International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

"THE BEER CELLAR" (ETCH!KG)

BY EDtTH A. HCFE

ceased in Juiy, and that
the premises in Queen
Square have been taken
over by the London County
Council for a technicai
trade schooi. In a sense
the schooi stiil iives, as its
ciasses have been trans-
ferred to the new Centrai
School of Arts and Crafts
in Southampton Row, but
the threads of its traditions
have been severed by the
loss of the stateiy oid
eighteenth-century houses
in Bioomsbury, in which
for neariy half a century
the artistic education of
London girls was carried
on under Miss Gann and
Miss Wilson, and in more
recent years under Miss
Rose Weiby. The iist of
women-artists whose train-
ing was commenced in
Queen Square is a very
iong one, and it inciudes
the names of Mrs. Aliing-
ham, R.W.S, Miss Hen-
rietta Rae, and Miss Mary
L. Gow, R. I.

attached to the school, that showed a
sincere endeavour to grapple with the
difficulties of open air light and colour.
Miss Birks was second, with a clever
painting of a man reading a paper ; Miss
Garlant third and Miss Fearon fourth.
In the class for portrait painting, life-
size heads in oils, Miss Bredal! was hrst
and Miss Brend, Miss Pennethorne and
Miss Sale, second, third and fourth.
The London School of Art has not been
very long established, but its good
methods of teaching and the high repu-
tation of its professors have already
earned it distinction both here and
abroad. Among its two hundred pupils
various European countries are repre-
sented, and it has also succeeded in
attracting American students.

Past students of the Royal Female
School of Art will be sorry to hear that
its existence as a separate institution


EMBROtDERED StLK CUSHtON DESIGNED AND EXECUTED BY
EMMA GUTKNSOHN

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