International studio . eir fellowsthat they cannot be re-placed or that the workthey have laid downcannot be taken up andcarried forward by someone else. Art never dies,and it is only rarely thatan exponent of one of itsmany branches achieves aposition in which he findsno other man able tocontest his supremacy. But it happens occasion-ally that a particular artistthrough some special ten-dencies of temperament, orby an unusual developmentof his powers of expres-sion, makes a reputationI .XI I. No. 245.—July 1917 that is entirely his own, and gathers round hima body of sympathizers to whom his
International studio . eir fellowsthat they cannot be re-placed or that the workthey have laid downcannot be taken up andcarried forward by someone else. Art never dies,and it is only rarely thatan exponent of one of itsmany branches achieves aposition in which he findsno other man able tocontest his supremacy. But it happens occasion-ally that a particular artistthrough some special ten-dencies of temperament, orby an unusual developmentof his powers of expres-sion, makes a reputationI .XI I. No. 245.—July 1917 that is entirely his own, and gathers round hima body of sympathizers to whom his art makesan irresistible appeal. Such a one has certainlya place to himself, and his death does leave agap into which no other man can step. It ishis personality that earns him the appreciationhe enjoys, his exposition of his own mind andhis own sentiment, not his fidelity to the dogmasof some recognized and popular school. Hestands alone and he succeeds—or sometimesfails—because he is entirely himself. Naturally. THE LATE MR. J. W. WATERHOUSE, , IN HIS STUDIO [Photograph by Messrs. Elliot and Fry) The late J. IV. Waterhouse., it is unlikely that there should be anotherworkei in art with just the same habit ofthought and rangi s, and it is natural thai when death takes an artist so individualhis disappearance should be felt as a blow torwhich there i- no consolation. That is wh\ the recent death of Mr. J. i- so sincerely to be grieved is tii yielding to convention to say of himthat In- leaves no successor or that there i- noother artist who<a!i tit into hisplace. Nor i- it:!. to pajinsincere tribute-tei hi- memory andto write exagger-ated complimentson his position in the alt WOrld so as to keep upthe customaryobituary would be diffi-cult to rank himtoo high as apainter, with ami—ion which hehad indisputablytlic power to fulfil,and as a man witha temperamentwhich gave a verymarked characterand quality to thewhole of his pro-
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