DOI issue:
No. 247 (October 1913)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21208#0083
Studio-Talk
Havre, where she lived until she was twenty-two.
Later it was under a French trade printer in Paris
that she learnt the rudiments of the working of the
lithographic press. But Miss Gabain’s chief know-
ledge of her craft was gained in the lithography
classes at the Central School under Mr. Jackson,
and at Mr. Jackson’s Saturday lithography class at
the South Western Polytechnic, and the Slade
School had her as pupil for a year. Lithographs
by Miss Gabain have been acquired by the Victoria
and Albert Museum, the Manchester and Liverpool
Art Galleries, the National Gallery, Toronto, and
the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome. We
shall hope some day to see a joint exhibition of the
work of Mr. and Mrs. John Copley, so different,
yet so forcibly expressive of the personality of each
artist.” Miss Gabain’s print Caprice was exhibited
at the recent Salon of the Societe Nationale in
Paris, and she has been elected an Associate of that
society.
The lockets and brooches shown on this page were
designed by Mr. Byam Shaw and executed in needle-
work by Miss Jessie Gregory.
The figures are embroidered
in silk, the choice of colours
being left with Miss Gregory,
and in this she displays ex-
ceptional taste, in every
instance achieving an effect
exquisite and charming.
The stitching itself is very
finished in style ; and work-
ing with Mr. Byam Shaw’s
fine drawing as a basis, Miss
Gregory enhances the design
by the spontaneity of her
own execution. Miss
Gregory is now turning her
attention to the decoration
of fans, and she proposes
forming a class for teaching
the kind of needlework in
which she so excels.
of South Africa. The gift is for the purpose of
founding a National Gallery of South Africa at
Cape Town, and in The Studio for May last we
devoted an article to the history of the gift, which
in its first shape consisted of forty-six pictures.
We then pointed out that the collection would
bear strengthening on the side of that domestic
genre and interior painting which the art of Ter
Borch and of Metsu so particularly represents.
The Metsu picture, The Dessert, which is now
added, was an important item in the famous Lord
Harrowby collection, and Smith in his Catalogue
Raisonne of Dutch Masterpieces singled it out for
especial praise. The additions to the collection
also include a Wouverman, which is among the
most famous of this master’s works, La Charrette
Embourbee, or The Cart in a Tut. In the col-
lection of the Comtesse de Verrue in 1737, in
that of Blondel de Gagny in 1776, Destouches
in 1794, M. Tolozan in 1801, the Marquis de
Montcalm in 1849, Robert Field in 1856, it has
come down to us in a truly remarkable state of
preservation. Of the art of the great landscape
We are reproducing three
paintings, by Ter Borch,
Metsu and Cuyp respec-
tively, which form part of
the twenty-two new pictures
added by Mr. Max Michaelis
to his gift of pictures by
Dutch masters of the seven-
teenth century to the Union
LOCKETS AND BROOCHES WITH FIGURES EMBROIDERED IN SILK, DESIGNED BY
BYAM SHAW AND EXECUTED BY JESSIE GREGORY
6l
Havre, where she lived until she was twenty-two.
Later it was under a French trade printer in Paris
that she learnt the rudiments of the working of the
lithographic press. But Miss Gabain’s chief know-
ledge of her craft was gained in the lithography
classes at the Central School under Mr. Jackson,
and at Mr. Jackson’s Saturday lithography class at
the South Western Polytechnic, and the Slade
School had her as pupil for a year. Lithographs
by Miss Gabain have been acquired by the Victoria
and Albert Museum, the Manchester and Liverpool
Art Galleries, the National Gallery, Toronto, and
the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome. We
shall hope some day to see a joint exhibition of the
work of Mr. and Mrs. John Copley, so different,
yet so forcibly expressive of the personality of each
artist.” Miss Gabain’s print Caprice was exhibited
at the recent Salon of the Societe Nationale in
Paris, and she has been elected an Associate of that
society.
The lockets and brooches shown on this page were
designed by Mr. Byam Shaw and executed in needle-
work by Miss Jessie Gregory.
The figures are embroidered
in silk, the choice of colours
being left with Miss Gregory,
and in this she displays ex-
ceptional taste, in every
instance achieving an effect
exquisite and charming.
The stitching itself is very
finished in style ; and work-
ing with Mr. Byam Shaw’s
fine drawing as a basis, Miss
Gregory enhances the design
by the spontaneity of her
own execution. Miss
Gregory is now turning her
attention to the decoration
of fans, and she proposes
forming a class for teaching
the kind of needlework in
which she so excels.
of South Africa. The gift is for the purpose of
founding a National Gallery of South Africa at
Cape Town, and in The Studio for May last we
devoted an article to the history of the gift, which
in its first shape consisted of forty-six pictures.
We then pointed out that the collection would
bear strengthening on the side of that domestic
genre and interior painting which the art of Ter
Borch and of Metsu so particularly represents.
The Metsu picture, The Dessert, which is now
added, was an important item in the famous Lord
Harrowby collection, and Smith in his Catalogue
Raisonne of Dutch Masterpieces singled it out for
especial praise. The additions to the collection
also include a Wouverman, which is among the
most famous of this master’s works, La Charrette
Embourbee, or The Cart in a Tut. In the col-
lection of the Comtesse de Verrue in 1737, in
that of Blondel de Gagny in 1776, Destouches
in 1794, M. Tolozan in 1801, the Marquis de
Montcalm in 1849, Robert Field in 1856, it has
come down to us in a truly remarkable state of
preservation. Of the art of the great landscape
We are reproducing three
paintings, by Ter Borch,
Metsu and Cuyp respec-
tively, which form part of
the twenty-two new pictures
added by Mr. Max Michaelis
to his gift of pictures by
Dutch masters of the seven-
teenth century to the Union
LOCKETS AND BROOCHES WITH FIGURES EMBROIDERED IN SILK, DESIGNED BY
BYAM SHAW AND EXECUTED BY JESSIE GREGORY
6l