The early work of Raphael . en men whose sympathies lay with the drier and more classical forms of art, men whose influence still survives in the workof most Scottish painters whose education was completed in the first halfof the century. In 1850 an appointment was made which changed allthis, and did more than anything else to impress upon Scottish painting thecharacter most of us still associate with the title of the school. RobertScott Lauder was selected for the Mastership of the Trustees the time of his appointment he was forty-seven years of age. Hehad himself been a pupil of t
The early work of Raphael . en men whose sympathies lay with the drier and more classical forms of art, men whose influence still survives in the workof most Scottish painters whose education was completed in the first halfof the century. In 1850 an appointment was made which changed allthis, and did more than anything else to impress upon Scottish painting thecharacter most of us still associate with the title of the school. RobertScott Lauder was selected for the Mastership of the Trustees the time of his appointment he was forty-seven years of age. Hehad himself been a pupil of the academy under Andrew Wilson—whosework shows more than a slight affinity with that of his more famous THE ART OF WILLIAM QUILLER ORCHARDSON n namesake, Richard—and had afterwards studied in London and own style proves that his chief attention abroad had been given tothe Venetians ; that, as soon as he found himself under the sun of Italy,he :had promptly turned his back upon those severer masters who had. Study from the permission of W. O. Orchardson, Esq., ; monopolized earlier generations of Scots. He settled afterwards for atime in London, and there painted a Crucifixion which at least containedone original idea : the figure of Christ was entirely draped in a whitecloth. The picture excited great interest at the time, but where it now 12 THE ART OF WILLIAM QUILLER ORCHARDSON is I do not know. There is a large but weak picture in the ScottishNational Gallery which shows his preoccupation with colour and allowshis faculty for its treatment to be divined. I have seen small things byhim which rise to a very high level indeed. Mr. John Hutchison, thesculptor, has a picture of still life which glows like a gem. Lauder revolutionized the Trustees Academy. He set himself toteach the students how to see. He insisted upon a grasp of the modelas a whole, in all its relations of line and colour. Possibly he carriedthis too far, and may have to bear the
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