The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-12-14 00:00:00

SCHOOL OF ART.

DINTISIZITION Or MISS.
The reins and certificates gained by the etudentr at
this oohed were distributed at the Town Hall, on
'Thursday *seeing, by A. Hanka. Esq., J.P., I. the
preesnos of a large number of the friends and
supporter+ of the 'Ann The walls were covered with
the wenn of the past year, some of which displayed a
oossiderable amonat of talent. and all evinced a great
improvement on the year. We were pleased to see
antatplai of drawing from life, which showed great
paneled bent taken by Mr. Baker, the muter, to
Wag his godsons so far in this new breath of Art
stay.
The chair was taken by A. Banks, Hp., sad be
mas supported as the *Warm by Mr. Edina Burnett,
the Indsiatlgabti honorary secretary, Mr. A. Pope,
Colonel Okifkild, Dr. Aldridge, Mr. Arthur H. Lock,
Mr. J. U. Lash, and Mr. T. Balser, the master of the
=hoot
Tin Ontlante mid MOS MOM ha bad the privilege and
%ear of aseaerW the proud positioa idl &airman at the
Viciltsel of Art esg. and before he ogled arson the boa.
osumbary to road the moor% if they would allow him be
should Mro to maks • few remarks. Ho would prougles sot
to keep them a very long time, but it the same time Mere
we a few remarks which. on an ocomion like the
proment, aught to be wade In glancing over the reeved.
which he was not solar to rend himself, as their honorary
oseratary would raid It Magisseo presently. There were two
or three little things on which he thought be might as well
remark. lath. first glace it was very satird actory to.. that
the attendee's dinar the PIM year bad been GO good, and
measidari ag that after all their Worts they had not yet been
morosefed in building up • comfortable sod mailable build-
ing for this rebook as be still hoped User should iii • Wee,
short Una It was very mtlefactory to end the nenstor of
pupas had ken tto so well The morning and afternoon
alarm bed sat hems perhaps colts so well attended as
May had been in pest years bet the ermine attendance
was still greeter, having increased by some few 'nowhere
en that of the previous year, which wee very satisfactory
iedoed, and he hoped as men as they rot comfortable
secommedstion the number of eselis would inceome, not
se& is she WOWS', but elm in Mesmerising and afternoon
Is leekiag ewer the report be saw • third-grade prise was
awarded to Mae Allen How for • groan of flowers and
(OHM, from Nature. This drewing was alse anoned for
the animal mann tint sad It was very satisfastorr to
lad sue of the poling it this school should he as saeonsfid 1
SI to beve whoa this bernenr in the metroirth.. Of the
eitiMlaats geserall• be netteed that they mat 318 work. to
the annual eitsatinalion at Meath goeshigton. The foil
mrsed 4 it is ths edvainell section, was granted in
works Mee by Mee Mies How, sad the full award of 154
ores greatod Is the alserwatary metiers is works dose by
Renew end James Fermey. la the Wean, clam
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Bawler, pawed. They 111.11 i no their works 16
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some of theca retteived the wises they 1
This year he abs bed been honoured by being
ha the local oompatitios. Of course he had
met the idea wile the works belonged to The
various
ifteir.
weeep subjects
ooloans. sad enmity
TM. Owed Mat Gad he bad lathing bat the
mamba la le hr. as be been he did what was gaits riot
tider all to lima be had awarded prises were very
end these who felled—well, be knew "
abes=tlssuginer.) lint be had taken a pestdatiai
scan& to award the prime aad the commendations to
what In his Muslin opinion be asestilersd the best works.
(Meer, beer.) Taking one year with trotiter. It was very
icnishaterwe see Mere had lass • needy progress.
.Cile year everybody send sea for themselves
ihestel e
been a needy I.art ewer the previous
veer. He amid sot perticllarlss, as he should like to,
ariedivideal dra hut he ilmagbt In eight i net
them Mat Ora* his ansatioe. la the water.
Miss Mies Hew 11441 Man/ .0. the prise fee her
WI" &skied dewing J Ufa Than wee greet deal
411 work la It sad WM CarillilaY a Med satisfactory work.
