International studio (60.1916/1917)

Studio-Talk

Mr. B. Eastlake Leader, who took a commission
early in the war and was Captain at the time of his
death last month, was the son of the veteran R.A.
and a landscape painter of mark. Mr. Philip
Dadd, private in the Queen’s Westminster Rifles,
who was killed in France on August 2, had been
on the staff of “ The Sphere ” for a long period,
and was also a frequent exhibitor at the Royal
Academy. He was a nephew of the celebrated
Kate Greenaway. Mr. Percy Francis Gethin,
second-lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment,
who was killed in action at the close of June, is
the subject of a memoir in the journal of the
Artists’ Rifles, which he joined in November 1914,
when he was just over 40, and some of his etch-
ings and drawings are reproduced in this interesting
periodical. Mr. Gethin was on the teaching staff
of the Central School of Arts and Crafts, whither
he accompanied Mr. Burridge from Liverpool on
his appointment as Principal in 1913.

which were lately on view at the Carroll Gallery
in George Street, Hanover Square, where he had
a successful exhibition not long ago.
The statuette illustrated on page 92 made an
agreeable impression when on view at the recent
Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy. This
attractive and original example of the potter’s art
is interesting as having been produced on the lines
of the old craftsmen, the execution from start
to finish having been undertaken by the artist
himself. It is moreover of interest on account
of the combination of processes employed, in-
cluding stained clays, under-glaze and over-glaze,
the result being very pleasing in its colour effect.
The piece was fired in a reducing atmosphere, a
process so uncertain in its ultimate results that it
is practically impossible to obtain an exact replica
of a particular piece. Mr. Stanley Thorogood
is Superintendent of Art Instruction to the County

The work of Mr.
Nathaniel Baird, member
of the Royal Institute of
Oil Painters, is a familiar
feature of exhibitions in
London and the provinces,
and it is perhaps even
better known in America
where numerous examples
have been acquired for
permanent collections.
He is equally facile in the
oil medium and in water-
colour, and his pictures in
both show him to be a
highly capable draughts-
man with a fine sense of
colour. His versatility, too,
is shown in the range of
subjects which he handles :
but if there is one class
of subject in which he
excels it is the portrayal
of horses, and more par-
ticularly the rustic types
of horse. By birth a
Scotsman hailing from the
romantic Border region of
Roxburghshire, he has of
late years settled in sunny
South Devon. The
examples of his work which
we here reproduce are some
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“SUMMER EVENING” WATER-COLOUR BY N. H. J. BAIRD, R.O.I.