Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30

A Batch of New Magistrates
About a dozen names have been added to the Commission of the Peace for Oxfordshire. Most of the newly appointed magistrates were sworn in last Tuesday's Quarter Sessions. The latest list of local magisterial appointments is not tremendously exciting. When Labour took over the reigns of office some shuddering souls feared that among other consequences of their advent to power would be the flooding of the Commission of the Peace with men and women whose sole qualification was an ardent devotion to extreme views. So far these fears have not materialised. This year's crop of Justices of the Peace is decidedly innocuous. It is, in fact, so conservatively framed that it does not contain a single woman!

The Old Order Remaineth.
Any fluttering which may have manifest themselves in local dovecotes over this matter will be set at rest with the publication of the new magisterial list. The very first name, that of Viscount Valentia, should have quietening effect. His appointment continues a traditional link between county affairs and the Annesley family. Another of the new magistrates, Admiral Ruck-Keene, of Bignold Park, Bicester, is a scion of an old Oxfordshire family. A new magistrate with a reputation in circles not confined to Oxfordshire is Mr. Sydney Decimus Kitson, F.S.A., of Kidlington. Add to these gentemen a brace of retired Army officers and one or two owners of county properties and we have a list of new magistrates that would survive the careful scrutiny of the most exclusive of Primrose League habitations.
Oxford Times, 4.7.'30.

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Mr Manson makes altogether too much of the fact of colour and it leads him into some astonishing statements. That Cotman was "peculiarly a painter" may pass, but it is profoundly untrue to say that "without colour he is almost mediocre." Cotman's great powers as an artist are all to be deduced from his pencil drawings- even the drawings that were made for school copies.
Extract from a review of J.B. Manson's 'The Tate Gallery' in Times Lit. Sup. [Times Literary Supplement] 31-7.'30.

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LOAN TO THE TATE GALLERY
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BRITISH SCHOOL OF PAINTING
A collection of 150 pictures has been lent by Mr Arthur Morrison and is being exhibited for some weeks in the ground floor Galleries at XXIX and XXX Millbank.
The collection consists chiefly of small oil paintings of the British School of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and among them are many works by Wilson, Zoffany, Turner, Morland, Crome, Cotman, and Constable, but there are also a few later works by Whistler, Pryde, and other artists of the later nineteenth century period.
The collection is being exhibited with a view to enabling the trustees to make a selection of those suitable for the national collections, Mr Morrison having generously expressed his intention of eventually bequeathing a certain number to the nation.
*The Times - July 22. 1930.

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COTMAN
63) "A mountainous lake scene", ROBERTS "an Eastern Temple" (sepia), TURNER "Buildings with market, figures in foreground", "A Study of trees" GIRTIN "A landscape with cottage" and 1 other, (6)
Hancomb - 29.7-'30