(enow auh OWN our critic London, Friday, Jan Ist, 1886
The London Winter Sexson begiva with the opening of the Grosvenor Gallery to the public tu-day, It is going to be s good time for life wud fash tends in the capital; & ¢ slowly mov ing off wud in Court or high life putting oot the i observances and hospitality liamentory Seasi ing to open phe monally ently, w than a fortnight of New Yeut's Day, surrounded by all the of everything that he does, a unity own peculiar forms of renliem, and above unity la his unrealled power of producing nature's owa depth and without sacrificing nature's ow ness of detail. Itis, perhaps, live of his art that greatest progress. greater L. ful landscape Away," painted in 1876, than in his A Huguenot," painted 1851; but in the landscape the detail, which is not much more perfect in the foreground than it is far across the plain, seems even to increase the perspective effect, while in the " tu-from the purely. of view it was ut the name time wholly new thing to put very commonplace details into artistic scenes. It is not therefore, very wonderful that the world ould have felt shocked, and even ingulted and outraged, to find' painter depict the Holy Family under sordid and even of rep surrounding the Curpeuter very cornuto: place carpenter at his work, with hie journeyman helping him at the other end vf the bench, The Christ is " rather ugly ded chiid, with " patch of the palm of his hand, in, the act of being comforted by hie mother, the
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