Two New R.A.’s.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 11, 17 March 1909, Page 9

Two New R.A.’s.

A general assembly of academicians and associates was held at the Royal Academy last month, when the following elections were made— : <Mr William Goscombe John sculptor, and Mr John Beleher, architect, as Royal Academicians. Mr Bertram Mac Kenna), sculptor, as Associate. M. Jean Paul Laurens, painter (France), as Honorary Foreign Academician. Mr William Goscombe John is a Welshman. who received his artistic education at Lambeth and at the schools of the Royal Academy. At the Academy he won the gold medal and travelling studentship, and since then he has gained many honours at home and abroad. He was elected an associate in 1599. He has had most of the principal commissions in memorial sculpture of late years, and is at present engaged on the monument to the late Lord Salisbury. Mr John Beleher is a famous architect, whose work has found permanency in many buildings both in London and the provinces. He designed the Chartered Accountants’ Institute and the Eastern Telegraph headquarters in the City, while the Guildhall at Cambridge and the town hall at Colchester are among his provincial work. Mr Bertram Mac Kenna! Is an Australian who was born in Melbourne fortyfour years ago. Among the special commissions he has executed in recent years are the War Memorial at Islington, Blackburn’s statue of Queen Victoria, and a bust of Sir Edward Knox for Sydney. He also designed the figures for the allegorical group for the pediment of the new Government buildings at Westminster. Mr Paul Laurens is a commander of the Legion of Honour and a member of the Preach InetituUk