. A wanderer in London. Turners house in Cheyne Walk,where I had been thinking of the old mans last days andhis passionate rapture in the rising of the sun over theriver. Most of these pictures embody his attempts totranslate some of that rapture into paint — once again tocelebrate the orb whose light to him was life, religion, all. To the Tate Gallery one must go also for a full know-ledge of the work of George Frederick Watts, our EnglishTitian: for he is represented there by no fewer thantwenty-seven pictures — among them such favourites as Love and Death and Love and Life — which rangein s
. A wanderer in London. Turners house in Cheyne Walk,where I had been thinking of the old mans last days andhis passionate rapture in the rising of the sun over theriver. Most of these pictures embody his attempts totranslate some of that rapture into paint — once again tocelebrate the orb whose light to him was life, religion, all. To the Tate Gallery one must go also for a full know-ledge of the work of George Frederick Watts, our EnglishTitian: for he is represented there by no fewer thantwenty-seven pictures — among them such favourites as Love and Death and Love and Life — which rangein subject and treatment from the Minotaur (repro-duced on the opposite page), so sinister amid such beauty,to the vast Dray Horses. Millais also may be studiedhere almost at best, for here are his Ophelia andhis Vale of Rest; and here also is Burne-Jones KingCophetua and the Beggar in all its wistful lovehness. Among the Chantrey pictures I would name particularlyMr. Orchardsons Napoleon on the Bellerophon, I III: MINOIAI u AKTKK IMi: riiTLKK UV (i. 1:. WATTS IN THE TAI K liMIIKV I \ LAMBETH PALACE 275 Arnesby Browns Morning, Mr. Shannons FlowerGirl and Mr. Adrian Stokes Autumn in the Moun-tains. Vicat Coles Pool of London, though there istoo much paint in the atmosphere, is a fine thing; and noone should miss among the sculpture the mischief andgrace of Mr. Onslow Fords Folly. And if the missionof art is to stimulate fife at its best, or carry ones thoughtsto fife at its best, why, there is a picture at the TateGallery which perhaps is the finest art of all, for it paintsthe bravest life bravely. And that is the Valparaisoby Thomas Somerscales, a Chantrey purchase, in which afour-master, with every sail set and shining in the sun,ploughs her glorious way through a dark blue sea of in-describable buoyancy and brininess. This is the kind ofpicture that, were I wealthy enough, I would keep a roomfor in any house I owned, however I might collect Mastersin the others.
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