. John Pettie, , ; . e besieging force, amartial figure in bright demi-suit of plate armour,violently gesticulating while he proposes terms ofsurrender so severe as to take away the breath ofthe lean and gaunt members of the council. Thehorror and despair upon their faces is brilliantlyachieved in paint. In the same year Pettie was atHastings and painted a portrait of a Coastguardon the Lookout, fine in colour and interestingas a record of a costume which has alreadydisappeared. The Flag of Truce, which Pettie sent to theAcademy of 1873, was possibly intended as a sequelto Terms to
. John Pettie, , ; . e besieging force, amartial figure in bright demi-suit of plate armour,violently gesticulating while he proposes terms ofsurrender so severe as to take away the breath ofthe lean and gaunt members of the council. Thehorror and despair upon their faces is brilliantlyachieved in paint. In the same year Pettie was atHastings and painted a portrait of a Coastguardon the Lookout, fine in colour and interestingas a record of a costume which has alreadydisappeared. The Flag of Truce, which Pettie sent to theAcademy of 1873, was possibly intended as a sequelto Terms to the Besieged. From the heavyarched gateway of a beleaguered town the burgo-master advances, accompanied by the sad-eyedbearer of the white flag. The wan face and glassyeyes of ? the latter tell of hunger and privationendured nearly to the utmost. The governor,staunch and resolute, stands erect with a scroll inhis hand. His shrivelled features, and shrunken TO THE FIELDS I CARRIED HER MILKING-PAILS(Size of original, SOi X 44.). ASSOCIATE: 1866-1873 95 form with ill-fitting dress and accoutrements a worldtoo large for it, are finely studied. Women andstarving townsfolk press behind them with tearsand blessings. The whole story is told with sym-pathy, and gains fulness of dramatic force withouta touch of exaggeration. The artistic achievementshows itself not only in the distribution of thefigures and in the skilful treatment of the back-ground, but in the harmonious agreement of brightcolours, red, blue, and yellow, in the dresses of thethree foremost soldiers. A slighter subject of thisyear was Sanctuary, a damsel imploring refugefrom the black-robed nuns of a convent. Here, asin all Petties work, is displayed his talent ofsubordinating all the elements of the picture to itschief purpose and central interest, and it has thefull richness of tone characteristic of all the workproduced at this, perhaps his finest, period. Tothe Fields I carried her Milking Pails, a thirdexhibit of
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