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 . ourists, Anticipa- searching draughtsmen, and indefatigable students of natiue are p^e. here grouped. In these respects their achievements were not Raphaei- . honourable to the artists, but they rendered the advent of the Pro-Rapliaelites—that greatest phenomenon of the period here contemplated—a somewhat less startling affair than it must otherwise have been. In fact, Ettys painting of the carnat
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 . ourists, Anticipa- searching draughtsmen, and indefatigable students of natiue are p^e. here grouped. In these respects their achievements were not Raphaei- . honourable to the artists, but they rendered the advent of the Pro-Rapliaelites—that greatest phenomenon of the period here contemplated—a somewhat less startling affair than it must otherwise have been. In fact, Ettys painting of the carnations, and his skill in depicting what the Italians call the morhidezza of the life, were a great deal higher in key, purer and truer than the Piritish jniblic had before his time any knowledge of Maclises tirm touch, his dignified, if some- 398 THE BULK OP THE MIDDLE CLASS. [1846 what histrionic, motives and laborious niodelhnw were ahnostPre-Raphaehte: the same may be repeated of the research ofDyce and his briUiancy, to say nothing of the profound earnest-ness of his mood, as all these qualities were manifest in JoashShootinij the Arrow of Deliverance, which was at Trafaltrar. THE COUBTVARD OF T]1K CUITIC rATRIAllCUS HOUSE L\ CAIRO, BY J. F. LEWIS, (yatimifil Gallery of llrillsh Art.) Square in 1844, and is a picture the best Pre-Raphaelite Brotherwould be proud to own. Cope, at the period in question, exer-cised an unusual sense of style Avhich all the Brethren, if theydid not imitate it, enjoyed greatly. The naturalism, thesplendour, and the completeness of Cox, Lewis, and WilliamHrmt, combined with their inexhaustible patience and fidelity,went far to support tlie theory of Pn^-Raphaelitism; while thelargeness of the style of the last named ? great master in small, ARTISTS OF THK MIDDLK rTCTORIAX ERA. 399 18651 was such as the iirothreu one and all could never praise toohighly. In fact, Hunt was as nuich a Pre-Raphaelite as anyartist of his time and training, his
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