International studio (23.1904)

The Langham Sketching Club •



the Society, but on one or
two occasions he shed the
light of his presence at
their conversazioni. Phil
May was several times the
best-natured of critics, but
he never worked there. Of
other men who have worked
there many of the following
names are well known, and
some are famous: Mr.
Frank Dicksee, Mr. Blair
Leighton, Mr. Weedon,
G. Dodgson, Julian Giilich,
E. Lundgren, J. H. Mole,
Mr. W. Q. Orchardson,
Lake Price, H. Jutsum,
J. Lawlor. All these names
are on past records of the
Langham Society.
The Artists’ Society, or
to give it its full title,
“ The Artists’ Society for
, the Study of Historical,
“THE SKETCHING CLUB BY J. D. WINGFIELD . , _ . „
Poetical and Rustic .Fig-
ures,” was founded in 1830
that Chas. Birch began his career as a sculptor, as by a group of London painters led by John
also did Mr. C. B. Brock.
Among other men whose
names must always add to
the glory of the Society is
William Miiller, who was
president of the Society in
1845, and whose death,
during this same year,
has been attributed by
many of his friends to the
Royal Academy’s treat-
ment of him in continu-
ally “skying” some of his
best productions, which
now fetch thousands,
though the artist was so poor
during his lifetime that he
died in debt to the Society.
Fred. Barnard was for
years a member. Holland,
the famous landscape
painter, once worked there;
E. Duncan was a member,
as were also J. D. Watson,
Alfred Fripp, Carl Haag,
and Louis Haghe. Whist-
ler was never a member of “ the haunted house

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BY F. WALKER