Studio: international art (58.1913)

The Public Art Galleries of Australia

'a summer idyll.

HOSNEL

tenable for three years.
John Longstaff, who won
the first scholarship, has
a number of pictures in
the gallery, his best being
The Sirens (shown at the
Salon in 1892 and the
Academy in 1893) and an
historic picture in which
the artist has depicted a
pathetic incident in con-
nection with the Burke and
Wills expedition. Original
works and copies by Abbe
Alt son, George Coates,
James Quinn, I. Cohen
and other scholarship
men hang on the walls,
The last named has
also a fine study of
the nude. The painting

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another student, who was
the first Australian to be
made an Associate of the
Royal 'Academy 'and the
first to have a work pur-
chased for the Tate Gal-
lery. There is A Love
Story as well as other works
by E. Phillips Fox, who is
now an associate of the
Societe Nationale des
Beaux - Arts. Arthur
Streeton, who was the first
Australian to receive a
mention at the Old Salon,
the honour being awarded
for a landscape painted
when the artist was twenty-
two years of age, has
several works, the group
including impressions of
Sydney Harbour, The
Hawkesbury River and the
brown sails of Chelsea
Barges. In connection
with the school, there is
awarded triennially a
travelling scholarship
valued at ^150 a year, <<a nymph" (Adelaide) by g. f. watts, r.a.

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