Studio: international art (72.1918)

Studio-Talk

in spite of the onerous administrative duties
which fell to him to discharge while holding
these offices yielded a fruitful harvest of work.
Born at Leeds in 1861, he studied at the Slade
School under Legros, and quickly made his
mark as a painter and etcher. A travelling
studentship which he won as a Slade student
enabled him to visit Italy and familiarize him-
self with the works of the great masters of the
Renaissance, and his studies exercised a potent
influence on his own art. He was one of the
earliest members of the Painter-Etchers'' Society,
founded by Sir Seymour Hayden, and the recur-
ring exhibitions of this body always furnished
evidence of the ardour with which he pursued
the art of etching. He was appointed Keeper
of the gallery at Millbank in 1897, shortly after
its foundation by Sir Henry Tate, and in 1906
succeeded Sir Edward Poynter as Director of
the National Gallery. After holding the office
for two terms of five years, ill-health obliged
him to seek retirement.

Mr. Arya K. Chaudhuri, to whom we are
indebted for the remarkably fine portrait of
Sir Rabindranath Tagore and the other two
photographs here reproduced, is a nephew of
the distinguished author, and has recently
returned to India after a course of professional
study with the Architectural Association in
London. At home he has employed the camera
for the purpose of recording many interesting
aspects of Indian life, and, as will be inferred
from our illustrations, he does not seek to go
beyond the legitimate functions of photography,
as do so many manipulators of the camera in
these days.

In place of an autumn exhibition of the
International Society the Grosvenor Gallery
has organized an exceptionally interesting Loan
Exhibition of modern works, chiefly by British
artists who are, or have been, associated with
the International Society and the New English
Art Club, but an international character is given