DOI Heft:
No. 123 (June, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Mr. Herbert Draper's painted ceiling: for the Livery Hall of the Drapers' Company
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19879#0057
A Painted Ceiling
become bolder and firmer year by year, without is now being decorated by Mr. Frank Brangwyn
losing any of that refinement which is so welcome in conjunction with Mr. Campbell Jones, the-
a characteristic of Mr. Draper's style. In art, let architect, and with Mr. R. Anning Bell. Mr.
us remember, refinement without masculinity is a Brangwyn is engaged upon a series of panels illus-
weakness ; and it is precisely in the masculine trating the history of the Company, and the work
qualities of his work that Mr. Draper now shows a to be done will occupy five years or thereabouts,
rapidly strengthening grasp on the essentials of art. It is an encouraging thing that two great City Com-
Finally, the members of the Drapers' Company panies should thus place themselves at the head of
have every reason to be satisfied with the manner the art patrons, and renew in England that wise
in which their commission has been carried out. patronship which the arts in other countries
Their encouragement of art has made an excel- received so often in bygone times from the
lent beginning, and we may expect it will be historic guilds of traders.
continued with a thoroughness of temper equal It is said that the City Companies were long at
to that which is shown by the Skinners' Com- odds with the suggestion that they should encourage
pany in the ornamentation of their Hall, which the arts, as they did not wish anything to interfere
with the interest they felt
in certain public charities
of a very deserving kind.
Was any form of art of
sufficient national import-
ance to deserve the
strenuous support of their
members? This question
has been asked many a
time in England by public
and private institutions,
but in recent years the
answer to it has been
dictated by the competi-
tions of trade, which find
the services of art ever the
more necessary. England,
indeed, for the first time
in her history, is becoming
alive to the fact that the
arts are not merely luxuries,
but necessary servants to
all the needs of life in a
progressive country. When
they are neglected, the
standard of workmanship
is lowered in a thousand
ways throughout a whole
nation, and the dignity of
independent labour de-
clines at a rapid pace,
much to the injury of
national character. To
encourage art is thus a
national charity, and the
City Companies of Lon-
don have set an excellent
example to other insti-
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become bolder and firmer year by year, without is now being decorated by Mr. Frank Brangwyn
losing any of that refinement which is so welcome in conjunction with Mr. Campbell Jones, the-
a characteristic of Mr. Draper's style. In art, let architect, and with Mr. R. Anning Bell. Mr.
us remember, refinement without masculinity is a Brangwyn is engaged upon a series of panels illus-
weakness ; and it is precisely in the masculine trating the history of the Company, and the work
qualities of his work that Mr. Draper now shows a to be done will occupy five years or thereabouts,
rapidly strengthening grasp on the essentials of art. It is an encouraging thing that two great City Com-
Finally, the members of the Drapers' Company panies should thus place themselves at the head of
have every reason to be satisfied with the manner the art patrons, and renew in England that wise
in which their commission has been carried out. patronship which the arts in other countries
Their encouragement of art has made an excel- received so often in bygone times from the
lent beginning, and we may expect it will be historic guilds of traders.
continued with a thoroughness of temper equal It is said that the City Companies were long at
to that which is shown by the Skinners' Com- odds with the suggestion that they should encourage
pany in the ornamentation of their Hall, which the arts, as they did not wish anything to interfere
with the interest they felt
in certain public charities
of a very deserving kind.
Was any form of art of
sufficient national import-
ance to deserve the
strenuous support of their
members? This question
has been asked many a
time in England by public
and private institutions,
but in recent years the
answer to it has been
dictated by the competi-
tions of trade, which find
the services of art ever the
more necessary. England,
indeed, for the first time
in her history, is becoming
alive to the fact that the
arts are not merely luxuries,
but necessary servants to
all the needs of life in a
progressive country. When
they are neglected, the
standard of workmanship
is lowered in a thousand
ways throughout a whole
nation, and the dignity of
independent labour de-
clines at a rapid pace,
much to the injury of
national character. To
encourage art is thus a
national charity, and the
City Companies of Lon-
don have set an excellent
example to other insti-
STUDY OF CHERUBS AND AIR-SPIRITS BY HERBERT J. DRAPER tUtlOlTS.
4C