Fine prints by Wedmore Frederick Sir 1844-1921

Author:Wedmore, Frederick, Sir, 1844-1921
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Engraving -- Collectors and collecting
Publisher: London : G. Redway
Published: 1897-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

LATER ENGLISH ETCHERS

dealt with by the genius of Meryon—is, doubtless, an accurate enough portrait, but the individuality—where ? And without individuality, such work is an architectural drawing. This St. Etknne bears date 1890; but since 1890 Mr. Watson has done finer things—his strong and capable hand stirred to expression by a nature not perhaps very sensitive to every effect of beauty, but feeling the interest of solid Avorkmanship and something of the charm of the picturesque. Ponte del Cavallo has daintiness, and some yet more recent work in Central Italy and Sicily—with architecture generally as the basis of its interest—may fall reasonably enough within the })rovince of collectors who can afford to accunmlate—who can afford to add well to well and vineyard to vineyard.

Of the remaining English etchers of our time. Colonel Goff", Mr. D. Y. Cameron, and Mr. Oliver Hall are those whom it will be best to notice. Mr. Macbeth, Mr. Herkomer, Mr. rermell, Mr. W. H. May, Mr. Mempes, Mr. Raven Hill, Mr. Haig, Miss Bolingbroke, Mrs. Stanhope Forbes—others besides—have brought out prints of which the j)ossession is pleasant; but it is, I suppose, the three men whom I named earlier who by reason of combined cjuality and cjuantity of " output"" most deserve the collector^s serious consideration.

Of the.se three, Gofl'—a retired Guardsman, but no

more really an amateur than Seymour Hadeii—is, I

take it, the best known. Actual jjopularity he has

been, for an etcher, woiiderfuliy near to attaining.

lie may even iiou uttiiiii it. Much of the excellence

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