. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. to ; «; Q ^ H ;^O iP TU NEV/ YORK LIBRARY , LE«0>t «.-< r-OONDATiONS 1 TO NEW ^^0^ ^^UC LIBRAR: ??-?. LENOX AND. 1. to O -i o < ^ BE A VIS. 123 by many as in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1866. The composition isnot an ideal one, but, as we have heard, is the representation of a fact. Thescene is the artists studio, in which, on entering one day, he saw his youngson, chin on hand, glowering into an old helmet, with eyes full of thestories of chivalry he had been taught or had read. I wonder who liv
. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. to ; «; Q ^ H ;^O iP TU NEV/ YORK LIBRARY , LE«0>t «.-< r-OONDATiONS 1 TO NEW ^^0^ ^^UC LIBRAR: ??-?. LENOX AND. 1. to O -i o < ^ BE A VIS. 123 by many as in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1866. The composition isnot an ideal one, but, as we have heard, is the representation of a fact. Thescene is the artists studio, in which, on entering one day, he saw his youngson, chin on hand, glowering into an old helmet, with eyes full of thestories of chivalry he had been taught or had read. I wonder who lived inthere! was the boys remark to his father. The incident could scarcelyfail to attract the special notice of a mind so constituted as that of the latter,who saw at once how well adapted it was for a picture both original andpleasing; the result is before us. These two compositions serve to exhibit the mediaeval and chivalricgroove in which the painters mind is found so often to run. His pictures,whatever the subject, are always poetical, yet are realistic in treatment; andhe may fairly lay claim to the royal and academic honours respectively whichhave been awarded him. In 1866 the Queen appoint
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