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AN ART CRITIC ON HOLIDAY.

ADVENTURES IN FRANCE,

SOOTHING INFLUENCE OF THE BUCOLIC ATMOSPHERE.

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[DY J. G. IN THE MORNING POST.".

COURTIER WHO LOVED ORCHIDS.

SIR U. HOLFORD'S WORK FOR KINGS AND FLOWERS.

£200,000 DISPLAY.

A distinguished Guardsman, a courtier who served in three reigns,, a lover of orchids and flowers in general, who spent

fortune in their culture

Grown aweary of art and artists, of the daily round of the gallaries in Bond-This is the description that can be well street and its neighbourhood, the critic applied to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir George longed for the southing spell of nature to Holford, who died at Wastonbirt, his restore his jaded eyes and mind and

Gloucestershire seat, last month. He irritable, temper.

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Uplands: the sea on this side, the great weald on that, with never a disturbing thing in sight, only a welcome shepherd and his abeep, with their tinkling bells; the play of light and shade over land and water, and the laverock's song above, Or some fertile valley with kine-dappled meadows, fields of ripening grain en- circling homely farms, struggling vil- lages, gay with red tile or yellow thatch faded blue and green doors and shutters, and little gardenis fragrant with the odour of old-world flowers.

Sir George Holford, who suceceded to an estate of 34,000 acres, was the son of the late Mr. Robert Stayner Holford. He joined the 1st Life Guards 16 years ago, and became its colonel.

He was 4 when war broke out, but he offered his services, and commanded a reserve battalion of his old regiment. "Sir George's' connection with the Court began with his appointment as equerry to the late Duke of Clarence, whom he accompanied on his Indian tour in 1868.

From 1802 to 1010 he was equerry to King Edward VII., and from 1910 to 1925 was equerry to Queen Alexandra. He was appointed extra equerry to King George on the death of Edward VII,

In the end the critic decided to eroes the Channel and rest in a small fishing village in France, once a popular artists haunt, but now he was assured that tragis familiarity with it in wat time had Sir George Holford was knighted in gradually lessened its attraction. The 1910 and in 1912 he married Mrs. John only people to be met were sorrowing pil-Menzies, daughter of the late Mr. Arthur' grims to the vast “God's nere beautiful" near by.

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Wilson, of Tranby Croft.

Dorchester His town mansion was House, where in the last century lived the American ambassador. It used to contain 1 magnificent collection of pictures.

equerries who walked by the side of Sir George was one of the four

faneral march from Marlborough House Queen Alexandra's coffin during the to the Abbey.

£200,000 Orchids.

There was no more enthusiastic horti- culturist in the country than Sir George Holford, and the gardens at Wastonbirt were of almost unrivalled beauty."

Orchida were his speciality, and many were his successes at the important flower shows throughout the country, at which he was a regular exhibitor.

The Years Bring Changes. Painters no longer set up their easels in the quaint square and market days, or on the quay by the sweet-named Rue de Rosamel, to sketch the fisherman prepar ing their nets for the next voyage, or note the action of the half-bent kilted shrimpers trudging slowly home. No one now paints (na did Dudley Hardy, Austen Brown, and many others before 1914) the boats going out to sea with wind and tide, as they glide between the pine fringed dunes, and the red town and tall lighthouses on further, shore. No one ever transfers to canvas or paper the impressive service at the crucifix when priests in black cassocks, and fishermen and womca kneel and pray for good luck to the herring fleet about to sail for "la At the Chelsea flower show a few years Grande Peche" in distant waters, which ago Sir George. Holford's collection of involves long absence from wives, chil-orchids was valued at something like dren, and sweet-hearts. The idyllic £200,000. charms of the lake across the sandhills One of the largest and richest blooms lurk uncaptured, and gorgeous supsets ever shown was displayed by Sir George transfuse sea and shore with gold and as the Royal Horticultural Society's. purple, crimson, rose, and turquoise, and autumn show at Westminster in 1924. silver and pearl of the most exquisite. description, yet no Turner or Boudin is there to note the magic. But the critic Orchid growing was not Sir George was misinformed as the sequel shows

Holford's sale interest. In 1992 at Chel- Shortly after arriving at his destina-sea he exhibited tropical lilies. The tion he came on a well-known English Amarythis became the most popular de artist sitting in the gutter. W.'s precise corative flower of the season, while what back and the forward till of his hat were horticultarists described as the most surely unmistakable. All doubt, how-beautiful rhododendron ever seen, the ever, was removed by his subject: the

"rhododendron geranicum," with colours entrance to a new hotel with a bright of flame, and orange, was exhibited by yellow awning, which found response in Sir George at the Royal Horticultural the deep purple front of a humbla Society's show at Westminster in 1923. estaminet beyond. W. is always-de liberately provocative, wisely opposed to all conventions save his own-here the critic, remembering that he was on holi- day, fled without looking his friend in the face

But alas Round the corner by the post office, a voice called "Hullo! What are you doing in this place 7" Another acquaintance, and etcher, whose work the critic had "slated" recently. "To get rid of you, and your kidney and your pictures," was the brutally frank reply. Then you'd better leave by the next train, was the quiet retort. The village is full of artists who know you. and they are sure to have your blood." "Right, I'll go on to Paris this evening," anid the critic. Don't be a fool," was the answer. "I myself am going over to England for a fortnight, and if haven't fixed up at the hotel you can occupy my rooms and studio,"

It measured nine inches, and was de dicated to Queen Mary.

