12 October

Born in 1882, Lajos Gulácsy, Hungarian painter.

Above: The Artist's Devotion, 1902

Also, born in 1872, English composer and educator Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Before going any further may we take it that the object of art is to obtain a partial revelation of that which is beyond human senses and human faculties – of that, in fact, which is spiritual? And that the means which we employ to induce this revelation are those very senses and faculties themselves?