J.W. Waterhouse

Having visited Leeds City Art Gallery today, to make a comparison between the version of Herbert Draper's 'Ulysses and the Sirens' in my local gallery (Ferens Gallery, Hull) and Draper's replica held in Leeds I made some enquiries about Nino's The Lady of Shalott, (1894) The Lady -is- going on tour, according to the curator at Leeds. She will go to Groninger Museum and also to Montreal, but she will miss the Royal Acadamy in London as Leeds had already promised her to Lincoln ( I presume this will be the Usher Museum and Gallery, Lincoln, U.K.) for an exhibition themed on paintings inspired by Tennyson. Nothing on the Lincoln exhibition on their website yet, I think it is too far in the future, but I will make some more enquiries, watch this space. Most of the hang in the Victorian Art room in Leeds was the same as when I visited last summer, a small change was that Atkinson Grimshaws wonderful 'The Old Mil' which displays his expertise of light, not in a moonlit scene, but in showing an old mill deep in the gloom of a dense forest was not on display (it is on loan). Replacing it was a remarkable, almost minimalist snowscape by Atkinson Grimshaw 'Snow and Mist "Caprice in Yellow Minor" ' showing a figure walking on a snowy track, in the distance a suggestion of a lake and distant, snow-encrusted wooded shore. Rather nice and very different from the moon.and gaslit docksides and rivers we know and love. I beg to remain, your humble and obedient servant. Nigel In the city and county of Kingston upon Hull, on the feast day of St. John Camillus the Good