The early work of Raphael . nce his eyes first opened on the world, 22 THE ART OF WILLIAM ORCHARDSON the completest test of the intellectual man ? Orchardsons talk is of thepregnant kind. Every remark he makes straightens out what has gonebefore, and prepares it for the next contribution to the common his colloguer goes home convinced that he had never met a moreunerring mind. The menage in Fitzroy Square was broken up in 1865, when Pettieentered into the holy estate of matrimony. Orchardson then movedto Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, and from there to the neighbouringPh
The early work of Raphael . nce his eyes first opened on the world, 22 THE ART OF WILLIAM ORCHARDSON the completest test of the intellectual man ? Orchardsons talk is of thepregnant kind. Every remark he makes straightens out what has gonebefore, and prepares it for the next contribution to the common his colloguer goes home convinced that he had never met a moreunerring mind. The menage in Fitzroy Square was broken up in 1865, when Pettieentered into the holy estate of matrimony. Orchardson then movedto Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, and from there to the neighbouringPhillimore Gardens. In 1873 he followed Petties example, and marriedMiss Ellen Moxon, whose features appear in two of our illustra-tions—her own portrait, on page 41, and the Master Baby (Plate III.).He afterwards lived at various addresses in the Brompton Road, Lans-downe Road, Spencer Street, Westminster, and, lastly, in Portland Place,where the erection of a palatial studio has probably fixed him for the restof his Ss ^ >; <«: is Vo ?<j o <s o> \ & V 55 cc V In 1870 the power of attraction wielded by Venice over everycultivated mind drew Orchardson to Italy. He left London late inApril, and, better advised than most of those who make the samejourney, arrived in the City of the Lagoons early in May. Venice fromthe beginning of May until well on into June is the most deliciousthing in the world. The heat is just what it should be. The skyis seldom cloudless, but never cloudy. The air has none of the tiedeurof July, and the smells have not yet begun to seriously invade theGrand Canal, although the smaller waterways, the anastomoses of thegreat main artery, will make even a gondolier mutter Cattivo !And the atmosphere : even that of Egypt falls short of its vividclearness. Perhaps this is due to the never-absent touch of moisturein the air, for the only days to equal in brilliancy those of the earlyVenetian summer I have ever seen have been one or two in t
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