Documents associated with: Lemon, Arthur
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System Number: 09573
Date: February 1891
Author: Chelsea Arts Club[1]
Place: London
Recipient: Theodore Wores[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: Published
Document Type: PDS[3]
CHELSEA -
FEB - 1891.
[nude figure standing, circular crest with portrait, and feather]
TO OUR FRIEND
THEODORE WORES
FAREWELL!
[sketches[4] and signatures[5]:]
T. Eyre Macklin -
T. Sterling Lee
J. G. Winter
G. P. Jacomb-Hood
Walter J. Donne
W. H. S. Thompson
J. McN. Whistler [butterfly signature]
F. M. Skipworth
B. J. Behstern
J. Elder Christie
Arthur Lemon
Philip E. Stretton
T. Little
H. R. Bloom
Thomas Riley
Henry Raymond Huxley
R. K. Mounsey
S. Jacomb-Hood
Patrick Victor Long
Charles W. Furse
A. D. McCormick
H. Hughes-Stanton
J. J. Shannon
THE CHELSEA TESTIMONIAL.
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Notes:
1. Chelsea Arts Club
Early in 1891, before his departure for the United States, Wores was given a special farewell dinner at Chelsea Arts Club, chaired by JW.
2. Theodore Wores
Theodore Wores (1860-1939), landscape and orientalist painter [more].
3. PDS
Published in Cross, Tom, Artists and Bohemians: 100 Years with the Chelsea Arts Club, London, 1992, p. 28.
4. sketches
Some of the signatories have added a sketch; these are a view of Chelsea wharf, two seated draped women, a woman's head, a child's head looking at a star, and a man possibly by a stream.
5. signatures
Thomas Eyre Macklin (1867-1943), artist [more]; Thomas Stirling Lee (1856-1916), sculptor [more]; J. G. Winter, possibly a member of Chelsea Arts Club; George Percy Jacomb Hood (1857-1929), genre painter and graver [more]; Walter J. Donne (b. 1867), landscape painter [more]; W. H. S. Thompson, artist [more]; Frank Markham Skipworth (1854-1929), artist [more]; B. J. [Behstern?], a member of Chelsea Arts Club [more]; James Elder Christie (1847-1914), portrait and genre painter [more]; Arthur Lemon (1850-1912), painter [more]; Philip Eustace Stretton (ca 1865-1919), painter of animals and sporting subjects [more]; T. Little, artist; Hiram Reynolds Bloomer (b. 1845), landscape painter [more]; Thomas Riley, artist [more]; Henry Raymond Huxley, artist [more]; R. K. Mounsey, artist [more] [in Cross, Tom, Artists and Bohemians: 100 Years with the Chelsea Arts Club, London, 1992, Mounsey's initials are mistakenly given as P. K.]; possibly George Percy Jacomb Hood (1857-1929), genre painter and graver [more]; Patrick Victor Long, artist [more]; Charles Wellington Furse (1868-1904), painter [more]; Arthur David McCormick (1860-1943), artist [more]; Sir Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton (1870-1937), artist [more]; and James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923), genre and portrait painter [more].