WMR pans Flemish Gallery exhibition

Overview

Date	1874-12-12
Publication	Academy
Topic	WMR pans Flemish Gallery exhibition
AP display
RA display
Subject	art
Keywords	foreign schools
↳	not all Flemish
↳	low art
Standards	PRB aesthetic standards
Notes	Leys, 1 painting
↳	not all Flemish work
↳	on page: Woolner replaces Foley RA.

Annotation details

74 December 12 Academy

Topic:

The Flemish Gallery

Citation:

Rossetti, William M. "The Flemish Gallery." Academy 2 (December 12, 1874): 136. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

Summary:

This very brief review comprises only two paragraphs. Once again Rossetti searches a gallery for "an artistic or an emotional point of view" and finds this exhibition lacking. He also points out that despite the name, the collection is not exclusively Flemish, although the work he determines to be the best is from Belgium (a Baron Leys). A handful of paintings are mentioned briefly in largely quantitative terms; comparisons are made between this gallery and both French and Italian galleries in general. Rossetti finds that the Italian paintings have achieved a "creditable standing" among all of the paintings exhibited.

Mode:

critical

Keywords:

"creditable standing among foreign schools"

Standards of Judgment:

excellence among foreign schools

References:

Everard & Co., Baron Leys, Gallait, Alfred Stevens, Bertrand, Couture, Huguet, Troyon, Theodore Rousseau, Madrazo, Geronimo Induno, Knaus, Thomas Faed

Writing technique/tone:

concise, brief; summary only

Notable/quotable:

"a close-thoughted, rather stern personage."