International studio . MOONLIGHT. VENICE. from anOIL PAINTING BY GUIDO MARUSSIG. Reviews and Notices Professorship was not founded until 1871, whenFrederick Barff was appointed; he was succeededin 1879 by Sir Arthur Church. The need for sucha Professorship had been apparent for years beforeits actual foundation, and Watts in 1863 declaredthat one of the most important functions of theRoyal Academy should be the study and appli-cation of chemistry to the purpose of art. Ruskinwent so far as to advise that the Academy shouldgo into the colour-making business and establish asort of Apothecaries H
International studio . MOONLIGHT. VENICE. from anOIL PAINTING BY GUIDO MARUSSIG. Reviews and Notices Professorship was not founded until 1871, whenFrederick Barff was appointed; he was succeededin 1879 by Sir Arthur Church. The need for sucha Professorship had been apparent for years beforeits actual foundation, and Watts in 1863 declaredthat one of the most important functions of theRoyal Academy should be the study and appli-cation of chemistry to the purpose of art. Ruskinwent so far as to advise that the Academy shouldgo into the colour-making business and establish asort of Apothecaries Hall where pigments in thepurest state could be obtained. Miss Louisa Gann, whose death at the age ofninety-six was announced at the recent prize dis-tribution of the Royal Female School of Art, wasfor many years the head of this school, and wasone of the pioneers in the movement for the betterart education of women that was commenced inthe middle of the nineteenth century. When theoriginal Government School of Design w
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