Frederick Walker and his works . blished without anytitles, so that by way of identification one has to luake these for ones first and most tentative of the set shows a girl shelling peas in theback-yard of a London house. The artist himself called it, we are told,after the huge butt which is a prominent and unlovely feature of thewhole, Mrs. Colliuss Waterhutt. This plate he took to his friend P. Heseltine, of Queens Gate—the noted collector whose name therehas been occasion to mention more than once already in the course ofthese remarks—and they bit it together. The result was
Frederick Walker and his works . blished without anytitles, so that by way of identification one has to luake these for ones first and most tentative of the set shows a girl shelling peas in theback-yard of a London house. The artist himself called it, we are told,after the huge butt which is a prominent and unlovely feature of thewhole, Mrs. Colliuss Waterhutt. This plate he took to his friend P. Heseltine, of Queens Gate—the noted collector whose name therehas been occasion to mention more than once already in the course ofthese remarks—and they bit it together. The result was not verysuccessful, but it was the etchers first attempt, and he was not thenfamiliar with the small technical difficulties which nothing but experi-ence can overcome. The second in order of date of the set we may guessby its stiffness to be the Little Girl Eating Porridge^ a design more orless in the style of William Hunt. His own portrait, an etching whichwas never carried beyond the head, shows him with hair picturesquely. TS:. FREDERICK IFALKER 69 dishevelled—a typically Bohemian apparition. An unfinished study, moredelicate and reticent than strong, has as its motive an old couple ofprimitive aspect seated in a kitchen—she working apparently at a stock-ing, he with a clay-pipe in his hand, and a beer mug at his side. Thenwe have a preliminary study, principally in dry-point, for the old man inThe Wayfarers. Last, and best bv far, comes The Wayfarers itself, thatsplendid piece of incisive realism to which reference has already beenmade in discussing the picture of the same name. The execution ofthe plate shows the artist very far on the way to high accomplishment asan etcher. For truth and power of suggestion these two figures are atleast as fine as anything of the kind Walker has done, although they maynot be acceptable to those who preferthe milder and less boldly characterized v:5 ^/•j
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