DOI issue:
No. 36 (March, 1896)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0126
Studio- Talk
whole is still advancing in the right direction. In
the application of good design to the industrial
arts the students do better every year. The metal-
work, jewellery, and various styles of enamelling,
are all decidedly better than in the past, and show
a truer understanding of what should be attempted
in these mediums. The special Jewellers' School
in Vittoria Street is already justifying its foundation
a year or two ago. The modelling in clay, under
the direction of Mr. Creswick, is making great
strides; and, in many respects, both masters and
pupils are to be congratulated on the work done
during 1895.
CONWAY.—Plas Mawr, the house of
the Royal Cambrian Academy at
Conway, is one of the most pic-
turesque ancient mansions in Wales.
It was a happy thought on the part
of the Cambrian academicians to choose it as their
local habitation and to preserve it from mutilation.
But Elizabethan rooms, charming and romantic
though they are, do not make the best picture
galleries, as the Welsh painters have found out.
Small windows, whatever their value from the
scenic point of view, inevitably mean uneven light.
In order to make Plas Mawr a suitable home for
the Cambrian Academy, a picture gallery has been
added to it, which measures forty-five by twenty-
seven feet.
The Royal National Eisteddfod has hitherto
concerned itself with poetry, music, and literature.
At the Llandudno meeting, to be held in June, a
new feature will be introduced. It is intended to
build a temporary art gallery and get together a
large collection of pictures by the most distinguished
living artists. The building will consist of two
rooms with top lights. The wall space will enable
the committee to hang about five hundred pictures.
Professor Herkomer is greatly interested in the
Eisteddfod exhibition and has secured the loan of
some important works of art. Guarantors are
coming forward rapidly, and there is little reason
to doubt that the exhibition will be of high interest
to all who care for modern art.
C. H.
NEWLYN.—The gallery has again been
replenished and a very interesting
little show has been drawn together,
but, of course, such frequent calls
upon the community are exhausting,
and henceforth both our exhibitions and our public
must be made to endure each other somewhat
longer, or else we shall be forced to re-shuffle the
old cards. As it is, there are a great many can-
vases that are familiar to frequenters of the leading
exhibitions.
Mr. Alma Tadema's portrait of his daughter is
the honoured guest. Mr. Chevallier Tayler's scar-
let soldiers drink her Majesty's health from the
north wall, while on the west there are Mr. Bram-
ley's Domino, Mr. Gotch's Wizard, and Mrs. Stan-
hope Forbes' Moorland Princesses; Mr. Hall
shows his beautiful Fading into Night; Mr.
Stanhope Forbes has a charming little picture,
which he calls Red Room in Holland; Mr.
Tuke has some small but admirable work, and Mr.
John Crooke is showing a canvas that has not
before been exhibited—it is called Between the
Shoivers, and pictures a reedy marsh in whose
water the sky repeats itself; warm clouds and cool
tell of evening. Mr. Arthur Tanner has some very
brilliant little notes of sunshine—motes of sunshine
I had nearly written, so very full of light are these
small radiant pictures of various lands.
Mr. Sherwood Hunter, a recent Newlyner, and a
most cosmopolitan painter, has some Dutch and
Breton subjects. Mr. Hunter's studio is bewilder-
ing both in its wealth of sketches and in the extent
of wandering which they represent. It is comforting
to come across so complete a refutation of the pro-
verb that " a rolling stone gathers no moss "—
though no doubt much depends upon what one
considers as moss. He is finishing a picture of the
wall of wailing at Jerusalem, with devout Jews in
striped praying shawls and phylacteries. It is a
subject that has always had an attraction for
painters. Mr. Walter Langley, the water-colourist,
is at work on an oil picture which represents three
old fishfags crossing the beach] with baskets on
their backs ; behind is the harbour and the charac-
teristic groups of fisherfolk and bustle to be seen
any day when the sea is out and the fish are in.
