DOI Heft:
No. 275 (February 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21261#0061
Studio-Talk
Delville, MM. J. de Bruycker, Marten van der Loo,
Marc-Henry Meunier, Maurice Blieck, Louis
Reckelbus and A. Delstanche ; and the exhibition
further contained a bust of Lady D. M. by
Mons. Victor Rousseau.
A day or two before Christmas the art-world
learned with regret of the death of Mr. Arthur
Hughes, the last survivor of the Pre-Raphaelite
school, though he was never a member of the
famous Brotherhood. Mr. Hughes was born in
January 1832 and had therefore nearly completed
his eighty-fourth year. Like Rossetti and Holman
Hunt, he was a Londoner, and though to a man
of his retiring disposition life in London itself
could not have been very congenial, we believe
he never wandered far away from the Metropolis.
He began his career as an artist in 1846, when he
entered the School of Design at Somerset House,
where he studied under Alfred Stevens. A little
later he was admitted to the Academy Schools,
where Holman Hunt and Rossetti were fellow-
students, and when only seventeen made his debut
at the Academy exhibition. Ruskin entertained a
very high opinion ‘of Hughes’s paintings, and was
especially struck by the beauty of thought and the
quality of colour displayed in the Nativity, exhi-
bited at the Royal Academy in 1858. Previously
to that he had been attracted by Hughes’s April
Love (R.A. 1856), which he characterised as
“exquisite in every way.” A reproduction in colours
of the latter work appeared in this magazine some
ten years ago, and in the meantime the picture
has found a permanent abiding place in the Tate
Gallery. Mr. Hughes was for many long years
an illustrator, “Good Words ’’ being the principal
channel through which this side of his art, warmly
appreciated by young people, made its appearance.
The example set by the Victoria and Albert
Museum in making special arrangements to interest
juvenile visitors during their holidays is worthy of
the attention of those who have charge of other
collections containing objects likely to appeal to
children. At South Kensington the experiment
was tried last August, when owing to the shortage
“SUNSET, RANNOCH MOOR” BY HENDERSON TARBET
(Society of Scottish Artists—see Edinburgh Studio-Talk, /. j6)
55
Delville, MM. J. de Bruycker, Marten van der Loo,
Marc-Henry Meunier, Maurice Blieck, Louis
Reckelbus and A. Delstanche ; and the exhibition
further contained a bust of Lady D. M. by
Mons. Victor Rousseau.
A day or two before Christmas the art-world
learned with regret of the death of Mr. Arthur
Hughes, the last survivor of the Pre-Raphaelite
school, though he was never a member of the
famous Brotherhood. Mr. Hughes was born in
January 1832 and had therefore nearly completed
his eighty-fourth year. Like Rossetti and Holman
Hunt, he was a Londoner, and though to a man
of his retiring disposition life in London itself
could not have been very congenial, we believe
he never wandered far away from the Metropolis.
He began his career as an artist in 1846, when he
entered the School of Design at Somerset House,
where he studied under Alfred Stevens. A little
later he was admitted to the Academy Schools,
where Holman Hunt and Rossetti were fellow-
students, and when only seventeen made his debut
at the Academy exhibition. Ruskin entertained a
very high opinion ‘of Hughes’s paintings, and was
especially struck by the beauty of thought and the
quality of colour displayed in the Nativity, exhi-
bited at the Royal Academy in 1858. Previously
to that he had been attracted by Hughes’s April
Love (R.A. 1856), which he characterised as
“exquisite in every way.” A reproduction in colours
of the latter work appeared in this magazine some
ten years ago, and in the meantime the picture
has found a permanent abiding place in the Tate
Gallery. Mr. Hughes was for many long years
an illustrator, “Good Words ’’ being the principal
channel through which this side of his art, warmly
appreciated by young people, made its appearance.
The example set by the Victoria and Albert
Museum in making special arrangements to interest
juvenile visitors during their holidays is worthy of
the attention of those who have charge of other
collections containing objects likely to appeal to
children. At South Kensington the experiment
was tried last August, when owing to the shortage
“SUNSET, RANNOCH MOOR” BY HENDERSON TARBET
(Society of Scottish Artists—see Edinburgh Studio-Talk, /. j6)
55