Studio: international art (79.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

TEA-CADDY (SILVER
AND ENAMEL). BY
PHYLLIS M. LEGGE

well as several volumes of the “ Highways
and Byways ’’ series. Mr. Thomson, who
was fifty-nine when he died early last
month, had been in bad health for a long
time past. 00000
Mr. G. Woolliscroft Rhead, whose death
was also announced early in May, was
likewise a prolific illustrator as well as a
painter in oils and a designer of stained
glass, but he was perhaps better known as
an etcher and an author of numerous books
for students. He was born in 1855, and had
exhibited at the Academy for forty years.

The sixteenth annual report of the
National Art-Collections Fund issued last
month contains, besides an abbreviated list
of the works of art secured for the nation
by this organization since its foundation in
1904 down to 1918, a detailed account of
the acquisitions for the year 1919. Promi-
nent among these is a fine example of
Brussels tapestry, The Seven Deadly Sins,
said to have been purchased by Cardinal
Wolsey in 1521, and hung at Hampton
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Court, to which it has now been restored ;
while among other works of note are a
painting by Canaletto of the interior of
King Henry VII Chapel, Westminster
Abbey ; a landscape by Cornelis Vroom ;
a complete set of 102 water-colour drawings
by William Blake for Dante's “ Divine
Comedy," which it is proposed to repro-
duce in collotype for issue to subscribers
at the price of ten guineas the set; Mr.
Derwent Wood’s marble statue Atalanta ;
the famous “ Newdegate Centre-piece ’’ in
silver by Paul Lamerie ; a marble bust by
G. F. Watts, and a bronze Crucifixion by
Mr. J. S. Sargent. 000

The annual subscription is one guinea,
which carries with it certain privileges,
such as free entrance to the chief public
galleries in London on paying days, and
the number of members at the end of 1919
was 1636. This is less than half the mem-
bership of the Societe des Amis du Louvre,
which is also more fortunate in having an
income derived from funds bequeathed.