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SIR ALFRED EAST, A.R.A., P.R.B.A.

There is more than one lesson to be learned from study of the water-colour work of Sir Alfred East. Not only are his technical processes exceedingly instructive, but the æsthetic purpose also which is revealed throughout the whole of his production is more than ordinarily significant. Not many artists keep so consistently in view a particular aim, or work out so logically a definite theory of artistic practice, and fewer still succeed so completely in preventing a pervading intention from degenerating into an inflexible convention. In everything he paints, the predominant idea is to produce a result which will be rightly decorative, a coherent and carefully adjusted design which presents the facts of nature in an orderly arrangement and sets out the structure of a chosen subject in a sufficiently

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