DOI issue:
Nr. 234 (August, 1916)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43462#0221
Studio-Talk
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
The death of Mabel Beardsley (Mrs. Bealby-
Wright), sister of Aubrey Beardsley, was announced
early in May. Her health had been a matter of
EDON.—Mr. William Cleverly Alexander,
whose death occurred in the latter half of
April, will be remembered in the history
of nineteenth-century painting for his
the gravest anxiety to her friends for years. She
was the author of some delicate papers on subjects
relating to art and philosophy, and before marriage
was well known on the stage. Without a marked
early appreciation of
■down with the
ehild-portrait which
a consensus of
•opinion has estab-
lished as the greatest
•of Whistler’s works.
For the masterpiece
Miss Alexander is
•said to have given
seventy sittings.
“Puir lassie! puir
lassie ! ” exclaimed
Carlyle meeting
her on the doorstep
■of the studio.
Whistler was com-
missioned to paint
all the members
of the Alexander
family, but the
series did not
develop beyond the
picture in question
and a half-finished
work of an elder
daughter. He made
•designs in pastel for
dresses for the ladies
■of the family. The
deceased always
gave his friends to
understand that his
loan of the Miss
Alexander to the
nation would by his
will become a per-
manent gift. It is
said that he once
refused an offer of
Whistler. His name will go
gift with the pencil, she possessed in many ways
MEMORIAL TABLET IN BRONZE WITH SILVER AND ENAMEL
ENRICHMENTS. DESIGNED BY EDWARD SPENCER AND
EXECUTED BY CHARLES MONEY OF THE ARTIFICERS’ GUILD
the natural genius
and original tem-
perament shown by
her brother. She
was perhaps his
only real confidant,
and was certainly
his truest friend.
We regret also
to record the death
from wounds while
on active service
in France of Lieut.
Luke Taylor, a
Fellow of the Royal
Society of Painter-
Etchers and In-
structor in Etching
and Mezzotint at
the Central School
of Arts and Crafts,
Southampton Row.
Mr. Taylor, who
was born in 1876,
studied at the Royal
College of Art; an
etcher of large pic-
torial vision and an
admirable crafts-
man, his death is a
serious loss to the
Painter-Etchers’
Society, who only
a few weeks before
had to mourn the
loss of Mr. Niels
Lund, Mr. Taylor’s
locum-tenens at
Aj4o,ooo for it. A
great frequenter of picture exhibitions, Mr. Alex-
ander somewhat withdrew his patronage from
modern art in his later years, but the few
artists who then had dealings with him appreciated
the high generosity with which he would arrange
terms.
the Central School.
To the Society’s president, Sir Frank Short, the
war has brought a cruel personal bereavement, his
only son having died from heart disease brought
about by exposure while on service at the Front
after he had recovered from wounds.
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STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
The death of Mabel Beardsley (Mrs. Bealby-
Wright), sister of Aubrey Beardsley, was announced
early in May. Her health had been a matter of
EDON.—Mr. William Cleverly Alexander,
whose death occurred in the latter half of
April, will be remembered in the history
of nineteenth-century painting for his
the gravest anxiety to her friends for years. She
was the author of some delicate papers on subjects
relating to art and philosophy, and before marriage
was well known on the stage. Without a marked
early appreciation of
■down with the
ehild-portrait which
a consensus of
•opinion has estab-
lished as the greatest
•of Whistler’s works.
For the masterpiece
Miss Alexander is
•said to have given
seventy sittings.
“Puir lassie! puir
lassie ! ” exclaimed
Carlyle meeting
her on the doorstep
■of the studio.
Whistler was com-
missioned to paint
all the members
of the Alexander
family, but the
series did not
develop beyond the
picture in question
and a half-finished
work of an elder
daughter. He made
•designs in pastel for
dresses for the ladies
■of the family. The
deceased always
gave his friends to
understand that his
loan of the Miss
Alexander to the
nation would by his
will become a per-
manent gift. It is
said that he once
refused an offer of
Whistler. His name will go
gift with the pencil, she possessed in many ways
MEMORIAL TABLET IN BRONZE WITH SILVER AND ENAMEL
ENRICHMENTS. DESIGNED BY EDWARD SPENCER AND
EXECUTED BY CHARLES MONEY OF THE ARTIFICERS’ GUILD
the natural genius
and original tem-
perament shown by
her brother. She
was perhaps his
only real confidant,
and was certainly
his truest friend.
We regret also
to record the death
from wounds while
on active service
in France of Lieut.
Luke Taylor, a
Fellow of the Royal
Society of Painter-
Etchers and In-
structor in Etching
and Mezzotint at
the Central School
of Arts and Crafts,
Southampton Row.
Mr. Taylor, who
was born in 1876,
studied at the Royal
College of Art; an
etcher of large pic-
torial vision and an
admirable crafts-
man, his death is a
serious loss to the
Painter-Etchers’
Society, who only
a few weeks before
had to mourn the
loss of Mr. Niels
Lund, Mr. Taylor’s
locum-tenens at
Aj4o,ooo for it. A
great frequenter of picture exhibitions, Mr. Alex-
ander somewhat withdrew his patronage from
modern art in his later years, but the few
artists who then had dealings with him appreciated
the high generosity with which he would arrange
terms.
the Central School.
To the Society’s president, Sir Frank Short, the
war has brought a cruel personal bereavement, his
only son having died from heart disease brought
about by exposure while on service at the Front
after he had recovered from wounds.
/
hi