Studio: international art (46.1909)

Art School Notes

“a midsummer morning” (water-colour)

BY HANS HEYSEN

seen in a collection of works numbering about 130,
which he exhibited not long ago at the Melbourne
Guildhall—oil paintings, water-colours, pastels and
monotypes. Especially notable are his fine water-
colours of Venice and Sydney Harbour, and
among his oil paintings, the mysterious Moonlighl
(a study in reduced colour), Timber Hauling,
Way Home (both remarkable for their rich
coloration and vigorous brushwork), and the
two works now reproduced, which have been
acquired by the Victorian National Gallery under
the Felton Bequest. J. S.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

LONDON.—At the Royal Academy Schools
the publication in March of the list of
subjects for the prize competitions is
always awaited with interest, especially
in the “ great ” years of which the present is one.
A “great” year is a year in which are awarded the
biennial gold medals and travelling studentships
for historical painting, sculpture and architecture,
and for these prizes, each of which is of the value
of ^200, the contest is naturally very keen.
These competitions were instituted exactly a
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hundred and forty years ago, when Mauritius
Lowe, the friend of Dr. Johnson, gained the medal
for painting, John Bacon, afterwards R.A., for
sculpture, and James Gandon for architecture.
Among the artists who have since carried off the
medals for painting or sculpture are Thomas
Banks, John Hoppner, John Soane, Samuel Joseph,
Daniel Maclise, J. C. Hook, J. E. Millais, Frank
Holl, Harry Bates, Mr. Thomas Brock, Mr. Hamo
Thornycroft, Mr. Frank Dicksee, Mr. H. H. La
Thangue, Mr. T. Stirling Lee, Mr. F. G. Cotman,
Mr. J. E. Christie, Miss Jessie Macgregor, Madame
Canziani, Mr. F. W. Pomeroy, Sir George
Frampton, Mr. W. Goscombe John, Mr. Melton
Fisher, Mr. Mouat Loudan, Mr. F. Derwent
Wood, Mr. Horace B. Fisher, Mr. A. T. Nowell,
Mr. H. J. Draper, Mr. Ralph Peacock, and
Mr. Harold Speed. ___

The subjects set this year for the competitions
for the gold medals in painting, sculpture and
architecture are respectively: “Dives and Lazarus,”
“The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise,”
and “A Nobleman’s Mansion in a Large Park,
with Garden Terraces down to the River.” Epi-
sodes in the story of Adam and Eve and designs