International studio (1897) (14590861818)

Identifier: internationalstu46newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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TION OF OLD MASTERS Inspirkd with a desire to show asubstantial appreciation of the geniusof Charles Dickens, a group of noted English col-lectors have sent to this countrj- a loan exhibitionof paintings by famous masters, and in doing thisthey have not only placed themselves on record asha\-ing taken part in a great and graceful tributeto an immortal countryman, but have incidentallyfurnished an opportunity for Americans to share,to a certain extent, in this tribute. Furthermore,an occasion is offered for the \iew and study of anexceptionally interesting collection of splendidpaintings, which, coming from pri\ate galleries,could not, like the pictures in museums, haverewarded a journey overseas. ilr. J. T. Herijert Baily, the editor of TheConitoissciir, took charge of the collection of thepaintings, together with their transatlantic ship-ment and their exhibition in Xew York at the gal-leries which Messrs. White-.Mlom & Co. courte-ouslv oflVrcd for the (icrasion. The secretary of
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Ltn:k:. John Ur:-:. E-;. PORTRAIT OF CAPTAIN CHARLES SALTOKSTALL the Dickens Centenarj- Committee, Mr. BecklesWilson, may be quoted as to the idea underlyingthe exhibition as follows: It is, then, in the nameof this great artist, this humorist, this great socialreformer (Dickens) that the present exhibition isinaugurated—works of old masters in one of thesister arts to literature, in which Charles Dickenswill always be a distinguished and a belovedfigure. The paintings, which were gathered together inthe mar\elously short time of one month, wereselected with a \uew to showing in this countrycertain pictures not viidely known or reproducedrather than in any sense to form a chronologicallyconsecutive collection, or even to show pictures ofall schools. Nor are all the canvases necessarilyby the greater masters, though limitations weremade in two directions—that the pictures in-cluded are good of their kind and that none post-date the eighteenth century. Particular prominence was give