International studio (14.1901)

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work. Admirable work
was shown by Sara Purser,

Walter Osborne, J. B.

Yeats, N. Hone, and
others, while there were
also many interesting pic-
tures by artists of less
repute. While on the
subject of pictures, the
important bequest of ten
works by old Dutch
masters, which has just
fallen to the lot of the
National Gallery of Ire-
land, must not be for-
gotten. The pictures were
left by the late Sir Henry
Barron, Bart., an Irish-
man who spent most of his life in the Diplomatic
Service, and was for many years Minister at

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SILVER CUP SET WITH STONES

Stuttgart. Amongst them are The Halt, by
Solomon Van Ruysdael, a well-known picture
formerly in the celebrated San Donato collection
of Prince Demidoff; an interesting interior by
H. de Hondt; a very fine example of Jan
Wynants; and a group in a landscape, Christ at
the House of Martha and Mary, in which the
figures are by Rubens. E. D.

BELL PUSH

BY EDGAR SIMPSON

BY OLIVER BAKER

BIRMINGHAM.—At their Spring Exhi-
bition the Birmingham Society of
Artists made a departure from their
usual custom, and devoted a portion
of their space to “ Arts and Crafts,” an interest-
ing little collection of works by various artists,

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