January 1899: Glasgow School of Art – Hungarian Government Wishes to Purchase Work of Three Students

An article on page three of The Daily Record, on Wednesday the 25th of January, 1899, reads:

 

“GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART.

 

A communication has been received through Herr Radisics de Kutas, intimating the wish of the

Hungarian Government to purchase three works of the students of the Glasgow School of Art. These

works are among a selection of gold, silver and bronze medal drawings recently on view at Buda-Pesth

and now on view at Vienna, and were asked for by the Austro-Hungarian Government from the Glasgow

School in August last. The works indicated are—Gold medal design for wall paper by James Grimstone;

silver medal design for a printed silk, by Archibald Gibson; and silver medal design for a wall paper, by

Emmet Brady.”

 

 

 

The British Newspaper Archive.

 

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, July 2025.