International studio . POTTERY) ment which ordains that a candidateelected shall not receive his letter ofadmission till he hath deposited in theRoyal Academy, to remain there, a picture,bas-relief, or other specimen of his abilitiesapproved of by the then sitting Council ofthe Academy. a 0 a a Mr. Richard Jack, who with Sir WilliamLlewelyn, Mr. Julius Olsson, and Wood appeared in the last batchof new , is known chiefly by hisportraits, but, like other members of theAcademy whose reputation is similarly derived, he turns his hand to landscapepainting when the opportunity presen
International studio . POTTERY) ment which ordains that a candidateelected shall not receive his letter ofadmission till he hath deposited in theRoyal Academy, to remain there, a picture,bas-relief, or other specimen of his abilitiesapproved of by the then sitting Council ofthe Academy. a 0 a a Mr. Richard Jack, who with Sir WilliamLlewelyn, Mr. Julius Olsson, and Wood appeared in the last batchof new , is known chiefly by hisportraits, but, like other members of theAcademy whose reputation is similarly derived, he turns his hand to landscapepainting when the opportunity presentsitself, and the same virility of treatmentis discernible in his work in this depart-ment as in his figure work. An exampleof his outdoor work is given in our frontis-piece this month. 0000Four new Associates have been electedby the Academy—Mr. W. W. Russell,whose portrait study, Mr. Minney, hasperhaps been more discussed than anyother picture in the exhibition ; Mr. OliverHall, landscape painter in oils and water-. 148 CHEYNE FIGURES. DESIGNEDAND EXECUTED BY G. M. PAR-KELL (THE CHELSEA POTTERY) STUDIO-TALK colours, as well as an etcher and litho-grapher of distinction; Sir Robert Lorimer,architect; and Mr. Henry Poole, sculptor. The drastic rejections made by the juryof selection at Burlington House this yearhave naturally caused a great deal of dis-appointment. The number of works sub-mitted was unusually large—fourteen thou-sand or thereabouts, it is said—and thenumber accepted just over twelve may be pretty certain that in such ahuge number of unaccepted efforts theremust have been a good many that underthe conditions formerly prevailing wouldhave found a place among the crowd ofexhibits, and it was inevitable that underthe new policy pursued by the Academythe thinning-out process would causechagrin. The truth is, of course, that thegallery space, like the constitution of theAcademy itself, is not in keeping with thetimes. The accommodation at BurlingtonH
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