The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-18
LOAN EXHIBITION
FOR ARTISTS FUND
GainsborOugh and Turner
Paintings on View at
knOedler's.
ARE SPEAKING PORTRAITS
Great Variety Of Pose and
Treatment in Works of
the Masters.

\ second great loan exhibition Tor the
Artists Fund and Artists Aid Society
has been arranged, and this time the
knordler Company Is the generous agent
and Turner and GainsborOugh are the
masters represented. There are twenty
eight important large works and thirty
smaller drawings by Gainsborough and
by Turner there are ten examples.
True to the title of 'impressionist." the
ioomful Of Gainsboroughs exhibits a con-
SANITY changing point of view, and al
though most Of them are OF ladies' and OF
the half length size for which the painter
charged 40 guineas in the early Bath days
Of his career the greatest possible variety
Of pose and treatment Is to be found in
them.
whether 1t he the fascination OF the
msrvollously impressive head dresses and
extravagant use of laces, pearls and dam
ask. We cannot precisely define, but we
VOW that all Of these ladies look to us
mnnstrously handsome. although some OF
the experts upon feminine beauty who
wed in that day. notably the frivolous
Horace Walpoe, found some of them only
pretty" io even 80 patronised Mrs. Hor-
tou In this exhibition as pretty rather
than handsome and had more the air OF a
woman of pleasure than of a lady of quail
ry. though she was well made. was grace
ful and unexceptional In her conduct and
langulshing eyes which she could animate
20 enchantment II she pleased. and her
cnquetry was so active and varied and yet
So habitual that 1t was difficult to resist
Il. She danced divinely and had great
deal Of wit. but OF the satiric kind; and
az she had haughtiness before her rise. no
wonder she claimed all the observances
due to her rank after she became Duchess
Of Cumberland"
There is a look Of such extreme alert
ness in the Gainsborough port trait, the
head is poised so archly upon the long neck
and the eyes sparkle so Nivaciously that
it is easy to believe in the Satire Wit
OF the lady.
Others with wit.
The Duchess. however. did not have a
monopoly OF the wit OF that extremely
witty age. as a glance around the gal
Icry will testify. The lion. Mrs. Gra-
ham is not only charmngly pretty but
capable. YOU can see II In the lips, OF
saving the thing Satire and of holding
her own in company with Mrs. Can
dour. Sir Benjamin Backbitc and Lady
reazle Mrs. Kinloch' is even prettier
than Mrs. Graham. but II can be seen
hor Wit is of the less deadly order She
simply brims with good nature and fun.
Her eyes swim in mirth not unlike those
owned by Miss Billie Burke. SO much
admired by the New Workers. OF the pres
r..
was himself capable of witty remark.
II can he seen that II is with the utmost
difficulty that the lovely sitter suppresses
the broad grin his sally would provoke.
Among the other great swells and celeb
titles OF the period here painted are
Major Johnston of Hawleys Dragons.
who was considered such handsome and
fashinoable beau by the fair sex that
Gainsborough requested permission to do
the portrait in order to bring himself
INTO vogue as = fashionable painter Lord
Darnley. Viscount Hampden. David Gar
rick. capt. John Rragge and the artist
brother, John Gainsborough
This last is very different Gains
borough from any of the others and AS
the sitter is seen studied from the profile
and in a difficult light it was probably
undertaken by the painter as an expert
ment in technique. All the problems
involved, however, were solved in mastery
fashion. and the drawing and fresh color
are in fine art. This brother John was
the eldest OF the Gainsborough family
and was known as Scheming Jack, from
his propensity for inventions. One of his
most famous exploits was the building OF
dying machine, which let him drop into
ditch when he attempted To fly from the
roof of house.
Good Idea Of Turner'S style.
The Turner's are but ten IN number
hat the individual who knows nothing OF
his master. II there he such an individ
nal, can here gain n perfect idea Of thu
much discussed and much admired style
There is the~<,Pilot Boat in the earl,
manner. with great realism of the waves
iu which no subtlety Of line IN lost Al
enormous and highly colored Venice, thu
Golfers" and the "Wreckers," In thu
Turner manner that has the widest audi
cnce and finally the Rockets and Blu
.x.,l,A r,,th Nt.ra ha0 1,aAs
Heplaccd by the fantasies of dreams.
Even In the "Coliers'' the light OF tn
moon is more brilliant than daylight II
most pictures. and one wonders at tn
necessity of the Golfers for torches. al
'bough 1t il true that the vessels they ar
roaling, with their smoke. are making
ttle night of their own in their corne
~ the picture One must. however, con
roIo things to artists, and this question
49, 'h, moonlight may be easily conceded
to Turner especially as he puts plenty
IN" PAINTING into this work The inter
play of orange and red lights and refec
tons upon the Golfers s wildly imagined
aud the mrrorlike surface OF tho Rive
TYNE and the lofty. serene sky that float
SO far above are typically Turneresque.
The "Rembrandt's Daughter Reading
owe Letter. Is unlike any OF the turner
% the National Gallery. 1t is most In
rorcstlngly composed and the colors, espe
rrrh. 1t IL not IN the least though in tn
manner of Rembrandt, but In Turner
own. II is SO unusual and surprising
phase Of his work that It Is probable tina
:, will be- more closely scanned than an
o'0rr picture in the show.
Catalogue Well Prepared.
Tine catalogue has been prepared VII
unusual care and there is much D2pf'
,umcnt in It regarding the two "
aud their works, As our own Acad&v
Woathcring as best It can storm " r
utoa,hcs for various reflections or sund'
works of art. it may be interesting
Quote two episodes in the history or u
l;oyal Academy of a like character.
I'm 1888 Gainsborough sent to the Roy
Nrtdrrny twenty-siX canvases, but new
asain exhibited there while he lived. III
Glowing year he sent the great group
George HIS daughters, and knowing IN
much of its charm depended upon its su
tle,ies of tone and handling, he request'
tpat an exception to the rule--that no n
l'agth should be allowed upon the line