Studio: international art (21.1901)

Studio- Talk

especially eminent, and was the author of several
works on professional subjects, and of numerous
articles contributed to the Transactions of medical
societies.

The present show of the Royal Society of British
Artists is a hopeful one. It contains something to
admire and a great deal to tolerate. Mr. Cayley
Robinson, unfortunately, does not exhibit, but
some idealised figure-work of distinction is shown
both by Mr. Robert Christie and by Mr. Graham
Robertson. Mr, Wynford Dewhurst, who owes
much to the art of Monet, has sent half a dozen
good canvases, including an Apple Tree in
Blossom and two Impressions from a Norman
Orchard. These studies are exquisite and sunny
in colour, and are redolent of the charm of
spring. Mr. Borough Johnson is represented by
an admirable picture, Hoeing, by a clever sketch
of the interior of an old barn, and by twenty-eight
pencil studies, all remarkable for a richly-toned
quality of line that cannot be overpraised. Mr.
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Foottet, a new member of the R.B.A., reveals him-
self as a fine colourist in his Pont an Change, Paris ;
Mr. Ralph Hedley, in a large canvas entitled
Draining the Marsh, displays plenty of character
as well as thoughtful observation; and work of
varied interest is exhibited by Mr. M. Smyth,
Mr. G. H. Lenfestey, Mr. Burleigh Bruhl, Mr.
Walter Fowler, Mr. Tom Browne, and Mr. G. C.
Haite.

On page 199 an illustration is given of a brass
recently placed on the north transept wall of Ripon
Cathedral, in memory of Canon Badcock. It is
designed by Mr. Aymer Vallance. In it a suc-
cessful attempt is made to produce something new
and good in an old style. Mr. Vallance has taken
his inspiration from German work belonging to the
fifteenth century, and has thought out a well-
balanced design admirably suited to its purpose.
The heraldic part needs a few words of explana-
tion. The angel carries a coat-of-arms because a
cleric is not entitled to a helmet, crest, or mant-