2 20 532 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/252abfc7311195b62c4aab484667ea56.jpg 749921e0f6f51cac19d8a22fecd6c1e5 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/6313f35ccae0d03994d1ce11fbe7d8e6.jpg 060fe854bdd758c0488bccf2fbf7581d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Plates Photoengraving Original Format Photoengraving on copper Image size 6 3/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. (16.9 cm x 21.5 cm) Inscriptions (Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | T. O. BARLOW, R.A. | Copyright Sheet size 11 in. x 14 1/2 in. (27.8 x 36.8 cm) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource T. O. BARLOW, R.A. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher after Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Parkin Mayall (1839-1906) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p. Subject The topic of the resource Barlow, Thomas Oldham (1824-1889), English engraver Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. August 1884 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. Photograph copyrighted September 24, 1883. Copyright owner of photograph, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph, Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London (Public Records, National Archives, Kew COPY 1/365/298). Description: "Photograph of Mr T O Barlow R A and interior of his studio at 38a Victoria [Road], Kensington. Seated at work, engraving." Description An account of the resource The artist is seated at a table with etching tools, his head resting on his right hand, before a large, unframed portrait of a man wearing religious robes; to the right is another unframed portrait of a man that is propped against elaborate, carved shelving filled with metal and ceramic vessels. On the wall behind the artist hang a number of framed prints and a landscape painting. Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs (London: Barrie # Jenkins, 1984), fig. 498, p. 215. “Some Fine Art Books.” The Graphic, issue 788, Jan. 3, 1885. "Part VI. of 'Artists at Home' (S. Low and Co.), contains the portraits of five very opposite characters—E. J. Poynter, R.A., T. O. Barlow, R.A., Macbeth and Storey, A.R.A.’s, and Mr. Gladstone. The volume fully sustains the promise of the earlier numbers, the photo engravings are excellent, and the letterpress brief and to the point." References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. J. E. Millais, Portrait of Henry Irving (Garrick Club, London) J. E. Millais, Portrait of John Newman, 1881, oil on canvas, 47 3/4 in. x 37 1/2 in. (National Portrait Gallery, London), T. O. Barlow, after J. E. Millais, William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister (1879), mezzotint with chine collé (59.10 cm x 43.50 cm), published 1881. T. O. Barlow, after Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, Sir Isaac Newton, etching and aquatint (19 3/4 in. x 15 1/2 in.), published January 1, 1867. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Omeka record contributed by Linda Merrill Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). October 3, 2016 Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. T. O. Barlow, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), 1883 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. November 21, 2016 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/9e06b5ac339b6c6cbcd8b22e0b517500.jpg 03d82ab8ea9d8db5f2de5e6b298e4404 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Plates Photoengraving Original Format Photoengraving on copper Image size 6 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. (16.8 cm x 22 cm) Inscriptions (Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A. | Copyright Sheet size 11 in. x 14 1/2 in. (27.8 x 36.8 cm) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource R. W. MACBETH, A.R.A. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p. Subject The topic of the resource Macbeth, Robert Walker (1848-1910), Scottish painter and illustrator Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. August 1884 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. Photograph copyrighted September 24, 1883. Copyright owner, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Author of work: Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London Description: "Photograph of Mr R W Macbeth ARA and interior of his studio at 2 Whitcomb [sic] Studios, Errylands [sic]Lane, Taverstock [sic] Hill, London. Seated sketching" (Public Records, National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/303). Description An account of the resource The artist sits on a velvet-upholstered chair, his right knee crossed over his left, with his left hand on his right ankle as he looks down at the image he is sketching.. In front of him, on a large easel, is an elaborately framed painting of a young woman with a fur muff. On the left-hand side of the composition is a fireplace with a cluttered overmantel, surmounted by a round convex mirror; on the right, propped against the wall, is an enormous stretched canvas, its face toward the wall. The walls are covered with tapestries but the floor is bare, apart from a narrow rug in front of the hearth. Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World iin Photographs (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1984), fig. 64, p. 44. Helen Valentine, ed., Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection (New Haven: Royal Academy of Arts, Longon, in association with Yale University Press, 1999), p. 153. (Photo from RA Archives) “Some Fine Art Books.” The Graphic, issue 788, Jan. 3, 1885. "Part VI. of 'Artists at Home' (S. Low and Co.), contains the portraits of five very opposite characters—E. J. Poynter, R.A., T. O. Barlow, R.A., Macbeth and Storey, A.R.A.’s, and Mr. Gladstone. The volume fully sustains the promise of the earlier numbers, the photo engravings are excellent, and the letterpress brief and to the point." References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. R. W. Macbeth, Far from the Madding Crowd, ca. 1884 (exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1884). Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FOLIO2011_134_016.tif Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Omeka record contributed by Linda Merrill Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). October 3, 2016 Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. R. W. Macbeth, ARA, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), 1883 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. November 21, 2016 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/fdedc0b3150955c86c8ed3fa4f4e5062.png 87e03258b417f74ebc45345f61c6aca7 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/ec1f4c24a52fba545a03dd626b5af518.jpg f811527931b24412493b5d6f0297d0d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Plates Photoengraving Original Format Photoengraving on copper Image size 22.86 cm x 16.51 cm Inscriptions (Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | G. A. STOREY, A.R.A. Sheet size TK Notes A different version of the photograph was copyrighted on September 24, 1883: Copyright owner: Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Author of work: Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London. Description: "Photograph of Mr G A Stocey ARA and interior of his studio at 19 St Johns Wood Road, London. Seated palette in hand" (Public Records, National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/305). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource G. A. STOREY, A.R.A. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London Publisher D. Appleton & Co., New York Publisher Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p. Subject The topic of the resource Storey, George Adolphus (1834-1919), English painter Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. August 1884 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. Photograph copyrighted September 24th, 1883, Copyright owner of photograph, Joe Parkin Mayall, 584 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph, Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London (Public Records The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/306). Description: "Photograph of Mr G A Stocey [sic] ARA and interior of his studio at 19 St Johns Wood Road. Seated painting a portrait of Lady." Description An account of the resource G. A Storey is seated in front of a canvas on an easel, painting a portrait of a woman. He has a palette in hand. Leaning on a chair and standing to his left is the model for his painting, looking at the viewer. The studio walls are covered in framed pictures. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FOLIO2011_134_016.tif Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Omeka record contributed by Michelle Malmberg Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 29, 2016 Language A language of the resource English Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. November 21, 2016, by LM January 20, 2017, by LM March 4, 2017, by LM Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. G. A. Storey, RA, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), 1883 Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. “Some Fine Art Books.” The Graphic, issue 788, Jan. 3, 1885. "Part VI. of 'Artists at Home' (S. Low and Co.), contains the portraits of five very opposite characters—E. J. Poynter, R.A., T. O. Barlow, R.A., Macbeth and Storey, A.R.A.’s, and Mr. Gladstone. The volume fully sustains the promise of the earlier numbers, the photo engravings are excellent, and the letterpress brief and to the point." Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1984), repr. p. 66, fig. 117. Charlotte Gere, Artistic Circles: Design & Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement (London: V&A Publishing, 2010), repr. p. 86, fig. 60 (erroneously attributed to the photographer's father, J. J. E. Mayall). Milk, Joanna (MacFarland). “Artists at Home: Artifice and Presence.” n.d. http://www.academia.edu/4168571/Artists_at_Home_Artifice_and_Presence https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/5617105f50dddfce0c8dfdacc1780d84.jpg 90f5e5cb54332212a81a1cee032a173d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Plates Photoengraving Original Format Photoengraving on copper Inscriptions (Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | RT HON. W.E. GLADSTONE, M.P. Image size length= 8.4 in. (21.34 cm) width= 6.6 in. (16.76 cm) Sheet size length= 15.25 in. (38.74 cm) width= 11 in. (27.94 cm) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RT. HON. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p. Subject The topic of the resource Gladstone, William Ewart, The Right Honorable (1809-1898), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. August 1884 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. Possibly the photograph copyrighted June 17, 1884, Copyright owner and author, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/368/250). Description: "Photograph of Rt Hon W. E. Gladstone MP. Profile. face” Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts and Rare Books Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Omeka record contributed by Vanessa Pike Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 29, 2016 Description An account of the resource Gladstone seated, surrounded by books in his study at Hawarden Castle. Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. J. P. Mayall, “The Whole Hearted Homage of a Hero-Worshipper,” in The Grand Old Man, No. 44, Pall Mall Gazette “Extra” (London) (November 5, 1888), Part VII, pp. 26–30. J. P. Mayall, “Mr. Gladstone at Home. The Whole-Hearted Homage of a Hero-Worshipper,” Pall Mall Gazette (London), no. 6700 (July 27, 1889): 26–30. “Multiple News Items,” The Morning Post (London, England), issue 34812 (January 19, 1884):3. "Mr. Gladstone has recently given Mr. J. P. Mayall a sitting at Hawarden Castle for a photograph which will be published by Sampson Low, Marston and Co. in a new work, 'Artist’s Homes,' the first number of which will appear on the 1st of March. Mr. Gladstone, who occupies the position of 'Professor of Ancient History' to the Royal Academy, will be included in the series, which consists chiefly of Royal Academicians. The work is dedicated to Sir F. Leighton, P.R.A." “Gleanings,” Birmingham Daily Post, issue 7973 (January 21, 1884). "Mr. Gladstone has recently given Mr. J. P. Mayall a sitting at Hawarden Castle for a photograph which will be published by Sampson Low, Marston and Co. in a new work, “Artist’s Homes,” the first number of which will appear on the 1st of March." “Literary and Art Gossip,” The Leeds Mercury, issue 1429 (January 28, 1884). "Mr. Gladstone recently gave Mr. J. P. Mayall, Park-lane Studio, a sitting for a photograph in the library at Hawarden Castle. The photograph was taken expressly for the new serial work, 'Artists’ Homes,' to be published by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. The first number will appear on the 1st of March." “Literary Notes,” The Pall Mall Gazette (London, England), issue 6009 (June 12, 1884). "The Prime Minister, during his recent visit to Hawarden, sat to Mr. J. P. Mayall, both in the library at Hawarden Castle and for some Rembrandt photographs. The photograph of Mr. Gladstone in his library is for publication in 'Artists at Home,' now being issued by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., and is dedicated to Sir F. Leighton." “The Premier,” Daily News (London), issue 11908 (June 12, 1884). "THE PREMIER.—Mr. J. P. Mayall, Park-lane Studio, has recently been honoured with sittings form the Prime Minister during his recent visit to Hawarden. A photograph of Mr. Gladstone in his library at Hawarden Castle is intended for publication in 'Artists at Home,' a work dealing chiefly with the Royal Academy, now being issued by Messrs. Sampson, Low, Marston, and Co. Mr. Gladstone, as Professor of Ancient History, comes in the series. Mr. Mayall was likewise honoured with a sitting from Mr. Gladstone for a Rembrandt photograph as a companion to a life-size one of Mrs. Gladstone, taken by Mr. Mayall last January, of which Mr. Gladstone had been pleased to express his approval. Several members of the family gave sittings, including the Rector of Hawarden and Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. W. H. Gladstone." “Literary and Art Gossip,” The Leeds Mercury, issue 14411 (June 16, 1884). "The Prime Minister, during his recent visit to Hawarden, sat to Mr. J. P. Mayall, both in the library at Hawarden Castle and for some Rembrandt photographs. The photograph of Mr. Gladstone in his library is for publication in 'Artists at Home,' now being issued by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., and is dedicated to Sir F. Leighton." “Art Notes.” New York Times, July 7, 1884. “The Magazines for October,” The Morning Post (London), issue 35032 (October 2, 1884). "Artists at Home gives portraits and sketches of Mr. Poynter, Mr. Barlow, Mr. Macbeth, and Mr. Storey, and greatest artist of all in his own peculiar line, Mr. W. E. Gladstone, professor of ancient history to the Royal Academy." "Some Fine Art Books,” The Graphic (London), issue 788 (January 3, 1885). "Part VI. of 'Artists at Home' (S. Low and Co.), contains the portraits of five very opposite characters—E. J. Poynter, R.A., T. O. Barlow, R.A., Macbeth and Storey, A.R.A.’s, and Mr. Gladstone. The volume fully sustains the promise of the earlier numbers, the photo engravings are excellent, and the letterpress brief and to the point. The Premier as an artist would be a novelty for which few would be prepared. Luckily, however, the notice appended to his portrait explains that besides being a considerable collector of bric-à-brac, Mr. Gladstone has for some nine years been Professor of Ancient History in the Royal Academy, and that it is as such that his portrait is here introduced. The office is one without duties and without salary, a condition to which Oliver Goldsmith, upon whom the honour was first conferred, humorously referred when he wrote to acquaint his brother of his new dignity. The notes in connection with the office from then to now are as interesting as anything in the volume." “Notes on Art and Archaeology.” The Academy, June 14, 1884, p. 429. "Mr. J. P. Mayall took a photograph of Mr. Gladstone during his recent stay at Hawarden for the series of Artists at Home (Sampson Low), in which the Prime Minister finds a place by reason of his being Professor of Ancient History at the Royal Academy. At the same time Mr. Mayall took a 'Rembrandt photograph' of Mr. Gladstone, and also photographs of several members of his family." “Personal Mention.” Daily American, June 26, 1884, p. 2. "During his recent visit to Hawarden Mr. Gladstone sat to Mr. J. P. Mayall, both in the library at Hawarden Castle and for some Rembrandt photographs. The photograph of him in his library is for publication in 'Artists at Home,' now being issued." References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Thomas Woolner, W. E. Gladstone, medallion portrait, bronze Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FOLIO2011_134_005.tif Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. November 21, 2016, by LM Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. Rt. Hon. W E. Gladstone, M.P, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), June 1883 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/3bdf7777ca676e9ac3565c5e4b6dabea.png 9e90974a9ff740907dab9524e3895de1 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/f762da3fa1d4c63a65438fe939589bd4.jpg 544b366be46967d05bc57e8e1d00c491 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Plates Photoengraving Original Format Photoengraving on copper Image size 21 cm h x 16.5 cm w 8.3 in h x 6. 