Is Portrait Painting a Science or an Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1926
End Date: 10 December 1926
Type: Lecture and discussion
Description: Annual general meeting. Adoption of report, election of officers and new members. H. T. Smith 'spoke of the Foundling Hospital scheme as constituting a menace to London'; it was agreed that the Guild should protest 'as householders in the district affected'. J. Leighton then read paper 'Is Portrait Painting a Science or an Art?'; H. B. Creswell, H. R. Hope-Pinker, C. Thomas and A. G. Wyon spoke (AWG annual report, 1926, p. 7).
Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1913, pp. 169-70).
Participants
Speaker Henry Richard Hope-Pinker
Speaker Allan Gairdner Wyon
Speaker John Leighton
Speaker Cecil Walter Thomas
Citing this record
'Is Portrait Painting a Science or an Art? (Art Workers Guild), 1926', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1219074083, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
