[THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER 'COLOURS, 5s PALL
MALL.] Tan members of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours are conservative in their Methods and choice of subjects and their winter exhibition is on the usual lines. However, there are some pleasant paintings', and if .there is no breaking out into new spheres, the :old , and well-known styles are a pleasure to many. Several of the stalwarts are not represented, and Sir D. Y. Cameron, Sir George Clausen, Mrs. Knight, and Mr. Frank Brangvvyn are among the absentees.
Mr. E. J. Sullivan, whose black and white work is well known, sends four flower pictures. He uses his colour in a simple and straightforward manner, and his Poppies and Cornflowers, and Purple and Gold are as bright and gay as can be. Mr. Russell Flint's book illustration, Judith before Holofernes,- painted on linen, is as good as his illustrations always are, but his other contributions -are not up to his usual standard. Mr. David. Muirhead sends four views of Rochester, all fresh in tone . and breezily suggested: Of Mr. Reginald Smith's eight paintings, Breezy Day, Threshfield 3loor, is perhaps the best,, but his Winter .Twilight, a sketch rammed down on the spur of the moment, is wholly delightful; Mr. Lamorna Birch is too wild with his colour,' and his Mount's Bay and the Lizard, where he iarestiained, is by far the best of his contriblitions. _ Sir Charles Holmes makes an interesting, and even a pleasant picture out of slag heaps in his Colliery near Mansfield, while the brightness following rain is cleverly depicted. in his 'Rain `Storm; near Leicester. Mi. Holding's Winter near Halnaker, Mr. Dodd's Samuel.Stieet, The Estuary of the Leven by Mr. Oliver Hall, and The Lament by Mr. II. Anning Bell, are other picture's which should not be missed. There are seven pictures by the late Mr. Charles 'Sims, all loaned., a .sort of miniature memorial. exhibition, of his work. in water colours. Mothei and Child, and Boy, might he singled citit, but all are excellent. It has been stated that
these two were painted from memory, which makes them more wonderful still.
This exhibition remains open till December 15th, and will repay a visit by those who like the straightforward type of water colour work.
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