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BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN IMMORTALISED by the MASTERS R^^=^ ^s m ^ BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/beautifulchildreOOmacfrich MASTER LAMBTON BY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE {From Lord Dtirhani's Collection) Of the many fine pictures of children painted by Lawrence, one of the most famous is that of the poetic seven-year-old son of the first Lord Durham by his second marriage with the daughter of the second Earl Grey. The boy appears older than his age ; indeed, the handsome patrician little fellow was a pensive child beyond his years. He was not destined to succeed to the title, dying the year after his painter. BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN IMMORTALISED BY THE MASTERS r^^=^ C. HALDAN E M9FALL WITH JO REPRODUCTIONS IN COlOffR OF FAMOUS PAINTINGS LONDON. T.C.^ E.C.JACK NEW YORK. DODD.MEAD &. CO M S. L c'fff^ — — THE PERSONAL NOTE It would ill become pen of mine to let this volume go forth without paying tribute to the generous help that has gone to the making of its chief claim to merit. To Lord Spencer, Lord Crewe, Lord Durham, and Lord Lucas the debt is heavy for the handsome way in which they have placed their treasure at the service of these pages. To the courtesy of the Keepers of the State collections of the National Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Diploma Gallery, the Wallace Collection, and the Tate of the Louvre and at Versailles in Vienna, in Berlin, at Munich, at Turin, in Amsterdam, and at the Prado, also my thanks. To Mr. Martin Hardie at South Kensington I owe much goodwill and generous assistance. But above all I am bound to acknowledge my debt to my friend T. Leman Hare, to whose conception all that is best in the book is due, and without whose enterprise it would never have been completed. It is always my aim, since the exact illustration of photography gives so well the main idea of pictures, to write concerning such pictures, as an aid to the full understanding of them, the history of their makers and sitters and their relation to the age that bred them, rather than to attempt an cesthetic estimate of their artistry, which can appeal at best to the few; the more particularly as the few will gain a really true estimate of their artistic value only by close study of the originals. It has ever seemed to me a fatuous effort to try to instil by words into the senses of others the sensations aroused by a work of art in a magisterial verdict that would assume to lay down the complete and only significance of the achieved work ; the history of criticism is one long wreckage of the broken wisdom of such as have THE PERSONAL NOTE essayed the fooVs part. Indeed, were it possible ^ then the painter had had no need to do with colour what words could do as well. There is that in the sensing of works of art in colour that naught else may utter. And the widespread pedantry created by the written estimates of the writers of the past in the minds of worthy people who attempt to judge of great works of art through the spectacles of such as have had sufficient self-sufficiency to utter the final and godlike decision, has created a repulsive form of intellectual falsity and snobbery which has been a warning to me not to add fuel to the abomination. HALDANE McFALL. VI CONTENTS CHAfTER PAGB I. Concerning the Fleeting Wonder that is called Childhood i II. The Coming of the Child into the Kingdom of Art 5 THE FLEMISH GENIUS III. Wherein we see the Lamp of Art set aflame in Flanders 15 IV. Wherein is much Significance to Art in the Silt- ing of the Waters that flow by the City of Bruges 21 V. Wherein we see the Flemish Art make its Home in Blackfriars 39 THE DUTCH GENIUS VI. Wherein is Discovered a World-genius stepping out of a Police-court Scandal . 48 VII. Wherein shallow Respectability Browbeats a Giant—not without wide approval ... 56 VIII. Wherein it is seen that, the Captains being Dead, the Citadel slowly Surrenders . 64 vii CONTENTS THE SPANISH GENIUS CHAPTER PAGB IX. Wherein rarer Treasure is discovered to be GROWING in the STREETS OF SEVILLE THAN Spain's great Galleons poured thereinto . 69 X. In which the old Art of Spain dies of a Fall from a Scaffold 84 THE GERMANIC GENIUS XL Which has to do with the Children of the Years when the World wore great Wigs and Marlborough made his Wars ... 87 XII. Wherein is Hint that Spectacles may not always help the Sight 96 THE FRENCH GENIUS XIII. Which has to do with Assassination by Order OF THE King, and the Discovery of an Artist BY the Captain of the Guard . .101 XIV, Which has to do with the Smuggling or other- wise OF A Man-child into the Palace of St. James's in XV. Which shows worthy Folk being cheated by a Rogue 120 XVI. Which has to do with the Princelings of the Age of Elegance 125 XVII. In which we see the Child in French Art under the Shadow of the Revolution . 