DOI issue:
No. 239 (February 1913)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0087
Studio-Talk
guinea, and fancy costume must be worn. Mr. G.
Sherwood Foster, 15 Queen's Gate Terrace, S.W.,
is in charge of the arrangements.
BIRMINGHAM.—The City Council in
recently conferring the freedom of the
city on two of its most distinguished
citizens very wisely gave the commission
for the caskets containing the Council's resolutions
to the Schools of Art under its control. The casket
presented to the Right Hon. Jesse Collings, M.P.,
was designed by Mr. Arthur Gaskin, the Head
Master of the Vittoria Street School, and executed
by the students under his supervision. It is of
silver finished in its natural colour, with gold
damascening employed effectively in the applied
ornament. Enamel is judiciously used in the
cresting, the central feature of which typifies Mr.
Collings' well-known interest in agriculture. The
other casket, presented to the Right Hon. William
Kenrick, was designed by Mr. R. Catterson Smith,
the Head Master, and executed by the students at
the Central School. It is of silver-gilt, and is
crowned with figures commemorating the scholar-
ships founded at the Central School by Mr.
Kenrick; while in the side are two low relief panels
beautifully modelled by Mr. T. P. Spall, the
modelling master, illustrating Millais' Blind Gin,
presented by Mr. Kenrick to the Art Gallery, and
Ford Madox Brown's Last oj England, acquired
by the Art Gallery Committee under Mr. Kenrick's
chairmanship; the general effect being very rich
and harmonious in its colouring. The City
Council is to be congratulated on the encourage-
ment it has given to the young craftsmen of the
city in thus using their abilities when possible, and
it is to be hoped that the precedent will be widely
followed by other public bodies, in commissioning
well-designed craftwork rather than in purchasing
the stock designs of the manufacturer. A. McK.
A BERDEEN.—One of the most recent
/ \ additions to the Aberdeen Art Gallery
/ \ is the large portrait of Lady Robertson,
by Sir. W. Q. Orchardson here repro-
duced. Painted when he was at the very height of
PORTRAIT OF LADY ROBERTSON"
64
(Aberdeen Art Galleiy)
BY SIR W. Q. ORCHARDSON, R.A.
guinea, and fancy costume must be worn. Mr. G.
Sherwood Foster, 15 Queen's Gate Terrace, S.W.,
is in charge of the arrangements.
BIRMINGHAM.—The City Council in
recently conferring the freedom of the
city on two of its most distinguished
citizens very wisely gave the commission
for the caskets containing the Council's resolutions
to the Schools of Art under its control. The casket
presented to the Right Hon. Jesse Collings, M.P.,
was designed by Mr. Arthur Gaskin, the Head
Master of the Vittoria Street School, and executed
by the students under his supervision. It is of
silver finished in its natural colour, with gold
damascening employed effectively in the applied
ornament. Enamel is judiciously used in the
cresting, the central feature of which typifies Mr.
Collings' well-known interest in agriculture. The
other casket, presented to the Right Hon. William
Kenrick, was designed by Mr. R. Catterson Smith,
the Head Master, and executed by the students at
the Central School. It is of silver-gilt, and is
crowned with figures commemorating the scholar-
ships founded at the Central School by Mr.
Kenrick; while in the side are two low relief panels
beautifully modelled by Mr. T. P. Spall, the
modelling master, illustrating Millais' Blind Gin,
presented by Mr. Kenrick to the Art Gallery, and
Ford Madox Brown's Last oj England, acquired
by the Art Gallery Committee under Mr. Kenrick's
chairmanship; the general effect being very rich
and harmonious in its colouring. The City
Council is to be congratulated on the encourage-
ment it has given to the young craftsmen of the
city in thus using their abilities when possible, and
it is to be hoped that the precedent will be widely
followed by other public bodies, in commissioning
well-designed craftwork rather than in purchasing
the stock designs of the manufacturer. A. McK.
A BERDEEN.—One of the most recent
/ \ additions to the Aberdeen Art Gallery
/ \ is the large portrait of Lady Robertson,
by Sir. W. Q. Orchardson here repro-
duced. Painted when he was at the very height of
PORTRAIT OF LADY ROBERTSON"
64
(Aberdeen Art Galleiy)
BY SIR W. Q. ORCHARDSON, R.A.