Min DOWN &WWI ale was elm mbisesely good. sad
if dr bail set bat Mr New la esempale with. Me wend
begelli4 • vfirl used dram of Thane • piss. Of the

alga sithwiag, there wee one from the east of stpMlo by
Artier Bawler, end if the all-painting had not been in
the sem category be also would have had • rood chance of
spoke. It was very good indeed. The study fmns Ille of
• choir bor. be Miss Penton, was most mdefact ire. Is
had net the Setup( of the young gentleman himself, but
he had so doubt it was as uncomm good likeness, for
it wasadmirably ezecuted. in the etching rime, one or lila
most dimrt venous, the prise was awarded. niter •
great deel of c melioration, to Miss 8. Bascom for bee
etolakiz or a Ilium after Sir Frederiek Leigtstos. He thin
n the exoellent works by Mrs. IL Grove., Mrs,
Dymond. Mira Green, and others. He expressed bie
at geeing several studies from life. In
thrgre breach the stadenta had had very littie Practice,
and the works might not be very highly finished,
but still they were most rt.-Attila.. It was a
great thing for those on the commttee to be al,le to look
round from Was to time, and notice the protegee that was
made. He hoped It would c int,nue. ant trusted there
would beam much improvement next rear as there had
been this year over 1879. (Applause.) Of china painting
be was sorry to see there was no example at all. It wae a
most charming study, and be hoped next rear, if he had
the honour of being in the woe position as ha now was,
he should me some specimens of china painting. It
sounded very difficult, but really it was not so, and from
his small experishos be ',add my tiers was bat little risk
of bunting the ahem if they were sent up t, Stoks-upou.
Trent. to Mint nes. London, and other Mama In London
they advised everybody to pilot its powders. It was rather
bothering to an 'nastier, but painting in tubes was little
more difficult than ordimery water colour painting, so he
hoped next year the students of the school would have
some specimen, of china painting. Before asking the
secretary to read his report titers were one or two points he
should like to touch upon, and he would espenially con-
fine himself bogeying slew words on water Cdtair Petutaleg,
He was very glad to see this year one or two of
the etudisnie had Is i the pluck, so to elmaks of
'Mat oat into the highwers end bloats and I
drawing for themselves. H. was Set rear certain
this was a great help both to the student and
mas We. as the former would then see how they coed get
on by themselves. When they Wiltd alga,. in the studio
at work, with their professor et band to help, they were
very apt not to think for themselves. He thought as woe
as they could begin to "toddle" in the way of art the
sooner they could go out and walk alooe the 'miter. Then
when Us. y got book they knew what their difficnlties were,
and were able to ask their roister on them a-id benefit by
his assist ..011. Another thine he would PtigiOnt ICU this—
one of the first things to ,tudy in sketeting wit. to make
• good picture: by thst be meant they utast not take
Nature as it was. Nature WM all very well, but she at
times wanted a little autotimer. They might make a
pretty sketch, hut It wanted balancing. All the great
artists of be day would tall them it was perfectly legiti-
mate to awist Nature by putties in a tree or fixate. 'That
remark brought him to the 'abject of foregrounds. In oits
of two of the pictures shown Si • whole they were very
good indeed, but they would have been all the better if
ewe attention had been paid to the foreground. if. bad
a Mead who paid especial attention to foreground', who
bed a book whit notating else but sketches of them, sad
when be bud painted • pitting he brought a foreground to
end when be be s, foreground to hear they Dodd

beer. -oo wain he brought a ..___„,..___
see the marvellous effect, what they might call minor
towhee, had upon the whole of the pictures steelier
remark he wished to awake wee to draw from some sort of
style. A picture always required life. If they were to
draws street in Dorchester, and beanies it wag Dorchester
no one did so, although he did not know • more pictur-
esque or prettier town, and it had often surprind bun
people did not make sense sketches of their own county
teen, whereas if they went across the other side of the
wets, to Cherbourg or Havre they would be at once having
their hooks oat, whilst they could save themelven all the
discomforts of a sea Tome by seeing what beauties they
bad at borne. They wanted lit.' a street without life wee
a picture only half finished, and he urged them to intro-
duce figures is their work. Another piens of advice he
wished to eve them was not to waste Weir Ulm by work-
ing in the dark. but to get all the information they could.
What we knowledee Knowledge was a cheap way of
gaining other people's experience. He urged them not to
work away in the dark, but to obtain all the information
they could and to study other_ people's work. Hs much
wished they could get apnoeas kind of art exhibition her..
The present Was Tart Instal. but what he would like to
see was an exhibition for a week or fortnight in or about
this town every yew, so that they might compare their
own work with that of other people. He bed long hems
thinking of attempting it upon a smell way himself ;
the only &faculty was the room, but he hoped when they
toad their School of Art building, which he now sew there
was DOIDS hope of commencing, that during the holidays
they would be able to have a room there for a stalkless
long time to hang pictures in and make a kind of exhi
Um. (Hear, hear.) Tbe only place he could at preseat
think about for such • purpose was his own village insti-
tute at Cherminster. where could be exhibited not only
work by the stedente of this school, but from anyone else.
