International studio (16.1902)

Studio-Talk

Genius, somehow, is not hereditary; talent is
pretty often, and sometimes, in the second or
third generation, it develops into genius, and
then dies out of the family history. A strong and
a touching example of the transmission of talent
from parents to their children is to be seen
in a fine portrait of the late Mr. Onslow Ford,
the Academician, whose sudden and untimely
death is a real loss to British sculpture. The
portrait is by Mr. Wolfram Onslow Ford, the
sculptor’s son, and, though painted at the age of
twenty, is in all respects an accomplished piece of
work, well drawn, admirable in its virile simplicity,
and having much character and charm. It has
about its style a certain air that suggests Memlinc.
Mr. Ingram Taylor is not so well known for his
metal-work designs as he is for his graceful stencils
and his painted panels, yet in the suggestions that
he carries out for workers in metals there is much
fancy of a delicate but workmanlike kind. This is
shown in the bronze handles for a door (here illus-
trated) which were executed byAldam Heaton&Co.,
for a steamship belonging to the White Star Line.

Mr. Walter West’s tinted drawing, A Morning
Call., tells its own little story of winsome delicacy
and grace and distinction. Mr. West ought to
illustrate the works of Goldsmith, and attract our
newspaper democracy to the sweet, bracing wit of
Addison.
LIVERPOOL. —The pictures purchased by
the Arts Committee from the last Autumn
Exhibition, to be added to the Liver-
pool Permanent Collection, include four
oil paintings : The Passing of a Great Queen, by
W. L. Wyllie ; Tristram and Iseult, by Herbert J.
Draper; Haymakers Resting, by F. A. Delobbe;
Life and Thought Have Gone Away, by Mrs.
Evelyn de Morgan ; also two water-colour drawings
by local artists—Sultry June, by J. Kirkpatrick, and
Snowdon, from Anglesey, by J. Clinton Jones.
H. B. B.
RISTOL. — Bristol has recently held its
fourth—and by far its best—Exhibition
of Arts and Crafts. By a process of
judicious selection the standard of
exhibits has been steadily raised, and much good



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