Royal Academy Students
“the MASQUE OF CUPID— SPENSER’S ‘FAERIE QUEENE’” BY MISS ELSIE GREGORY
Petitions at Burlington House, most of the erring
was of this effeminate kind. The manner of
drawing, considered as a whole, was round and
feeble in its constructive planes, and the style of
painting was often either timid and lax, especially
in its suggestions of anatomy, or else so sweetly
accomplished as to be unstudentlike. Then, again,
there was but little evidence of bold, masculine
Battersea bridge” (turner gold medal and scholarship) by osmond pittman
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“the MASQUE OF CUPID— SPENSER’S ‘FAERIE QUEENE’” BY MISS ELSIE GREGORY
Petitions at Burlington House, most of the erring
was of this effeminate kind. The manner of
drawing, considered as a whole, was round and
feeble in its constructive planes, and the style of
painting was often either timid and lax, especially
in its suggestions of anatomy, or else so sweetly
accomplished as to be unstudentlike. Then, again,
there was but little evidence of bold, masculine
Battersea bridge” (turner gold medal and scholarship) by osmond pittman
37