OBITUARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20842, 8 April 1931, Page 9

OBITUARY.

MR. W. L. WYLLIE. PAINTER OF SEASCAPES. (Received April 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April G. Tho death has occurred of Mr. W. L. Wyllie, artist. The late Mr. William Lionel Wyllie, painter of seascapes, was born in London in July, 1851. His father also was an artist. In 1866 after a period of study at Heatherley's ho was entered as a student at the Royal Academy Schools. To the exhibition of 1868 he contributed a picture. Next year he was represented at tho first Burlington House exhibition and at the end of the year ho won tho Turner medal for tho best painting of a coast scene, " After a Storm." Thereafter he was closely identified with tho Royal Academy. In 1889 ho was elected A.R.A. and in 1907 R.A.

For a time Mr. Wyllie was demonstrator of landscape painting in tho Royal Academy School. He became a member of tho Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and besides executing many original etchings he reproduced several of his own pictures. Some of his works, bought by the Chantrey Bequest, are in tho Tate Gallery. For 20 years his headquarters were at Hoo, near Rochester, and the Thames and the Medway provided him with innumerable subjects. But work at home was only part of his training. Mr. Wyllie ;ound inspiration on many waters, and it was under strange conditions that some of his best work was accomplished. Ho braved the perils of tho sea on and under the surface, and at least one picture was evolved from a balloon trip. 'lhe facts incidental to navigation were acquired by studies on board warships and _ other vessels and he was an enthusiastic and efficient yachtsman. His personal knowledge of seamanship is to be detected in his drawings of moving boats of every kind and this quality of accuracy has added not a little to his success. In 1907 he moved from Hoo to Portsmouth where from his studio and house windows he saw a constant succession of vessels big and small. As a viewpoint his house was unrivalled and with this environment a new era began in his career as a marine painter. Among Mr. Wyllie's pictures are Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a Flowing Tide," " London's Water Gate," " A Silent Highway," " Crippled, but Unconquered," " The Spanish Armada," "Butterflies and Working Bees," " London Bridge," " Commerce and Soa-Power," "The Battle of the Nile" (Tate Gallery). " Blake's Fight With Van Tromp," " Trafalgar," " Towing Past the City," " The Landing Stage, Liverpool," " The Winding Medway," " Barrv Dock, "The Liner's Escort," " R.Y.S. Valhalla," and " Rochester," an etching. He was an assistant commissioner of ihe Sea Scouts and during the war he made many pictures of the fleet. He also wiote several books—" J. W. M. Turner," " Nature's Law and the Making of Pictures," " London to the Nore." and " Norway" (with Mrs. Wyllie), " Marino Painting in Watercolour, " Sketchbook " and " Sea-ficrhts of the Great War" (with M. F. Wren).

Mr. Wyllio was married in 1879 to a daughter of Captain Carew, of the Indian Marine.

LADY WYNDHAM. (Received April 7, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, April fi. The is 3nnmm (: °d of Lady Wydham, " formerly well known on the stage as Miss Mary Moore. iliss Mary Moore at one time was one of England's most charming and graceful leading actresses. In the late eighties she made the most outstanding success of her career in Sir Charles Wyndham's production at the Criterion Theatre of ' David Garrick," in which that distinguished actor played tho title-role. As Ada Ingot, Miss Moore presented a portrayal which was never surpassed by any other actress who essayed the part. She was first married to the lato Mr. James Albcry, a dramatist, and in 1916 to Sir Charles Wyndhnm, wh6 died in 1919. Miss Moore began her stage career in tho provinces in 1885, but it was not long before she was Sir Charles' leading lady in London at the Criterion, Wyndham's, and the New Theatre. Prior to her husband's death she was associated with him as joint proprietor and manager of these theatres. In 1924 she formed Wyndham's Theatres, Limited. Sho was president of tho Actors' Benevolent Fund. Apart from " David Garrick " Miss Moore's chief successes wore made in "Wild Oats," "Two Roses." "London Assurance," " Susan," " r lho Liars, " The Tyranny of Tears," " Mrs. _Gorringe's Necklace,", " Lady »Epping's Lawsuit," " Tho Mollusc," and " Our Mr. Hepplewhite."