WANDERING WHISTLERS AND TRAVELLING TADEMAS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 14 September 1909, Page 2

WANDERING WHISTLERS AND TRAVELLING TADEMAS.

Why not areas our homes in a new suit of pictures now and then, says the "Press." The average .man cannot iiopo to possess himself oi original •products of the, brushes of, say, Watts, Burno Jones,. Alina^ Tadema, Millais, Sargent,' 1-eightojJ., or Whistler. At most his r purse win run to prints from some of these.and other masters. He may have. ,a-*?w fairly decent oils and two or three water colours. But for the most part, his collection is made np of engravings and' photdgraVures-^ten-and *ixfcetti(y !;(Bhack>ws in blacks and •whites and browns; of costly things of fadeless. beauty. ..__. Bnt whoever: notices -the'pictures on his'trails,-parr ticularly? He knbwß;;;in » vague sort of Va"X'that -they are there; he realises the "fact when any. are : missing, and he perceive* jthe. fault.whea one has taken a Hsf to rtarboara.Bat 'beyond all tbat,"his* pictorial • ipossessions :impress-oiuy his"::;.Xal f consciousness.' His bccaslOfiaV tors may be pleasea- to, admiref s»m^ of them and to point..'out. delecfaWar .details; (but He himself , has passed through that, stage-..10ng since^and has exhausted nearly all possible features of attiactivewcss. For example, 'the Venetian damsel,. -plump ... «nd, pleasing, seated on-a; wail, 'listening, ah,-so coyly, r t6" the ■passionate. .;.ontpourings from -the,Vheart^of ,'^,cnrly ■ gondolier. ,"• She'xhasVibee^sitting on that Trall for a d«eado]:.fo''one.'s certain ■"Knowledge; siio ?Jif..stiH- plump and pleasing, but hpr'sinilo has 'bccomo irritatingly fatuous. -She may have been coy once on a time,. ;wheir ■ she -was newly ■framed an 3 hung 'is the place of homour. But sbc:j» 014 enough to know better;. .now-:(yoti think), and it iajhigh: time -tliat tie curly gondolier received his. Answer and set off about his.'buiJness.;:.:.Or the unassuming .little ril^ocKt enough as to technique;.^and ill...that . sort of thing, -and .worth; say,■'■ a couplo.,p.f pounds."..There' are spin* foeks in* * tnjS: foreground/ 'and... li baffled wave is '.streaming, back in angry catarapia.''-. Another breaker is poised ready' for the - onslaught. There & a flock of gulls jQyeringLJoyer a patchy ofvdtifting^ kelp,.ana tie^ifey suggests a dirty, day t;to;ffi'orr.ow. jThe whole thing has become, almost painfuliy familiar. One. knows the.gulls. o£E by heart. If_|oniy the iky clear! if only'"the poised, breaker wouia brCak I If only a sail Wouia .. appear in the effing! • Any, one'l>f theso things wonld' lend now aest-to . the production. . „.(..'.'