5in w Inscriptions (Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | GABRIELLA: finish the inscription, please Sheet size 36.5 cm h x 27.9 cm w 14.4 cm h x 11 in w Notes A different version of the photograph was copyrighted on September 14, 1883: Copyright owner of photograph: Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph: Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London. Description: "Photograph of Mr A C Marshall R A, & interior of his studio at 115 Ebury St. Pimlico S.W.: at work modelling a figure" (Public Records, National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/256 ). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource W. C. MARSHALL, R.A. Studio portrait of W. C. Marshall Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London Appleton & Co., New York Publisher Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p. Subject The topic of the resource Marshall, William Calder (1813-1894), Scottish sculptor Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. March 1884 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. Photograph copyrighted on September 24, 1883, Copyright owner of photograph, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph, Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/255). Copyright description: "Photograph of Mr Marshall R A, & interior of his studio at 115 Ebury St. Eaton Sq. London. Seated in chair." Description An account of the resource The artist comfortably seated with his elbow on the table featured amid his sculptures. Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Jeremy Mass, The Victorian Art World in Photographs (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1984) p. 208. “Reviews: ‘Artists at Home.’” The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), issue 8828, March 26, 1884. "The four plates in the part (No. 1) now before us represent Sir Frederic Leighton, Mr. W. C. Marshall, Mr. T. Webster, and Mr. V. C. Prinsep, in their workrooms, and in their habits as they live there. The portraits of the artists are admirable as likenesses, and the details of the studios themselves are admirably brought out." Benezit Dictionary of Artists, s.v. "Marshall, William Calder," in Oxford Art Online, reproduced. References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. W. C. Marshall, Tali Players W. C. Marshall, Psyche W. C. Marshall, Venerable Bede translating the Gospel of St John W. C. Marshall, cast of the statue of Crompton W. C. Marshall, The Infant Satyr W. C. Marshall, Mother of Moses, Marshall's Diploma Work (e Royal Academy, London), exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1848 as The Last Drop - a young Satyr drinking. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context FOLIO2011_134_022.tif Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Gabriella Meier Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 29, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. October 1, 2016 November 21, 2016, by LM January 20, 2017, by LM Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. W. C. Marshall, RA, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), 1883 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/f92a83274ec2dbbba5680a9576282943.png af4fa980e53858ae1a45606d136fd628 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/adaabd9ca45ab0eac52101786c4fb916.png e74c828c4e79747b7caf79c5d2817537 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Plates Photoengraving Original Format Photoengraving on copper Image size 11.5 cm x 16.5 cm Inscriptions (Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | L. ALMA-TADEMA R. A. Sheet size 16.5 cm x 22 cm Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource L. ALMA-TADEMA, R.A. Studio portrait of Lawrence Alma-Tadema Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p. Subject The topic of the resource Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912), English painter of Dutch origin Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. May 1884 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. February 29, 189, Copyright owner and author of work, Joe Parkin Mayall, 67 Gascony Avenue, West Hampstead, London. Late of 548 Oxford Street, London (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/423/590). Description: “Photograph of L Alma Tadema, [Royal Academy], in his studio, leaning his head on his hand against mantel piece.” Description An account of the resource Lawrence Alma-Tadema leans against the mantelpiece in his studio, his contrapposto suggesting movement and informality. In his left hand is a cigar, his right hand he has casually tucked into his trouser pocket. To his right is an empty chair with a tiger fur, to his left, on the mantelpiece, is a portrait bust. To the right of the mantelpiece hangs a luxurious fan. An African mask with peacock feathers is suspended above the artist. On the cornice are placed a sculpture and