: eec s Ar.s ~a..enc ar New Publicatt'ons FURNITURE AT TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE AND LOTHERTON HALL, YORKSHIRE by Christopher Gilbert The definitive catalogue of 662 items from the collections of Leeds City Art Galleries, 552 pages with 682 illustrations, 14 in colour, in two volumes. Published jointly by the National Art-Collections Fund and the Leeds Art Collections Fund, 1978. E60 the two volumes, including postage. Cheques or money orders payable to the NACF Leeds Furniture Catalogue; post to Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., The Manningham Press, Drummond Road, Bradf'ord BD8 8DH. CREAMWARE AND OTHER ENGLISH POTTERY AT TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE, LEEDS by Peter Walton A sumptuous, expertly researched catalogue of 1182 items in the Leeds collection, 298 pages, 16 colour plates and 450 black and white illustrations. Published by the Leeds Art Collections Fund, 1976. Price f42 including postage. Cheques payable to 'Lund Humphries'; post to Lund Humphries, Drummond Road, Bradford BD8 8DH. THE LEEDS ART COLLECTIONS FUND Vice-President The Rt. Hon, the Earl of Harewood, i.L.D.; Trustees C. S. Reddihough, George Black, F.R c s., W. T. Oliver, M A; Committee Mrs. S. Bidgood, W. A. B. Brown, S. H. Burton, Mrs. R. Copeland, Councillor Dr. J. R. Sherwin, Dr. M. Wainman, Dr. R. B. Welch; Hon. Treasurer Martin Arnold, B.A.; Hon. Secretary Robert Rowe; Hon. Member- shiP Secretary W. B. Blackburn; Han. Social Secretary Mrs. Francoise Logan. The Leeds Art Collections Fund is one of the oldest supporting bodies for the visual arts in Great Britain, a source of regular funds for buying works of art for the Leeds collections. Why not identify yourself with the Art Gallery, Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, receive your Arts Calendar free, receive invitations to all functions, private views and organised visits to places of interest. The minimum subscription is f3.00 individual and f5.00 for husband and wife. Enquiries and application forms from the Hon. Secretary at Temple Newsam House, Leeds LS15 OAE. The Arts Calendar may be obtain- ed for a subscription of f1.00 per annum, including postage (2 issues); single copies may be purchased at the Art Gallery, Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 50p each. Note: starting with the first issue published in 1947, the entire Leeds Arts Calendar is now available on microfilm. Write for information or send orders direct to Xerox University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, U,S,A. LEISURE SERVICES COMMITTEE The Lord Mayor; Chairman Councillor Dr. J. R. Sherwin; DePuty Chairman Councillor Mrs. E. G. Clark, Councillor B. P. Atha, Councillor E. Atkinson, Councillor D. F. Camp- bell, Councillor W. Hudson, 1 p, Councillor W. K. Hedley, M 8 F.,I p, Councillor J. Kit- chen, M 8 8, Councillor Mrs. C. Myers, Councillor Mrs. E. A. Nash, Councillor B. Nelson, Councillor A. S. Pedley, D.F.c., Councillor S. Symmonds, Councillor B. Walker. STAFF Director of Art Galtenes Robert Rowe, c.B.F..M.A..F.MA.; Principal Keeper Christopher Gilbert, M A.,F.M A.; Keeper (Art Gallery) Miranda Strickland-Constable, B.A.,A.M.A.; KeePer (Lothertan Hall) Peter Walton, 8 A.,A M.A.; KeePer (TemPle Netvsam) Anthony Wells-Cole, M A.,A.M.A.; Keeper (Decorative Art Studies) Terry F. Friedman, B.A.,PH.D.; Senior Assistant Keepers Alexander Robertson, M.A..A.M.A., Adrian Budge, 8 A..B PHIL..CERT.BD.; Curatorial Assistant Barbara Thompson; Conservation Supervisors Michael Sheppard, Ron Turner; Metattvork Conservator Phoebe Clements; Textile Con- servator Frances Jowitt, 8 A: Technical Assistant John Berry, B.A.; Administrator Jean English; Secretary Fiona Mclndoe, B.A.; Clerical Assistants Jean Gannon, Anna Czerkaluk. Cover illustration The Munchauseness of Hertford!!! Mounted on the R —ts Bomb by J. L. Marks, published by E. Brooks in about May 1819, engraving. British Museum. LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR No. 86 1980 Obituary Editorial .'5 A Victorian Masterpiece by P. H. Calderon james Lomax Lady Hertford: A Quean of the Regency? Adrian Budge Samuel Joseph Phrenologized 20 Terry Friedman A pair of Eteers, London, 1697, maker's mark: Pierre Harache, silver gilt. Bought with the aid of a grant from the government, the NACF, the LACF, the Penrose-May Bequest and private donations 1979. The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Halifax 1912—1980 II + t Since the editorial of this calendar was delivered lend pictures from his own collection and to help to the publishers the sad news of the death of in innumerable ways to foster the visual arts. Lord Halifax was announced. Members of the His visits to Temple Newsam and the Art