Scribner's magazine . les Swinburne (1865)—in the possession of the artist.(Photographed by F. Hollyer.) mitij^ated l)y tlip reflection tliat theworks, if executed, would probably, erethis, have followed the fate of nearlyall frescos in England, and of most inother countries ; while we should havemissed a nund)er of smaller but equallynoble pictures, whicli. witli i)r()per care,will last for an indefinite time. Thefresco at Lincolns Inn has already hadto undergo extensive reparations intempera. It is gratifying to record that704 the Inn, in testimony of their ai:)pre-ciation of this monumental
Scribner's magazine . les Swinburne (1865)—in the possession of the artist.(Photographed by F. Hollyer.) mitij^ated l)y tlip reflection tliat theworks, if executed, would probably, erethis, have followed the fate of nearlyall frescos in England, and of most inother countries ; while we should havemissed a nund)er of smaller but equallynoble pictures, whicli. witli i)r()per care,will last for an indefinite time. Thefresco at Lincolns Inn has already hadto undergo extensive reparations intempera. It is gratifying to record that704 the Inn, in testimony of their ai:)pre-ciation of this monumental work, pre-sented to Mr. Watts a cup and a hon-orarium of £500.* Mr. Watts has been but a fitful ex-hibitor, and you cannot in his case, as inthat of most English artists of distinc-tion, trace his progress and career from • Amontr other mural paintiuicrs by the artif^t are afresco in the Church of St. James the Less, near Vaux-hall Bridfre, and Achilles, Briseis, and Thetis, atBowood, the scat of Lord Walter Crane (1893)—in the possession of the artist.(Photographed by F. Hollyer.) tlie catalogues of the Royal the pictures which he sent to Tra-falgar Square in 1848 and 1849 havesome historic significance. In the first of these years he senttwo portraits, Lady Holland andM. Guizot, and in the second, a largeand elaborate oil picture called LifesIllusions, and a drawing for a fresco,the subject of which was taken fromIsaiah. These works intimated the aims towhich he was hereafter to devote hislife almost exclusively. The portraitof M. Guizot was one of the first ofthat great series in w^hicli, more thanany other artist of his time, he has re-flected the best intellects and imagina-tions of the nineteenth century. Fromthe Guizot of 1848 to the Sir AndrewClark of yesterday, a period not farshort of half a century, he has pur- 705 706 GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, sued a consistentaim in painting agallery of greatmen, not for themost part for mon-ey or
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