TWO NOTABLE PORTRAITS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19736, 8 September 1927, Page 12

TWO NOTABLE PORTRAITS.

LOANED TO ART GALLERY.

Through the generous public spirit of Mrs. C. H. Drysdalo, of Heme Bay, the Art Gajlery has, had loaned to it two very valuable portraits executed by the brilliant, but ill-fated, young Scottish artist,-Robert Brough. One is a portrait of a young girl dressed in a red cloak and the Othe'r of a lady in black. From the Art 'Gallery point of view they are particularly acceptable, as filling up in some measure the lack of figure work in the galleries The collections have never been strong in portraits, and these two attractive works help materially to strengthen the weakness. Brough was born in 1872 in Rosshire, and was killed in 'a railway accident in 1905. He studied first at Aberdeen and later distinguished himself at the Scottish Academy Life, School, In Paris lie studied under Jullien and Constant, and later in London became a friend and protege of John Singer Sargeant, Before his untimely death he had given promise of becoming one of the most notable of Scottish portrait painters. These two pictures shortly to be exhibited in the gallery show the simplicity, the richness of colour, and the virility of draftsmanship by, which his best "work was distinguished.