The Academy Volume 38 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...In the October number of the Magazine of Art, the editor, Mr. M. H. Spielmann, again returns to the question--should there be a "British artists' room," like that at the Uffizii in Florence, in tho National Portrait Gallery? Encouraged by tho reception which his former article met with, ho approached Mr. George Scharf, the director, and also the trustees individually. Mr. Scharf replied in a valuable contribution, dealing with tho subject generally, which is here printed. While approving of the scheme, he does not see how limitations of space would allow it to be carried out as an actual part of the proposed new building. The trustees, while naturally sheltering themselves under their official position, are, on the whole, distinctly unfavourable, the only enthusiastic supporter of the scheme being Lord Ronald Gower, who backs his opinion by promising to present to the gallery two little portraits of Reynolds and Gainsborough in his own possession. The first set of scholarships, founded out of the accumulated funds of the defunct British Institution, have been awarded, after competition, as follows: for painting, to Mr. Frank J. Mackenzie and Mr. Charles M. Gere; for sculpture, to Mr. Henry C. Fehr. The usual autumn exhibition of the Photographic Society of Great Britain will be opened on Monday next, September 29, in the gallery of the Royal Society of Painters in WaterColours, Pall Mall East. To-day (Saturday) there is a private view, and also a soiree in the evening. The exhibition is open on three evenings of the week; and on every Wednesday evening transparencies will be shown with an optical lantern. The sixth series of "one man" exhibitions will be opened at the Camera Club, Bedfordstreet, on Monday, October 6. It will consist of a...