Studio: international art (33.1905)

F. Derwent Wood

NICHE FIGURE IN GILT BRONZE

BY F. DERWENT WOOD

judgment not to ignore the better principles of
the art of his own time, and that his thorough
acquaintance with the methods and mannerism
of one particular school has not had the effect
of diminishing the independence of his effort or
of narrowing the scope of his observation.

Indeed, in his other works he proves indisputably
that he has a grasp of artistic essentials that will
always save him from sinking thoughtlessly into
imitative conventionality. His sense of character
is shrewd enough and his knowledge of nature is
profound enough to guide him aright in giving a

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convincing expression to his ideas. His busts of
Mr. Harrison Townsend and Mr. Robert Brough
have, with all their distinction of manner, the
fullest measure of actuality ; and there is in them
no suggestion that facts have been sacrificed for
the sake of satisfying the artist's preconception in
matters of style. His Cecil Rhodes, too, is suf-
ficiently uncompromising in its statement of a
rugged, and in some respects inelegant, personality,
in its forcible presentation of a strong type, which
would have lost its meaning if its angles had been

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"OPHELIA": BRONZE STATUETTE

BY F. DERWENT WOOD