Sir George Holford owned many famous pictures. He sold one by Velas quer from his Dorchester House collec- tion in 1900. It was a portrait of the Count Duke Olivares. It was reported at the time that a sum of £80,000 changed hands over the transaction. The picture went to America-Daily Mail.

A MAN IN CHAINS.

DOWNING-STREET SCENE."

A man in chains made a brief appear ance in Downing-street with the object of drawing attention, to the present dis- tress of some ex-Service men! He was ex-Sergeant-Major Wagstaffe, late of the Royal Artillery, and was accompanied by Mr. Stewart Gray, who has taken part in demonstrations on behalf of the un- employed. Wagstaffe put on a mass of chains in a garage almost immediately opposite Downing-atreet, and then walked The offer was irresistible, and the pair barefooted across Whitehall. Mr. Stewart went off to 100, Rue du Re and found Gray carried over his shoulder a bag the landlady, a dear old woman of 84 bulging with documents, and as he pass- years, watering the flowers in her jollyed through a curious crowd he distributed little garden. Settling with her the critic pamphlets.

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and his host went to the Y- hotel and found an English, American, and a Scots artist (all three elever fellows) seated on the terrace. And there was nothing but shop before, at and after dinner, and the unfortunate critic went to bed utter- ly depressed.

At the entrance to Downing-street the pair were confronted by a superintendent of police and two police inspectors. Finally, r. Stewart Gray was permitted to proceed, while the ex-sergeant-major was advised to return to the garage. Mr. Stewart Gray went to No. 10, and there handed to the attendant a document in which he drew attention to the claims of the unemployed.

Next day he was forced to visit innum. erable studios, watch the mixing of soot, earth," nad grease into ink for etching purposes, and turn the wheel of the printing proES. Opinions of embryo "Oh, it's quite simple," was the ro masterpieces had to be given, his boots | sponso, fl you cut a piece of mica the were blackened with a mixture invented' size of the picture you want to make, by the ingenious American, which was hold it at the necessary distance, then supposed to keep them polished for, a sketch the actual scene on the surface, month, he was dragged to see an exhibi- nad afterwards trace it down on canvas tion of local art at a watering-place some or paper. Soot" The critic say, and, miles away; and by night the poor critic returning thanks for the revelation, "be was prostrate pad wished he were brick sought his lodgings in despair. On the in Bund-street.

way back these incidents reminded him" At the following down he, in wolf, of "another that happened to him in defence, set out in search of a lonely spot, rittany many years ago. He was stay- with a knapsack full of provender anding in Font Avon: borrowed painting materials. Not a soul Ville de renom, wns in sight when he sat down to sketch Quatorze moulins, quinze maisons, where the rose-green, of the sand-dunes where Gauguin founded the school of that mingled with the grey-green of the sea, name in the Eighties of last century, Intent on his pencil outline the critic The critic's landlady kept what the called was startled by a voice saying: Je farm, which consisted of a small patch n'aime pas le peinture comme ca; je of rocky soil, and between it and her pretére le peinture do Monsieur la has house a little brook trickled, while the so Looking-round-be-saw two-fishes boys, litary cow and the heas accumed the and, a few yarda distant, an artist sat ground-floor of the building. She had swishing colour on to a huge canvas in greed to sit to the critic, and, in the the manner of Sargent or Augustus John course of the seance, he was interrupted Nor was this the end of his adventure by an ill-natured babble of voices in the that morning. Having moved to what Bretonne tongue at the door below. seemed to be a more secluded shelter be

What's the matter 1" he asked." Oh, hind a clump of pine trees, which the it's my neighbours who have come to buy glow of the early sun had gilt to gleam potatoes and eggs, and, finding my door ing gold and richest jade, he was again locked, they are scolding me for neglect- roused, this time by a young Englishing my business. They eary me every- mau, who asked: Do you really like thing, my cow, my farm, my river, even drawing? I am very fond of it. In fact may husand and children," I have invented a method which enables me to draw with ease and accuracy any scens I fancy." Wonderful!" said the annoyed eritic. "What is your method

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The first sitting was ended, and after looking intently at the sketch, abe said, "Is that really me? Yes," replied the critic. Eh bien," she exclaimed in lead-like tones, don't tell my husband."

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