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aA ~ j Ih ~ 0 ~ i LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR MICROFILMED Starting with the first issue published in 1947, the entire Leeds Arts Calendar is now available on micro- film. W'rite 1'or inlbrmation or send orders direct to: University Microfilms, Inc., 300N Zecb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, U.S.A. Leeds Art Collections Fund 'I his i» an appeal to all who are interested in the Arts. The Leeds Art Collections Fund is the source of regular 1'unds for buying works ol'rt 1'or thr Leeds collection. We want more subscribing members to give ga or upwards each year. Why not identify yourself'ith the Art Gallery and Temple Newsam; receive your Arts Calendar free, receive invitations to all functions, private views and organised visits to places of interest, by writing for an application form to the Hon Treasurer, E. M. Arnold Esq., Butterley Street, Leeds 10 Cover Drugn Life-size marble bust of Bejnamin Gott of Armley by joseph Gott, e. t828. Leeds City Museum. LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR No. 70 1972 THE AMENITIES COMMITTEE The Lord iifayor Alderman A. S. Pedley, D.F.c. (Chairman) Alderman R. I. Ellis, A.R.A.M. Alderman T. W. Kirkby Contents Alderman Mrs. A. Malcolm Alderman S. Symmonds Councillor R. Croudson Editorial 2 Councillor Mrs. E. Haughton Councillor Mrs. D. E. Jenkins The Early Tudor House in the light of Councillor J. Kitchen recent excavations 5 Councillor Miss C. A. Mathers Councillor R. F. Millet The Renaissance Furniture from Bretton 13 Councillor Mrs. S. M. C. Tomlinson Councillor E. R. Vaughan, A.R.I.B.A. Aspects of Nineteenth Century Sculpture in Leeds II. Patronage of the Co-opted Members Benjamin Gott Family 18 W. T. Oliver, M.A. Eric Taylor, R.E., A.a.c.A. Pugin Furniture at Lotherton 26 A Note on RVilliam IViffiams of Norwich 30 THE LEEDS ART COLLECTIONS FUND President The Rt. Hon. the Farl of Halil'ax Vice-President 'I'he Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood Trustees STAFF C. S. Reddihough Di rector George Black, F.R.c.s. 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Library Subscriptions lbr the Arts Calendar should be sent to Mrs. J. E. Brooks the Hon. Treasurer, c/o E.J. Arnold tk Son Limited, Butterley Street, Leeds 10 7 echnical Supervisors 50p per annum, including postage 12 issues) Ron Turner Single copies from the Art Gallery, Temple Newsam Michael Sheppard House and Lotherton Hall, 25p each Editorial In the editorial of'the last Calendar mention and was seen that same year by William was made of the exhibitions in the Stable Etty when he visited Gott in his Roman Court Galleries this year. The last of the studio. Etty was very impressed and wrote season is that devoted to the work ofJoseph to Sir Thomas Lawrence, a patron of Gott and we hope that his stature as a Gott's, to say so. Apart from providing a sculptor will be demonstrated beyond doubt nice bit ofart history the group is altogether on this occasion. He will not be unfamiliar, charming and made even more attractive however, to anyone living up here in by the dog who plays a minor role superbly Yorkshire —assuming, of course, that such well. About this time —the early 1820's- people know all about Temple Newsam Gott was establishing for himself quite a and Lotherton. Recently, under the en- reputation as an animal sculptor. His large thusiastic guidance ofDr. Terry Friedman, Greyhound and Pups commissioned by the the Keeper of Decorative Art Studies, we Duke and Duchess of Devonshire for their have been doing a lot of thinking about our new Sculpture Gallery at Chatsworth was sculpture collection. One could not say that very well received and was by no means a he needed to exert pressure upon his flash in the pan. Since we acquired his colleagues for he would have met with no white marble Italian Greyhound of 1827 for resistance had he done so, but whatever the Lotherton his abilities in this genre seem sum of reasons which turned our attentions, indisputable. As exquisite a piece of animal particularly towards 19th century sculpture, art as one could wish for it depicts the model the results have been very satisfactory and "reclining", but very much on the alert. are now ripe for editorial comment. The Some say the dog has a lean and hungry first thing to say is that, through the good look and certainly there was a sadness about offices of Mr. Maynard Mitchell, we are him as he lay on the great oak table in the able to show in our country houses some of hall. Perhaps he was overawed by Sir the fine portrait busts by Joseph Gott which Thomas Gascoigne's ceaseless and un- belong to the Museum but have now been sympathetic gaze. He looks much more transferred to us on permanent loan. Lest it relaxed and has far greater presence since be thought that the transaction was uni- he was introduced into the company of the lateral let it be recorded at once that he has Gascoigne horses —Gerry and Co. —and received from us, on the same terms, all our the race cups which some of them won. Roman glass. Curators believe that this Indeed he is now permanently to be found interchange of collections between museums near another silver cup, a coursing trophy, in order to display them to best advantage the lid of which is surmounted by a finely is an example of enlightened thinking. It is modelled greyhound. Gott's dog seems to clearly in the interests of the objects as well have found a congenial home where he will as visitors and there is no doubt that the certainly be admired, but we hope not crisp crunching sound made by cutting red spoiled, by staff and visitors alike. tape in the public good is delightful to One of Henry Weekes's best figure experience. To return to Gott. Not long ago sculptures ?he young naturalist has for a fine terra cotta group Venus dissuading many years been in the Leeds collection. It Adonis from the Chase was bought. This has is now, clean and resplendent, in the newly a good provenance, it was made in 1822 decorated vestibule at Lotherton for which site it looks as though it might have been the architect William Burges: the other commissioned, so well does it look. In his went to Birmingham Art Gallery and there middle years the sculptor did a number of are rumours that a third companion table fine portrait busts including that of Hugh exists somewhere —or did. The two, at any Hoare, very recently acquired. The sitter, rate, are well documented and their work- a boy of thirteen, died in 1840 the year his ing drawings are still in existence. They likeness was cut. These two sculptures by appear to have been made for Burges's Weekes, though separated in time of rooms at 15 Buckingham Street and were execution by some thirty years, have the later transferred to the house he built theme of youth in common and Lotherton himself —not long before he died —the provides a sympathetic environment for Tower House, Melbury Road, Kensington. them both. Most of Burges's furniture was designed for Centre tables are very useful things in his own use and these tables, with their red, country house museums, not so much for black and gold painted oak frames built to putting things on as because they are free support Italian pietra dura tops, show how standing objects to be walked around and rich his imagination could be within his felt on intimate terms with. They can even chosen medieval style. This is not to suggest prevent those attacks of agoraphobia in- that romanticism clouded his understanding duced by large and imposing rooms in which of Gothic art for he was an antiquarian of all the furniture is displayed against the considerable standing and a pillar of the walls. Grand pianos, incidentally, can also Ecclesiological Society. He was no pedant as in the drawing and his knowledge, rather than inhibiting Centre Table designed perform this service that by William Barges room at Lotherton proves. Bought recently originality, provided a mental atmosphere e. r867, from Miss Gladys Tetley's bequest, with in which it could thrive. An authority, painted and gilt pine his advice was frame anth inset the aid of a grant from the N.A.C.F., was particularly on metalwork, marble top, 5d x grdn .

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