DOI issue:
No. 306 (September 1918)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21265#0135
Studio- Talk
modern foreign art in proximity to the National
Gallery of British Art at Millbank and its accep-
tance by the Government has been received
everywhere with very great interest. In matters
of art—plastic art, that is—the people of Great
Britain have the reputation of being very insular
in their sympathies ; but while that may be
partially true of the general public, it is certainly
not true at all of our artists as a body, nor of
the majority of those outside the profession
who are genuinely interested in art. Recalling
the magnificent display of French art at Shep-
herd's Bush ten years ago and the deep and
enduring impression it left, we think, perhaps,
that, after all, it has been lack of opportunity
that has given rise to the notion of British
exclusiveness, and we feel confident that when
the projected new gallery at Millbank becomes
an actuality the donor will have no cause to
regret his generosity in substantially increasing
the meagre opportunities already existing for
the study and appreciation of foreign art in
this country.
With much regret we record the death.of.
Mr. Lionel Percy Smythe, R.A., which took
place on July 15 at the Chateau d'Honvault,
near Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais, where he had
resided for many years past. Mr. Smythe was
in his eightieth year, and since the death of
Mr. Yeamcs, who predeceased him by a few
weeks only, was the sole Royal Academician on
the retired list. He is represented at the Tate
Gallery by Germinal, purchased under the
Chantrey Bequest from the Royal Academy
Exhibition of 1889. He became an Associate
of the Academy in 1898 and full member in
1911. He excelled as a water-colour painter,
and in the exhibitions of the Old Water-Colour
Society, with which he was associated for
upwards of twenty years, his work was perhaps
more at home than it was at Burlington House-
WHITLEY BaY CEMETERY CHAPEL
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PLASTER DECORATION BY G. p. BANKART
129
modern foreign art in proximity to the National
Gallery of British Art at Millbank and its accep-
tance by the Government has been received
everywhere with very great interest. In matters
of art—plastic art, that is—the people of Great
Britain have the reputation of being very insular
in their sympathies ; but while that may be
partially true of the general public, it is certainly
not true at all of our artists as a body, nor of
the majority of those outside the profession
who are genuinely interested in art. Recalling
the magnificent display of French art at Shep-
herd's Bush ten years ago and the deep and
enduring impression it left, we think, perhaps,
that, after all, it has been lack of opportunity
that has given rise to the notion of British
exclusiveness, and we feel confident that when
the projected new gallery at Millbank becomes
an actuality the donor will have no cause to
regret his generosity in substantially increasing
the meagre opportunities already existing for
the study and appreciation of foreign art in
this country.
With much regret we record the death.of.
Mr. Lionel Percy Smythe, R.A., which took
place on July 15 at the Chateau d'Honvault,
near Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais, where he had
resided for many years past. Mr. Smythe was
in his eightieth year, and since the death of
Mr. Yeamcs, who predeceased him by a few
weeks only, was the sole Royal Academician on
the retired list. He is represented at the Tate
Gallery by Germinal, purchased under the
Chantrey Bequest from the Royal Academy
Exhibition of 1889. He became an Associate
of the Academy in 1898 and full member in
1911. He excelled as a water-colour painter,
and in the exhibitions of the Old Water-Colour
Society, with which he was associated for
upwards of twenty years, his work was perhaps
more at home than it was at Burlington House-
WHITLEY BaY CEMETERY CHAPEL
{See !>■ 131)
PLASTER DECORATION BY G. p. BANKART
129