Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . sincerity bear the least resemblance to each other. The effectof Pre-Rapliaelitism on the practice of its professors was magical andrevolutionary. Such were the ])rinciples armed with which no less aperson than Sir John :Millais—who died President of theRoyal Academy, and is universally acknowledged to be thegreatest English painter of the Victorian Age—first appeared inthe artistic arena. In the same way Da
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . sincerity bear the least resemblance to each other. The effectof Pre-Rapliaelitism on the practice of its professors was magical andrevolutionary. Such were the ])rinciples armed with which no less aperson than Sir John :Millais—who died President of theRoyal Academy, and is universally acknowledged to be thegreatest English painter of the Victorian Age—first appeared inthe artistic arena. In the same way Dante Gabriel ,the world-renowned painter-poet, was bold enough to presenthimself Thus Millaiss fellow-martyr, Mr. Holmau Hunt, wasfain to come forth. Under the banner of Ire-Raphaelitisiu 1865] AETISTS OP THE iLTDDLK VTCTOnTAN EEA. Ul Millais painted A Huguenot, Ophelia, The Order ofRelease, and The Proscribed Royalist. As the author ofthese splendid achievements the to be was, in ,elected an The list of Mr. Hunts works is a record ofprimitive Pre-Raphaelitisra but slightly modified by a largerexperience. In Rossettis Eece Ancilla Domini, which is now. ECCK DOMINI, 1!T DAXTEGAHllIEL ROSSKTII.(Xfitional Ualterii of British Ail.) in the National (iallery of British Art, and half a dozen morefine things, is evidence of how strongly as well as stringently hoadhered to those much misunderstood principles which anotherof the Brotherhood has set forth in the above-quoted terms. In a few years, of course, the stringency of the paintersenthusiasm being relaxed, and their views growing larger andwider—their public, too, having now been partly educated by ismthem—such works as The Vale of Rest, The Parable of theSweeper, Stella and Vanessa, Chill October, Mr. Hook, Wideningof Pre-Raphael 412 THE RULE OF THE MIDDLE GLASS. [1846 and a score more equally fine subject pictures, landscapes, andporli-aits came from Millaiss easel. Of these it is right
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