tation in the foreground are clearly by his hand. However, he was not responsible for the tiger. But we do know that he exhibited certain pictures in the Royal Academy (after his Indian tonr, 1784) in which the animals had been painted by Sawrey Gilpin. viz: 1785; No.
1. VIEW ON THE HILLS THAT DIVIDE THE KINGDOM OF BENGAL FROM THE PROVINCE OF BAHEN: THE ANIMALS PAINTED BY MR GILPIN and again in No. 257. That Gilpin painted tigers is confirmed by the painting TYGERS (R.A. 1802 No. 180). It seems reasonable to suggest therefore that Gilpin was Hodges' co-artist. Gilpin, next to Stubbs, was the only animal painter of his period to rise above the normal competence of the sporting artist.

WILLIAM SCOTT (b. 1915), British

STILL LIFE

Gouache 19 x 28 ins

Purchased 1959

This powerful and original painter has a strength and directness — that of pure intuition — which quite precludes the soft picture-squcness and prettiness which so much English painting — even of an 'abstract' order — cannot escape....
A table haunts all his geometry. The restless pulse of living things everywhere inhabits his forms, pulling them out of the square, out of the straight....
William Scot persuades us that nothing is more real than these bare yet sensuous pictures which many will dismiss, even now, as ' too abstract.' Patrick Heron The Changing Forms of Art Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1955.
William Scott was born in Belfast in 1913. He studied at the Royal Academy School then worked in France for some years. His first London exhibition was in 1942. After the war he taught painting at the Bath Academy of Art and is now senior painting master there.

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