Studio: international art (68.1916)

The National Galleries of Queensland and IVest Australia

There are a few sculptors besides Parker— of the Prints and Drawings at Windsor Castle-
Leslie Bowles, who was an assistant to Bertram The original drawings had changed hands many
Mackennal, and I understand is now " doing times before they were restored to the Royal
his bit" with the Army; J. L. Watts, the sculptor Collection ; how or when is not known beyond
of the Brisbane Memorial to the Queensland the fact that Queen Caroline, during the reign of
soldiers who fell in the South African War; and George II., found them in an old bureau in
Harvey, a fellow-student of Parker, who does Kensington Palace. The copies also include re-
wood-carving as well as modelling in clay. Among productions of the cartoons of Ford Madox Brown ;
the successful women painters besides those men- engravings of paintings and tapestries by Raphael;
tioned are Gwendolyn Stanley, Frankie Payne, and copies of Old Masters made by Australian painters ;
Daphne Mayo. The last of these won the Travel- and numerous casts of ancient and modern
ling Scholarship (^100 a year, tenable for three statuary, including an interesting collection of
years) founded by the Brisbane Wattle Day Tanagra figurines.

League. Madame Congean, who is one of the Too often the visitors to a gallery are left to
small group of art enthusiasts in Brisbane, has find out things for themselves, but in an admirable
shown her sympathy with the aspirations of the guide to the various collections the Director
younger artists by buying their pictures and clearly indicates the distinguishing qualities of the
presenting them to the Gallery. various groups. Some time ago Mr. Woodward

The collection at the
West Australian Gallery
represents nearly every
School from the Assyrian
period to the European
Schools of to-day. Most
of the ancient and
mediaeval works are
copies, but the modern
works are, of course,
original.

The copies include
reproductions of Hol-
bein's portraits of illus-
trious personages of the
Court of Henry VIII.
in the collection at
Windsor Castle, which
were presented to the
Gallery by the King. It
was when His Majesty,
who was then Duke of
Cornwall and York, laid
the foundation stone
of the Gallery in 1901,
that the Director, Mr.
Bernard H. Woodward,
asked for these repro-
ductions as a memento
of the visit. They had
been made during the
time his uncle, the late
Mr. Bernard B. Wood-
ward, was Librarian in
Ordinary to Queen

Victoria, and Keeper "monday morning" by f. vida lahey