Studio: international art (11.1897)

Studio-Talk

Leslie Thomson, and the men who think with him, kins is self-taught, her only masters being perse-

the revival is certain to be successful. verance and hard work. It is only four years since

she first took up wood-carving as a profession, and

WARRINGTON. — Early last to-day she does a considerable amount of teaching

month an exhibition of the in the Midland counties, holding large classes at

artistic industries of this town, Walsall and other towns. Her first order was for

arranged by Messrs. Aylward a settle for the Senior Tutor of Trinity Hall, Cam-

and Charles Madeley, was bridge, with the college arms on the centre panel,

opened at the School of Art. The exhibition, Being possessed of great determination, she has

which included specimens of glass-ware, iron cast- probably a bright career before her.
ing, house decoration and woven tapestries, besides

original designs by Messrs. Crane, Voysey, Day, T X RUSSELS.—The fourth annual Salon

Armitage, Rowe, A. H. Lee, and others, was in- I J of the Societ>' of Fine Arts in Brussels

tended to show the influence the School has had |"f WaS devoted t0 a historical disPla>T of

in promoting the trade of the town as well as in \ J medals. It consisted of a contem-

the provision of general education in art. Such Porai7 section, including productions

exhibits should prove of great value to manufac- bY the best of the modern medallists, and a his-

turers and to students to whom opportunities are torical section, wherein were seen several series of

afforded of studying good work coins lent from celebrated collections in Belgium

and abroad.

Among the ancient works the connoisseur and.
the artist might admire the Greek pieces in the

BIRMINGHAM.—We give this month
an illustration of the wood-carving of
a young Birmingham artist, Mrs.
-r, , L TT , . ,,T. , . possession or M. Auguste Delbeke, the bronze

Robert Hopkins. With the excep- t. v . , r , & , , '

c r , ■ i ■ Italian medals of the izth and ioth centuries,

tion or a tew lessons received, in a .

i r a/r r-i UT ivyr tt owned by Mme. Goldschmidt-Przibram, and others,

class, from Mr. Claxton at Worcester, Mrs. Hop- ' '

both Italian and trench, of the same periods, from
the famous collection of M. Gustave Dreyfus,
whose display included several bronze medallions,
notably a superb " Martyrdom of St. Sebastian " by
Pollaiuolo; also the medallions from the Hess
collection at Frankfort, with the "Van Berckels,"
' . w owned by Baron Surmont de Volsberghe. In ad-

Mf^- , ^jKp -iS§jP- dition there were several Papal medals lent by M.

'^^Wfei^lMMB^"^C^ *\0T^ Van Schoor, and those from the collection of M.

p VN- JP9~T'' 4J^f-' '•' \\ Van den Broeck, which constitute a sort oi resume

% ^^SS^ •* |4 / ' of Belgian history during two centuries. In addi-

IBi^^^^ ^^^Li^SSlk' t*on tnere were two nne medallions by David

Jj^^^3H| " The modern French school was represented

nP^iff^^^ jtiwp'ipwT^ \ by contributions from MM. Bourgeois, Michel

SL%'' % %~ ' * 'a/in, A. and H. Dubois, Dupuis, Mouchon,

1 t» \L*' * • 1 ' Patey, and Rot}-. German art was seen in the

& Wl works of M. Hildebrand, who displayed a very

^ y^^K remarkable Bismarck, and the Viennese engravers,

1^>^ ._ £?i* A. Scharffand E. Schwartz, had a notable exhibit.

, Lastly, we come to the Belgian exhibitors, MM.

Dillens, Fernand and Paul Dubois, de Hondt,

Lagae, Lemaire, Vander Stappen, Vermeylen, and

£j Wolfers, not forgetting M. Cardon, who exhibited,

not as an artist, but as a collector, and showed

wood-carving by mrs. r. Hopkins some of the treasures which adorn his artistic home.

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