International studio (58.1916)

Studio-Talk

but in the work by Mr. Nicholson we have men-
tioned the “khaki” has been subdued and the
result is far more agreeable. Among the rest of
the exhibits at the Grosvenor Gallery we noted
some admirable examples of feminine portraiture,
as for instance Mr. Lavery’s Mrs. Thorpe, Mr.
Charles Shannon’s The Embroidered Shawl {Miss
Mirriam Levy), Mr. de Laszlo’s Portrait Study :
Countess of Pourtales, Mr Ambrose McEvoy’s
Mrs. St. John Hutchinson, several works by Mr.
Gerald Kelly, including a fine study in brown of a
Burmese girl, Moung Ba, Mr. Pilade Bertieri’s
An Eastern Dancer, and Mr. Fiddes Watt’s The
Artists Mother and Lady Monk-Bretton. Mr.
Dacres Adams’s portrait of Sir David Burnett,
Bart., in his robes as Lord Mayor of London,
was interesting, and among other painters who
were seen to advantage were Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Knight, Mr. Harold Speed, Mr. Spencer Watson,
Mr. William Strang, Mr. Howard Somerville, and
Mr. G. W. Lambert, while in the small gallery,
where some excellent drawings were to be seen,
there was an engaging example of portraiture in
pastel by Mons. Albert Besnard, the distinguished
French painter, in whose hands this delightful
medium has yielded many charming results.
In this country the successful revival of the art
of pastel painting has been brought about chiefly
by the energy and activity of a number of our
younger artists who have studied intelligently the
capabilities of the medium and have applied it
judiciously to a wide variety of subjects. They
have done much to convince the public that pastel
as a means of technical expression is deserving of
the sincerest respect, and that when it is handled
with a due measure of sympathy it will give results
of very real importance. Among the artists whose
services in this direction claim the heartiest acknow-
ledgment prominent places must be assigned to
the two accomplished pastel painters, Mr. Leonard
Richmond and Mr. J. Littlejohns, examples of
whose work are reproduced in this number. There
is a certain kinship in their methods : they both
use the medium with a certain decisiveness and
directness of handling and they both have a
decorative inclination which controls the manner
and character of their expression—and they both
look at Nature with an appreciation of her broad
essentials rather than her smaller and less sig
nificant detail. As craftsmen they are admirably
resourceful and ingenious, but there is no trickery
in their methods and they make no attempt to
evade what may be called the legitimate limita-

tions of the medium. Their work is very well
worth studying for the technical qualities it pos-
sesses and for the originality and power by which
it is distinguished.
The lectern illustrated on this page was recently
executed by Mr. Frank T. Haswell, of London
(with the co-operation of Mr. G. G. Walker in the
earlier stages), and has been placed in the Chapel
of St. Leonard in Chester Cathedral, one of the two
which some four or five years ago the Dean and
Chapter set apart as a central memorial for the
use of the Cheshire Regiment. This Chapel is in
the South Transept, and the figure represented in
this lectern, which is of oak, is that of the patron
saint of the South Transept (formerly the parish


LECTERN FOR THE MEMORIAL CHAPEL OF
THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT IN CHESTER
CATHEDRAL. DESIGNED AND EXECUTED
BY FRANK T. HASWELL