CHRISTCHURCH ART EXHIBITION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 8

CHRISTCHURCH ART EXHIBITION.

- j; : WmE-RAIJGP OF. STALES AND; ■.. £tC '■ •■' '.>■:'/:.;:'" 'THEMES/', 1,.; : ':", ' .'•'.V;..;-■ ~;. ■ 'J v' ■tDy Correspondent.) '. :.' .< - : ! ; i;'; '-•■'■■.''■" " i ■.'.:.■ 'Christchurcji, December 2.' ;-The loan exhibition/ opened at Art Gat' ■lery to-night, contains 231 valuable works, .and the pictures shown at the International Ex•hibitiou, although much more numerous, did 'not "cover so - wide arrange as the. present display. The schools, periods, and nationalities represented-a raDgeirpm tho!sixteenth century Italian of Corregio to the present day, and embrace old and modern Dutch work, Spanish and Flemish work of the seventeenth century, and British work-of all periods. ■;-.-•, British-art. is specially well represented. 80-, ginning .with Sir Joshua -Reynolds (the first president of the' Royal Academy), there/ are ; -works illustrative of the gradual development , Vf British painting, both figure;and landscape, right' up to the prosent time. Turner is re-, 'presentedby'one'of his largest, and most beautiful works,- and there aTp paintings by - Sir ' Thomas Lawrence, -Landseer, .David Cox, Sir Henry Raeburn, William-Etty, Sain Bough, Q. F. Watts, "Sir,. James, Guthrie, and;, many ~ others; There is also some fine work by Australian and; deceased New. Zealand artists. !•.--.: Some indication of the , ' importance of the display may. be gained from.the fact that there are fourteen Royal'* Academician'. represent- , ed, Wo of whom were-presidents, and there are works of members of the Royal Scottish.', Academy,-including the present president,. ;