DOI Heft:
No. 284 (November 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0096
Studio- Talk
Mr. B. Eastlake Leader, who took a commission which were lately on view at the Carroll Gallery
early in the war and was Captain at the time of his in George Street, Hanover Square, where he had
death last month, was the son of the veteran R.A. a successful exhibition not long ago.
and a landscape painter of mark. Mr. Philip -
Dadd, private in the Queen's Westminster Rifles, The statuette illustrated on page 92 made an
who was killed in France on August 2, had been agreeable impression when on view at the recent
on the staff of " The Sphere " for a long period, Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy. This
and was also a frequent exhibitor at the Royal attractive and original example of the potter's art
Academy. He was a nephew of the celebrated is interesting as having been produced on the lines
Kate Greenaway. Mr. Percy Francis Gethin, of the old craftsmen, the execution from start
second-lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment, to finish having been undertaken by the artist
who was killed in action at the close of June, is himself. It is moreover of interest on account
the subject of a memoir in the journal of the of the combination of processes employed, in-
Artists' Rifles, which he joined in November 1914, eluding stained clays, under-glaze and over-glaze,
when he was just over 40, and some of his etch- the result being very pleasing in its colour effect,
ings and drawings are reproduced in this interesting The piece was fired in a reducing atmosphere, a
periodical. Mr. Gethin was on the teaching staff process so uncertain in its ultimate results that it
of the Central School of Arts and Crafts, whither is practically impossible to obtain an exact replica
he accompanied Mr. Burridge from Liverpool on of a particular piece. Mr. Stanley Thorogood
his appointment as Principal in 1913. is Superintendent of Art Instruction to the County
The work of Mr.
Nathaniel Baird, member
of the Royal Institute of
Oil Painters, is a familiar
feature of exhibitions in
London and the provinces,
and it is perhaps even
better known in America
where numerous examples
have been acquired for
permanent collections.
He is equally facile in the
oil medium and in water-
colour, and his pictures in
both show him to be a
highly capable draughts-
man with a fine sense of
colour. His versatility, too,
is shown in the range of
subjects which he handles :
but if there is one class
of subject in which he
excels it is the portrayal
of horses, and more par-
ticularly the rustic types
of horse. By birth a
Scotsman hailing from the
romantic Border region of
Roxburghshire, he has of
late years settled in sunny
South Devon. The
examples of his work which
we here reproduce are some "summer evening" water-colour by n. h. j. baird, r.o.i.
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Mr. B. Eastlake Leader, who took a commission which were lately on view at the Carroll Gallery
early in the war and was Captain at the time of his in George Street, Hanover Square, where he had
death last month, was the son of the veteran R.A. a successful exhibition not long ago.
and a landscape painter of mark. Mr. Philip -
Dadd, private in the Queen's Westminster Rifles, The statuette illustrated on page 92 made an
who was killed in France on August 2, had been agreeable impression when on view at the recent
on the staff of " The Sphere " for a long period, Summer Exhibition of the Royal Academy. This
and was also a frequent exhibitor at the Royal attractive and original example of the potter's art
Academy. He was a nephew of the celebrated is interesting as having been produced on the lines
Kate Greenaway. Mr. Percy Francis Gethin, of the old craftsmen, the execution from start
second-lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment, to finish having been undertaken by the artist
who was killed in action at the close of June, is himself. It is moreover of interest on account
the subject of a memoir in the journal of the of the combination of processes employed, in-
Artists' Rifles, which he joined in November 1914, eluding stained clays, under-glaze and over-glaze,
when he was just over 40, and some of his etch- the result being very pleasing in its colour effect,
ings and drawings are reproduced in this interesting The piece was fired in a reducing atmosphere, a
periodical. Mr. Gethin was on the teaching staff process so uncertain in its ultimate results that it
of the Central School of Arts and Crafts, whither is practically impossible to obtain an exact replica
he accompanied Mr. Burridge from Liverpool on of a particular piece. Mr. Stanley Thorogood
his appointment as Principal in 1913. is Superintendent of Art Instruction to the County
The work of Mr.
Nathaniel Baird, member
of the Royal Institute of
Oil Painters, is a familiar
feature of exhibitions in
London and the provinces,
and it is perhaps even
better known in America
where numerous examples
have been acquired for
permanent collections.
He is equally facile in the
oil medium and in water-
colour, and his pictures in
both show him to be a
highly capable draughts-
man with a fine sense of
colour. His versatility, too,
is shown in the range of
subjects which he handles :
but if there is one class
of subject in which he
excels it is the portrayal
of horses, and more par-
ticularly the rustic types
of horse. By birth a
Scotsman hailing from the
romantic Border region of
Roxburghshire, he has of
late years settled in sunny
South Devon. The
examples of his work which
we here reproduce are some "summer evening" water-colour by n. h. j. baird, r.o.i.
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