LORD RUTHERFORD’S PORTRAIT
A REPLY Our art critic writes as follows: — I hope your correspondent, Mr Houlker, does not feel that the criticism of Lord Rutherford’s portrait was written in any carping spirit for that certainly was not so. The Suter Art Society were honoured by being allowed to exhibit it and T can assure him the members duly appreciated that fact. Notwithstanding this our point is that “informality” need not necessarily detract from the dignity and impressiveness of a portrait. The finest paintings of both Huxley and Darwin arc informal but in both cases the subject is standing. I hold no brief particularly for this position as there is a most impressive portrait of Herbert Spencer sitting among his books, but he was then an old man and books had been his life work. Lord Rutherford is a leader and the artist might have emphasized the dynamic energy of his subject without sacrificing what my critic calls informality. After all, his famous apparatus is there, and neither he nor his epoch-making machine can ever be truly informal.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 21 September 1936, Page 3
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