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    .THE WINTER EXHIBITIONS. 329

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    O Or Late Years, A New Phase In The Hist...

    of artist a direct ' s note outdoor -book , mounted communing , so with that we nature have . the The immediate Scotch studies result of

    Mr . Evans of Eton are capital examples of this , and are most brilliant in colour and dashing in execution . He delights in

    hills giving with , in as their few cling strokes ing as mists possible and , passing the distant showers blue , Caledonian while the

    nearer foregrounds are golden brown with dying autumn fern . E are quall Mr y . brilliant Dodgson in s essentiall colouring y , Eng but lish far landscapes more careful , " Studies in detail in ,

    green luxuriant Knowle of Park summer foliage , " ( 23 , g contrastin ilded and 40 with ) . g well , sunshine In the with first , is the of deliciousl these thinning pictures y later rendere trees , the of d , full the the of

    paths the second year and stud . the Here y , which felled the dead oak was in leaves evidentl the foreground are y made alread during y has lying donned a in the a mantle woodland season of

    moss , since its doom in the _springy Mr . Dodgson ' s sketches of Pladdon Hall are tame in colour and monotonous compared to Mr .

    Jenkins' view from its terraced garden , ( 133 ) where the old yew-trees , flecked with sunshineframe the blue landscape which tempts the

    solitary close his student bookVery leaning , good over is another the balustrade study by , the to lift latter his artist eyes , of and a

    . bit of _" The Thames at Mill End , " ( 245 ) where , beneath a lowering evening skthe fitful gusts of wind sweep over the trees , and bend

    the water-weeds y , till they dip into the stream . Mr . Branwhite ' s brawling Welsh brooks , hurrying under grey

    old stone bridges , threading their way through the osiers and withered branches of salmon-traps , and dashing headlong down familiar to

    but over are boulders ever welcome bright with . His many stud - y coloured , ( 285 ) of lichens a winter , are 's morning , with us skeleton

    the branches cattle looming standing diml disconsolate y throug on h the the ice fog - , bound the gate pool , aj the ar with the

    swelling of the frozen ground , and the pale wafer-like sun above all Another , is a marvellous close observer picture . of nature is Mr . Jacksonwhose seaside

    , reminiscences are excellent , especially " Mount ' s Bay , " ( 105 ) with the wave-worn channels in the sands among the rocks at low tide ,

    where the sea-weed hangs , clammy as the hair of a drowned mariner ; and " Filey Sands , Yorkshire , " ( 262 ) with its clear marine

    Cornwall atmosphere " ( and 217 ) distant is conscientiousl rollers of tide painted comin but g in unp . " leasing Pemberth in colour Cove . ,

    A little red , would much enliven y its monotonous blue and green . Mr . Jackson with Mr . Whittakerfamous for capital moorland

    scenare new recruitsand bid fair , to be worthy members of the cor A p s in , to which unpretending they have , sketch enlisted but . one most true to nature , is

    foliage David very son drops ' s " off Gatton leaf by Park lea , f , leaving ( 172 , ) where the network the autumnal of bare branches withered

    dark against the windy sky . Another clever rendering of an every-

    .The Winter Exhibitions. 329

    . THE WINTER EXHIBITIONS . 329

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/41/