The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1909)

Newington Church, Edinburgh. An
article on Mr. Paterson and his work,
by the late Mr. Gleeson White,
appeared in The Studio for February
1898.

PEARCE, Walter J., 41
Gartside Street, Manchester.
Mr. Pearce is a designer of stained
and leaded glass, church decora-
tion, mosaic panels and friezes, which are
carried out by himself and his craftsmen in Man-
chester. The fruit panel reproduced on page 64
is executed in Norman slab and antique glasses,
and forms the lower section of a light of a
window in a Liverpool church. The second
illustration is of a sketch for a leaded “ all-
white ” window designed for a Jewish Syna-
gogue in London, but afterwards discarded in
favour of a coloured figure window.

MURAL PAINTINGS FOR A STAIR-
CASE BY PROF. FRITZ RENTSCH

ROPE, Miss E. M., 107 Mary-
lebone Road, London.
Miss Rope’s modelled plaster panels,
plaques and friezes are familiar to
all visitors to the London and pro-
vincial exhibitions. Her work is
characterised by a sense of refine-
ment and a certain daintiness of
form, particularly agreeable in the
subjects she selects, in which chil-
dren are usually represented. One
of the most successful of her recent
works is a marble relief, “ St. Ceci-
lia,” in memory of Lady Dorothy
Cuthbert, daughter of the Earl of
Strafford. It has just been placed
in the private chapel at Wrotham
Park, Barnet, and was reproduced
in The Studio for January 1909.
Her other recent important work
includes a plaster relief, “ Will o’
the Wisp,” exhibited at the Royal
Academy last year ; another, “ Boys
with Palms,” exhibited at the New
Gallery; and a panel in cement,
“Adoration by Children,” shown
at the Franco-British Exhibition
held in London last year.

SKETCH MODEL FOR HALF CAPITAL
CARVED IN STONE BY E. M.ROPE

RENTSCH, Prof. Fritz, fViesenstrasse
14, Leipzig.
Professor Rentsch is instructor in the Graphic
Arts at the Royal Academy, Leipzig. He
exhibited at St. Louis, in 1904, a large
embroidered wall hanging, and at the Arts
and Crafts Exhibition, held in Dresden in
1906, two small decorative paintings. The
two mural paintings illustrated on
this page are for a staircase in
a private house at Cologne.

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