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A CORNISH WHITTINGTON.
BIOGRAPHY OF LORD MAYOR
TRELOAR.
REACTION. IN ART. CHARACTER OF THIS YEAR'S ROYAL ACADEMY.
[BY PG KONODY.]
There emerges from the reading of
The must unobservant visitor to the, William Purdie Treloar" (John Murray Royni Academy cannot help to be struck 7. ed.) a clear mental picture of a grist by the fact that this year's exhibition citizen, who embodied all the civics of a rather reactionary character. This return to the traditional poley of the virtues, us "many, have done, “and escaped Academy is the more striking as it more the almost inevitable defects of those liberal spirit prevailed during the last few years, when attempts were made to bring virturs, as few have done. Mr. C E Harlington, House a little more into line Lawrence has done hia, work surpassing with the modern movement, ly well, and produced a vivid and, en lightening lifestory of a man who was a giant in kindliness no less than is
stature.
The fault scarcely lies with the loyal
Aendemy--at least not with the Academy as it is at present constituted. It is nere- a case of the sins of the fathers being visited
upon the children. So long has the Academy heen hostile to progress in If the proper study of mankind is man, fact that progressive artists have alto- the proper object of man's compassion er ceased to court its favour. They is also man-in particular, those refer to withhold their works. from the exhibitions at Burlington House and to bers of the race who are young, establish their reputations without, Ex-
This was the helpless and suffering.
perience has taught them that this is now principle which upheld Treloar through the safest way of foreing its doors and out his long, tremendously busy lite being elected to a seat among the Im- This son of a Cornishman from Helstonmortals.
his made practical philanthropy not
That the Royal Academy dees not re- work, not his hobby, but his passion present the most significunt achievement! The vendor of carpets was a dispenser af British art is scarcely in need of de- of happiness. It took so little to make monstration. One has only to examine a sick child happy, Treloar realized, and up-to-date art literature to be forced to The gave not inerely the essential triffe, the conclusion that there is more vital
but a generous abundance.
art outside than inside the Academy. Of Because of these strenuous activities, the fourteen volumes of the Contemporary which deserved a better name than that British Artists series published by Ernest debased word "charity," the world has Ben, only five deal with members and almost overlooked in Treloar, the child Associates of the Royal Academy. And ren's helper, Trelour the strong partiof these five at least three-and by no cipant in local governament. Yet the means the least distinguished-refused tall Cornishman was Lord Mayor of to exhibit at Burlington House until they London, a Dick Whittington, who chang- were elected. Of the twenty-four lenders d his fairy-like tale into a real fairy of art dealt with by Mr. J. Laver in his tale and lenne a fairy godfather. Prevently published Portraits in Oil and
Vinegar."
no fewer than fourteen are Lawrence tells as, indeed, that Treloar's year of office was the jolliest and least outsiders," five were notorious for their stern on record. It is not hard to be hostility to the Royal Academy before lieve. He had a huge sense of humour, their election and one-the present Pre- so, netive and so complete that is could identis only included as the official re- not possibly have been crushed by the presentative of a moribund tradition..
The fact is that the Academy, in its robed and golden pomp of the Lord endeavour to fall in with the spirit of the Mayoralty.
time, is invariably too late, and its at Indeed, no dignity could have sat tempts are too half-hearted. The effect heavily upon Treloar's shoulders. There of every bold step is immediately nullified was nothing about him of the tradition by concessions made to the reactionaries. al alderman-the imbiber of turtle soup! The election of artiste like Augustus and the ceremonious waddler in proers-John, Walter Sickert, and Ambrose Me- sion. He was too humorous and kind- Evoy is almost invariably followed by that hearted to be pompous. He must have of practitioners who have absolutely no Inughed with pure joy when he found claim to distinction beyond a sound know- himself in the Lord Mayor's gilded coach ledge of their craft. H+ Bever siniled with self-satisfied smugness at having attained this moun- tain top of civic dignity, but rather smiled from the light like a jolly god beat on being friend's with all mankind.
Furthermore, these occasional nets of belated justice generally come at a time when they have ceased to be heneficial tu the artists thus honoured, who are not likely to forget the way in which they were floated and neglected by the Yet he was not frivolous, with all his Academy in their days of struggle, and humour. He was a hardworking artist adversity. They know that the Äundemy in happiness-principally other people's benefits more by their having been even
ppines-and it was but incidental tasily elected than they do themselves, that in working on that gatent of land they are often half-hearted in their masterpieces. the Alton Hospital, he support of that institution. How else can created happiness for himself after a tia one neecunt for the prolonged absence of 'terrible anxiety; stress, and labour..
from the Burlington House exhibitions of William Purdie Trulone was born on Mr. Frank Brangwyn, who was honoured the 13th of January, 1843, in a room over and esteemed in France and Italy näd ;I time when bia the gateway of the "Patent Cocoanut other countries "at Fibre Works in Holland-street, South pictures were rejected or "skied at the wark. A larger family and a larger Academy And why did Mr. Augustus prosperity brought about a move, and John not send a single work to this year's) here is the resulting picture given by showi Mr. Lawrence
There never was a The only salvation for the Academy now happier family. The parents and their lies in a firm, consistent policy to gather Arm stand against the The Picnic Season is already on and well advised people who children in those aspiring years were in the most conspicuous outside talent
play-mates all; and the old-fashioned and to make a want to make their picnic a success come to us. They know we house near the top of Blackheath-hill, election of norentities. The election of with its crooked passages, especially! ut half a dozen eminent outsiders-men always carry a wide stock of so many different dainty delicacies designed, it almost would seem, for like Wilson Steer, W. Nicholson, Sir Epstein, James together with the best wines and liquors. A picnic basket is coin-pranks and their favourite game of hide Charles "Holmes, J.
and-seek, was warm with comfort, hos. Pryde, and Paul Nash, to mention only few of the most obvious-"would pro- plete and perfect when made by
pitality, and laughter. William weat: as a day boy to a private school, kept bably turn the scales and encourage other by a clergyman named Knox, near the distinguished opponents to send their foot of Blackheath-hill in Greenwich" works to Burlington House and to make the Royal Academy what it professes to William Treloar married very young be and ought to be the leading and re-
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successful in this ventare practically everything else he undertook in life. Few men, in fact, can have been so happy both in their work and in their home life, But perhaps Fre- loar, after all, did but reap the just fruits of his splendid mind. There was an essential rightness about all his am- bitions and judgments. That rightness, combined with his exceptional person- ality, brought him a success which waŁA very real; a success which, viewed at the last, must have seemed not dust and ashes, but something more precious than gold.
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Everybody trusted Treloar instinctive- ly. When his appen went out for E00,000 for the cripples' fund the money was anon forthcoming, on the bare, word More thousaDÁS of the Lord Mayor. were raised, too, hut for more than one anxious year the future of the hospital was in doubt, and but for Treloar's in- domitable spirit the tuberculous children might, have lost their home. It happen- ed otherwise, fortunately, and moreover, the founder was well-advised in his! choice of staff. The greatest accomplish- intent of his life was the result, and it remains to-day 'n monument finer than all the obelisks in the world.
Treloar's life Wha 10 interating throughout that it would be, possible to paraphrake every page of Mr. Lawrence's book-not that such a thing would be desirable. A biography so excellent. deserves no such insult. It is a humah and vivid account of a human and vivid personality, and blends literary power with its other good qualities.
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