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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1933,
Art and Drama
THE CHINA MAIL.
MORE EXCAVATIONS George Chinnery's Works
IN POMPEIT
New Discoveries..
Naples.
Professor Majuri, who has charge of the excavations in Southern Italy, has now made some interest- ing discoveries in Pompeli concern- ing the houses which lie buried un- der those destroyed in A.D. 79.
On Show
Famous Artist Who Came To China
The name
MANY PICTURES
at Canton and
HERE
He came Across them in the
of George Chinnery Mrs. Chinnery, who had followed famous Villa of Menandro and be
will for ever be associated with him to Calcutta, where she married off a daughter, gave up the pursuit lleves they belong to a building at
and returned to England to live at least a century older than the villa. China for it was The work is rougher and decora-Macao that he lived for the greater Brighton, but Chinnery moved on tions not nearly so well done. Une part of his life and executed most from Canton to Macao, where he Instance is that marble is repre-of his paintings.
Some of his remained for the rest of his life, sending occasional portraits from sented by rather clumsy painting. works are in the Chater Collection. there to the Royal Academy.
The Professor has been trying some vertical excavations in those now in the possession of the Hong
Evidently Chinnery was—as be
GENUINE HOGARTH "FIND”?
Old Picture Believed Work Of Master.
*FOR AMERICA
Sydney.
An old picture almost hidden by dust and varnish which is believed to be the work of William Hogarth has been discovered and brought to Sydney by Mrs. Tom Garrett, wife of a well-known Australian artist.
The owner's grandfather brought|| the picture to Australia from Ene land about 1840, and a newspaper cutting from a Tasmanian paper óf that period announces the arrival of the family, and the inclusion of a Hogarth oil painting in the heirlooms.
This newspaper cutting stil exista and may be regarded as evidence when Mrs. Garrett visits America It
parts of the city where they will Kong Government, but an interest-looks in his self-portrait, lent to with her find early this year. not interfere with the later houses.ing exhibition
has recently been this exhibition from the National is her intention to place it on the
Portrait Gallery-an incurable market there. The results at the Stabian and
Bohemian, and William Hickey, London records seem to point to Herculean Gales show that Greece, held in London, the following inter-
we take who admired his work, described the disappearance of a similar can- and not Etruria, lay the foundation eating account of which of Pompeli, for the massive blocks from the London "Times" of Decem-him as "a confirmed and incurable vas about 100 years ago. of tufa are cut and put into posiber 10: tion in the early Greek manner.
Professor Jacono, who is a dis- tinguished archaeologist,
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lunatic." In India he painted por-" William Hogarth was born in traits of the Earl of Moira, after- 1698 and died in 1764. He was re- Of special interest to those with wards Marquess of Hastinge, the cognised as one of the greatest art- reports Indian connections dating from the Earl of Minto, and other English ists of the century, but frequently that his investigations of the Basi-days of "John Company" there has officials, many portraits of native left his pictures unsigned, lica and the Greek temple convince
merchants, and an enormous mem-, is presumed that the picture is of him that the Basilica was original been arranged at the Tate Gallery a princes and soldiers, officials, and painting bears no signature.
and sketches Martha, Mary, and Jesus. ly Greek and the temple must have loan exhibition of works by George ber of water-colours
Should it prove to be a genuine been in ruins when Pompeii was en-Chinnery, R.H.A. (1774-1852)-l of Indian life and scenery, and in
in a suitable minia-China he worked with equal a Hogarth, its value joying its busy life in A.D. 79.
dustry. He was not a great artist market may be very great.
as in the same rank -not even
A portrait of Anne Wolstenholme
water-colours, paintings, Another point which has been made, thanks to the new vertical,tures, and drawings. excavations, exonerates the Bour-
Chinnery was one of the many Zoffany, Ozies Humphry. and by Hogarth was sold in London by Foster gives Arthur Devis, who also worked in Christies on December 12, 1930 fòr!
bon kings of Naples from the odium artists-Sir William
of vandallem in Pompell. So long a list of 61 in his "British Artials India-but he was lively and eater-2,257.10.0.-Reuter. as horizontal digging was the only In India" in the last publication of taining, and he had a good eye for form of investigation, people blam-the Walpole Society-who went to a picture.
The best of the oil paintings at
This has
Wandering
Minstrels
In London
ed them for doing their excavations India between 1760 and 1820 in the
In Chin-the Tate Gallery is "The Sampanį so carelessly that they damaged the hope of making money. houses they wished to extract from nery's case there was another rea- Girl" in a white auit, apparently
son-he wanted to get away from engaged upon her toilet. the hardened ashes.
wife. The game reason something of the blunt and slight- But vertical digging proves that his
to ly clemay dignity that we 881oct- debts-acut him in A.D. 79 Pompeff had not yet been coupled with
n dark line in the rebuilt after the eruption and earth-China, and finally to Canton, where ate with Ople, quake of A.D. 63, and that fine he congratulated himself: "Now costume being used with excellent
What
London. a kind pro-effect to define the forms. "Dent's houses which the Bourbons have am all right.
Miss Joan and Miss Betty Rayner been accused of breaking up were vidence is this Chinese Government Verandah at Macao," with three:
a dog begging, illus found their first joint Troubadour "closed for repairs" when the ashes that it forbids the softer sex from Agures and
and bothering us here!" trates the leisure of contemporary recital in England, given at the Arts from Vesuvius buried them entirely. Icoming
officials; and "The Hat, Shop." Theatre, so successful that they Chinese, with Baroque movements have taken the Grafton Theatre for in the figure across a very firmly a fortnight. These young players realized architectural setting, is revive the wandering minstrelsy of thoroughly entertaining picture the Middle Ages, ransacking Some of the water colours are ex-world's folklore for songs and cellent, firm, direct, and simple, in stories, finding their material now a manner that occasionally recalla in some traditional ditty that has Cotman. "River with Sampans, been handed down from generation China," "Ruin with Pipul Tree,"
to generation, now in a faded and and "Landscape with Hut and forgotten broadside in the British Figures, India," may be quoted.
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