Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . bronze bas-relief in St. Giles Cathedral Church,Edinburgh, and Count Pieri Nerlis portrait in oil paintedin 1893 in Samoa, of which there are two versions, eachclaiming to be the original, one belonging to the ScottishNational Gallery, and the other at Swanston. Sir GrahamBalfour thinks the St. Giles bas-relief the most satisfactoryof the portraits of Stevenson. Admirable as a workof art, I share the dislike to it frequently expressed byStevensons mother and wife, and by Cummy, all of whomthought it suggested, quite
Robert Louis Stevenson; some personal recollections by the late Lord Guthrie . bronze bas-relief in St. Giles Cathedral Church,Edinburgh, and Count Pieri Nerlis portrait in oil paintedin 1893 in Samoa, of which there are two versions, eachclaiming to be the original, one belonging to the ScottishNational Gallery, and the other at Swanston. Sir GrahamBalfour thinks the St. Giles bas-relief the most satisfactoryof the portraits of Stevenson. Admirable as a workof art, I share the dislike to it frequently expressed byStevensons mother and wife, and by Cummy, all of whomthought it suggested, quite untruly, the chronic, bedriddeninvalid, an individual with whom none of us ever for amoment associated him. Nerlis somewhat truculent repre-sentation was condemned by mother, wife, and nurse. L. Stevenson sent me an acute criticism of it: I donot like Nerlis portrait. If he had only been willing justto paint Louis, we might have had something worth he would insist on painting the author of Jekyll andHyde! Of Lloyd Osbournes snapshot, intense and brooding,. E. L. S. AT 60. his step-iportrait : From a snapshot taken in 1885 by his step-son, Lloyd Sidney Colvin says of this portrait: Happy accidents oflighting, attitude, and expression more than make up for technicalimperfections.
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