. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. ^ Cii Q I w -^ o 2 S (^ in I < -^ o t; H -^ ^ -I W .« fe (^ O a p i HWW Pd a H ASTOJ^, ANDViLSKtf FOUNDATIONS. ?^ = § -J •/- 5; •-, a FEAMES. 133 out with a power that at once indicated him as a painter of mark; his twopictures were The Sonetto and The Toilet. Passing over, but only from want of space, a rather large picture called Rescued, a child saved from drowning, exhibited at the Academy in 1862,Mr. Yeames sent to the same gallery in the following year The Meeting ofSir Thomas More and his Daughter after h
. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. ^ Cii Q I w -^ o 2 S (^ in I < -^ o t; H -^ ^ -I W .« fe (^ O a p i HWW Pd a H ASTOJ^, ANDViLSKtf FOUNDATIONS. ?^ = § -J •/- 5; •-, a FEAMES. 133 out with a power that at once indicated him as a painter of mark; his twopictures were The Sonetto and The Toilet. Passing over, but only from want of space, a rather large picture called Rescued, a child saved from drowning, exhibited at the Academy in 1862,Mr. Yeames sent to the same gallery in the following year The Meeting ofSir Thomas More and his Daughter after his sentence to death: it formsone of the illustrations engraved here. A quotation from old Ropers Lifeof Sir T. More explains the circumstances of the interview, which takesplace at the entrance of the Tower gateway, whither he has been conductedafter the trial. As soone as she sawe him, after his blessings uppon herknees reverentlie received, she hastinge towards him, without consideracion orcare of her selfe, pressinge in amongst the midst of the thronge and companleof the garde that with halbards and bill
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