Studio: international art (49.1910)

Art School Notes

“ WINTER ” BY JOAN JOSHUA

(Royal Academy Schools, Cartoon Prize)

Venice. The list of sales also includes works by
Messrs. J. Lavery, R. Anning Bell, Cecil Rea,
W. Lee Hankey, W. Llewellyn, Terrick Williams,
A. Ludovici, Fred Stratton, A. K. Brown, Stuart
Park, and J. G. Laing, all acquired for private
collections; sculpture by Sir George Frampton,
R.A., Alfred Drury, A.R.A., andF. Derwent Wood,
A.R.A. elect; and etchings by Sir H. Seymour
Haden, Messrs. Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A., Hedley
Fitton, E. M. Synge, and Miss C. M. Nichols.
In the applied art section the Pilkington Tile and
Pottery Company, and the Ruskin Pottery and
Enamel Works were very successful.

The only other foreign countries which were
specially represented were Bavaria, Hungary, and
Belgium, and the sales of oil-paintings and water-
colours in these numbered rather more than
twenty in all, four of them being works by Franz
von Stuck. In the general international group the
names of P. A. Besnard, Anders Zorn, F. Khnopff,
and the late P. S. Kroyer, are the most notable.

Naturally the Italians figure most prominently in
the list, and out of the 257 paintings of various
kinds which were sold, probably four-fifths were
by them. The high favour accorded to the work
of Ettore Tito and Guglielmo Ciardi, to both
of whom special rooms were assigned, is shown
by the large number of paintings by them which
appear in the list.

ART SCHOOL NOTES.

LONDON. — Miss Marianne H. W.

Robilliard, the winner of the Biennial
Gold Medal for Historical Painting at
the Royal Academy, is, like that most
famous of Academy medallists, John Everett
Millais, the child of a Jersey father and an
English-born mother. On her mother’s side she is
a descendant of Joseph Strutt, who won the Gold
Medal for Historical Painting a hundred and forty
years ago, and in this connection another interest-
ing parallel may be noted. When Joseph Strutt
received the Gold Medal from the hands of
Sir Joshua in 1770, his fellow Gold Medallist in
Sculpture was Thomas Banks, afterwards R.A., and
Sir Edward Poynter, who, in his capacity of

“EXPULSION OF ADAM AND EVE FROM PARADISE”

BY ALFRED BUXTON

[Royal Academy Schools, Gold Medalfor Sculpture)

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