Frederick Walker and his works . so, in the collection of Mr. Somerset Beaumont, a repetitionof the two figures on the terrace—the young girl supporting the agedwoman—this being one of the last works upon which the painter wasengaged. To 1872 belongs also The Escape, which is the working-out in water-colours of a drawing done for Once a Week in 1862. This may be re-garded as the precursor of the unfinished design. The Unknown Land,the two versions of which will be referred to a little later on. In the winter exhibition of the Old Society of 1872-3 appeared TheFishmonger s Shop, which many conn
Frederick Walker and his works . so, in the collection of Mr. Somerset Beaumont, a repetitionof the two figures on the terrace—the young girl supporting the agedwoman—this being one of the last works upon which the painter wasengaged. To 1872 belongs also The Escape, which is the working-out in water-colours of a drawing done for Once a Week in 1862. This may be re-garded as the precursor of the unfinished design. The Unknown Land,the two versions of which will be referred to a little later on. In the winter exhibition of the Old Society of 1872-3 appeared TheFishmonger s Shop, which many connoisseurs have held to be our paintersfinest achievement in water-colour. Daring and splendid in the harmony ofits tints, so finely balanced as to produce that unity of tone most difficultxo compass with contrasting hues of a frank brilliancy, it is nevertheless 6o FREDERICK WALKER more of an amusing, richly-tinted object-study than a picture in the truestsense of the word. The group which is the centre of the The Fishmonger. the bluc-aproned, rosy-checked fishmonger who bends forward acrossthe marble slab as he offers his fish to a gaily dressed damsel in the habitof about 1800, though it is well enough placed in the brilliant ensemble. FREDERICK WALKER 6i lacks vitality and significance. The tour de force lies in the happy com-bination of the bright green woodwork which frames the shop with theblue-green and the red of the sparkling fish, with the indigo blue of thejolly salesmans apron, and the yellow and tawny of the girls pretty, old-fashioned costume, relieved by the coral pink ribbon in her hat. This isundoubtedly a brilliant performance of its kind, a nearer approach to the/TrtLVOrt of the purely technical exercise than anything Walker has pro-duced. Yet it is difficult to understand on what grounds ProfessorHubert Herkomer, , is entitled to speak of it, as he is reported tohave done recently in an address delivered at the opening of the Birming-
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