L.A.C.F. mourn a very popular president and Gallery were highlights; he kept in close touch are saddened by the realization that they have lost with all that was going on and gave his en- not only a man of endearing charm and humour, couragement to any new developments. It is but one with a profound sense of the responsi- good that the restoration of the beautiful 18th bilities which went with his inheritance. century library at the end of the Long Gallery Lord Halifax always took a great interest in and the recreation of the chapel within its Temple Newsam, the house he knew as a boy, original site were both accomplished. in his time and when the Princess Royal died, fifteen years and with his backing. His delightfully personal ago, he readily took on the Presidency and made and informal, but efficient, chairmanship of the his own special contribution to the office. In so annual general meetings of the L.A.C.F. served doing he followed in his father's footsteps for the to strengthen the link with the house which his latter, until his death in 1960, had been a very forebears owned and cherished until 1922. distinguished president for many years and had His loss at so early an age, to all those who knew greatly enriched, by gift and long loan, the art him and enjoyed his presence at formal and not treasures of Leeds. Charles Halifax continued so formal occasions, is a severe blow. the family tradition for he was always willing to Editorial 'Ale and Arty'as the headline in one daily so that both base and decoration can be separately newspaper when work started on the site of the polished. Achieved is an ambiguous third di- new Art Gallery extension in January. Just to mension on the lid opposed to a precise and remind readers: the inspiration behind this super shallow third dimension on the body where the pun comes from the fact that there is to be a edges of the silver and polished background are public house in the basements of the Central exploited to scintillating effect. The cup was Library and the Art Gallery. This may not be the made in 1691 and there was a good photograph first time that a brewer's rent has helped to of it in Calendar no. 63 —information put in for finance a building project, but that more beer those who file their Calendars. The ewers, made means Moore sculpture must surely be unique six years later, show that the artist had lost none to Leeds. To be cautious in prosperity and of his originality, but had stored away in his mind patient in adversity is wise advice, but the relief a wealth of art historical references to be freely of tension —and there has been plenty of this, is a used in a broadened repertoire. The most joyous feeling demanding expression —even in immediately obvious link with the cup are the flippancy? This editorial therefore will deal only gadrooned feet; while cut-card work is much with cheerful news: the beginning of a new era bolder, based on natural forms, leaves of quite for the Art Gallery, the repair of Temple Newsam different species —those on the upper part clearly House, the dress rehearsal for the future role of taken from the acanthus plant —and all soldered Aberford Almshouses and the triumphal last on. The chiaroscuro effect provided by tarnish chapter in the rescue story of a pair of silver-gilt is an insignificant factor when an object is gilded. ewe rs. The subtle contrast between the metal beneath To deal first with the ewers. The financial and and the cut-card work itself is provided by the legal side of yet another attempt to save master- burnishing effect on the latter produced over the pieces for the nation was told in the editorial of years when the pieces were washed and dried. the last Calendar. Now that their owner has, if The form of the ewers has a long ancestry going tardily, accepted the offer made to him and these back through the baroque and mannerism— magnificent pieces ofsilver are encased at Temple hardly distinguishable here —to the Greek vases Newsam what is their real significance and why imported into Italy during the early centuries of did Leeds want them for its collections so badly? our culture and so avidly collected by Sir The answer must in part be subjective for, William Hamilton during the second half of the particularly in the twentieth century, beauty, eighteenth century —his wife was busy with her like every other positive quality, is often in own affairs which England did not expect in dispute. It is irrefutable, however, that Pierre those days. These ewers thus provide a fascinating Harache was one of the most original and link between work being done in this country by brilliant of the early Huguenot craftsmen to foreigners late in the seventeenth century and the work in this country.