International studio . no difference;whilst truly marvellous skill isshown in the way in which thelight is managed, blending together summer landscape every detail of the touching incident ot homelife. Of the other two works, the Children of the Sea,showing. a group of little ones at play on theseashore, is an illustration of another side ofits authors temperament, yet it too, in spite of thehumour it displays, produces a melancholy im-pression and is evidently the work of one whotakes a grave if not exactly a gloomy view of exist-ence. In the Home-coming, too, melancholy is thedominant note,
International studio . no difference;whilst truly marvellous skill isshown in the way in which thelight is managed, blending together summer landscape every detail of the touching incident ot homelife. Of the other two works, the Children of the Sea,showing. a group of little ones at play on theseashore, is an illustration of another side ofits authors temperament, yet it too, in spite of thehumour it displays, produces a melancholy im-pression and is evidently the work of one whotakes a grave if not exactly a gloomy view of exist-ence. In the Home-coming, too, melancholy is thedominant note, for it represents old age, the oldage of a lonely, weary woman who knows what it isto want the bare necessities of life, yet has nowreached the stage when she has ceased to wish foranything. It is a most characteristic specimen ofthe masters mature period, in which he reached thevery zenith of his power of expressing spiritualtruth. In the gloomy grey twilight of the dreary,desolate sand-dunes a tall, bony woman, every. BY WILLIAM MARIS The van Randwijk Co/Ieciion
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