The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-11-01 00:00:00

SCHOOL Of ART EXHIBITION AND ANNUAL
MEETINO.

Dover/ of art bad an opportunity on Monday last of
being (retitled with the work that hae actually been done
in our Weymouth school by the pupil., tinier the
courteous, Wonted, and painstaking master, Mr. Baker.
Excellent as were the result. last year, it must be agreed
that the work exhibited in Market-strut last Monday
showed deckled progress, and it out), requires that the
pupil. should devote themselves regularly to randy and
still more finished specimens will result. The very walla
of the passages and stain-ens leading to the school were
lined with work., when the gradual progress of the
students might be clearly traced. Commencing with the
very beginning, the sthaight line, we see the development
in drawing ornaments, arriving at a copy from the Trojan
friess in the Vatican, and so through the progressive
stages •, here are flowers, foliage, object., such u boxes
and tables, thence to landscapes, animals, including birds,
end the human figure. E seashore are copies from
geometric models, squares, cubes, continuing a court/ of
study on to the simple drawing of natural object& A very
beautiful drawing by Miss Gifford, pilaster from the
gates of the Madeleine, is noticeable, and alter observing
parte of the human figure rendered, such.. ears, eyes, and
hands, in each of which accuracy must first be acquired,
we owns to baste and the full-length figure. The artisan
alma Is represented by • group of architectural drawings
of bsick.work, timber, and iron-work—a aurae quite
distinct from the others, and including scarfing, the
drawing of archer, parttlone, traseed ribs, al From
simple geometry we pass on to solid orthographic pro-
leetion. and various designs for teeserie, the arrangements
ea Oren by the students to fill lip certain spaces.
Further on are special designs for the bay of • music-room
in a gentleman's residence, these drawings competing for
the prise offered by the Plasterers' C.unPany, who have
repeated the offer with change of subject for several years
put, and one of the designs wee so good as to win • third
grads pese and be disolayed in the room Inside' it was
by Mr. Pickfoni Pairing on to the Course of shading,
which is entered on when the pupils are perfect in
outline, wei observe on the left hand side of the gatemen,
a row of works in chalks and of con•iderable merit, inclipi•
ing landscapes from copies, and busts from the cast or
oruftmebt4hodiotr or from geometric models, are specimens
In sepia and chalk, showing bow carefully the students
are taught to exiirese ohtects in relief. And now. having
Pseud successfully in light-and-shade, the pupils go in
to the richer realm of colour, and rivet flowers and
landscapes In the hues of nature, &aline also with
animals and the human figure. A further stage, and one
that yields Ter, beautiful results on these walls, is the
actual painting from nature, and here we (Int note Miss
Gondry's artistic and natural picture of the nasturtium.
wherein the correctness of the hues of flower sail leaf
is as striking es the wonderful gradation and variety.
For peatisesa freedom and striking effect, we must notice
a very different work, drawings by Miss Julia Baker, only
13, of arrangements of dowers and foliage, with pen
and ink alone, and most effective in form. It turning
to works in colour, biter lingering on some charming
paintings of the convolcolus and oak, our
Philosopher, and friend, hide us notice a t.napting paint-
ing of grapes both purple and white, and further a very
suggestive painting of deed searoll and lobster pot with
• background of us, by Mies Willis,. who is evidently
an artist of much power. In sepia, Miss Tigard showed
a very careful drawing of geometric models. While here,
our eye' (sad fingers) are attracted by some startintly
prominent prawns which appear lying on a plats ready
forte.: but then are really specimens of Miss Newt-roll's
painting on china, and close by are mbe Warring.
ton's charming patterns on cups and saucers, Mime (lunar),
Meshes painted a spray of blackberries and leaves. Bid,
ant to linger too long atone( the chins we Peg
on to admire a handsome wster•coleur of Miss Stuart's
pink and whits primulas, with bunch of violets, the
the leather glove in the foreground being very effective.
Miss ReS•lO. • pupil from Mies Parker's school, has
painted en effective study of the hydrangea, good in
drawing,. llght.and•shads, and colour. • study of
seeeude and marine objects, by another lady, is 'wile/let
In conception; but the work is not carried out to
perfect oh. And, to select the prise•work among the
embarrassment of riches, we note that Miss Forenoe
GundrY non • third-grade prise for passion flowers; but
aria not allowed to take it, she having prerinuale won a
Queen's prise Mite Alice Wilding won third-grads Prise
for five excellent coloured troupe from nature, nit.
viper's bugloss in (blue) flower with onitefoot leaves
einerarisa, oak with lichens, thistle' in flower, and
guilder roue; each of these was • charming pictnre, ths
enrol shading of the mirrored foliage being • athrly in
itself. the lichen gemmed also so crisp that you could take
it off the oak-bough; Miss Emily Wilding also showed
one of those delicious pictures wherein the delicate
eradiation' of hue produce in the mind • pleasurable
sensation akin to that cattud by hearing skilfully bar-
, monleed music, her subject was a branch of map's, and
we ran hardly decide between the beauty of her foliage
and that of her eister's leaves of the cineraria and colts'
LONDON CITY MIBBION. foot. Mr. Pickford had a third-orals p-ise for a bay of
a music-room. wherein the correctness of detail wu
We are sorry to learn that tbe contributions in aid @tinseled by the grandeur of the design. It showed also
that the Department will always award a prise for really
of this invaluable society are diminishing instead of
good work, even of a less pretentions claw when a third.
increasing from Weymouth. The annual meeting was grade prise will 'warded to Mr. Robert %rotten for a
held on Tuesday evening at the Meloomhe Regis drawing enlarged from a copy Of the Trojan Hem
National Schoolroom. when R. II Eliot, Esq., In the local rompetitile we begin with a group in oil,
Dreaded over a rather small meeting, and was the 'abject of which had been given the Pupils, namely,
.pree.ted he the Rey. M. Brenman Rae. w. Lewis, a rrktrr ho•riO. laurel leaves, a whole GO', • rut lemon, arm
and Re.. Tionel Green. the deputation. Use Afire Wilding was first in this. while Mve Lithgoar's
Tbe Cautious read the local report, which he was picture showed much merit, though It was too hurriedly
drawn. Mee Portbstry showed • good etch'," in no.' tr I
pony to see was not so satisfactory as he could wish, tint. "The meeting of the prises and sane g-eerese
Collections had rroduved £25 Si. 61, annual Meeting (Bertnl,W). Of chalk drawings, ornaments from the oast,
collation 16e. 14. Incidental exneneee had Oust the first prise was that of the •CE Plum pi.torn from the
Li lac end to she Parent Society Ind been remitted celebrated Ghilherti n
at Florence, by Miss ge..., .
the balance of EU lle. Tri. He bad pointed out last the second to Mise Julia Baker for a talented drawing of
year that the eubegaiptions were very little' bat be Meditates Pilaster. Miss Stuart was highly colniseaded
VII wiery to say they was lass this year there being fog a "17 "ft Pim of yak, a bus& of ogles. and