DEATH OF WALTER CRANE.

Walter Crane died in 1915, when the First World War was at its full horrifying height. I have been unable to locate an obituary in The Times. This could have been due to the war, when the paper had daily lists of men killed in action, or who had died of wounds. What I have located I set out below.

Death Notice in The Times Wednesday 17th March. CRANE.

On 14th March suddenly at Horsham Walter Crane RWS in his 70th year. Funeral Service at Friday 19th March at Golders Green Crematorium at 10.30 a m. Friends please accept this the only intimation.

Letter to The Times Thursday March 25th.

Sir,
On Friday morning last the late Mr Walter Crane's funeral took place at Golders Green. A representative gathering of his brother-artists was assembled there to pay their last tribute of admiring affectionate regard. From that original and singular brain there is for us alas! No more work to come. But Crane will not be forgotten. When by-and-by, the history of English art during the last 40 years comes to be written, in that critical record his name will stand out prominently; as already it has so stood in the estimation of artists generally, and the art-loving public at home and abroad. But at the moment, in the generation that knew Walter Crane personally, there are, we feel sure, many who would recognise it as most becoming that, if possible, his ashes should be finally laid to rest beneath the roof of St Paul's, or, at least, that space for some memorial of him should there be found, where the names of not a few of our representative artists are reverently recorded. It is because in this matter that we are giving expression not merely to our own sentiment, but to that of large number of art-workers and of the public generally that we should be grateful if you could find space in your columns for the insertion of this brief letter.
We are Sir, your obedient servants,
Edward S Prior.
Alfred Parsons. (1847-1920 RA, RI, PRWS).
Ernest Newton.
H R Hope-Pinker.
Selwyn Image.

Report in The Times, Friday March 26th.

THE LATE MR WALTER CRANE.
We understand that the request for the interment of the ashes of the late Mr Walter Crane in St Paul's Cathedral, which was foreshadowed by a letter we published yesterday has not yet been formally made to the Dean and Chapter, who, would, however, be inclined to deprecate it, as the space available for burial is extremely small. A request for a memorial tablet to be placed in the crypt would receive consideration.