International studio (59.1916)

The National Galleries of Queensland and West Australia

There are a few sculptors besides Parker—
Leslie Bowles, who was an assistant to Bertram
Mackennal, and I understand is now “ doing
his bit ” with the Army; J. L. Watts, the sculptor
of the Brisbane Memorial to the Queensland
soldiers who fell in the South African War ; and
Harvey, a fellow-student of Parker, who does
wood-carving as well as modelling in clay. Among
the successful women painters, besides those men-
tioned are Gwendolyn Stanley, Frankie Payne, and
Daphne Mayo. The last of these won the Travel-
ling Scholarship (^ioo a year, tenable for three
years) founded by the Brisbane Wattle Day
League. Madame Congean, who is one of the
small group of art enthusiasts in Brisbane, has
shown her sympathy with the aspirations of the
younger artists by buying their pictures and
presenting them to the Gallery.
The collection at the
West Australian Gallery
represents nearly every
School from the Assyrian
period to the European
Schools of to-day. Most
of the ancient and
mediaeval works are
copies, but the modern
works are, of course,
original.
The copies include
reproductions of Hol¬
bein’s portraits of illus¬
trious personages of the
Court of Henry VIII.
in the collection at
Windsor Castle, which
were presented to the
Gallery by the King. It
was when His Majesty,
who was then Duke of
Cornwall and York, laid
the foundation stone
of the Gallery in 1901,
that the Director, Mr.
Bernard H. Woodward,
asked for these repro¬
ductions as a memento
of the visit. They had
been made during the
time his uncle, the late
Mr. Bernard B. Wood¬
ward, was Librarian in
Ordinary to Queen
Victoria, and Keeper

of the Prints and Drawings at Windsor Castle.
The original drawings had changed hands many
times before they were restored to the Royal
Collection ; how or when is not known beyond
the fact that Queen Caroline, during the reign of
George II., found them in an old bureau in
Kensington Palace. The copies also include re-
productions of the cartoons of Ford Madox Brown
engravings of paintings and tapestries by Raphael;
copies of Old Masters made by Australian painters ;
and numerous casts of ancient and modern
statuary, including an interesting collection of
Tanagra figurines.
Too often the visitors to a gallery are left to
find out things for themselves, but in an admirable
guide to the various collections the Director
clearly indicates the distinguishing qualities of the
various groups. Some time ago Mr. Woodward


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BY F. VIDA LAHEY

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