DOI Heft:
No. 35 (February, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Private schools of art, [1], The studios of Mr. W. J. Donne and Mrs. Jopling-Rowe
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0054
Private Schools of Art
permitted by the producing
department, to rank • as
artists.
This being so, it follows
that the student who seeks
, to be neither a mistaught
trainer with the one supreme
anxiety to earn annually a
Government grant of so
many shillings per head of
students under his control,
nor a designer of common-
places that are universally
in request because they are
so commonplace, has to
acquire the knowledge he
needs in schools that do not
owe allegiance to South
Kensington. Hitherto a
training fit for his purposes
has only been obtainable in
foreign countries or at
special institutions like the
from a charcoal drawing by m. c. smith (mr. dunne s stcdio) . . , , ,
Royal Academy or the blade
schools; but nowaconstantly
shall be able to profess without being really qualified increasing number of private studios, in which the
to practise. This system, which has for its one vital teaching is based upon the idea of developing artists
principle the idea that for every payment made and rather than upon the desire to secure at all cost
for every detail of expenditure incurred a definite prompt payment for whatever results can be gained,
and immediate result must be clearly perceptible, offer him a wide choice of places of study where he
can only be regarded as a costly machine which can be sure of thorough grounding in something
turns out a peculiar article
possessing little more than
mechanical finish and com-
pleteness. The market
value of the product may
not be large; but there is at
all events a certain demand
for it, and so long as this
demand exists South Kens-
ington is presumably justi-
fied in conducting its busi-
ness in the fashion that has
so far seemed suitable.
The art master and the
designer of the kind that
it manufactures and keeps
in stock as " leading lines "
cannot be accounted any-
thing more than curious
results of a curious con-
dition of public and official
opinion; neither of them
deserve, or indeed are from a water-colour sketch by e. davis (mr. donne's studio)
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permitted by the producing
department, to rank • as
artists.
This being so, it follows
that the student who seeks
, to be neither a mistaught
trainer with the one supreme
anxiety to earn annually a
Government grant of so
many shillings per head of
students under his control,
nor a designer of common-
places that are universally
in request because they are
so commonplace, has to
acquire the knowledge he
needs in schools that do not
owe allegiance to South
Kensington. Hitherto a
training fit for his purposes
has only been obtainable in
foreign countries or at
special institutions like the
from a charcoal drawing by m. c. smith (mr. dunne s stcdio) . . , , ,
Royal Academy or the blade
schools; but nowaconstantly
shall be able to profess without being really qualified increasing number of private studios, in which the
to practise. This system, which has for its one vital teaching is based upon the idea of developing artists
principle the idea that for every payment made and rather than upon the desire to secure at all cost
for every detail of expenditure incurred a definite prompt payment for whatever results can be gained,
and immediate result must be clearly perceptible, offer him a wide choice of places of study where he
can only be regarded as a costly machine which can be sure of thorough grounding in something
turns out a peculiar article
possessing little more than
mechanical finish and com-
pleteness. The market
value of the product may
not be large; but there is at
all events a certain demand
for it, and so long as this
demand exists South Kens-
ington is presumably justi-
fied in conducting its busi-
ness in the fashion that has
so far seemed suitable.
The art master and the
designer of the kind that
it manufactures and keeps
in stock as " leading lines "
cannot be accounted any-
thing more than curious
results of a curious con-
dition of public and official
opinion; neither of them
deserve, or indeed are from a water-colour sketch by e. davis (mr. donne's studio)
4i