DOI Heft:
No. 203 (February, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20969#0067
Studio-Talk
from Mr. Whistler’s studio in 1901, and was ex-
hibited at the memorial exhibition of the artist’s
works at the New Gallery in 1905. The original
is slightly larger than our reproduction.
An event of note last month was the resignation
■of Mr. Norman Shaw from membership of the
Royal Academy. His action, it is stated, was
prompted by the very generous wish to make room
for some one else after forty years’ membership.
As a precedent, we are not sure that it is one that
should be followed, having regard to the essential
character of academic honours. The vacancy in the
ranks of the members has been filled by the pro-
motion of Mr. Stanhope A. Forbes, who was born
in 1857 and became an Associate in 1892. Mr.
Forbes was the first painter of the Newlyn colony
to gain admission to the Academy, and his election
to full membership will prove popular not only in
the colony itself—which, largely owing to his
influence and personality, is now far more numerous
than when he became Associate—but among an
extensive circle of admirers elsewhere.
At the same meeting as that which elected Mr.
Forbes three new Associates were appointed—Mr.
William Orpen, painter; Mr. F. Derwent Wood,
sculptor, and Mr. Ernest George, architect. All
three are men who have distinguished themselves
in their respective spheres, but perhaps the most
significant of these appointments is that of Mr.
Orpen, as it affords further proof of the desire of
the Academy to adopt into its ranks men who are
wholly free from the so-called “Academic” taint.
Mr. Orpen is, of course, a member of the New
English Art Club, perhaps the most potent force
in English art at the present time. He is a young
man and his advance has been remarkable, but
distinguished as is the position he has already
attained, we think the future will show that he has
not yet reached the summit of his career.
Simultaneously with the elections referred to
above came the announcement of the presentation
to the nation by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A.,
of his vast portrait group representing the Council
of the Royal Academy. This painting, which it
“snared”
44
BY STANHOPE A. FORBES, R.A. ELECT
from Mr. Whistler’s studio in 1901, and was ex-
hibited at the memorial exhibition of the artist’s
works at the New Gallery in 1905. The original
is slightly larger than our reproduction.
An event of note last month was the resignation
■of Mr. Norman Shaw from membership of the
Royal Academy. His action, it is stated, was
prompted by the very generous wish to make room
for some one else after forty years’ membership.
As a precedent, we are not sure that it is one that
should be followed, having regard to the essential
character of academic honours. The vacancy in the
ranks of the members has been filled by the pro-
motion of Mr. Stanhope A. Forbes, who was born
in 1857 and became an Associate in 1892. Mr.
Forbes was the first painter of the Newlyn colony
to gain admission to the Academy, and his election
to full membership will prove popular not only in
the colony itself—which, largely owing to his
influence and personality, is now far more numerous
than when he became Associate—but among an
extensive circle of admirers elsewhere.
At the same meeting as that which elected Mr.
Forbes three new Associates were appointed—Mr.
William Orpen, painter; Mr. F. Derwent Wood,
sculptor, and Mr. Ernest George, architect. All
three are men who have distinguished themselves
in their respective spheres, but perhaps the most
significant of these appointments is that of Mr.
Orpen, as it affords further proof of the desire of
the Academy to adopt into its ranks men who are
wholly free from the so-called “Academic” taint.
Mr. Orpen is, of course, a member of the New
English Art Club, perhaps the most potent force
in English art at the present time. He is a young
man and his advance has been remarkable, but
distinguished as is the position he has already
attained, we think the future will show that he has
not yet reached the summit of his career.
Simultaneously with the elections referred to
above came the announcement of the presentation
to the nation by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, R.A.,
of his vast portrait group representing the Council
of the Royal Academy. This painting, which it
“snared”
44
BY STANHOPE A. FORBES, R.A. ELECT