Agnew exhib. "High-class Watercolour Drawings"

Overview

Date	1875-02-13
Publication	Academy
Topic	Agnew exhib. "High-class Watercolour Drawings"
AP display
RA display
Subject	art
Keywords	Priv. exhib. Agnew water-colour
Standards	PRB aesthetic standards
↳	past practice
Notes	Painted by William Millais noted.

Annotation details

75 February 13 Academy

Topic:

Agnew & Sons "Exhibition of High-class Water-Colour Drawings."

Citation:

Rossetti, William M. "Messers. Agnew's Water-Colours." Academy (February 13, 1875): 145. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

Summary:

Rossetti admits that he had low expectations of the gallery because the Agnews "do not, as a rule, lay themselves out for the more intellectual water-colours, or those of the most advanced artistic style, produced by living painters." But his expectation is disproved by a large Turner landscape, as well as works by Sir Edwin Landseer and Houghton included in the exhibition, Rossetti characterizes the latter painters as artists "of the past."

Among those works receiving brief but typical Rossetti commentary is on by William Sir John Everett Millais, brother of Everett Sir John Everett Millais.

Mode:

critical

Keywords:

water-color exhibition, private, Agnew

Standards of Judgment:

PRB aesthetic standards, relative merit, past practice

Rhetoric and tone:

evaluative

References:

Agnew, Sir Edwin Landseer, Houghton, Turner, W. Sir John Everett Millais