Text Appearing Before Image: cientlypreserved as not to be disturbing ; andin his portrait of Lady Nora Brassey,John Lavery exhibits strong techniquewith a convincing simplicity of style.Alexander Roche, who for the last yearor two has been working almost as muchin America as Scotland, shows a largepresentation portrait of Sir Robert Cran-ston, intended for Edinburgh CouncilChambers, in recognition of strenuousmunicipal work culminating in threeyears occupancy of the Lord Provostschair. Mr. Roche has succeeded in KY GEORGE SMITH expressing the individualityof the man notwithstandingthe wealth of sartorial en-\ironment which threatensto extinguish it. One of the most im-portant works in the gal-leries is a large picture byRobert Burns—SchubertsAdieu. The wisdom ofthis appeal to sentimentand the manner in whichthe artist has sought torealise the idea of this mostpathetic lyric are open toadverse criticism, but thepictorial qualities of thework are so fine as to fur-nish the best reply. In aspacious chamber a lady Text Appearing After Image: SIK ROUHKT CRANSTON BY ALEKAMIR ROCHK, R.S.A. 135 The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition is seated at the piano singing, by candlelight,to an invalid — husband presumably — who re-clines on a couch in shadow. The large openwindow revealing an expanse of earth and sky intender moon or starlight suggests the early flightof the soul. The technical quality of the work isthroughout excellent, and particularly satisfactoryis the manner in which Mr. Burns has solved theproblems of lighting in the contrast of artificialwith natural light, a subject to which he hasdevoted attention for the past few years. Anotherof the younger artists—George Smith—the robustquality of whose work is its prominent feature, hasmade a great advance this year. His two pictures,Wood Carting and Cattle Shelter, have not beenexceeded in those masculine qualities which wedesiderate so much in the animal painter by any-thing that has appeared on the walls of theAcademy for some time. In the first-named andlarger
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