+ Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 60w.
Wedmore, Frederick. National gallery, London: the Flemish school. *$1.25. Warne.
This is the initial volume of a new series to be called the “Art galleries of Europe.” Mr. Wedmore gives a brief sketch of Flemish art, and emphasizes its two phases: the Mediæval phase dominated by Jan Van Eyck and Hans Menlinc, the Renaissance phase, by Rubens and Vandyke. There are fifty-five reproductions from Haufstaengl photographs.
+ + Acad. 70: 557. Je. 9, ’06. 90w.
“Mr. Wedmore’s introduction is not an altogether favourable specimen of his power as a writer on art. True, it contains some very apposite criticisms, but these are interspersed with somewhat captious digressions.”
+ – Ath. 1906, 1: 707. Je. 9. 370w. + Ind. 61: 943. O. 18, ’06. 110w. Int. Studio. 29: sup. 83. S. ’06. 240w.
“Taken all in all, however, Mr. Wedmore’s paper is not a coherent dissertation on the Flemish school; it is too itemized, too scrappy, and too diversified to be of much value as a serious study. As a collection of notes, however, appended to artists’ names, it will save the student of the National gallery with Flemish proclivities much toil and trouble among art encyclopædias.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 508. Ag. 18, ’06. 350w. + Outlook. 83: 671. Jl. 31, ’06. 50w.
Wedmore, Frederick. Whistler and others. *$1.50. Scribner.