Studio-Talk
STUDIO-TALK. in purely English art. Hardly does J. M. Swan
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
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fit in at all with the atmosphere of the rest of the
exhibition, for his virile art was all through noted
ONDON.—The Winter Exhibition at the for an almost total absence of emotion.
Royal Academy is a tribute to the -
memory of four members and one asso- We reproduce on this page a panel recently
ciate who have passed away recently, painted by Mr. Conrad H. Leigh for the luncheon
namely, Sir W. Q. Orchardson, W. P. Frith, R. W. room at the Hall of the Carpenters' Company in
Macbeth, J. M. Swan, and D. Farquharson. It is London Wall. The subject is an incident chosen
very difficult to realise that the death of Mr. Frith from the history of the Company, and shows
is a recent event, for his art carries us back to the Henry VIII. watching the construction of the
conventions that reigned everywhere before they Great Hall at Hampton Court, which he had
were upset by the Pre-Raphaelites and later by the built to replace Wolsey's Hall, a smaller structure,
influence of impressionism. Orchardson's genius The King is having explained to him certain plans
is proclaimed in a very interesting collection of in relation to the work by James Nedam, who
-works, some of which have been reproduced in was King's carpenter at Hampton Court in
these pages. His portraits may be more safely 1530-31, and later became Master of the Carpenters'
trusted, we think, to take care of his great fame Company, whose wardens are in attendance on the
than his subject-pictures. R. W. Macbeth was King. In the background is shown a portion of
typically Victorian is his sentimentality, but in his the Clock Court, which has remained practically
best period he ranks as an equal with Walker and unchanged down to the present day. The panel
Mason, as belonging to one of the best moments measures 4 ft. 6 ins. by 5 ft. 6 ins., and is practi-
-" KING HENRY VIII. SUPERVISING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GREAT HALL, HAMPTON COURT": PANEL FOR
CARPENTERS' HALL, BY CONRAD H. LEIGH
(By permission of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters)
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STUDIO-TALK. in purely English art. Hardly does J. M. Swan
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
L
fit in at all with the atmosphere of the rest of the
exhibition, for his virile art was all through noted
ONDON.—The Winter Exhibition at the for an almost total absence of emotion.
Royal Academy is a tribute to the -
memory of four members and one asso- We reproduce on this page a panel recently
ciate who have passed away recently, painted by Mr. Conrad H. Leigh for the luncheon
namely, Sir W. Q. Orchardson, W. P. Frith, R. W. room at the Hall of the Carpenters' Company in
Macbeth, J. M. Swan, and D. Farquharson. It is London Wall. The subject is an incident chosen
very difficult to realise that the death of Mr. Frith from the history of the Company, and shows
is a recent event, for his art carries us back to the Henry VIII. watching the construction of the
conventions that reigned everywhere before they Great Hall at Hampton Court, which he had
were upset by the Pre-Raphaelites and later by the built to replace Wolsey's Hall, a smaller structure,
influence of impressionism. Orchardson's genius The King is having explained to him certain plans
is proclaimed in a very interesting collection of in relation to the work by James Nedam, who
-works, some of which have been reproduced in was King's carpenter at Hampton Court in
these pages. His portraits may be more safely 1530-31, and later became Master of the Carpenters'
trusted, we think, to take care of his great fame Company, whose wardens are in attendance on the
than his subject-pictures. R. W. Macbeth was King. In the background is shown a portion of
typically Victorian is his sentimentality, but in his the Clock Court, which has remained practically
best period he ranks as an equal with Walker and unchanged down to the present day. The panel
Mason, as belonging to one of the best moments measures 4 ft. 6 ins. by 5 ft. 6 ins., and is practi-
-" KING HENRY VIII. SUPERVISING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GREAT HALL, HAMPTON COURT": PANEL FOR
CARPENTERS' HALL, BY CONRAD H. LEIGH
(By permission of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters)
55