Studio: international art (43.1908)

Studio-Talk

Skinners Hall. Of this study we give' a colour
reproduction. The cabinet pictures were mostly low
in tone, yet dealing with the treatment of sunlight
effects in shaded places. Upon a small scale
Mr. Brangwyn is as interesting as upon a large
one, and these smaller paintings resemble his
etchings in character. Of his etchings we have
often had occasion to deal in these pages. The
plates which the artist has lately added are a
development of earlier successes, those of the
riverside and other forms of labour seeming to
reveal the power of Mr. Brangwyn’s needle in
the most characteristic and beautiful way.

The Ryder Gallery contained last month a
collection of pastels by Mr. A. L. Baldry. Appre-
ciation of the tender sky effects possible in the
medium characterise all Mr. Baldry’s landscapes,
which in some cases are simplified and subordinated
to this end. The Coming Storm—Christchurch, The
Oatfield, An Afterglow, The Farm in the Marsh,
perhaps were the most attractive shown here.
A Portrait Sketch was a very successful and
interesting drawing.

Mr. W. Lee Hankey’s exhibition at the Leicester
Galleries was the third of a series of water-colours.
He has a quite extraordinary power over the
medium, achieving in it easily an appearance of
great finish without the sacrifice of any breadth and
vigour. At the same galleries Mr. Terrick Williams
also held a most interesting exhibition of water-
colours. Working on a smaller scale and in a
different manner, Mr. Williams shares some of the
knowledge which gives Mr. Lee Hankey such
freedom in his execution. In this exhibition he
was certainly at his best in such subjects as
A Showery Day, Concarneau, and especially The
End of a Wet Day, Concarneau.

The Society of Miniaturists had much good work
to show at their exhibition in the Royal Institute
galleries. Mr. Joshua Smith’s, Mrs. A. Chamberlin’s,
Miss N. Bourne’s, Miss F. Cooper’s, Miss R.
Carter’s miniatures should be referred to as among
the chief exhibits. Miss Vere Temple’s miniature
of T.R.H. Princess Mary (the May Queen) and
Princes Albert Edward, Albert, Henry, and George
of Wales was very successful, especially in over-
coming the difficulties of grouping. Other excel-
lent miniatures were by the President, Mr. A.
Praga, Messrs. E. Strellett, A. Chantrey Corbould,
Miss M. Willis, V. Bowden, I. Patterson, L. Chad-
wick and Mme. G. Debillemont- Char don. Miss

Lilian Rowney’s A Dreamer should be specially
mentioned, as also the miniatures of the Vice-
President, Mr. Ernest Lloyd, and Mr. W. Bird’s
A Study, one of the best shown.

The pulpit illustrated on this page was designed
by Mr. Percy Worthington, architect, of Manches- ,
ter, for presentation by Col. Dixon, Lord of the
Manor of Chelford, Cheshire, to the parish church,
in connection with a scheme for providing new
stalls, choir benches, reredos, altar and panelling.
The pulpit is of English oak, and the joinery has
been done by Messrs. Coates & Son, while Mr.
Miller, of the firm of Earp, Hobbs & Miller, has
executed the modelling and carving, under the
superintendence of the architect.

Water-colour drawings by the following artists
were shown at W. B. Paterson’s Gallery in Bond
Street—A. van Anrooy, R. Anning Bell, R.W.S.,
Muirhead Bone, W. L. Bruckman, D. Y. Cameron,
A.R.S.A., J. Crawhall, H. Daniel, Francis E. James,
F. Mayor, F. Mura, W. Nicholson, J. Paterson,
A.R.S.A., A. Rackham, H. S. Teed, and W.
Witsen ; but some of these were but very slightly
represented. Mr. F. E. James had for the nonce
abandoned flowers, and here was showing an
excellent landscape. Mr. Anning Bell’s Echo was
very pleasing. The Cathedral, Nantes, by Mr.

PULPIT AT CHELFORD DESIGNED BY PERCY

CHURCH WORTHINGTON, M.A.,

ARCHITECT

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