The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . knowledge gives. The sky forebodesrain, as the haymakers see, and they are hurrying toget in their crop before it comes. The tranquillity onthe right of the picture is in marked contrast withthe stir on the left. Heedless of the coming rain, theshepherd-lad pursues his fishing. The restful attitudesof the sheep, the dainty still-life of the foreground,and, above all, the delicious reach of the unruffledThame, with its sleeping reflections, bring out withgreat force by their stillness the effect of the rushing G 42 VI CAT COLES LIFE AND WORKS. waters
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . knowledge gives. The sky forebodesrain, as the haymakers see, and they are hurrying toget in their crop before it comes. The tranquillity onthe right of the picture is in marked contrast withthe stir on the left. Heedless of the coming rain, theshepherd-lad pursues his fishing. The restful attitudesof the sheep, the dainty still-life of the foreground,and, above all, the delicious reach of the unruffledThame, with its sleeping reflections, bring out withgreat force by their stillness the effect of the rushing G 42 VI CAT COLES LIFE AND WORKS. waters below. The painting of the latter is anadmirable study of a surface current sweeping onwardswith its eddies and whorls, and of the confused inter-mingling of two streams. A grey picture, such asthis is, loses far less in the reproduction than onewarmer in tone. The plate, in this instance, givesa very good impression of the effect of the painting,and the study of its details will reveal many furtherbeauties which should not be passed STUDY OF A MOWER. ,
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