. John Pettie, , ; . ndalive. Yet the workmanship is very reticent; thefluent colour is thinner than usual. The painterseems to have got his effect dun seul jet, to haveseen that it was good, and stayed his hand. Itis a little lyric in paint, going with a lilt likegood song, infectious in its merriment. MasterWilliam Watt is a full-length portrait of a hand-some boy, in green velvet dress, with beautifulpainting in the lace and in the cunning reflectionsof light upon the gilt buttons. A dream ofdelight from the hand of a master, it was aptlydescribed by Sir Walter Besant. Another c
. John Pettie, , ; . ndalive. Yet the workmanship is very reticent; thefluent colour is thinner than usual. The painterseems to have got his effect dun seul jet, to haveseen that it was good, and stayed his hand. Itis a little lyric in paint, going with a lilt likegood song, infectious in its merriment. MasterWilliam Watt is a full-length portrait of a hand-some boy, in green velvet dress, with beautifulpainting in the lace and in the cunning reflectionsof light upon the gilt buttons. A dream ofdelight from the hand of a master, it was aptlydescribed by Sir Walter Besant. Another child-portrait, very fresh in its brilliant colour, donerapidly on two summer afternoons in Arran, isthat of Berta and Martin Hardie. The purity and suavity of warm flesh-tints isnoteworthy in many portraits besides those ofchildren—particularly in a fine profile portrait ofMrs. Ker, in Silvia, in Sweet Seventeen (aportrait of Mrs. Child, a niece of Mrs. Pettie), PORTRAIT OF MARTIN AXD BERTA HARDIE (Size oforiglnol, V2\ x|18i.). PORTRAITS 157 and in The Fayre Ladye. The last-namedwork, which Pettie kept hanging in his studio tillthe day of his death, has a touch of romance inits history. The artist was working one day inhis studio at St. Johns Wood, when a lady,quiet in manner and aristocratic in appearance,was announced, who explained that she wasin great distress and begged for employmentas a model. Pettie was always generous, andhe saw, too, that on this occasion generositywould be something more than its own aside what he had in hand, he fell to atonce upon this portrait of a Fayre Ladye,with the brilliant simplicity of the backgroundand the large picture hat, the light falling gentlyon the golden hair and touching cheeks of peach-like quality with the bloom of life. The trans-parent depth of the tones, and the warm glow ofthe carnations in eye-lids, cheeks, and lips, are finein their achievement. The lady came by appoint-ment for a second sitting. A third an
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