DOI issue:
No. 62 (April, 1902)
DOI article:Sparrow, Walter Shaw: A young english sculptor: Gilbert Bayes
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.22773#0124
Gilbert Bayes
“JASON PLOUGHING THE ACRE OF MARS”
BY GILBERT BAYEs
Council Scholarship for
two years, he passed into
the Royal Academy, and
came under the influence
and guidance of three well-
known sculptors, Mr.
Brock, Mr. Bates, and Mr.
Frampton.
If academic prizes count
for much, then Gilbert
Bayes has every reason to be
satisfied with the honours
conferred upon him by his
Alma Mater, for he won
there nearly all the prizes
that could fall to his lot.
In 1897, he gained the
Armitage Prize • the next
year, in the set of models
from the life, the silver
medal became his ; and in
1899, he came in an easy
winner for the gold medal
and the travelling scholar-
ship. Since then he has
passed three months in
Italy, and for nine months
he has studied in Paris.
This division of his time
between Italy and France
is very well worth noting,
as prolonged visits to Italy
are not good for “gold
medallists,” nor for any
other young artists who
wish to keep their minds
free from the unrest en-
gendered by the contem-
plation of many great his-
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“A KNIGHT ON BY GILBERT BAYES
HIS WAR-HORSE”
toric styles, all quite <$'
ferent from the young way6
of expression which the)
are slowly forming f°r
themselves under the 111
fluence of new condition5'
The combined action
varied forms of greatne55
on sensitive minds is veb
apt to produce a feeling 0
self-depreciation that bin
ders progress. Hogarth
—perhaps the first invent°r
of a style essentially Engb^1
—saw the dangers inherit
with masterpieces of art’
and he protested vigorously
against the Academic cus
tom of sending young
abroad to study the 01
Masters in Italy. He h»
seen again and again that
such travelling scholarship5
“ reduced the student ft01’1
Nature,” filling his unsteady
young mind with the fabe
glamour of imitative aspira
tions.
But Hogarth was a
of common sense, and b’5
words were laughed at |0
official circles. The g°
medallist is still expecte
to visit the Italian fnaster
pieces,
official
that the modern
themselves did
the
mind to recogn'st
Italia05
nothin
great in art until a few U^1
“JASON PLOUGHING THE ACRE OF MARS”
BY GILBERT BAYEs
Council Scholarship for
two years, he passed into
the Royal Academy, and
came under the influence
and guidance of three well-
known sculptors, Mr.
Brock, Mr. Bates, and Mr.
Frampton.
If academic prizes count
for much, then Gilbert
Bayes has every reason to be
satisfied with the honours
conferred upon him by his
Alma Mater, for he won
there nearly all the prizes
that could fall to his lot.
In 1897, he gained the
Armitage Prize • the next
year, in the set of models
from the life, the silver
medal became his ; and in
1899, he came in an easy
winner for the gold medal
and the travelling scholar-
ship. Since then he has
passed three months in
Italy, and for nine months
he has studied in Paris.
This division of his time
between Italy and France
is very well worth noting,
as prolonged visits to Italy
are not good for “gold
medallists,” nor for any
other young artists who
wish to keep their minds
free from the unrest en-
gendered by the contem-
plation of many great his-
104
“A KNIGHT ON BY GILBERT BAYES
HIS WAR-HORSE”
toric styles, all quite <$'
ferent from the young way6
of expression which the)
are slowly forming f°r
themselves under the 111
fluence of new condition5'
The combined action
varied forms of greatne55
on sensitive minds is veb
apt to produce a feeling 0
self-depreciation that bin
ders progress. Hogarth
—perhaps the first invent°r
of a style essentially Engb^1
—saw the dangers inherit
with masterpieces of art’
and he protested vigorously
against the Academic cus
tom of sending young
abroad to study the 01
Masters in Italy. He h»
seen again and again that
such travelling scholarship5
“ reduced the student ft01’1
Nature,” filling his unsteady
young mind with the fabe
glamour of imitative aspira
tions.
But Hogarth was a
of common sense, and b’5
words were laughed at |0
official circles. The g°
medallist is still expecte
to visit the Italian fnaster
pieces,
official
that the modern
themselves did
the
mind to recogn'st
Italia05
nothin
great in art until a few U^1