"The Lily" - painted by C. Baxter - from the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, 1856. 'One of the sweetest pictures in the Suffolk-street "The Lily"- a half-length of a girl of twenty - from the facile and graceful pencil of Mr. Charles Baxter. It is a something between portraiture and poetry. It is, in a word, Mr. Baxter's ideal of a beautiful woman. We could have wished that Mr. Baxter had found some other title for this representation of female loveliness than the hackneyed title of "The ; Our poets and romance-writers would easi
"The Lily" - painted by C. Baxter - from the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, 1856. 'One of the sweetest pictures in the Suffolk-street "The Lily"- a half-length of a girl of twenty - from the facile and graceful pencil of Mr. Charles Baxter. It is a something between portraiture and poetry. It is, in a word, Mr. Baxter's ideal of a beautiful woman. We could have wished that Mr. Baxter had found some other title for this representation of female loveliness than the hackneyed title of "The ; Our poets and romance-writers would easily have yielded him a name more appropriate and certainly less hackneyed. To our thinking (and we are fresh from a fifth perusal of "Tom Jones") Mr. Baxter's "Lily" has something of a Sophia Western look'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.
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