International studio (56.1915)

Studio- Talk

STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)

secure an even higher bid so as to augment still
further the Red Cross fund.

LONDON.—A deed of unparalleled malignity
on the part of the enemies of this country
has robbed the art world of one of its
—y most prominent representatives in the
person of Sir Hugh Lane, who was among the
many hundreds who perished when the “ Lusitania ”
was torpedoed early last month off the coast of
Ireland, not many miles from the place in County
Cork where he was born forty years ago. A
shrewd connoisseur and a staunch champion of the
claims of modern art, he has zealously striven
throughout his all too brief career to bring about a
revival of art in the Emerald Isle, and the
Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, which pending
the provision of a more suitable building is now
located in Harcourt Street remains as a memorial
of his deep interest in . the movement and his
generosity in helping it on,'for a large part of the
collection of works now forming the Museum was
a gift from him. He was
also instrumental in fori fl¬
ing an important collection
of modern works of art for
the Municipal Gallery in
Johannesburg, South Africa,
and that notable assemblage
of works by old Dutch
Masters destined for the
Cape Town National Gal¬
lery, which was the subject
of an article in this maga¬
zine at the time these works
were exhibited in London.
Sir Hugh’s name came
prominently before the
public only a few days
before the awful catastro¬
phe which cut short his
life, in connection with the
now famous Red Cross
Sale at Christie’s, when he
made the sensational bid
of /io,ooo for a portrait
to be painted by Mr.
Sargent in aid of the
funds of the Society, and
it is said that during his
visit to the United States
from which he was return¬
ing when the disaster hap-
pened he endeavoured to

Following shortly after the promotion to full
membership of Mr. Arnesby Brown and Mr. Joseph
Farquharson, three vacant associateships of the
Royal Academy were filled up on St. George’s Day
by the appointment of Mr. Edgar Bundy and
Mr. Glyn W. Philpot, painters, and Mr. Charles L.
Hartwell, sculptor. Mr. Bundy is one of the most
popular “ subject ” painters of the day, and his
pictures have for some years now been prominent
features of the Royal Academy summer exhibitions,
Mr. Glyn Philpot, on the other hand, has hitherto
identified himself rather with those who prefer to
hold aloof from Burlington House, and his election
has consequently been somewhat of a surprise.
He is, however, one of the very ablest of our
younger painters, and when this bitter war comes
to an end, and he resumes his peaceful vocation, we
may hope to see his influence reinforcing on the
walls of the Academy that of Mr. Orpen and the


“man in hi.ack”

l.Y GLYN PHILPOT, A.R.A.