THE STREAM IN SUMMER-TIME
BY BENJAMIN WILLIAMS LEADER


THE STREAM IN SUMMER-TIME
BY B.W. LEADER, R.A. (1831 or 1833-1923)
IN THE GUILDHALL ART GALLERY, LONDON

Mr. Leader's method of work is interesting. Having got his idea, he considers the manner of treatment and then makes a small sketch in colour, measuring about eighteen inches by ten or twelve. Sometimes this is followed by one or two more similar studies, and when the preliminary sketch is satisfactory the artist takes a five-foot canvas, if the picture is an important one, and makes a careful study in monochrome of the light and shade only. Work on the actual picture is then begun, and as a rule this is accomplished without any alterations.

It is interesting to recall the fact that Mr. Leader's father was the Chief Engineer to the Severn Commissioners, and that the future Royal Academician was destined for the same profession, like his brother, who was the engineer of the Manchester Ship Canal. At the age of fourteen he entered his father's office, and it was one of his chief duties to make surveys on the River Severn. He succumbed to the temptation to sketch the beauties of the scenery, and as a result obtained his father's permission to train as an artist.

Since he first exhibited at the Royal Academy some fifty years ago, Mr. Leader has produced between two and three hundred pictures, mainly of Worcestershire and Welsh scenery, and of the Surrey country, which is nowadays regarded as his special province.

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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James Archer
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Bashkirtseff
The Meeting


Bouguereau
Charity


John Brett
From the Dorsetshire Cliffs


Arnesby Brown
The River Bank


Joseph Clark
Mother's Darling


John Constable
The Hay-Wain


Jean Baptiste Camille
Corot
The Fisherman's Hut


Jean Baptiste Camille
Corot
A Flood


Leonardo Da Vinci
Monna Lisa


Edouard Detaille
The Dream


Henri Fantin-Latour
Flowers


Thomas Gainsborough
Queen Charlotte


Thomas Gainsborough
The Market Cart


Jean Baptiste Greuze
The Head of a Girl


Jean Baptiste Greuze
Fidelity


James Clark Hook
Home With the Tide


Alfred William Hunt
Windsor Castle


Josef Israels
The Shipwrecked Mariner


B.W. Leader
The Stream in Summer-time


Madame Vigee Le Brun
Portrait of the Artist

Alphonse Legros
A Canal With a Fisherman


Anton Mauve
Watering Horses


J.L.E. Meissonier
The Cavalier


Sir J.E. Millais
Speak! Speak!


Sir J.E. Mallais
My First Sermon


George Morland
The Reckoning


George Morland
The Inside of a Stable


Murillo
The Immaculate Conception
of the Virgin


Alfred Parsons
When Nature Painted
All Things Gay


Ralph Peacock
The Sisters


Rembrandt
Syndics of the
Cloth Merchants' Guild


Guido Reni
"Ecce Homo"


Sir Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Mrs. Richard Hoare
With Her Infant Son


Briton Riviere
The Temptation
in the Wilderness


Dante Gabriel
Rossetti
Day Dreams


John Singer Sargent
Miss Ellen Terry
as Lady Macbeth


Lady Stanley
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His First Offence


Jan Steen
Grace Before Meat


Marcus Stone
On the Road from
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Constant Troyon
Watering Cattle


H.S. Tuke
"All Hands to the Pumps"


Velazquez
King Philip IV. of Spain


S.E. Waller
Sweethearts and Wives


Thomas Webster
The Smile

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