Mr. H. Stacey Marks, an artist long known for his
great humour, the fidelity and vividness of his figure-painting, and the quaint- ness of his subjects, has been at length elected a Royal Academician. Mr. Marks is still comparatively young, but he has long had so great a repute as an artist, that the Royal Acade- micians would have only shown their own discernment by elect- ing him earlier. Perhaps he is less known as a landscape-painter than he deserves, for he has painted comparatively few landscapes, and those, we believe, chiefly in water-colours. But few artists who have devoted themselves to the human figure, and treated it with so much power, have shown so deep a feeling for the poetical element in landscape as Mr. Marks. He will add greatly to the intellectual strength of the Royal Academy.
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