Scribner's magazine . er.) Dragon, wliicli, l)e<ifini in 1848, wascompleted in 1858, in the ui)per waiting-hall of the palace at Westminster. TheKinir Alfred is also in the House,havini^- been purchased after a time, fora small sum, by the Commissioners. He was now thoroui^hly possessedwith the desire to stimulate the love ofnoble art and the S2)irit of jmtriotismin En<j:land by the adornment of thewalls of public buildings with mightyfrescos of ^^reat subjects, and he pur-sued this great aim with ardor for702 many years after his return from such a dream could be fuLtilled byth
Scribner's magazine . er.) Dragon, wliicli, l)e<ifini in 1848, wascompleted in 1858, in the ui)per waiting-hall of the palace at Westminster. TheKinir Alfred is also in the House,havini^- been purchased after a time, fora small sum, by the Commissioners. He was now thoroui^hly possessedwith the desire to stimulate the love ofnoble art and the S2)irit of jmtriotismin En<j:land by the adornment of thewalls of public buildings with mightyfrescos of ^^reat subjects, and he pur-sued this great aim with ardor for702 many years after his return from such a dream could be fuLtilled bythe will of artists alone, every jiublicbuilding in England would be coveredwith pictures ; for. whatever else maybe alleged against British artists, it cannever be said that they have been want-ing in public and patriotic spirit, orhave weighed their labor by the ounce,when it was to be turned to a nobleuse. Barn-, half starved, laboring athis huge pictures at the Society of Artsfor the cost of his materials, the Royal. Lord Tennyson. Photographed by F. Hollyer, after the unfinished study in oil in the possession of the artist. The painting was finished May, 1890. Academy as a body, offering- (in 1773)to decorate St. Pauls at their own ex-pense, are striking evidences in tlie past;and of living- men, Leigliton, Shields,Armitage, and others have shown theirwillingness to work for public endsfor nothing, or for journeymans least of these is Watts, who executedwithout fee the grand fresco of Jus- tice, 40 feet high by 45 feet long, inthe Hall of Lincolns Inn, and offeredto decorate the great hall at EustonRailway Station with a series of muralpaintings rejDresenting the Progressof Commerce, for the bare cost of scaf-folding and colors. This was refused,and the regret which we must all feelat the rejection of such a great offer is 703
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