DOI Heft:
No. 334 (January 1921)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0047
STUDIO-TALK
DESIGN FOR A WAR MEMORIAL
BY W. REID DICK, R.B.S.
accused by Mr. Charles Lawes (after-
wards Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge)
of earning a reputation by false pretences
—it was alleged that the work which he
passed off as his own was in reality
executed by persons employed by him,
and that instead of being a creative artist
he was nothing more than a " statue
jobber "—he brought an action for libel
m 1882, and the trial before Baron
Hudleston was the great sensation of the
day. Mr. Belt successfully vindicated
his bona-fides and was awarded £5,000
damages. In the long interval since this
case was tried Mr. Belt's name has rarely
been heard of, but during the war it
became prominent once more when he
exhibited a bust in clay of the late Earl
Kitchener. 00000
Mr. Herbert Draper, who also passed
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DESIGN FOR A WAR MEMORIAL
BY W. REID DICK, R.B.S.
accused by Mr. Charles Lawes (after-
wards Sir Charles Lawes-Wittewronge)
of earning a reputation by false pretences
—it was alleged that the work which he
passed off as his own was in reality
executed by persons employed by him,
and that instead of being a creative artist
he was nothing more than a " statue
jobber "—he brought an action for libel
m 1882, and the trial before Baron
Hudleston was the great sensation of the
day. Mr. Belt successfully vindicated
his bona-fides and was awarded £5,000
damages. In the long interval since this
case was tried Mr. Belt's name has rarely
been heard of, but during the war it
became prominent once more when he
exhibited a bust in clay of the late Earl
Kitchener. 00000
Mr. Herbert Draper, who also passed
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