N. G.
GLASGOW.—The annual exhibition
held here under the auspices of
the Fine Art Institute is now
opened, and by reason of the
general artistic quality of many of
the exhibits it in no way falls short of previous
exhibitions, though there is perhaps just a trifle
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whole is still advancing in the right direction. In
the application of good design to the industrial
arts the students do better every year. The metal-
work, jewellery, and various styles of enamelling,
are all decidedly better than in the past, and show
a truer understanding of what should be attempted
in these mediums. The special Jewellers' School
in Vittoria Street is already justifying its foundation
a year or two ago. The modelling in clay, under
the direction of Mr. Creswick, is making great
strides; and, in many respects, both masters and
pupils are to be congratulated on the work done
during 1895.
CONWAY.—Plas Mawr, the house of
the Royal Cambrian Academy at
Conway, is one of the most pic-
turesque ancient mansions in Wales.
It was a happy thought on the part
of the Cambrian academicians to choose it as their
local habitation and to preserve it from mutilation.
But Elizabethan rooms, charming and romantic
though they are, do not make the best picture
galleries, as the Welsh painters have found out.
Small windows, whatever their value from the
scenic point of view, inevitably mean uneven light.
In order to make Plas Mawr a suitable home for
the Cambrian Academy, a picture gallery has been
added to it, which measures forty-five by twenty-
seven feet.
The Royal National Eisteddfod has hitherto
concerned itself with poetry, music, and literature.
At the Llandudno meeting, to be held in June, a
new feature will be introduced. It is intended to
build a temporary art gallery and get together a
large collection of pictures by the most distinguished
living artists. The building will consist of two
rooms with top lights. The wall space will enable
the committee to hang about five hundred pictures.
Professor Herkomer is greatly interested in the
Eisteddfod exhibition and has secured the loan of
some important works of art. Guarantors are
coming forward rapidly, and there is little reason
to doubt that the exhibition will be of high interest
to all who care for modern art.
C. H.
NEWLYN.—The gallery has again been
replenished and a very interesting
little show has been drawn together,
but, of course, such frequent calls
upon the community are exhausting,
and henceforth both our exhibitions and our public
must be made to endure each other somewhat
longer, or else we shall be forced to re-shuffle the
old cards. As it is, there are a great many can-
vases that are familiar to frequenters of the leading
exhibitions.
Mr. Alma Tadema's portrait of his daughter is
the honoured guest. Mr. Chevallier Tayler's scar-
let soldiers drink her Majesty's health from the
north wall, while on the west there are Mr. Bram-
ley's Domino, Mr. Gotch's Wizard, and Mrs. Stan-
hope Forbes' Moorland Princesses; Mr. Hall
shows his beautiful Fading into Night; Mr.
Stanhope Forbes has a charming little picture,
which he calls Red Room in Holland; Mr.
Tuke has some small but admirable work, and Mr.
John Crooke is showing a canvas that has not
before been exhibited—it is called Between the
Shoivers, and pictures a reedy marsh in whose
water the sky repeats itself; warm clouds and cool
tell of evening. Mr. Arthur Tanner has some very
brilliant little notes of sunshine—motes of sunshine
I had nearly written, so very full of light are these
small radiant pictures of various lands.
Mr. Sherwood Hunter, a recent Newlyner, and a
most cosmopolitan painter, has some Dutch and
Breton subjects. Mr. Hunter's studio is bewilder-
ing both in its wealth of sketches and in the extent
of wandering which they represent. It is comforting
to come across so complete a refutation of the pro-
verb that " a rolling stone gathers no moss "—
though no doubt much depends upon what one
considers as moss. He is finishing a picture of the
wall of wailing at Jerusalem, with devout Jews in
striped praying shawls and phylacteries. It is a
subject that has always had an attraction for
painters. Mr. Walter Langley, the water-colourist,
is at work on an oil picture which represents three
old fishfags crossing the beach] with baskets on
their backs ; behind is the harbour and the charac-
teristic groups of fisherfolk and bustle to be seen
any day when the sea is out and the fish are in.
N. G.
GLASGOW.—The annual exhibition
held here under the auspices of
the Fine Art Institute is now
opened, and by reason of the
general artistic quality of many of
the exhibits it in no way falls short of previous
exhibitions, though there is perhaps just a trifle
113