People often mid" In the winter we have nothing to draw,
and we fled we go beck so." This argument never held
water, because they could set to work by drawing some
article in their bedroom or dinar-room, or by piecing a
four.legired chair on a tab!e, and • nets on who could draw
that in good perste cries was a much better artist than
many other people. Another plan WV) elwey• to carry a
small book wherever they went and make a sketch out of
the window. Some people mule a rule of finishing a new
sketch every month. Any role like that disciplined the
band and eta, and kept them always ready for work. He
hoped during the corniest year there would be • greater
number of pupils belonging to this schaol, and not only
did be hope all who were en :h would continue to be en
but they would try and get their friends to join Woo. Of
course they could not all expect to be a Sir Frederic
I, !Lama or a Millets; but still they could snake such
pr .eress in art study ait to be • credit to their town and
counte ftoolame.) Of all pursuit, it was the most
economic ; the first outlay waa vcry PIP ill, ant it could
be picked up at say Some( life as lons as they had sight
left. In conclusion he eepreesed the hope that some of
them would turn their attention to chins painting; he
hoped he should see a great teeny in ore water-rob:ea
dra rings from nature, and he sho ill also like to see some
mote of those good-looking choir-hops pot on canes,.
(Laughter)* They would then feel that the Dorchester
School of Art was making steady progrese (*Wanes I
Ho then celled on Mr. Edwin Burnett to read his report.
The Howoesee fiecegrenr said he was proud to rise
end read the report, which consisted of the ?mower's
statement, and also the Givoroment examination ant
local comp-tition. He only wished, however, it was more
flourishing than what it was, but he hoooi that whoa
they had better accommodation they would be second to
none in the Wes' of England. The report, were as follows:
—The committee beg to lay before the subscribers and
students their report for the year ending 30th June, 1890.
The treasurer's account shows an income aa follows :-
1 From el students attending the moraine and afternoon
' ileases--(we from the morning clew, Liii ge ; eft 'moon
• •27 , sad from 30 student, attending evening
clam, gie Its. ; making 6 weal amount of few, £ll3 le,
being • slight decrease oa host yes. of £ss'. I'. From
subscriptions and other sourees, £lll 13. ; government
greet, CZ 10s. 6i. ; also • decrease of fle. on the pest
year. The total receipts from all source., ine'eding thi
balance of .210 Ss. 34. from but year's account, Is
elm 12e. Si. The expenditure of the wheal has been
IN (Is.. leaving a balance of CS Os. Si. in the crea-
meries hands At the annual Government exsainaiioes
held in Key (set 10 atudenta presented themselves, 16 of
whore, as mina' twelve Mat year, were meow, a,
namely:—itit.esashgsessirehe g perspective K ttlmelne
W. D• 004, P freehand ; Anse Dymond, p model, g tn.
hand ; Charlotte Evans, E nerspe4ive ; pith Evans,
P freehand, P geometry ; James Peavey, P model ;
Francis Freeman, P model, P freehand: Jane Green,
P geometry; James Hannah, P geometry ; Charles
Illiffish. freehand; Mary Hardy. P perspective; Ella
eth, it freehand; Francis Pearce, k pievesetive : Henry
Sainsbeer, P freehand; Henry Tit.y, P freehand; Lisa
Wood. P e•relleetive. Nen-students Caroline Allard c.
P freehand; William tiobbe P reometry. One
grads prise was awarded to Min A lice How for • group of
flowers and foliage from Nature. This drawing wag
also selected for national competition. Sixty • three
/daemon! sent XS works to the annual examine/Joe at
Souti Kensington. The full award of ,e 2 In advanced
seetlen was granted in works done by Alice How, sod the
full award of 1.5 e. was granted in the elementary section
In work, done by Frederic Barrow and Jamee Toseng• la
the Nunes idaos of preeticel, plane, and solid geometry
two students tad themselves for gemination, one
of whom, alter IL 8aw1,,, purse. The awards for
works submitted for local competition were es follow.:
L mons—prise Idabel Pantos: hied, Waloptaded.
Arthur Bawler ;commended, Walter Bawler. I. Advameil
°oar water colour—Prise, Alice How ;highly commended,
Nary Groves; commended, Harriet Symonds. 3. Ele-
mentary Water Colour—Prise, Muriel Williams; highly
commanded, (leorgian& Green; commended, Anne Dy-
mond. I. Advanced a.. halk from the Cast- Prins, Francis
Pearce; highly commended, amily Hannah ; commanded,
Evelyn Manse). 5. Elemeatary Chelk Shading from
Copies—Prise Catherine Banns; atgkly commended.
Mulls Goodfellow; commended. Jane Wynyard_ , gut-
line from Nature or Cast—Prize, Annie (bedfellow,
hid* sommended. Margaret Mussel; commended, Jani
Wyarard, T. Freshaad Pries, Henry Tilley; highly
commended, Vittoria Bwoonsbe ; commended, James
Hannah. I. gtchlag—Prise, Susannah Basoomhe ; highly
commended, Juneau& Good ; commanded, Ann Dymond.
Having lost tasty intbeeriptions by death end clump, the
committee moot gereastly appeal to this welLwishers of the
schools to send in their mem GI Witilleibers, and they big
to tender their thanks to Mr. 13 her for the Menet
manner in which he has *Deducted the school during the
pact year."