International studio (40.1910)

Art School Notes

guineas paid in advance, and the prospectus
announces that "Six Persons wishing to form a
Class to learn the Principles " could do so for a
guinea an hour. What the principles were is not
divulged, but there seems little doubt that Sass
though a bad painter was a good teacher. Wilkie
and Constable both recommended him, and so
did Sir Thomas Lawrence, who himself arranged
the casts in the antique room in Charlotte Street,
j| ^ J/^A/lf^f^ji^^" which was designed on the lines of the Pantheon

in Rome. And he was also recommended by
Lawrence's successor in the Presidential office to
a future President, for it was to Sass's school, by
the advice of Sir Martin Archer Shee, that Millais
went as a child of nine, to pass into the Academy
school at ten—the youngest student on record at
that school.

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The exhibition of the Gilbert-Garret Sketch
Club held last month in Great Ormond Street was
fully up to the very creditable average of its recent
predecessors. Mr. C. Ince in Canvey (No. 22)
showed a charcoal landscape of great excellence.
Other good landscapes in oil or water-colour were
contributed by Mr. J. Heir, Mr. W. B. Rowe, and
Mr. J. Barnard Davis. Figure painters were less
in evidence than usual, but Mr. E. V. Pearce had
two or three attractive studies in oil, and Mr. A. P.
Monger's picture of an old woman at her fireside
presentation address designed and drawn by was careful and sincere, though unduly hard.

edith lovell Andrews Some spirited poster designs were exhibited by

{Glasgow School of Art) Mr_ Jafck May_ w_ T w

methods of reproduction and other technical f ^ LASGOW.—In the revival of the art of
matters that can only be supplied by specialists t lettering, which was practised with so

engaged in the production of journals in which ^ much success in the Middle Ages,

illustration is an important feature. ^ Glasgow has not been behindhand.

- At the School of Art many students devote them-

Seventy years ago London possessed only one selves to the art. Amongst the more individualistic
private art school worth considering, and to this exponents stands Edith Lovell Andrews, a young
school in Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, directed student of the school, who was selected to write
by Mr. Henry Sass, went most of the boys and the address presented to the esteemed Principal,
young men of the time who wished to prepare for Mr. Francis H. Newbery, on the occasion of the
the entrance examination of the Royal Academy recent celebrations connected with the inaugura-
schools. By chance a prospectus of Sass's school, tion of the extension. The whole design is delight-
issued in 18405 lately came into the hands of the fully simple, charmingly illuminated, and quite
writer of these notes, and some of its particulars unique in style. Miss Andrews' method of letter-
may perhaps be of interest to art students of to- ing is somewhat daring. On a large scroll of
day. The morning classes, it is curious to note, vellum, on which there are over a hundred names,
were held from eight till ten, and the fee was twelve she does the brush work without previous pencil-
guineas a year, with an extra guinea a year for ling, and with an unerring rapidity that is sur-
every hour's study after ten. Students who wished prising. The artist is now engaged on the
to become private pupils of Mr. Sass could enter " printing " of a ballad, in a style and shape that
into a five years' engagement for two hundred will go to constitute it a remarkable book. J. T.
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