International studio . lNumbers, and will rectify the omission sofar as it is in their power. The director,in presenting the Review of the PrincipalAcquisitions duiing the year 1916, justissued, appeals to the public to help inmaking good the deficiencies in varioussections, and it is to be hoped that thisassistance will be forthcoming to make thecollection of wood-block prints truly repre-sentative of every phase, a a a In his prefatory note to the Report justreferred to. Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith,alluding to the presentations made to theMuseum in memory of those who havefallen in the war, poi
International studio . lNumbers, and will rectify the omission sofar as it is in their power. The director,in presenting the Review of the PrincipalAcquisitions duiing the year 1916, justissued, appeals to the public to help inmaking good the deficiencies in varioussections, and it is to be hoped that thisassistance will be forthcoming to make thecollection of wood-block prints truly repre-sentative of every phase, a a a In his prefatory note to the Report justreferred to. Sir Cecil Harcourt Smith,alluding to the presentations made to theMuseum in memory of those who havefallen in the war, points out that in manycases it would be difficult to find a moreappropriate memorial than a fine work ofart in the national collections. Since thepublication of the Report several gifts ofthis nature have been announced. Notableamong them is that of Sir Frank Short,, , who has presented 160 of hismezzotints, aquatints, and etchings, inmemory of his son. Captain Leslie Short,who died on active service in 1916. ^. PORTRAIT OF A BOY*BY AUGUSTUS E. JOHN(Purchased for the Na-tional Gallery of Vic-toria, Australia} MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN AS POR-TRAIT PAINTER. 0 0 0 ONE good effect of the progress ofphotography has been to clear upour ideas about portrait painting. For atime there was confusion between the twoarts, with excited arguments as to whichwas the truer. The answer is quitesimple. Each is true in its own way, andthe two ways are perfectly distinct. Ifyou want a likeness to the eye, no painterthat ever lived could beat a good photo-graph. If, on the other hand, you wanta likeness to the mind, the best photographis beaten by the most elementary scribbleof a child on a slate. Or, to put it anotherway, the photograph is addressed to theeye as a critic of reality; the paintedportrait is addressed to the eye as a channelof perception. 0000 LXX. No. 379.—May 1920 Portrait painting, in fact, is a branch ofpainting and not a form of mirror that the portrait painter
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