. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . cbc Koesettle. intere:^ ;ie very ^ later ! lat gave rise to Whistlers ^quite eager over a projected picl- was progress- lllleiy, —tlic Iiblank c The Girlhood of Mary l^ir^in. Rossettis first important painting. trail: •rl that . 111:? i. 1^:, .! IlilMf \I ?d nt this pe luily siandards ol Ma. John Millais. Th witnessed the Rreai;. Z[)c iprcs^lRapbaelitcs. 33 self-contest. It was a contest he was destined torepeat in many fields to the end of his life. While painting The Girlhood of Mary yirgin,Rossetti saw much of Millais, whom he had metbefore at
. The Rossettis: Dante Gabriel and Christina; . cbc Koesettle. intere:^ ;ie very ^ later ! lat gave rise to Whistlers ^quite eager over a projected picl- was progress- lllleiy, —tlic Iiblank c The Girlhood of Mary l^ir^in. Rossettis first important painting. trail: •rl that . 111:? i. 1^:, .! IlilMf \I ?d nt this pe luily siandards ol Ma. John Millais. Th witnessed the Rreai;. Z[)c iprcs^lRapbaelitcs. 33 self-contest. It was a contest he was destined torepeat in many fields to the end of his life. While painting The Girlhood of Mary yirgin,Rossetti saw much of Millais, whom he had metbefore at the Royal Academy and in the little Cyclo-graphic Society, and the triple friendship on whichthe Brotherhood rested began. Millais was thetype, well-known to art-schools, of prize stu-dent. A year younger than Rossetti, he was al-ready hung with medals, and an exhibitor of someimportance. He was intimate with Hunt, who sawin him a generous, quick enthusiasm and a spiriton fire with eagerness to seize whatever he saw tobe good. Although he liked Rossetti at first, the twowere as fitted to mingle as oil and water, and Millaisrecords in later years that D. G. Rossetti was aqueer fellow, and impossible as a boon companion—so dogmatic and so irritable when opposed. Millais and Hunt had already made a compact•to adopt a style of absolute independence as toart-dogma and
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