DOI Heft:
No. 204 (March, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20969#0168
Studio-Talk
more and more to portraiture; and to the poetic
feeling and fine colour which distinguish his
decorative work is here added an intuitive percep-
tion of character, combined with a grace and
refinement only too rare in modern work. The
most notable of his portraits is certainly that of
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, already mentioned, which
attracted a great deal of attention when exhibited
in Rome. Other examples of Mr. Elliott’s work in
this line are his portrait of the Duke of Cambridge,
three different views of the head of Lady Cromer,
and three heads in red chalk of the Marquis of
Winchester, Lord Ava, and General Wauchope,
which were in the exhibition held at Lansdowne
House after the Boer War. S. D.
BRUSSELS.'—The sculptor, Ch. Samuel,
of Brussels, some of whose works in
ivory have already appeared in The
Studio (Nov. 1902 and May, 1904),
exhibited recently a statu-
ette, Une danseuse antique
(reproduced on p. 146),
which undoubtedly de-
serves to rank as his most
important achievement in
this genre. The general
line of the composition is
graceful and harmonious,
and the details of the
work — of the hands es-
pecially — have been
executed with consum-
mate finish. The model-
ling, also, of a memorial
plaquette to the Baron F.
A. Gevaert has been
entrusted to M. Samuel.
M. Fonson, the publisher,
has undertaken, very cour-
ageously and without
official support, to have
medals struck in memory
of illustrious Belgians,
and the occasion of the
death of the eminent
Director of the Brussels
Conservatoire seemed to
him a fitting one to in-
augurate the series. The
very characteristic profile
of the “ master,” with his
ironical smile, has been
portrait of mrs. julia ward howe by john elliott reproduced by the sculptor
145
ROME.—Mr. John Elliott, whose finely
sympathetic poitrait of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe is here reproduced, is, as his name
shows, a Scotchman. A student under
Carolus-Duran in Paris, and later under Senor
Villegas in Rome, he has lived chiefly in the latter
city, where during the last ten years he has been
engaged on large decorative works. Of these one
of the most important is The Triumph of Time in
the Boston Public Library, others being The Story
of the Vintage for Mrs. Potter Palmer’s house in
Chicago, and the just completed decoration re-
cently exhibited in Rome, Diana rf the Tides, for
the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Curiously
the artist, though accustomed to work on so large
a scale, is also an exquisite miniature painter, pre-
serving the beautiful texture of the ivory and
obtaining on the tiny discs, by the use of trans-
parent colour only, effects at once broad and
delicate. Of late he has been turning his attention
more and more to portraiture; and to the poetic
feeling and fine colour which distinguish his
decorative work is here added an intuitive percep-
tion of character, combined with a grace and
refinement only too rare in modern work. The
most notable of his portraits is certainly that of
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, already mentioned, which
attracted a great deal of attention when exhibited
in Rome. Other examples of Mr. Elliott’s work in
this line are his portrait of the Duke of Cambridge,
three different views of the head of Lady Cromer,
and three heads in red chalk of the Marquis of
Winchester, Lord Ava, and General Wauchope,
which were in the exhibition held at Lansdowne
House after the Boer War. S. D.
BRUSSELS.'—The sculptor, Ch. Samuel,
of Brussels, some of whose works in
ivory have already appeared in The
Studio (Nov. 1902 and May, 1904),
exhibited recently a statu-
ette, Une danseuse antique
(reproduced on p. 146),
which undoubtedly de-
serves to rank as his most
important achievement in
this genre. The general
line of the composition is
graceful and harmonious,
and the details of the
work — of the hands es-
pecially — have been
executed with consum-
mate finish. The model-
ling, also, of a memorial
plaquette to the Baron F.
A. Gevaert has been
entrusted to M. Samuel.
M. Fonson, the publisher,
has undertaken, very cour-
ageously and without
official support, to have
medals struck in memory
of illustrious Belgians,
and the occasion of the
death of the eminent
Director of the Brussels
Conservatoire seemed to
him a fitting one to in-
augurate the series. The
very characteristic profile
of the “ master,” with his
ironical smile, has been
portrait of mrs. julia ward howe by john elliott reproduced by the sculptor
145
ROME.—Mr. John Elliott, whose finely
sympathetic poitrait of Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe is here reproduced, is, as his name
shows, a Scotchman. A student under
Carolus-Duran in Paris, and later under Senor
Villegas in Rome, he has lived chiefly in the latter
city, where during the last ten years he has been
engaged on large decorative works. Of these one
of the most important is The Triumph of Time in
the Boston Public Library, others being The Story
of the Vintage for Mrs. Potter Palmer’s house in
Chicago, and the just completed decoration re-
cently exhibited in Rome, Diana rf the Tides, for
the Smithsonian Institute, Washington. Curiously
the artist, though accustomed to work on so large
a scale, is also an exquisite miniature painter, pre-
serving the beautiful texture of the ivory and
obtaining on the tiny discs, by the use of trans-
parent colour only, effects at once broad and
delicate. Of late he has been turning his attention