vases. In the space between the cornice and the mantelpiece hangs a golden cloth. In the background on the left, palm branches, an easel with a finished painting, and another painting behind it catch our eye, before our gaze wonders to the dark liminal space of the entrance into the studio. References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. L. Alma-Tadema, The Meeting of Antony and Cleopatra, 1881-1883, oil on canvas (Private Collection) L. Alma-Tadema, An Old Story, 1883, watercolor, British Museum. Boy with Thorn, copy of Hellenistic original Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_m48_pl_9.tif Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Ekaterina Koposova Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 30, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. October 1, 2016 October 2, 2016 November 21, 2016, by LM January 20, 2017, by LM March 5, 2017, by LM Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. L. Alma Tadema, RA,albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), 1883 Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. “Reviews.” The Art Journal 46 (1884): 256. "The portraits of Mr. Millais and Mr. Marcus Stone are excellent likenesses, but those of Mr. Alma-Tadema and Mr. Pettie somehow miss the distinguishing characteristics of the two men." “Art in September.” The Magazine of Art 7 (September 1884): xlviii. "Mr. Mayall’s photographs—or rather, the photo-engravings on copper plates reproduced therefrom—are singularly lifeless and dull. Everybody looks as though he were sitting for his portrait; the very furniture is posing; and over all is that terrible and tremendous presence, the photographer’s light, “the light that never was on sea or land.”<a title="" href="#_ftn1"></a> Mr. Calderon affronts the camera with much sternness; Sir John Gilbert has the sun in his eyes, and comes out very white and vague; Mr. Boehm, sitting desultorily among busts and statues, seems to have been caught in the act of reading the paper; while Mr. Alma Tadema, as unlike himself as possible, leans boldly and airily on the chimney-piece, and Mr. Frank Dicksee, austere yet frightened, does even as Mr. Alma Tadema, and Mr. Val Prinsep turns from his picture with a frown, as if he felt inclined to wring the photographer’s neck." Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1984), p. 123, fig. 234, p. 123. Julian Treuherz, “Alma-Tadema, aesthete, architect and interior designer,” in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, ed. by Edwin Becker, exhib. cat., Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1996 (New York: Rizzoli, 1997), p. 47, fig. 28. Giles Waterfield, ed., The Artist’s Studio, exhib. cat., Compton Verney (London: Hogarth Arts, 2009), p. 68, fig. 51. Charlotte Gere, Artistic Circles: Design & Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement (London: V&A Publishing, 2010), p. 84, fig. 57, erroneously attributed to the photographer's father, J. J. E. Mayall. Elizabeth Prettejohn, “Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema: Studio-House, Grove End Road, London,” in In the Temple of the Self: The Artist’s Residence as a Total Work of Art: Europe and America 1800–1948, ed. by Margot Th. Brandlhuber and Michael Buhrsed (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2013), p. 107, fig. 4. Helen Valentine, ed., Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection (London: Royal Academy of Arts, in association with Yale University Press, 1999), p. 143. Repr. in Benezit Dictionary of Artists, "Alma-Tadema, Lawrence," in Oxford Art Online. https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/b7ee62fc91dabacae149b2936e35336c.png 979fd98dd64d8e692803e029959bcd8d https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/458be4060814471e079d27cf527cbd7f.png 8ff1798802f04e9ad37810107e8a04a5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Plates Photoengraving Original Format Photoengraving on copper Inscriptions (Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | W.H. THORNYCROFT A.R.A. Image size 21.7 cm x 16.6 cm Notes Another version of the photograph was copyrighted on September 14, 1883: Copyright owner of photograph: Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph: Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London. Description: "Photograph of Mr H Thornycroft ARA and interior of his studio situate at Moreton House, Melbury [Road], Kensington. Standing, at work, 3/4 face" (National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/254). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource W. H. THORNYCROFT A.R.A. Studio portrait of William Hamo Thornycroft Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1883 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p. Subject The topic of the resource Thornycroft, William Hamo (1850-1925), English sculptor Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. June 1884 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Vanessa Pike Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 29, 2016 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. Photograph registered September 24, 1883 (form completed September 14, 1883). Copyright owner of photograph, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph, Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/253). Description: “Photograph of W H Thornycroft and interior of his studio situate [sic] at Moreton House, Melbury [Road], Kensington, London. Seated at work, profile.” Description An account of the resource The sculptor is seated on a stool in his studio, working on a plaster bust. References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Thornycroft, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1884, portrait bust, plaster (Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey, England). Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_m48_pl_14.tif Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. December 9, 2016 January 20, 2017, by LM March 7, 2017, by LM Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. W. H. Thornycroft, ARA, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Parkin Mayall (1839-1922), 1883 Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. “Our Note Book.” The Illustrated London News 35 (July 12, 1884): 26. "The June number of “Artists at Home” contains portraits and views of the studios of G. F. Watts, R.A., W. H. Thornycroft, A.R.A., W. F. Yeames, R. A., and J. MacWhirter, A.R.A. Considering that this is a purely artistic work, it is surprising that the artists represented have not exercised a more beneficial control over the arrangement and production of the pictures. . . ." “The Reader.” The Graphic, issue 767, August 9, 1884. "Part IV of “Artists at Home” (S. Low and Co.), containing the portraits of Messrs. Watts, Thorneycroft [sic ], Yeames, and MacWhirter is now published. The illustrations are fully equal both in interest and quality to its three predecessors." Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1984), p. 211, fig. 404. Caroline Dakers, The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999), p. 181, fig. 85. Helen Valentine, ed., Art in the Age of Queen Victoria: Treasures from the Royal Academy of Arts Permanent Collection (London: Royal Academy of Arts in association with Yale University Press, 1999), p. 158. https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/84eb7553a0f30e3245c65fca5320ef52.png 6577569281bf530f08f1b747e6731116 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Plates Photoengraving Original Format Photoengraving on copper Image size 6 1/2 in. x 8 5/8 in. (16.4 cm x 22 cm) Inscriptions (Printed on the mount beneath the image) J P Mayall Photo | London published by Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington 188 Fleet St. | Park Lane Studio London | E. J. POYNTER, R.A. | Copyright Sheet size 10 7/8 in. x 14 1/2 in. (27.7 cm x 36.8 cm) Notes A different version of the photograph was copyrighted on September 14, 1883. Copyright owner of photograph: Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author of photograph: Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London. Copyright description: "Photograph of Mr E J Poynter R A & interior of his studio at The Avenue, 76 Fulham Road, S.W. Seated, drawing in hand" (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/286 ). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource E. J. POYNTER, R.A. Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, London publisher D. Appleton & Co., New York publisher Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), n.p. Subject The topic of the resource Poynter, Edward John (1836-1919), British painter Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. August 1884 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. September 24, 1883, Copyright owner, Joe Parkin Mayall, 548 Oxford Street, London. Copyright author, Frank Dudman, 27 Bloemfontein, Shepherds Bush, London (Public Records, The National Archives, Kew, COPY 1/365/287) Copyright description: "Photograph of Mr E J Poynter R A & interior of his studio at The Avenue, 76 Fulham Rd. S.W. Seated, drawing in hand, legs crossed." Description An account of the resource The artist is seated with his legs crossed in his studio, a drawing in his hand, wearing a pensive expression. Behind him, on an easel, is a large figure drawing that partly obscures a fireplace with a row of plates lining the overmantel. In the corner of the room, to the left of the artist, are two more easels holding framed paintings. The floor is covered with an elaborate rug. References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. (Easel on the left, lower painting): Smaller version of E. J. Poynter, The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, 1890, Art Gallery of New South Wales. http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/898/. In the studio-portrait, the painting is shown unfinished. (Center easel): Smaller version of J. Poynter, The Ides of March, 1883, Manchester Art Gallery, England. http://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-ides-of-march-205859 (Right easel): E. J. Poynter, Decoration for the Dome: St. Paul's, The Upper Circular Panel. "Christ in Judgment," 1884. "Ink photo" of small copy of color cartoon for the mosaic decoration reproduced in The Builder (London)47 (July 5, 1884), n.p. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the Emory University Digital Library Program. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_m48_pl_21.tif Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Linda Merrill Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 28, 2016 Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Jeremy Maas, The Victorian Art World in Photographs (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1984), fig. 246, p. 131 “Some Fine Art Books.” The Graphic, issue 788, Jan. 3, 1885. "Part VI. of 'Artists at Home' (S. Low and Co.), contains the portraits of five very opposite characters—E. J. Poynter, R.A., T. O. Barlow, R.A., Macbeth and Storey, A.R.A.’s, and Mr. Gladstone. The volume fully sustains the promise of the earlier numbers, the photo engravings are excellent, and the letterpress brief and to the point." Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. November 21, 2016 Is Version Of A related resource of which the described resource is a version, edition, or adaptation. Changes in version imply substantive changes in content rather than differences in format. E. J. Poynter, RA, albumen print, approx. 