DOI Heft:
Nr. 158 (April 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0194
Studio- Talk
ROME.—Mr. John Elliott, whose finely more and more to portraiture; and to the poetic
sympathetic portrait of Mrs. Julia Ward feeling and fine colour which distinguish his
Howe is here reproduced, is, as his name decorative work is here added an intuitive percep-
shows, a Scotchman. A student under tion of character, combined with a grace and
Carolus-Duran in Paris, and later under Senor refinement only too rare in modern work. The
Villegas in Rome, he has lived chiefly in the latter most notable of his portraits is certainly that of
city, where during the last ten years he has been Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, already mentioned, which
engaged on large decorative works. Of these one attracted a great deal of attention when exhibited
of the most important is The Triumph of Time in in Rome. Other examples of Mr. Elliott's work in
the Boston Public Library, others being The Story this line are his portrait of the Duke of Cambridge,
of the Vintage for Mrs. Potter Palmer's house in three different views of the head of Lady Cromer,
Chicago, and the just completed decoration re- and three heads in red chalk of the Marquis of
cently exhibited in Rome, Diana of the Tides, for Winchester, Lord Ava, and General Wauchope,
the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Curiously which were in the exhibition held at Lansdowne
the artist, though accustomed to work on so large House after the Boer War. S. D.
a scale, is also an exquisite miniature painter, pre-
serving the beautiful texture of the ivory and I ~V RUSSELS.—The sculptor, Ch. Samuel,
obtaining on the tiny discs, by the use of trans- I J of Brussels, some of whose works in
parent colour only, effects at once broad and I \ ivory have already appeared in The
delicate. Of late he has been turning his attention ^ Studio (Nov. 1902 and May, 1904),
exhibited recently a statu-
ette, Une danseuse antique
(reproduced on p. 146),
which undoubtedly de-
serves to rank as his most
important achievement in
this genre. The general
line of the composition is
graceful and harmonious,
and the details of the
work — of the hands es-
pecially — have been
executed with consum-
mate finish. The model-
ling, also, of a memorial
plaquette to the Baron F.
A. Gevaert has been
entrusted to M. Samuel.
M. Fonson, the publisher,
has undertaken, very cour-
ageously and without
official support, to have
medals struck in memory
of illustrious Belgians,
and the occasion of the
death of the eminent
Director of the Brussels
Conservatoire seemed to
him a fitting one to in-
augurate the series. The
very characteristic profile
of the " master," with his
ironical smile, has been
portrait of mrs. julia ward howe by john elliott reproduced by the sculptor
us
ROME.—Mr. John Elliott, whose finely more and more to portraiture; and to the poetic
sympathetic portrait of Mrs. Julia Ward feeling and fine colour which distinguish his
Howe is here reproduced, is, as his name decorative work is here added an intuitive percep-
shows, a Scotchman. A student under tion of character, combined with a grace and
Carolus-Duran in Paris, and later under Senor refinement only too rare in modern work. The
Villegas in Rome, he has lived chiefly in the latter most notable of his portraits is certainly that of
city, where during the last ten years he has been Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, already mentioned, which
engaged on large decorative works. Of these one attracted a great deal of attention when exhibited
of the most important is The Triumph of Time in in Rome. Other examples of Mr. Elliott's work in
the Boston Public Library, others being The Story this line are his portrait of the Duke of Cambridge,
of the Vintage for Mrs. Potter Palmer's house in three different views of the head of Lady Cromer,
Chicago, and the just completed decoration re- and three heads in red chalk of the Marquis of
cently exhibited in Rome, Diana of the Tides, for Winchester, Lord Ava, and General Wauchope,
the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Curiously which were in the exhibition held at Lansdowne
the artist, though accustomed to work on so large House after the Boer War. S. D.
a scale, is also an exquisite miniature painter, pre-
serving the beautiful texture of the ivory and I ~V RUSSELS.—The sculptor, Ch. Samuel,
obtaining on the tiny discs, by the use of trans- I J of Brussels, some of whose works in
parent colour only, effects at once broad and I \ ivory have already appeared in The
delicate. Of late he has been turning his attention ^ Studio (Nov. 1902 and May, 1904),
exhibited recently a statu-
ette, Une danseuse antique
(reproduced on p. 146),
which undoubtedly de-
serves to rank as his most
important achievement in
this genre. The general
line of the composition is
graceful and harmonious,
and the details of the
work — of the hands es-
pecially — have been
executed with consum-
mate finish. The model-
ling, also, of a memorial
plaquette to the Baron F.
A. Gevaert has been
entrusted to M. Samuel.
M. Fonson, the publisher,
has undertaken, very cour-
ageously and without
official support, to have
medals struck in memory
of illustrious Belgians,
and the occasion of the
death of the eminent
Director of the Brussels
Conservatoire seemed to
him a fitting one to in-
augurate the series. The
very characteristic profile
of the " master," with his
ironical smile, has been
portrait of mrs. julia ward howe by john elliott reproduced by the sculptor
us