Studio: international art (8.1896)

Studio- Talk

for designs. The autumn show at the Royal hundred canvases, including no small number ot

Society of Artists should be a good one, as the the artist's best known pictures, thanks to the

Council have been promised, and are now hanging, generosity of most of the owners of his paintings,
some of the " pictures of the year," which failed to
find purchasers when they graced the walls of the

Royal Academy and the New Gallery. What our Sir William Agnew has promised to lend Eel-

local men will have to show is at present unknown. Bucks at Goring, and others ; Mr. James Mason

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STUDY OF A BOY'S HEAD DRAWN IN A NEW MANNER BY MORTIMER MENPES

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At the beginning of October it will be well sends the equally famous Chess Players; while

worth the while of any lover of English landscape- Lady Weston is contributing some of the best

painting to make a special journey to our city in examples from the extensive collection of Muller's

order to inspect the loan collection of works by works formed by the late Sir Joseph Weston.

William J. Midler, which Mr. Whitworth Wallis is Among other well-known picture owners who are

arranging for exhibition in the Corporation Art lending may be mentioned Baron Burton, Mr.

Gallery. It will, undoubtedly, prove to be the Victor Cavendish, M.P., Sir Samuel Montagu,

finest and most extensive gathering of pictures, Mr. John Edward Taylor, Mr. Henry Tate, Mr.

drawings, and sketches, by this famous landscapist Frederick Nettlefold, Mr. James Kenyon, M.P.,

ever got together for the benefit of art critics; Mr. C. T. Jacoby, Mr. J. F. Schwann, Mr. Alfred

indeed, with the exception of the Bristol Exhibi- East, Mr. William Windus, and Mr. Romer

tion of 1893, no attempt has ever been made before Williams; while among the principal pictures

to give in one room a thoroughly representative coming, besides those already mentioned, will be

selection of this brilliant colourist-sketcher's work, found, The Slave Market, Gillingham, Alexandria,

Mr. Wallis has succeeded in borrowing over one The Bay of Naples, The Treasure Finders, Venice,

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