DOI Heft:
No. 107 (February, 1902)
DOI Artikel:The Royal Academy and its students' competitions
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0055
Royal Academy Students
folded, and is therefore
unable to look about him
with stern disdain, like the
triumphing god in Spenser's
picture. It is true that the
lion in Mr. Eastman's work,
and the bold sweep of the
Cupid's wings, have one
defect; they occupy too
much space, so that one
loses sightof the importance
that Spenser wishes us to
attach to the Lady Amoret
and her attendants, Cruelty,
and Despite, who together
form the great central group
of his allegorical procession.
Still, the panel is a good
one, being rich m decora- "detail or the boadicea relief" by a. c. white
tive feeling.
A hope may now be expressed that the Royal left undone. To give but one example, the only
Academy, in the next students' exhibition, will act exhibitors mentioned by name are the few prize-
—not as a private society that confers a favour with winners, so that interested visitors are put to much
reluctance, but as a national institution that feels trouble if they wish to find out who "No. 3" or
called upon to invite the closest public attention to its " No. 4 " may be, when he is not merely a number,
methods. At present, with a want of thoroughness like a chance in a lottery, or like a doll hanging on
that seems discourteous, many necessary things are a Christmas-tree. W. S. S.
" boadicea urging the britons to
avenge her outraged daughters"
42
by stanley young
folded, and is therefore
unable to look about him
with stern disdain, like the
triumphing god in Spenser's
picture. It is true that the
lion in Mr. Eastman's work,
and the bold sweep of the
Cupid's wings, have one
defect; they occupy too
much space, so that one
loses sightof the importance
that Spenser wishes us to
attach to the Lady Amoret
and her attendants, Cruelty,
and Despite, who together
form the great central group
of his allegorical procession.
Still, the panel is a good
one, being rich m decora- "detail or the boadicea relief" by a. c. white
tive feeling.
A hope may now be expressed that the Royal left undone. To give but one example, the only
Academy, in the next students' exhibition, will act exhibitors mentioned by name are the few prize-
—not as a private society that confers a favour with winners, so that interested visitors are put to much
reluctance, but as a national institution that feels trouble if they wish to find out who "No. 3" or
called upon to invite the closest public attention to its " No. 4 " may be, when he is not merely a number,
methods. At present, with a want of thoroughness like a chance in a lottery, or like a doll hanging on
that seems discourteous, many necessary things are a Christmas-tree. W. S. S.
" boadicea urging the britons to
avenge her outraged daughters"
42
by stanley young