. The Arts Club and its members . yes. 1893-1896. Died 1896. Boyes was a handsome man, 6 feet 4 inches in height. He was an excellenttalker, with an inexhaustible fund of humorous anecdote. Himself a contributor toThe World and Punch, he had acquired an interesting collection of originalsketches by Charles Keene and other artists which had been presented to him bythem in friendly acknowledgement of suggestions he had supplied for illustration. Hercules B. Brabazon. 1S65-1874. Pierre Bracquemond. 1910-1914. A French painter who resided for some years in this country. He was one of thefir
. The Arts Club and its members . yes. 1893-1896. Died 1896. Boyes was a handsome man, 6 feet 4 inches in height. He was an excellenttalker, with an inexhaustible fund of humorous anecdote. Himself a contributor toThe World and Punch, he had acquired an interesting collection of originalsketches by Charles Keene and other artists which had been presented to him bythem in friendly acknowledgement of suggestions he had supplied for illustration. Hercules B. Brabazon. 1S65-1874. Pierre Bracquemond. 1910-1914. A French painter who resided for some years in this country. He was one of thefirst to cultivate a taste for blue-and-white china, Japanese fans, lacquer work, printsietc., to which his attention had been attracted by the accidental finding of a book onthe subject by Hokusai in a package of oriental wares. He was the associate ofWhistler, the Rossettis, Burne-Jones, and Ruskin, to whom he communicated hisenthusiasm as a collector of these artistic products of the Eastern Empires. *VV. Lawrence Bradbury. ALCEKNON HREXTReprociihcd by the kindpei of Mr. Noniinn Evill. THE MEMBERS 50 *SiR J-RosK Bradford. 1893. , , Bradley. 1868-1902. Died 1904. Bramley. 1901-1915. Born 1857; died of the best-known artists of the Newlj n school. ?Richard F. W. Brandt. 1916. *Robert E. Brandt. Brangwyn. 1902-1909. Painter. *A, Francis Braun. Brent. 1863-1915. Died 1916. Original Member. Algernon Brent was an immemorial institution of the Club. His bushy whitewhiskers, solemn air, and venerable appearance struck awe and admiration into manygenerations of new members. He was somewhat of a misogynist, and so keenlyresented the intrusion of ladies on the two days in the year when the Club was opento them, that he has been known to seize on one of the principal rooms and lockhimself in with all the newspapers he could lay his hands on. He was believed tobe over ninety whe
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