Studio: international art (14.1898)

Bertram Priestman

appearance in a public gallery, and showed at
the Liverpool Autumn Exhibition a picture which
he painted during the summer in Norfolk. From
the Slade School to a private studio was the next
step in his educational
course, for he joined, in
1889, Mr. W. Llewellyn,
and worked for a while
under his direction, both
in the studio and out of
doors at Padstow. A pic-
ture finished the year
before represented him at
the Grosvenor Gallery, and
brought him first before
the London public. Next
year, however, he was in
evidence both at the
Grosvenor and the Aca-
demy, for he contributed
one canvas to the former
show, and had two, In
Dock for Repairs and An
Old Soldier from Chelsea,
at Burlington House. By
way of enlarging his ex-
perience, he visited the
Paris Exhibition with Mr.

Llewellyn and some other
artists to see the great col-
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lection of the productions
of many schools which had
been brought together
there ; and after his return
he painted another picture,
Condemned, a study of old
boats, which is now in the
collection of Mr. Mark
Oldroyd, M.P. Etching
fascinated him in 1891,
when he was working with
Mr. J. Walter West, and
he made sufficient advance
with this branch of art
practice to bring out a
small book of plates. He
did not exhibit at the
Academy.

From 1892 onwards his
record has been steady and
satisfactory, marked by
continuous progress in
technical power and by
consistent development of
his appreciation ot artistic refinements. He
established himself in this year in a studio at
Chelsea, where he came in contact with that
admirable artist, the late C. E. Holloway, whose

STUDY BY BERTRAM PRIESTMAN