130 YEARS AGO
From the ARCHIVE
FROM THE STRAD JULY 1894 VOL.5 NO.51
In ‘Fiddlers on Canvas’, The Strad surveys paintings at the London art exhibitions of interest to string players. The young lady ‘lost in reverie’ (below) grows up to be Agatha Christie
We wonder to what extent violinists in general are disposed to patronise the sister art of painting. Perhaps not as much as they should do, though this is only surmise on our part. The elevating and inspiring effect of the grandest works of art should appeal very forcibly to students of our most poetic and inspired instrument. But, apart from this view of the influence one art may exercise over the followers of another, violinists will find much to interest them specially in the year’s exhibition of the Royal Academy. And, though art criticism is not supposed to be within the province of a fiddler’s paper, we think there may be many of our readers who will like to have some particulars thereof.