out just as she is. in her evening gown.
without a cloak or hat. ~ search party is
organized. but the body is discovered, so
the report says. by a village urchin's dog"
AS an artistic show the ROYAL Academy
may have It's merits; viewed from the mod.
ical and anatomical standpoint. II appears
to be something of chamber of horrors.
at least, this was the unfortunate effect
produced upon a physician and a tailor
who made the tour of the galleries In
company with an artist, whose hair liter
ally stood on end at their criticisms
For them the beauty OF the exhibition
was utterly spoiled by the "ghastly
enormities" they saw perpetrated from
their own professional point of view.
The physician was the first to utter his
shocked disapproval
The whole of this exhibition" he sud
denly burst forth. is suffering very badly
from either Addison's disease or acute
anaemia. can see the symptoms in nearly
very case There Is perfect epidemic
H. The chief and most noticeable
ymptom of Addison's disease is a dark
'rown coloring Of the skin, which gives II
sort of channels leather effect. Look on
MS portrait. and on this Both are ex-
tremely painful cases, and feel very sorry
for them. I can only trust that they are
in safe medical hands"
The two worst cases which the nhvsico >,
could find Of Addisons disease were Sir
charles Holroyd's Portrait of a Lady.
and Mr.. George f. Birds "a Portrait %
and the worst case of anaemia was at Am
HAIR Sick of Shadows by Mr.. Sidney r
pro. In these anaemic cases the phy-
sician said that the artist had PAINTED his
subjects without a shade of color in their
checks.
Another marked feature find" he
said. is that several women are suffer-
ing from acute congestion. They have
brigd.t red faces. as though they were
being choked. I feel quite sorry for
them.''
The tailor felt himself deeply immersed,
In gloom from the moment he entered
burlington House. He found 1t an almost
entirely buttonholeless academy. Portrait
after portrait provides buttons, but never
buttonhole. Solomon j. Solomon James
Quinn. Frank Dicksee. Sir ]. e. Poynter
Arthur s. Cope, Arthur Hacker, Stanhope
FORBES. Sir II. Won Herkomer and Georpe
Harcourt are among the most emn.n,
portrait painters who do not provide one
OF their subjects with buttonhole to their
coats.
one OF the first shocks to the tailor was
from the portrait of Mr.. Jonman Mosley,
c. B.. by no less giant than Mr.. Solo.
J mon j. Solomon. r. a.
II u.s. said the tailor, more in sorrow
man In anger. IAN absolutely shastly at
tempt at collar and lapel. The collar
LOOKS as though something had been Bit.
zen out OF it." Another picture which
came in for biting criticism was Mr.. Wal.
Ter w. Onless' portrait Of Mr.. II. HAYES.
Newngton. 1T is fearful a;,c,nn, 81,
eoa'' III Is nothing but q desperate
smudse."