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Impressionist Painting. By Wynford Dewhurst. (G. Newnes. 25s. net.)—This volume

does not add much of importance to the facts and views of M. Mauclair, who has made a special study of Impressionism. In spite of this, it is welcome, for the views are sound and well expressed. The author brings out the double influence of English art upon French artists during the nineteenth century. The first occasion was, of course, the impulse given to the landscape painters by Constable's pictures. But a second, and no less important, event was the acquaintance made by Claude Monet and Pissarro with the works of Turner in 1870. Mr. Dewhurst thinks that Watts probably influenced these painters as well by his later work. Indeed, in their appreciation of iridescent colour there is much in common between Monet and Watts.