23 MARCH 1934, Page 6

A visit to the Exhibition of British Art just before

it closed last Saturday left one impression, at any rate, on my mind. While landscape, the glory of English painting, was very meagrely represented, of portraits there was abundance. But a strangely unimpressive figure these eighteenth-century red-coated men, and their women, cut. Their mouths are well closed, but what a singular vagueness of facial outline in these representatives of the privileged classes, and what a surprising chinlessness. Is that really an index to the national character under the Georges ? *