131 viii CONTENTS THE BRITISH GENIUS CHAPTER PAOB XVIII. Which proves that though the industrious Apprentice be kicked off his Master's door- step, he may alight on his feet . .137 XIX. Wherein Genius weds a Mysterious Beauty and finds a Patron in a Hoax . .146 XX. In which a Lock of a Beautiful Woman's Hair is discovered in a Dead Man's Pocket- book 151 XXI. Wherein Genius learns the Art of Shooting the Moon to be a part of his Apprentice- ship 155 XXII. Wherein Genius gets to Horse and sallies forth to seek its Destiny . .158 XXIII. Wherein we make our Bow to the Beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, and there is Hint OF A Duel 164 XXIV. Which discovers Genius running away from a Bore and falling into the Arms of the King's Majesty 170 XXV. Wherein we make our Bow to the Beautiful Mrs. Crewe, and find the Town furiously Divided 174 XXVI. In which a Beautiful Vision steps into the Home of Genius, and the "Age of Inno- is , cence" born 182 b ix CONTENTS CHAPTER FAGB XXVII. In which the Beautiful Vision flits out of THE Palace of Art, and Black Care enters THEREINTO; AND OF A GREAT RECONCILIATION —AND Death 187 XXVIII. Of a Great Shadow that falls, and of the Dusk, and of One Groping in the Darkness, and a Mighty Wreckage 195 XXIX. Which has to do with the Jockeying of the Great by the Lesser Great, and the Bays ON THE Lesser Skull 201 XXX. Wherein the Child sits enthroned . .205 . LIST OF PLATES IN COLOUR PICTURE ARTIST Master Lambton .... Lawrence Frontispiece opposi TE PAGtt Jacqueline de Bourgogne Mabuse i8 Fruitfulness Rubens 28 The Painter's Two Sons . Rubens 32 The Balbi Children Van Dyck . 40 Five Children of Charles I. Van Dyck . 42 Prince James as a Child . Van Dyck , 44 William of Orange and Princess Mary of England Van Dyck , 46 William III Van Ceulen , 46 Daughters of the Painter De Vos 48 The Little Princess Moreelse 50 Nurse and Child .... Frans Hals 52 Portrait of a Boy .... Rembrandt . 60 Helene van der Schalke Terborch 66 as Boy Archer .... Maes . 68 Jeune Princesse .... Netscher 68 Don Baltazar Carlos Velazquez . 80 Infanta Margarita .... Velazquez . 82 Don Philip Prosper Velazquez . 82 Henry Sydney Lely . 88 The Ladies Henrietta and Anne Churchill ..... Kneller . 96 Princess with a Parrot . Mengs . 98 Young Prince Mengs 100 Two Young Princes Mengs 100 XI LIST OF PLATES IN COLOUR PICTURE ARTIST OPPOSITE PAGE FRANgoiSE Marie de Bourbon . Mignard . iia Marie Anne de Bourbon-Conti Belle . no Prince James Stuart and his Sister Princess Louisa as Children Largilliere . 114 Infanta Anna Victoria . Largilliere . iifr Prince Charles Edward Stuart Largilliere . 11& Prince Henry Stuart, Cardinal York Largilliere . 118 Louis XV. as a Child Rigaud . 124 Nattier Louis of France .... 126 A Prince of France Nattier . 128 Princess Marie Isabelle . Nattier . 128 Madame Louise, Daughter of Louis XV Nattier . 130 Le Comte d'Artois and Madame Clothilde Drouais . , . 130 Fair-haired Child Fragonard . .... , • 134 Roi DE Rome Gerard ..... 134 Master Hare Reynolds ..... 154 Georgina, Countess of Spencer, and Daughter ..... Reynolds . 168 Miss Bowles Reynolds . 174 Master Crewe as Henry VIH. Reynolds . 176 Miss Crewe ..... Reynolds . 176 The Age of Innocence . Reynolds . 186 A Boy with a Rabbit Raeburn . 188 Viscount Althorp .... Reynolds . 190 Miss Haverfield .... Gainsborough . 194 Child with a Kid .... Lawrence . 204 Souvenir of Velazquez . Millais . 206 Carnation Lily, Lily Rose Sargent . , . 208 xu — BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN CHAPTER I CONCERNING THE FLEETING WONDER THAT IS CALLED CHILDHOOD ACHILD'S discarded toy lay in the grass, maimed and mutilated, the aforetime gay paint worn off it in patches, the plaything of the autumn's violences, ^ the victim of the rude assaults of winter, the ghostly relic of the rains of spring, the bleached and cracked sacrifice to the parching suns of summer—the Symbol of the Years. And as I lifted tenderly the pallid fragment of that once gaily bedecked puppet, that had brought laughter and merri- ment to the happy little one, it seemed to me that across the grass came running joyously, eager with graceful clumsi- ness, the exquisitely fashioned Child who had trampled over my heart with dear delightful tyrannies, and refused with large eyes of wonder and red lips of reckless logic to under- stand any protest—except that I was her footstool.
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