DOI Heft:
No. 10 (January, 1894)
DOI Artikel:The Royal Academy: Presidential address to the students
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0150
The Royal Academy School Awards
how " gradually and with the growing prosperity of
the cities and the increasing wealth of the burgher,
are found more and more scope in the adornment
of civic and private life. More and more it seized
upon every object, not of mere display, but of daily
use; everywhere was manifest that constant and
consistent desire that everything which has form
and colour, and is capable of adornment, shall be
ennobled by the touch of Art." This, he felt, " was a
lesson and rebuke to us who are of kindred blood
in this day of desultory dilettantism or vague in-
difference. For not the paraphernalia of state alone,
not alone the armour of the knight or the chain of
the patrician were thought to call for the added
grace of beauty, but every humblest household,
necessary thing: the platter, though of lead ; the
spoon, albeit of wood; the knife, the mug, the jug,
the housewife's key, the dresser, the cupboard, all
these called forth in turn delightful manifestations
of designing skill."
By the courtesy of the artists we are able to
reproduce three of the prize designs and two
others exhibited in competition. The prize de-
sign for Sculpture, by Mr. M'Gill, will follow.
The Portrait from life, by Mr. Eustace Calland,
is a costume study of Mr. William Theodore
Peters—as Bertrand de Roaix. The photograph,
we understand, is now being exhibited at Paris.
Mr. Peters is the author of a forthcoming volume
of verse, containing, among other numbers, the
Pierrot of a Minute, a charming poem already
familiar through the author's recitation in public. .. iphigenia and her attendants removing
st. sebastian." by henry poole
"hedgerow elms on hillocks green." by harold waite. (r.a. creswick prize)
138
how " gradually and with the growing prosperity of
the cities and the increasing wealth of the burgher,
are found more and more scope in the adornment
of civic and private life. More and more it seized
upon every object, not of mere display, but of daily
use; everywhere was manifest that constant and
consistent desire that everything which has form
and colour, and is capable of adornment, shall be
ennobled by the touch of Art." This, he felt, " was a
lesson and rebuke to us who are of kindred blood
in this day of desultory dilettantism or vague in-
difference. For not the paraphernalia of state alone,
not alone the armour of the knight or the chain of
the patrician were thought to call for the added
grace of beauty, but every humblest household,
necessary thing: the platter, though of lead ; the
spoon, albeit of wood; the knife, the mug, the jug,
the housewife's key, the dresser, the cupboard, all
these called forth in turn delightful manifestations
of designing skill."
By the courtesy of the artists we are able to
reproduce three of the prize designs and two
others exhibited in competition. The prize de-
sign for Sculpture, by Mr. M'Gill, will follow.
The Portrait from life, by Mr. Eustace Calland,
is a costume study of Mr. William Theodore
Peters—as Bertrand de Roaix. The photograph,
we understand, is now being exhibited at Paris.
Mr. Peters is the author of a forthcoming volume
of verse, containing, among other numbers, the
Pierrot of a Minute, a charming poem already
familiar through the author's recitation in public. .. iphigenia and her attendants removing
st. sebastian." by henry poole
"hedgerow elms on hillocks green." by harold waite. (r.a. creswick prize)
138