International studio (14.1901)

Studio- Talk

few really good works to be found in them. Mr.
Brock’s bust of Queen Victoria, a splendidly digni-
fied and perfectly faithful portrait; Mr. Gos-
combe John’s colossal statue of the late Duke of
Devonshire; Mr. F. W. Pomeroy’s statues of Oliver
Cromwell and Dean Hook; Mr. G. J. Frampton’s
Edward VI; Mr. J. M. Swan’s superb bronze Puma
and Macaw, a decoratively treated statuette, Castles
m the Air, by Mr. W. Reynolds-Stephens ; and
Mr. Onslow Ford’s statuette, Glory to the Dead,
rank among the chief attractions of the exhibition,
and do full credit to British art.

The collectibn of pictures and drawings which
fills one of the galleries in the exhibition at Earl’s
Court is well worthy of attention. It consists of a
series of portraits of prominent military men, of
a number of battle paintings by artists of repute,
and of a large group of drawings and sketches of
incidents in the South African war. Among the
portraits are Mr. Ouless’s Lord Roberts, Frank
Holl’s Duke of Cambridge, a good copy of Pro-
fessor von Herkomer’s Archibald Forbes, Sir F.
Grant’s Viscount Gough and Lord Raglan, and
other examples by Chevalier Desanges, Sir Godfrey
Kneller, Cornelius Jansen, and some other noted
painters of various periods. The chief pictures are

Mr. J. Hassall’s First in the Trenches, Mr. Caton
Woodville’s Night Charge at Kassassin, Mr. W. B.
Wollen’s After Naseby, Mr. J. B. Beadle’s The
Captive Eagle, A Warm Corner for the Guns, by
Mr. Louis Edwards, and Lady Butler’s Wounded
Heroes and The Colours of the Scots Guards at
Alma. In the series of black-and-white drawings
few of the better-known military draughtsmen are
unrepresented. Good work comes especially from
Mr. Mortimer Menpes, Mr. F. A. Stewart, Mr.
Sidney Paget, Mr. Ernest Prater, Mr. J. Charlton,
Mr. Stanley Wood, Mr. F. Craig, and Mr. J.
Bacon. Altogether, this art gallery can be reckoned
as a very important adjunct to a military show.

We have pleasure in giving a reproduction of
Mr. Peacock’s very excellent portrait of Edward
Cavendish, the son of Mr. Victor Cavendish, M.P.

A recent exhibition of furniture, designed by
Mr. Leonard Wyburd in collaboration with Mr.
Arthur Lasenby Liberty and Mr. John Llewellyn,
deserves mention, because it was the first
serious attempt in London to bring together
work of a modem character in which not only the
furniture but the decoration of the walls and the
accessories were in accord with each other.