Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . lC . ^*£^^JUflu£. J^l ^.. pAHjijC i ^wan. ^^e^r£ C^na^vJHha bfji ; aiti oo, once , .now anh thef\_,an^ jianb CcJT^e Am i^taYC. VS-m, chaff net Come avt<\y. W IF. H. H. CHARLES A. COLLINS. drawing his portrait as he lay dead. This I gave to hisbrother Wilkie, who in the end left it to me. On his bedlay the canvas, taken off the strainer, with the admirablyexecuted background painted at Worcester Park the last few years he had not touched a brush, beingentirely disenchanted with the pursuit of painting ; yethis delicacy of ha
Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . lC . ^*£^^JUflu£. J^l ^.. pAHjijC i ^wan. ^^e^r£ C^na^vJHha bfji ; aiti oo, once , .now anh thef\_,an^ jianb CcJT^e Am i^taYC. VS-m, chaff net Come avt<\y. W IF. H. H. CHARLES A. COLLINS. drawing his portrait as he lay dead. This I gave to hisbrother Wilkie, who in the end left it to me. On his bedlay the canvas, taken off the strainer, with the admirablyexecuted background painted at Worcester Park the last few years he had not touched a brush, beingentirely disenchanted with the pursuit of painting ; yethis delicacy of handling and his rendering of tone andtint had been exquisite. Certain errors of proportionmarred his picture Convent Thoughts, or it would havebeen a typical work of unforgettable account despite its 314 PRE-RAPHAELITISM ch. xii puerile leading idea. At the time of the vacancy in ourBrotherhood occasioned by the retirement of Collinson, Ijudged him to be the strongest candidate as to workman-ship, and certainly he could well have held the fieldfor us had he done himself justice in design andpossessed courage to keep to his purpose. In his lastartistic struggle Collins continually lost heart when anypainting had
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