Ribera, the Spanish painter, is leaving Shanghai within the next week or ten days, making for the Philippines, there to satisfy his love for gorgeous colouring in the tropical scenery of Luzon or Mindinao, We trust his recollections of Shanghai are pleasant. Certainly those who love pictures and find too few of them in this remoteness from western galleries will continue to think with pleasure of his work. Some of it remains here permanently. Some admire able portraits, for example, those of M. and Mme. de Palencia, of M. Fane, of Mme. clu Pac de Marsoulies and Mrs. Keegan, with many more. One of the keenest of art critics and the quickest to recognize the beauty of M. Ribera's painting is Mr. A. J. Cowdrey, who bought three, we believe, of the principal pictures shown' at Ribera's exhibition at the French Club. The work of this painter is distinguished by its rich colouring, its extraordinary power of depicting character and its no less extraordinary vitality. His portraits literally live on the walls and the longer they are studied the more they have to say. Ribera's friends will wish him a pleasant voyage to the Philippines, joined ith the hope that he may again sit Shanghai to show us the fruits of his wanderings.
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