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vtj v 4. LA •Must confess tliat I did not go to the Institute of Painters in Water Colours this afternoon to look much at the pictures, as I do not care greatly for aquarelles. Just as •well I did not, as there was an awful crowd, principally of unknown persons, owing, so ’twas said, to the management having invited all the members of the Stock Exchange, with their sisters, their cousins, and their aunts. Admired very much, No. 223, “A Garden Fete,” _ by Walter Bayes, which I thought charming, and also a sketch by Tenniel,“ How Gil Bias Arrayed Himself in the Blue Velvet” (230). Charles Green in 283, “The Harpist,” shows how well he can paint a white satin skirt; but surely the anatomy of the fair performer’s thigh is all wrong? Stock’s “Temptation of Eve” (111) did not strike me as being particularly beautiful; but Thomas Pyne’s “ Mill Pool ” (659) was a delightful bit.All the visitors were somebrely robed as if they mistrusted the sunshine outside. Miss North, looking as pretty as ever, was there with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Spencer. If she was looking for a picture for the gallery at Eltham,I am afraid she was disappointed, as there were none large enough to suit the tastes of the Colonel. Pretty Miss Ethel Matthews was also present, I was told, with her Press agent, but I did not see her. Mrs. Govctt was in black, with the slightest touch of turquoise blue velvet in her hat; Cissy Graham, with her husband, Mr. Saunders; Miss ] Florence St. John, with a brother; Charles ' Coghlan; H. A. Jones, the dramatist, in a1 very sporting grey coat; Dudley Hardy, the artist; “ Diana,” whose jacket of suuff-coloured brown and sealskin pleased me much; and the usual people who come to private views to stare and be stared at.
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London Man of the World
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Mar 18, 1891
Page 8
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