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MR. FRANCIS E. JAMES, A.R.W.S.

By his paintings of flowers Mr. Francis E. James has gained a position of exceptional importance in the modern art world. He has done much admirable landscape work marked by unusual individuality of manner and by technical qualities of a very high order, but in his flower pictures he has for many years displayed a degree of originality and executive mastery which certainly entitle him to a place among the most accomplished exponents of this branch of practice that the British school has produced. Indeed, it can truly be said that among neither his predecessors nor his contemporaries is there any one with whom he can be at all closely compared, so personal is his art and so characteristic in its method and expression.

The dominant idea in the whole of his production is extreme care and accuracy of statement –

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