DOI Heft:
No. 128 (November, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0183
Studio- Talk
present day. It is interesting to note that on promoting the Public Art Gallery, and has made
awarding a prize to a young and unknown many important gifts of paintings to it, in addition
artist named Millais for his picture The Blind to using the weight of his influence in favour of a
Girl the Academy was deprived of an annual wise expenditure of public funds on works of
grant of two hundred pounds from the muni- acknowledged merit,
cipal funds, the corporation considering that --
their gift was being wasted upon obscuie Colonel Harding it was, also, who drew up the
artists. Bereft of this support, the society re- scheme for the laying out of the City Square—
mained dormant for many years, its usefulness a work just completed—and who presented the
crippled; and though the grant has never been whole of its adornments, with the exception of
renewed, as a body corporate the Academy the statues of Watt and Harrison, which are the
revived, and is now flourishing and extend- gifts of Mr. Richard Boston and the late Mr. R.
ing its aid to many rising young artists, while Wainwright. , -
others of recognised
position are attracted
to its membership.
Among the many ex-
cellent portraits by local
artists exhibited this year
at the Walker Art Gallery,
a foremost place is taken
by that of the Rt. Hon.
the Lord Mayor of Liver-
pool (W. Watson Ruther-
ford, M.P.), by G. PIall
Neale, who in every suc-
ceeding work persistently
advances his reputation for
conscientious and skilful
technique, harmonious
colour, graceful composi-
tion, and a convincing reali-
sation of the individuality
of his sitter. H. B. B.
LEEDS.—Public-
spirited citizens
are, fortunately,
by no means
scarce in the great indus-
trial centres of England,
but it is seldom that a
love of art is the keynote
of their munificent under-
takings. Leeds, however,
is fortunate enough to pos-
sess in Colonel T. Walter
Harding a citizen, not only
generou0, but constant in
his endeavours to foster
in his fellow townspeople
a love of the beautiful.
He was instrumental in leather-work (Sec Paris Studio-Talk) by madame thaui.ow
166
present day. It is interesting to note that on promoting the Public Art Gallery, and has made
awarding a prize to a young and unknown many important gifts of paintings to it, in addition
artist named Millais for his picture The Blind to using the weight of his influence in favour of a
Girl the Academy was deprived of an annual wise expenditure of public funds on works of
grant of two hundred pounds from the muni- acknowledged merit,
cipal funds, the corporation considering that --
their gift was being wasted upon obscuie Colonel Harding it was, also, who drew up the
artists. Bereft of this support, the society re- scheme for the laying out of the City Square—
mained dormant for many years, its usefulness a work just completed—and who presented the
crippled; and though the grant has never been whole of its adornments, with the exception of
renewed, as a body corporate the Academy the statues of Watt and Harrison, which are the
revived, and is now flourishing and extend- gifts of Mr. Richard Boston and the late Mr. R.
ing its aid to many rising young artists, while Wainwright. , -
others of recognised
position are attracted
to its membership.
Among the many ex-
cellent portraits by local
artists exhibited this year
at the Walker Art Gallery,
a foremost place is taken
by that of the Rt. Hon.
the Lord Mayor of Liver-
pool (W. Watson Ruther-
ford, M.P.), by G. PIall
Neale, who in every suc-
ceeding work persistently
advances his reputation for
conscientious and skilful
technique, harmonious
colour, graceful composi-
tion, and a convincing reali-
sation of the individuality
of his sitter. H. B. B.
LEEDS.—Public-
spirited citizens
are, fortunately,
by no means
scarce in the great indus-
trial centres of England,
but it is seldom that a
love of art is the keynote
of their munificent under-
takings. Leeds, however,
is fortunate enough to pos-
sess in Colonel T. Walter
Harding a citizen, not only
generou0, but constant in
his endeavours to foster
in his fellow townspeople
a love of the beautiful.
He was instrumental in leather-work (Sec Paris Studio-Talk) by madame thaui.ow
166