DOI Heft:
No. 81 (December, 1899)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0211
Arts and Crafts
the present time, and it is to be hoped that, as she
has already passed unscathed through the ordeal
of a course of study in Paris, so also she may
return from Florence with her native gifts and
ideals unaffected by the glamour of Italianism
which, all too often before, has distorted the artistic
vision of our own countrymen and of our neigh-
bours of Northern Europe.
Mr. C. M. Cere, who, after having been a pupil
in the Birmingham Municipal School of Art,
became a master, and continued to give weekly
instruction there until last autumn, is an artist of
varied gifts. His black-and-white work has con-
tributed not a little to the well-deserved reputation
of the Birmingham school; and even merited
commissions from no less a connoisseur than the
late William Morris, for whom he made a drawing
of Kelmscott Manor for the frontispiece of "News
from Nowhere." For the same patron Mr. Gere
began a series of designs for an illustrated edition
of "The House of the Wolfings," a project aban-
doned only through the untimely death of the
founder of the Kelmscott Press. For the present
Mr. Gere has dropped black-and-white~work, his
talent for the decorative treatment of landscape—as
evinced, for example, in a beautiful drawing of
St. Kenelm's Church, Clent, published in the now
extinct Birmingham magazine The Quest—finding
expression in a series of oil-paintings suggested by
the poetical description of nature in passages of
the Psalms. Another speciality of Mr. Gere's is
painting portraits on vellum, a sort of variant of
miniature painting. Furthermore, he designed and
painted with his own hand three windows for
St. Paul's Church, Hamstead, near Birmingham,
representing the Annunciation, the Nativity, and
the Presentation respectively. Another of his
enterprises is gesso-gilding for picture and mirror
frames, which he carries out according to the
ancient plan described in the manual of Cennino
Cennini. The pattern having been executed in
gesso is then coated with terre verte or Armenian
bole, according as the ultimate effect desired be
greenish or red coppery gold. The goldsize used
GENEALOGICAL TREE IN COLOURED PLASTEP RELIEF
188
IiY W. REYNOLDS-STEPHENS
the present time, and it is to be hoped that, as she
has already passed unscathed through the ordeal
of a course of study in Paris, so also she may
return from Florence with her native gifts and
ideals unaffected by the glamour of Italianism
which, all too often before, has distorted the artistic
vision of our own countrymen and of our neigh-
bours of Northern Europe.
Mr. C. M. Cere, who, after having been a pupil
in the Birmingham Municipal School of Art,
became a master, and continued to give weekly
instruction there until last autumn, is an artist of
varied gifts. His black-and-white work has con-
tributed not a little to the well-deserved reputation
of the Birmingham school; and even merited
commissions from no less a connoisseur than the
late William Morris, for whom he made a drawing
of Kelmscott Manor for the frontispiece of "News
from Nowhere." For the same patron Mr. Gere
began a series of designs for an illustrated edition
of "The House of the Wolfings," a project aban-
doned only through the untimely death of the
founder of the Kelmscott Press. For the present
Mr. Gere has dropped black-and-white~work, his
talent for the decorative treatment of landscape—as
evinced, for example, in a beautiful drawing of
St. Kenelm's Church, Clent, published in the now
extinct Birmingham magazine The Quest—finding
expression in a series of oil-paintings suggested by
the poetical description of nature in passages of
the Psalms. Another speciality of Mr. Gere's is
painting portraits on vellum, a sort of variant of
miniature painting. Furthermore, he designed and
painted with his own hand three windows for
St. Paul's Church, Hamstead, near Birmingham,
representing the Annunciation, the Nativity, and
the Presentation respectively. Another of his
enterprises is gesso-gilding for picture and mirror
frames, which he carries out according to the
ancient plan described in the manual of Cennino
Cennini. The pattern having been executed in
gesso is then coated with terre verte or Armenian
bole, according as the ultimate effect desired be
greenish or red coppery gold. The goldsize used
GENEALOGICAL TREE IN COLOURED PLASTEP RELIEF
188
IiY W. REYNOLDS-STEPHENS