DOI Heft:
No. 134 (May, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0368
Studio- Talk
friends entertained at dinner Mr. C. E. Halle,
Mr. Comyns Carr, and Mr. Leonard Lindsay, who
have so ably directed the gallery since its opening
in 1888. The dinner was given at the Cafe Royal
and was attended by about a hundred and thirty
artists and lovers of art. The affair was a con-
spicuous success, and the evident good feeling
which pervaded the whole gathering emphasised
the compliment paid to the directors of the
gallery. Speeches were made by Lord Monkswell,
who presided, by Sir W. B. Richmond, Mr. Adrian
Stokes, Mr. George Henry, Mr. David Carr, and
Mr. Melton Fisher, as well as by Mr. Halle, Mr.
Comyns Carr, and Mr. Lindsay, who had all much
to say concerning the history and working of the
New Gallery. The idea of organising this dinner
was originated by J. Coutts Michie, and the
arrangements were controlled by a committee of
artists who have certainly every reason to con-
gratulate themselves on the result of their efforts.
We give an illustration of some recent productions
by Miss Christine Connell, whose work is dis-
tinguished by originality and beauty of design,
together with artistic thoroughness and finish of
execution. The bowl illustrated is entirely her
own work, and is of silver set with turquoise
matrix. The candlesticks are also of silver, with
peacock-blue enamel decoration and glass candle-
rings of a similar colour. Miss Connell was assisted
in the making by Miss Blanche Goff and Miss
Bertha Goff, who were both pupils of Miss Connell's
and who are now her assistants.
LIVERPOOL.—The recent studio exhibi-
tions of some of the Liverpool portrait
painters proved most attractive. Work
by Mr. W. B. Boadle, Mr. Clinton Balmer,
and Mr. Frank Copnall, drew attention by its
diversity and general excellence. Distinction of
pose, fine quality of drawing, and use of rich, pure,
harmonious colour—characteristics in Mr. G. Hall
Neale's work—are admirably realised in his por-
traits of Mr. Arthur Preston, Mr. H. Cotterell, and
Mr. Alderman Ephraim Walker. Mrs. Hall Neale's
fall-length portrait of the ex-Lady Mayoress, Mrs.
Watson Rutherford—a most successful likeness—
has grace and perfect ease of attitude, with refined
treatment of accessories and background, rendered
with simple, broad masses of well - harmonised
.J
CANDLESTICKS AND BOWL IN SILVER BY CHRISTINE CONNELL
348
friends entertained at dinner Mr. C. E. Halle,
Mr. Comyns Carr, and Mr. Leonard Lindsay, who
have so ably directed the gallery since its opening
in 1888. The dinner was given at the Cafe Royal
and was attended by about a hundred and thirty
artists and lovers of art. The affair was a con-
spicuous success, and the evident good feeling
which pervaded the whole gathering emphasised
the compliment paid to the directors of the
gallery. Speeches were made by Lord Monkswell,
who presided, by Sir W. B. Richmond, Mr. Adrian
Stokes, Mr. George Henry, Mr. David Carr, and
Mr. Melton Fisher, as well as by Mr. Halle, Mr.
Comyns Carr, and Mr. Lindsay, who had all much
to say concerning the history and working of the
New Gallery. The idea of organising this dinner
was originated by J. Coutts Michie, and the
arrangements were controlled by a committee of
artists who have certainly every reason to con-
gratulate themselves on the result of their efforts.
We give an illustration of some recent productions
by Miss Christine Connell, whose work is dis-
tinguished by originality and beauty of design,
together with artistic thoroughness and finish of
execution. The bowl illustrated is entirely her
own work, and is of silver set with turquoise
matrix. The candlesticks are also of silver, with
peacock-blue enamel decoration and glass candle-
rings of a similar colour. Miss Connell was assisted
in the making by Miss Blanche Goff and Miss
Bertha Goff, who were both pupils of Miss Connell's
and who are now her assistants.
LIVERPOOL.—The recent studio exhibi-
tions of some of the Liverpool portrait
painters proved most attractive. Work
by Mr. W. B. Boadle, Mr. Clinton Balmer,
and Mr. Frank Copnall, drew attention by its
diversity and general excellence. Distinction of
pose, fine quality of drawing, and use of rich, pure,
harmonious colour—characteristics in Mr. G. Hall
Neale's work—are admirably realised in his por-
traits of Mr. Arthur Preston, Mr. H. Cotterell, and
Mr. Alderman Ephraim Walker. Mrs. Hall Neale's
fall-length portrait of the ex-Lady Mayoress, Mrs.
Watson Rutherford—a most successful likeness—
has grace and perfect ease of attitude, with refined
treatment of accessories and background, rendered
with simple, broad masses of well - harmonised
.J
CANDLESTICKS AND BOWL IN SILVER BY CHRISTINE CONNELL
348