MR RAWORTH’S PICTURES.

Evening Star, Issue 4052, 21 February 1876, Page 2

MR RAWORTH’S PICTURES.

Mr Sawbrtb, of Sydney, who twelve months or more since visited aoire of the r mantic so j nfß with which Ot go aboun ’b, on an tour. ha» row on exhbition and • le, at th« University Hall, a number - f eery c'i ice water coir p •jnfngs, which will well repay inspectio . They are some of the remit* of five years’ in this and other Co o ie% and are not Altogether Zea'and scenery although they are mainly go. We do not purpose selecting *ny f om this large number and drawing a*t nlion to their special beauties. But litt’e odvanta e would be conferred upn a visitor bv an opinion of that character, whil-v the artist himself, conscious of the c m arative ethat passed unnotice ‘ that moat truly ropre ented nature. But it wou d be Unfair to Mr Haworth not to achnow T edge those peculiarities of style which give excellence to his wo<-ks. Mr I'aworth is a I wer and student <>f nature, and a ms at recordin'? and reproducing its beauties There are critics who appear to look upon pictures as maioly work* of imagioa ion, ana examine them with a foregone conclusion that the coloring is for m re effect. Prrhaps they lure them- * elves seen a landscape represented, and because there are Tghts ani s*'ad ws, clou I a >d sky effects in the picture, t atth y did not observe, or wh : ch were '-bs-nt at the tune ef their; vsit, they condemn the artist as an inv ntor. A li!tie consideration would t-nd to correct this oy»ic»l spirit Manv circumstances enter into the choice of the time w> en and the point from wh»nc* a beautiful scene shall b * pahred, and in a judic'ous selection of th se an artist displays skill that tend* materially to snccea-ful after-treatment his subject. *Vr Kaworth hj g an arist’c eye for Scenic beauty, and appear* to aot upon the oob- *

'{notion that nature cannot be few toyed upon, that in dom from mannerism.. Each subject is appro ■ i natelr taodled. His : tyle« broad ted free. The put-pea of _ evening, glowing on the *h° u ’ fa*m aide, enriching tints lights und deepen* m-r Phadows, the rosy of morning fcilding to*er ng peaksand lofty trees, wlsiS%dowtbe jjr y mi-t rises fresh from th« steamihgiake, or the deep rich g eys of woody nookTShd roaky glens are skilfully introduced < W« B ometimM h«*ar such effects c nuemned as exa /relations when, t : ted by nature, th y fal fardiort of the reality. 'ne raaon may bn that in a pa nting eye gr sp» the seen** as a wboe. cono ntrated into a few in< he»> of space, while la uatm e every feature must be view- d semrateiy so that however beautiful each nay bethe pic? ure alone them n comhinaton. In Mr s collection the e are four views of scenery; in ew South Wales scarcely ex* celled in beauty by our own romantic laud* scars The remainder avemostK pictures of r me of Zealand's lake-*, mountains, gl-ns, and glaciers, w-th the r accom panying rushing ■irents, wooded sloes a>d gullin.*, and snowy p rile. We need not enumerate tbo aubioct* nor dwell'upon th which will be best appreciated by the pictures being seen. W« bel *-ve some of the ext ibits a t already so'd, and< there painted tooider. but the hik'd that produeni he*r glnal can execute a copy, and we believe Mr ttawort* wtil enter iutoar-.-angemeats to that ff> ct.