eing a creative artisthe was nothing more than a statuejobber —he brought an action for libelin 1882, and the trial before Baron Hudleston was the great sensation of theday. Mr. Belt successfully vindicatedhis bona-fides and was awarded £5,000damages. In the long interval since thiscase was tried… … FROM A WOOD-CUT BYGWENDOLEN RAVEPAT away in the autumn of 1920, was, likeMr. Belt, a student in the Royal AcademySchools, in which he won the Gold Medaland Travelling Studentship in 1889. Asa painter of subject pictures and, in lateryears more especially, of portraits, hiswork has been a recurring…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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