. International studio. REFUCEKS g6 {liy permission of Messrs. I Cm. AfanhaHt ^ Co.) HV WILLIAM , THE SURPRISE BY WILLIAM STRANG, Chosen Pictures at the Grafton Gallery or walking down the room, and always seen as farin the room as within the frame, never standing asif close to a window-pane against the picture glass,or making those absurd attempts to leave theframe behind it, with which latter-day Academicportraiture has familiarised us. But perhaps it was not in portraiture that theexcellence and significance of this exhibition wereto be found, but in the most intimate
. International studio. REFUCEKS g6 {liy permission of Messrs. I Cm. AfanhaHt ^ Co.) HV WILLIAM , THE SURPRISE BY WILLIAM STRANG, Chosen Pictures at the Grafton Gallery or walking down the room, and always seen as farin the room as within the frame, never standing asif close to a window-pane against the picture glass,or making those absurd attempts to leave theframe behind it, with which latter-day Academicportraiture has familiarised us. But perhaps it was not in portraiture that theexcellence and significance of this exhibition wereto be found, but in the most intimate of all arts,such as Mr. Prydes, and Mr. Ricketts, and ; for here we have what seems topromise the greatest things for the future ofimaginative painting—that return to the conceptionof it possessed by the early Italian masters. Thevisions of thought and imagination are fugitiveand changeable, and the brush which follows thefancy, the imagination, must be as free to obey it-—to obey the shapes in which things come to themind—as it is trained to obey the shapes thatpresent themselves in natur
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