6½ x 8½ in., by Frank Dudman (1855-1918) for Joseph Park Mayall (1839-1922), 1883 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/aaf1d064c71d9c6235c06e995c971f42.pdf fd85131fbebd3474046bd026045e0285 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. WILLIAM CALDER MARSHALL, R.A., H.R.S.A. KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR. The Doyen of the English sculptors, an artist still active in his profession, and, as the photograph shows, devoted to the production of large and thoughtful works, was born in Edinburgh in 1813, and received his education in the High School and University of that city. As a student of the Trustees’ Academy, the only school of art at that time in Edinburgh, he was instructed in drawing under Sir William Allan. At this early period of his career he showed a taste for sculpture, and several of his works were admitted to the Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy. Sir Francis Chantrey, while on a visit to Edinburgh, seeing some of his drawings, advised his coming to London, which he did on being admitted to the Royal Academy as a student in 1834. Chantrey kindly allowed him to have the run of his studio, but after a time, preferring a more poetic treatment of art, he became a pupil of Baily, paying a premium for a year. “A Head of Camilla,” which was at the Academy in 1835, was Calder Marshall’s first public essay in London. In 1836 he sent to the same exhibition “Hero guiding Leander across the Hellespont,” “Innocence,” and “Samson.” In this year he went to Rome, where he remained until 1838, and, meanwhile, executed the statue of “Hebe,” now in the Scottish National Gallery. In 1837 he completed a figure of “Psyche,” which attracted much praise in Trafalgar Square in that year. In 1839, “Cupid feeding the Doves of Venus,” “Sterne’s Maria,” and “The Dead Ass,” likewise from Sterne, which were at the Academy, illustrated two modern genre subjects such as the author has sometimes treated at later dates. To the British Institution he sent “Rebecca at the Well.” At the latter gallery in the following year was “Hercules rescuing Hesione,” and the Academy contained “The Creation of Adam,” “Cupid and Psyche,” “Una and the Lion,” and “Ophelia.” The artist was in this year elected an Associate of the Scottish Academy; at a later date he was chosen an Honorary R.S.A., non-residence rendering him ineligible as an Academician. In 1841 he obtained the Royal Academy gold medal for “Venus rescuing Æneas from Diomedes.” From this period Calder Marshall has but once (1861) failed to contribute to the chief {6} London exhibitions. He frequently appeared at the British Institution. His very numerous works are marked by the care and learned execution proper to the views of an artist who accepts the long-honoured canons of sculpture, and believes that his powers should be exercised in the pursuit of beauty, so, like the great Greeks, he selects forms from Nature best suited to express the type and sentiment of his works, not, as the realists do, copying individual and common nature. He has seldom produced portrait busts such as those to which most modern sculptors look for their daily bread, and he has consistently applied his powers to pathetic and poetic subjects, of which many illustrations have found wide acceptance, including “Sabrina,” nymph of the Severn celebrated by Milton, a statue which Copeland reproduced in small. The even better-known group of boy and girl lovers, called “The First Whisper of Love,” was chosen for reduction, and obtained a £300 prize in the Art Union of London. “Rebecca” and other examples were correspondingly fortunate. “The Dancing Girl reposing” obtained an Art Union premium of £500, and large numbers of reductions of the statue were distributed among subscribers to that society. In 1844 Mr. Marshall was selected with two other sculptors at the great competition held in Westminster Hall for the statues for the Houses of Parliament, of which he executed Clarendon and Lord Somers. Among his equally important commissions were the group of Peel and attendant figures of the Arts, Sciences, and Commerce, at Manchester; “Jenner,” now in the Kensington Gardens; “Campbell,” in Poets’ Corner; “Crompton,” inventor of the mule for spinning, which is at Bolton; “Sir George Grey,” at Cape Town; “Captain Coram,” in front of the Foundling Hospital; “Lady John Manners,” in Rowsley Church; three important bas-reliefs, being adjuncts to the Wellington Monument in St. Paul’s; the pediment of the Town Hall, at Bolton; “Griselda,” in the Mansion House, London, and various other public and private commissions of note. The most important of his works were exhibited in the following order: 1841, “Caractacus before Claudius,” “Puck,” and a bust of “Ophelia;” 1842, “The Broken Pitcher,” and “Venus rescuing Æneas,” the prize work of the preceding year, “The Fountain Glass,” from Ovid, and “Eve and the First-born;” 1843, “Paul and Virginia,” and “David with the Head of Goliath;” 1844, “Little Red Riding Hood,” and “Christ blessing little Children.” In this year the artist was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. 