Studio: international art (38.1906)

Studio- Talk

was seventy-five years old, he journeyed from Vienna
to Bayreuth to attend the first general rehearsal of
the Ring, and again in the following year attended
at Wagner’s invitation the first public representa-
tion of the work as one of the honorary patrons.

STUDIO-TALK

(From our Own Correspondents)

LONDON. — We congratulate Sir Luke
Fildes upon receiving conferment of
knighthood. In the earliest days of “ The
Graphic ” Sir Luke Fildes was closely
associated with that paper as a black-and-white
artist. Sir Luke Fildes achieved distinction as
a painter of genre, but of recent years has de-
voted himself almost entirely to portraiture.

The late Mr. W. J. Knewstub, whose death has
just occurred at Hampstead, in his seventy-fifth
year, was an artist of whom little has been heard
of in recent 3 ears. Early in life he made the
acquaintance of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose

apprentice he became after leaving the Academy
Schools, where he had been studying. Besides the
two Rossetti’s, he enjoyed the friendship of Mr.
Watts-Dunton and Ford Madox Brown, whom he
afterwards joined at Manchester to assist in carry-
ing out the designs for the Manchester Town Hall.

On the 20th of June an artist passed away who
was not without claims to distinction for his refined
and sincere rendering of English landscape. John
Clayton Adams was born in 1840, and was the
second son of Mr. C. H. Adams, of Edmonton.
He studied art at the Bloomsbury School and later
under Mr. W. W. Fenn. At nineteen he began
to exhibit at the Academy, and, with the exception
of two years, has exhibited there ever since, this
year exhibiting a picture called Flowers of the
Field.

The Exhibition of Contemporary German Art
at the Prince’s Gallery, Knightsbridge, held in
recognition of the sympathy and appreciation