Text Appearing Before Image: MISS ROSS BY SIR H. RAEBURN, R.A. (In the Collection of Sir Edward Tennant, Bart., M.P.) Text Appearing After Image: (By permission ofMessrs. Sulley b Co.) JOHN HARVEY OF CASTLE SEMPLE BY SIR HENRY RAEBURN. R.A. Raebiirns Technique traits of those years the more luscious brushing tendsto grossness. But every now and again, when thesubject interests him, Raeburn recovers himself, oreven, in modern parlance, breaks his record. Andthere is evidence in some of those masterpieces thatthey have cost more than the usual half-dozen sit-tings. His own portrait (1815), and still more thatof Wardrop of Torbanehill, show traces of repeatedworkings, the painting in both having much of thequality of the masters of the less direct methods.In these and many others which could be named,both of male and female sitters, there are passagesrich and creamy as Gandy himself could havedesired, combined with a surety of modellingwhich he has never surpassed. Sometimes, as inMrs. James Campbell, the character seems achievedin a white heat, but oftener the Hals-like brushingis reserved for the costume, as if the painter, after
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