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But imaginative interpretation should not be confused with bald illustration. The Academicians cannot understand why, if we praise "Dante seeing Beatrice in a Dream", we should vilify Mr. Fildes' "Doctor". In both cases a story is told, in neither case is the execution excellent. Why then should one be a picture and the other no more than a bald illustration?
Here the designs fall into the opposite defect. They are, some of them, pretty enough, but they want character. Mr. Fildes' pictures for "Edwin Drood" are a decided improvement. As to the illustrations for the later Household Edition, they are very inferior. The designs for a great many are clearly bad, and the mechanical execution almost uniformly so. Even Mr.
Edward VII. has commissioned this artist to make two copies of the state portrait, painted by S. Luke Fildes, R.A. Mrs. Ward had two more votes for her admission to the Royal Academy than any other woman of her time has had. <b>WASSER, ANNA.</b> Born at Zürich, 1676, is notable among the painters of her country.
Neither of them is Jasper; neither of them is Durdles, "in a suit of coarse flannel" a disreputable jacket, as Sir L. Fildes depicts him "with horn buttons," and a battered old tall hat. These interpretations are quite demonstrably erroneous and even impossible. Mr. Archer interprets the designs exactly as I do. As to the young man in the light of Jasper's lamp, Mr.
Fildes' picture of a group of Venetian girls sitting on steps, the principal figure in a blue dress with an orange handkerchief round her neck, the simple I may say child-like scheme of colour beyond which Mr. Fildes never seems to stray.
Fildes to a condemned cell in Maidstone, or some other gaol, in order to make a drawing." Possibly Jasper managed to take his own life, in the cell; possibly he was duly hanged. Jasper, after all, was a failure as a murderer, even if we suppose him to have strangled his nephew successfully.
Well, a lot of us fellows used to dine there Whistler, Rico, Old Ziem, Roscoff, Fildes, Blaas, and the rest of the gang. We were an enthusiastic lot of Bohemians, each one with an opinion of his own about any subject he happened to be interested in, and ready to back it up if it took all night.
A curious Gothic house, with a steeple on the north side, was designed by William Burges, R.A., for himself. In the house next to it, now the residence of Luke Fildes, R.A., King Cetewayo stayed while he was in England. Sir Frederick Leighton, P.R.A., lived at No. 2, which has been presented to the nation.
It was such a scene as the English painter Luke Fildes might love to depict on his canvas the one man of to-day who, though born of the land of opaque mists and rain-burdened clouds, has, notwithstanding these disadvantages, managed to partly endow his brush with the exhaustless wealth and glow of the radiant Italian color.
To my own mind this picture of Luke Fildes reaches high-water mark in the school of his time, and yet in watching as I have done the crowds who surge through the Tate Galleries and the National Gallery, it is an almost every-day occurrence to overhear such contemptuous remarks as "Oh, yes, one of those literary fellows," drop from the lips of some highbrow who only tolerates Constable because of the influence his example and work had on Corot and other men of the Barbizon school.
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