Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . dy, althoughadvertised for by the proprietor, never came forwardto receive compensation from the Insurance Company forthe destruction of her shawl by the gracious act she per-formed. Years later I heard that she was the wife ofSir Walter Trevelyan. My friend, Mr. Vernon Lushington, at this timeinvited me to paint the full-size portrait of his father,the Rt. Hon. Stephen Lushington ; therefore I stayedwith the family at Ockham to paint it. Sitting downto my first dinner in the house, one of the sons askedme what line I took on the question o
Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . dy, althoughadvertised for by the proprietor, never came forwardto receive compensation from the Insurance Company forthe destruction of her shawl by the gracious act she per-formed. Years later I heard that she was the wife ofSir Walter Trevelyan. My friend, Mr. Vernon Lushington, at this timeinvited me to paint the full-size portrait of his father,the Rt. Hon. Stephen Lushington ; therefore I stayedwith the family at Ockham to paint it. Sitting downto my first dinner in the house, one of the sons askedme what line I took on the question of the war betweenNorth and South in America. I had better confess at once that I am on theunpopular side, I must avow that all the arguments Ihear for the Southern cause have no weight with me,I said. Well done ! he exclaimed, we are all Northernershere. 220 PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE chap. Scarcely any circle I had met up to then had receivedmy confession of faith on this questionso felt it was wise to make a study in chalk of the very. IF. //. //. THE RIGHT HON. STEPHEN LUSHINGTON. interesting head of the great Judge before beginning theportrait in oil. The old gentleman was stirred up toextraordinary vivacity when in conversation, and theexpression thus aroused was that best known to his viii PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD 221 friends. When silent, his visage settled into a mask,almost grim ; but the fact that this aspect was unknownto society made me feel it must be avoided, the difficultywas that in the mobility of his features it was almostimpossible to find any phase between the two extremesthat could give the interest of the charming old Judgescharacter. When he saw that his listener was absorbedin his stories, he poured out a succession of wonderfulmemories, reaching back to before the last decade ofthe preceding century ; he was then eighty-two yearsof age. He told how he had once, when back fromEton, gone to Drury Lane or Covent Garden, he couldnot be certai
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