. John Pettie, , ; . uthors delight in it found expression in a pleasingway. The dedication of 2Vie World ivent very wellthen, published in 1887, reads as follows: To JohnPettie, , I dedicate this book, in memory ofcertain pleasant hours passed in Fitzjohns Avenuein November, 1886, of which the frontispiece is theoutcome, and an acknowledgment of the patienceand skill of the Artist. The compliment wasreturned a year or two later, when Pettie adopted The World went very well then as the apt titlefor one of his most charming pictures. The musical circle into which he was in-trodu
. John Pettie, , ; . uthors delight in it found expression in a pleasingway. The dedication of 2Vie World ivent very wellthen, published in 1887, reads as follows: To JohnPettie, , I dedicate this book, in memory ofcertain pleasant hours passed in Fitzjohns Avenuein November, 1886, of which the frontispiece is theoutcome, and an acknowledgment of the patienceand skill of the Artist. The compliment wasreturned a year or two later, when Pettie adopted The World went very well then as the apt titlefor one of his most charming pictures. The musical circle into which he was in-troduced through his son-in-law, Hamish MacCunn,accounted for such portraits as those of Sir AugustManns, O. Fischer Sobell, Edmonstoune Duncan,Benoit Hollander, A. Schulz Curtius, EdmundBechstein, Andrew Black, Max Lindlar, and Church is represented by powerful portraits ofclergymen of various denominations, among themthe Rev. B. Ullathorne, , , Bishop of PORTRAIT OF MISS BESSIE WATT (SizK of nnginal, 151 x 13.). PORTRAITS 155 Birmingham (Pettie caused some embarrassmentby a keen desire to gain colour by putting hissitter in a cardinals robes), the Rev. R. , Dr. W. Boyd, Dr. Monro Gibson(whom the artist sat under for many years inSt. Johns Wood Presbyterian Church), and Dykes, the late Principal of WestminsterCollege, Cambridge. Representing the stage isa brilliant portrait of Sir Charles Wyndham, inhis character of David Garrick at the momentof recognising Ada— If I had but known. Itis not only a noble portrait, but a magnificentpiece of characterisation, summing up and seizingall the intensity of the actors emotion at the mostdramatic moment of the play. It required a greatactor so to express, almost in silence, by the lookof a moment, that world of sorrow and regret; itwas a great painter who could catch and throwupon his canvas that instant made eternity. His portraits of old age and of youth display hiscolour instinct at its highest.
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