. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. itherto experienced ; andfor the rest of his life he wandered far and wide,painting first in one place, then in another, butalways keeping an open mind receptive directly tothe impressions of the locality in which he hadtemporarily settled. Perhaps his position as a member of the Britishschool gains in interest from the fact that almostthe whole of his work was done within the BritishIsles. He made a few excursions abroad, but thenumber of paintings which resulted from theseexcursions was too small to count much in thereco
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. itherto experienced ; andfor the rest of his life he wandered far and wide,painting first in one place, then in another, butalways keeping an open mind receptive directly tothe impressions of the locality in which he hadtemporarily settled. Perhaps his position as a member of the Britishschool gains in interest from the fact that almostthe whole of his work was done within the BritishIsles. He made a few excursions abroad, but thenumber of paintings which resulted from theseexcursions was too small to count much in therecord of his achievement. It is as a Britishpainter of British scenery that he really ranks, andhis work has a value, apart from its executivemerits, because it helps greatly to bring up to datethe tradition which was founded in this country acentury or more ago by masters who were asindependent as he was himself in studying andrecording the beauties of their native land. Tospeak of him as the successor of Constable wouldnot be without justification, not because he con-. •THE HARWICH STEAMER288 ( The property of IVilliam Iceton, Esq. ) BV J. BUXTON KNIGHT John Buxton Knight
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