DOI issue:
No. 217 (April, 1911)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0249
Studio- Talk
BOOK-PLATE BY R. ANNING BELL, R.W.S.
on the Olt, by Isobelle A. Dods-Withers ;
The Brown Velvet Jacket, by Mary Creighton ;
The Spanish Coat, by Julie Helen Heyne-
mann ; Die Schwestern, by Irma de Duczynska ;
In the Conservatory, by Elsie M. Henderson ;
Gareth at the Old Knight's Castle, by Mary
Sargant-Florence ; The Farm Yard, by Bertha,
E. Digby ; A Street, Corfe Castle, by Muriel
Fewster; The Church of St. Austreberthe,
Montreuil, by E. M. Lister; A Valley in
Picardy, by Bertha E. Digby ; Mackerel Boats,
by Mary McCrossan; Fragment, by Use de
Twardowska-Conrat; A Dorset Lane, by Gabell
Smith; The Grey Veil, by Mrs.:T3ristowe; and
The Arbour, by Ethel Wright.
Mr. Anning Bell prevents us -from losing sight
of one very captivating side of his art by 'some
recent book-plates which we reproduce. His
reputation began in this vein; the mood that
has been continued in larger decorative themes
and paintings began in his penwork, and it is
the appreciation of grace of form, so notable
in them, that has proved the foundation of his
success as an imaginative painter.
_ o
The Pencil Society's Third Exhibition has
been held at Mr. W. B. Paterson's Gallery, and
was extremely attractive. It is very often the
case that the less professional side~of an artist's
output is in some respects the best. Such a
study, for instance, as No. 13, by Mr. George
Belcher, has many sympathetic qualities that do
not find their way into his press work. Mr.
Steven Spurrier in Wright and Rossi, two
pencil studies, attained to something very desir-
able in such art, and Mr. Joseph Simpson in
Portrait exhibited a very distinguished thing.
Drawings by Mr. James Paterson, R.W.S., Mr.
A. Carruthers Gould, Sir Charles Holroyd and
Mr. W. Strang, A.R.A., were in the best vein of
these well-known draughtsmen.
We regret to record the death of Mr. Ernest
Crofts, R.A., which took place at Burlington
House on March 19th after a severe illness.
Mr. Crofts, who was a native of Leeds,
specialised in the painting of military pictures,
and in this field achieved marked success. He
was born in 1 847, first exhibited at the Academy
in 1874 ; was elected Associate four years later
and full member in 1896, when he was also
appointed Keeper and Trustee of the Academy,
an appointment carrying with it an official
residence at Burlington House.—Mr. Frederick
Shields, who died at the end of February,
at the age of seventy-six, was a disciple of
the Pre-Raphaelites and a great friend of D. G.
Rossetti. He painted a series of sacred scenes
for the Chapel of Eaton Hall in Cheshire, but
better known are those he did for the Chapel of
the Ascension on the north side of Hyde Park
BOOK-PLATE BY R. ANNING BELL, R.W.S.
227
BOOK-PLATE BY R. ANNING BELL, R.W.S.
on the Olt, by Isobelle A. Dods-Withers ;
The Brown Velvet Jacket, by Mary Creighton ;
The Spanish Coat, by Julie Helen Heyne-
mann ; Die Schwestern, by Irma de Duczynska ;
In the Conservatory, by Elsie M. Henderson ;
Gareth at the Old Knight's Castle, by Mary
Sargant-Florence ; The Farm Yard, by Bertha,
E. Digby ; A Street, Corfe Castle, by Muriel
Fewster; The Church of St. Austreberthe,
Montreuil, by E. M. Lister; A Valley in
Picardy, by Bertha E. Digby ; Mackerel Boats,
by Mary McCrossan; Fragment, by Use de
Twardowska-Conrat; A Dorset Lane, by Gabell
Smith; The Grey Veil, by Mrs.:T3ristowe; and
The Arbour, by Ethel Wright.
Mr. Anning Bell prevents us -from losing sight
of one very captivating side of his art by 'some
recent book-plates which we reproduce. His
reputation began in this vein; the mood that
has been continued in larger decorative themes
and paintings began in his penwork, and it is
the appreciation of grace of form, so notable
in them, that has proved the foundation of his
success as an imaginative painter.
_ o
The Pencil Society's Third Exhibition has
been held at Mr. W. B. Paterson's Gallery, and
was extremely attractive. It is very often the
case that the less professional side~of an artist's
output is in some respects the best. Such a
study, for instance, as No. 13, by Mr. George
Belcher, has many sympathetic qualities that do
not find their way into his press work. Mr.
Steven Spurrier in Wright and Rossi, two
pencil studies, attained to something very desir-
able in such art, and Mr. Joseph Simpson in
Portrait exhibited a very distinguished thing.
Drawings by Mr. James Paterson, R.W.S., Mr.
A. Carruthers Gould, Sir Charles Holroyd and
Mr. W. Strang, A.R.A., were in the best vein of
these well-known draughtsmen.
We regret to record the death of Mr. Ernest
Crofts, R.A., which took place at Burlington
House on March 19th after a severe illness.
Mr. Crofts, who was a native of Leeds,
specialised in the painting of military pictures,
and in this field achieved marked success. He
was born in 1 847, first exhibited at the Academy
in 1874 ; was elected Associate four years later
and full member in 1896, when he was also
appointed Keeper and Trustee of the Academy,
an appointment carrying with it an official
residence at Burlington House.—Mr. Frederick
Shields, who died at the end of February,
at the age of seventy-six, was a disciple of
the Pre-Raphaelites and a great friend of D. G.
Rossetti. He painted a series of sacred scenes
for the Chapel of Eaton Hall in Cheshire, but
better known are those he did for the Chapel of
the Ascension on the north side of Hyde Park
BOOK-PLATE BY R. ANNING BELL, R.W.S.
227