Studio: international art (13.1898)

Studio- Talk

would eschew machine-made ornament, however
good, and call in our younger painters to supply
its place, then indeed might "fresco" and the
highest forms of mural painting become acclimatised
among us. Every step in this direction, whether
by painting on canvas or bas-reliefs in coloured
plaster, must be regarded as an advance towards
the desired end, and must be encouraged.

Another has for its subject "The Crowning of
Henry VII. on the Battlefield of Bosworth " ; a
third, the procession through Wakefield of Henry
VII., and his bride Elizabeth of York, the formal
alliance which united the rival Roses. A fourth
shows Margaret of Anjou delivering her son to the
custody of the robbers of the wood, who had under
taken to see him safely to France. This subject was

An interesting series of coloured bas-reliefs
by H. C. Fehr, intended for the new County
Hall at Wakefield, were privately shown in his
studio before being sent to the building for which
they have been especially designed. The subjects
arc all pertinent to the locality which played an
important part in the Wars of the Roses. One
shows the battle of Wakefield, in which the
Duke oi York, claimant to the throne, is being un-
horsed by his adversary. The central incident of
this frieze is also reproduced here to a larger scale,

chosen as the last important fact in the Wars of
the Roses, in which the house of Anjou played so
prominent a part.

The panels are each 27 feet long and 4 feel
9 inches high. The figures are in high-relief, and
coloured in brilliant pigment, with silver and gold
introduced freely. Thus the whole effect is in
accordance with the best traditions of such work,
and has attained no little of the sumptuous effect
of the best examples still extant those, for

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