International studio (23.1904)

Studio-Talk


DINING-ROOM IN DUTCH OAK

DESIGNED BY G. M. ELI-WOOD
EXECUTED BY J. S. HENRY

artist who is already well
represented in the Gallery.
On its merits—or rather
on its lack of them—this
London River ought not to
have been bought; and
still less ought it to be
presented to the nation as a
worthy illustration of the
work of our modern school.

Mr. G. M. Ell wood
requires no introduction to
readers of The Studio,
many examples of his
designs having already
been published in these
pages. We give illustra-
tions of some admirable
furniture designed by him,
and executed by Mr. J. S.
Henry.


commonplace it is certainly not incapable, and it
illustrates adequately one
phase of artistic practice.
But there is no excuse
for the selection of Mr.
Napier Hemy’s London
River, because the picture
is below the standard
which ought to be main-
tained in a national col-
lection. It must not be
forgotten that these
Chantrey purchases are
never questioned by the
inefficient board of trustees
at the National Gallery, and
that in the absence of
any judicial body capable
of distinguishing between
what is good and bad in
modern art there is no
check upon the process
of dumping on the Tate
Gallery the things which
the Council of the
Academy buys in moments
of aberration. There-
fore a protest is quite justi-
fiable against the acqui-
sition of a particularly
unsuccessful attempt by an
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The exhibition of the Society of Miniature

DESIGNED BY G. M. ELLWOOD
EXECUTED BY J. S. HENRY

CABINET IN MAHOGANY INLAID WITH
PEWTER AND ROSEWOOD