The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . d perspective. The grassy slopes of the park, wherethe sweet low rays and long shadows fall across them,are chequered with tender light and shade. In thetrees on the left there is a trace of weakness veryunusual in the artists work; but this may have beenintentional, so that they should not attract the eye fromthe more important distant view. As a whole the picture is a fine example of theEnglish School of landscape painting, and will bearcomparison with those of any other School. SKETCH FOR GRAVESENJ). GRAVESEND. N affect in Li interest is attached
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . d perspective. The grassy slopes of the park, wherethe sweet low rays and long shadows fall across them,are chequered with tender light and shade. In thetrees on the left there is a trace of weakness veryunusual in the artists work; but this may have beenintentional, so that they should not attract the eye fromthe more important distant view. As a whole the picture is a fine example of theEnglish School of landscape painting, and will bearcomparison with those of any other School. SKETCH FOR GRAVESENJ). GRAVESEND. N affect in Li interest is attached to the abovesketch. It is taken from the charcoal-drawing on a large canvas which the artisthad only begun to transfer to another in oils atthe time of his death. The subject is conceivedand designed with deep feeling and skill. A boat isputting off to the emigrant vessel, already spreadingher sails. Sky and river are lit up by the beams ofearly morning, and a soft haze of pure white mist lendsa tender charm to the scene. Through the haze,. gka vesi:r 137 Gravesend appears on the right, Tilbury Fort on theleft. Had Vicat Cole but lived to finish it, it wouldhave been a picture of unusual power and beauty,pervaded by a strange pathos and sympathy withhuman life and feeling. The unfinished sketch remainsas an example of his wonderful powers of compositionand design, and still more of the poetic feeling whichinspired his conceptions from their very birth. Thefarewell of the emigrants in the boat to their nativeland is the painters own farewell to the scenes ofEngland and Englands river which he loved so dearly—his farewell to the sweet and noble art which hadbeen his very life from his boyhood. And a deeplytouching farewell it is to those who loved the man anddelighted in his work, whose hearts are moved by tenderregret alike for the loss of the artist and of themaster-hand that will charm them no more by its faircreations. s
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