Studio: international art (40.1907)

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BUST OF SIR HENRY IRVING (BRONZE) BY COURTENAY POLLOCK

of execution and happy conception of the
subject. Older contributors, the Vice-President,
Mr. Yeend King, Messrs. J. R. Reid, J. Knight,
J. Orrock, J. Finnemore, with skill proved long
ago, well supported early traditions. Mr. Fulley-
love’s Paris, looking East, was a pleasant specimen
of water-colour in his manner. The Warrener, a
single-figure subject by the clever illustrator,
Mr. Frank Reynolds, was admirable both as a
study of character and in the treatment. How-
ever much the subject - picture was at certain
galleries for a time despised, the Royal Institute
has always frankly offered it a home, and as the
subject-picture comes back into fashion, after its
banishment for sins against art, the Institute will
have its reward.

The book illustration by Miss Jessie M. King
which we reproduce as a supplement is one among
others which she has done for the “ Poems of Shelley ”
in “ The Golden Poets ” Series, issued by Messrs. T. C.
and E. C. Jack, of Edinburgh and London. Miss

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King is a close student of inner
nature; she sees deeper than bud
and leaf and blossom; to her there
is a whole world beyond this, which
she pictures with rare delicacy of
fancy.

The Fine Art Society has been
holding an exhibition at their galleries
in New Pond Street of a large and
exceptionally fine collection of
Gothic and early Renaissance iron-
work, the result of thirty years’
labour on the part of its owner, who
has been residing in Southern Ger-
many, and has acquired his speci-
mens in the districts which produced
them, and which they have now
quitted for the first time. Of this
collection a few examples are here
reproduced in order to give some
idea of its nature. They have been
selected as t)pical of the general
quality of the work comprised in
the collection (which deals chiefly
with domestic ironwork), rather than
as showing the finest or scarcest
specimens.

Apropos of this collection, Mr.
A. Wallace Rimington, after pointing
out that until recently insufficient
interest has been taken in this delightful branch of

GOTHIC LOCK SOUTH GERMAN, I5TH CENTURY