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Studio-Talk
STUDIO-TALK. The death of Mabel Beardsley (Mrs. Bealby-
s z? /->/-. ^ , j j \ Wright), sister of Aubrey Beardsley, was announced
irrom Our Own Correspondents.) , . '. TT , , , ,
early m May. Her health had been a matter of
CDON.—Mr. William Cleverly Alexander, the gravest anxiety to her friends for years. She
whose death occurred in the latter half of was the author of some delicate papers on subjects
April, will be remembered in the history relating to art and philosophy, and before marriage
of nineteenth-century painting for his was well known on the stage. Without a marked
early appreciation of Whistler. His name will go gift with the pencil, she possessed in many ways
down with the the natural genius
child-portrait which ^^^^^^ and original tem-
series did not the Central School
manent gift. It is loss of Mr. Niels
° memorial tablet in bronze with silver and enamel
said that he once enrichments. designed by edward spencer and Lund, Mr. Taylor's
refused an offer of executed by charles moxey of the artificers' guild locum-tenens at
^£40,000 for it. A the Central School,
great frequenter of picture exhibitions, Mr. Alex- To the Society's president, Sir Frank Short, the
ander somewhat withdrew his patronage from war has brought a cruel personal bereavement, his
modern art in his later years, but the few only son having died from heart disease brought
artists who then had dealings with him appreciated about by exposure while on service at the Front
the high generosity with which he would arrange after he had recovered from wounds,
terms.
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Studio-Talk
STUDIO-TALK. The death of Mabel Beardsley (Mrs. Bealby-
s z? /->/-. ^ , j j \ Wright), sister of Aubrey Beardsley, was announced
irrom Our Own Correspondents.) , . '. TT , , , ,
early m May. Her health had been a matter of
CDON.—Mr. William Cleverly Alexander, the gravest anxiety to her friends for years. She
whose death occurred in the latter half of was the author of some delicate papers on subjects
April, will be remembered in the history relating to art and philosophy, and before marriage
of nineteenth-century painting for his was well known on the stage. Without a marked
early appreciation of Whistler. His name will go gift with the pencil, she possessed in many ways
down with the the natural genius
child-portrait which ^^^^^^ and original tem-
series did not the Central School
manent gift. It is loss of Mr. Niels
° memorial tablet in bronze with silver and enamel
said that he once enrichments. designed by edward spencer and Lund, Mr. Taylor's
refused an offer of executed by charles moxey of the artificers' guild locum-tenens at
^£40,000 for it. A the Central School,
great frequenter of picture exhibitions, Mr. Alex- To the Society's president, Sir Frank Short, the
ander somewhat withdrew his patronage from war has brought a cruel personal bereavement, his
modern art in his later years, but the few only son having died from heart disease brought
artists who then had dealings with him appreciated about by exposure while on service at the Front
the high generosity with which he would arrange after he had recovered from wounds,
terms.
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