The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . THE LOCK. sketch there is a sentiment which he rarely fails toconvey. No figure is introduced, but the sense of thepresence of traces of life and its interests adds a hiddenpathos to the restfnl scene. It was this sense which gave even such ugly thingsas the eel-bucks sufficient importance in his eyes tomake them worthy of representation. Anyhow, theyform part of the surroundings of life on the river, inall of which he took a keen interest. THE THAMES. 15. at the Royal Academy banquet only three weeks afterthe artists death— English landscape-paintin
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . THE LOCK. sketch there is a sentiment which he rarely fails toconvey. No figure is introduced, but the sense of thepresence of traces of life and its interests adds a hiddenpathos to the restfnl scene. It was this sense which gave even such ugly thingsas the eel-bucks sufficient importance in his eyes tomake them worthy of representation. Anyhow, theyform part of the surroundings of life on the river, inall of which he took a keen interest. THE THAMES. 15. at the Royal Academy banquet only three weeks afterthe artists death— English landscape-painting has lost in Vicat Coleone of its most conspicuous names, Typically Englishwere the scenes on which he loved to dwell—the coppice,the glade, the rolling pasture fading from green to distantblue, summer slumbering on brown-tipped corn. But,most of all, our English Thames had won his heart andoccupied his hands. He had followed its stream withfaithful brush throughout its length—from where its first 16 VI CAT COLES LIFE AND WORKS. sweet gurgle is heard within the grass, to where, faraway, salt and sullied, it rocks on turbid tides thecarriers of the commerce of the world. On this speech a correspondent of the St. James s(razette remarks— Sir Frederic Leightons tribute to the memory ofVicat Cole was not only poetic in feeling, but perhapseven more so in form than he himself supposed. It onlywanted a touch or two of the lightest kind to turn itinto mellifluous blank verse, and this I ve
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