1845 produced “Paul and Virginia,” and “The First Whisper of Love.” In 1846 he exhibited “Eve,” “Sabrina,” and “Hero guiding Leander;” 1847, “Eurydice,” and “The First Step;” 1848, “The Dancing Girl reposing,” and “The Last Drop,” see below; 1849, “The Grecian Maid,” “Thomas Campbell” (for Poets’ Corner), and “Zephyr and Aurora;” 1850, “Nymphs,” and “A Mermaid on a Dolphin’s Back,” and, in 1851, “Hebe rejected.” In 1852, Mr. Marshall became a Royal Academician, and exhibited “The Hindoo {7} Girl” only. Minor examples of his were, during this period and later, exhibited at the British Institution, including, in 1857, “Ariel” and “The Refuge.” In the last-mentioned year the artist obtained the first prize of £700 for a design for the national monument of the Duke of Wellington. The public commission for this work was afterwards given to Alfred Stevens. 1869 produced “The Venerable Bede translating St. John,” and “The Mother of Moses;” 1871, “A Christian Martyr,” and “A Fishing Girl;” 1872, “Briseis,” and “Ruth;” 1873, “Wilder’d Fancies,” and “Tali Players,” two figures, being an illustration of an immemorial game with knuckle-bones which was often represented in antique art, and is still played all over the world; 1875, “Estia,” “Margaret,” from Faust, “Nausicaa,” from the Odyssey, and “Convalescence;” 1876, “Pygmalion me fecit,” the statue awakening; 1877, “The Prodigal Son;” 1878, “Whispering Vows to Pan;” 1879, “Stepping Stones,” and “Hermia and Helena;” 1880, “Miranda;” 1881, “Noonday Idleness,” “The Last Day of Pompeii,” “Sabrina thrown into the Severn,” “The Prodigal Son” (this statue was purchased by the Academy with part of the Chantrey Fund), and “Mother and Child;” 1882, “Cinderella,” and “Œdipus at Colonus;” and 1883, “Thetis dipping Achilles into the Styx.” Mr. Marshall’s intended contribution for the present year may be seen in the nude statue which in the photograph is extended behind his own seated figure. The sculpture represents Psyche fainting, having indulged a forbidden curiosity. The sculptor’s house is a large, modern, and roomy one in that region which, since Chantrey and Westmacott made fortunes there, may be said to be consecrated to statuary, and where, having added studios and workshops to its domestic offices, he has resided more than thirty years. The photograph shows Mr. Marshall’s inner studio, his sanctum, which is accessible by a long gallery filled with examples of art, and through an outer studio where new works are in progress. Grouped with the master himself the reader may see casts from some of the above-named productions of his skill. The hooded figure on our left is a sketch of the “Venerable Bede;” the nearly naked maidens seated in a group are the “Tali Players;” the large statue in a modern costume placed on a higher level and beyond the marble girls, is a cast of the statue of Crompton; the statuette beyond the swooning “Psyche” is Pygmalion’s mistress. An erect draped figure on the shelf represents the “Mother of Moses.” Near it, the plump young satyr drinking from a rhyton, is a cast from the figure called “The Last Drop,” which, having attracted the praise of Gibson, who said that had it been dug up in Italy he would have taken it for an antique, is now deposited in the Royal Academy as Mr. Marshall’s diploma work. A Royal Commissioner and Juror at the Exposition Universelle Internationale, Paris, 1878, to which the sculptor contributed the “Jouers de Tali” and “Nausica [sic],” Mr. Marshall has a Knight’s Cross of the Legion of Honour. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WILLIAM CALDER MARSHALL, R.A., H.R.S.A. Biographical sketch of W. C. Marshall Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 5-7 Subject The topic of the resource Marshall, William Calder (1813-1894), Scottish sculptor Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. March 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. William Calder Marshall was born in 1813 in Edinburgh. He studied at Edinburgh University and attended the Trustees Academy. In 1834 Marshall moved to London and entered the Royal Academy. Marshall was a prolific sculptor, producing poetic and ideal works in the Classical style, as well as memorial statues. He received many commissions for public statues, architectural works, and church monuments. Specifically, he designed and executed statues of Michelangelo and Titian on the façade of the Burlington House in 1873. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Marshall.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Gabriella Meier Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 29, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. October 1, 2016 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/6c509034900771ce2aa21ee1c69667b2.pdf 55bcf521d6ddcd74e946e3f15e18707c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. THOMAS WEBSTER. HON. RETIRED R.A. MR. THOMAS WEBSTER is not only the Doyen of the painters in the Royal Academy, but, having been admitted a Student so long ago as 1821, the oldest artist associated with the body in that degree. Born March 20th, 1800, he is, I believe, the Doyen of the three artistic professions at large in England. In these respects the venerable painter is, apart from other claims, entitled to a high place in this roll of men of note. He was born in Ranelagh Street, Pimlico; his father being a member of the Royal Household, was removed to Windsor with his family in 1801, where his son remained, and became a chorister in the Chapel Royal, St. James’s. He continued about the Court till the king’s death in 1820. Like most artists whose powers are innate, my subject even when a boy preferred painting to psalmody, and when this inclination became distinct and his abilities were developing, they were wisely yielded to, and the preliminary studies being achieved, the aspirant entered the Academy schools in his twenty-first year. Until then he can scarcely be said to have had regular instruction in art. It is therefore the more to his honour that, in 1823, the young painter exhibited at the Academy “Portraits of Mr. Robinson and Family.” In 1824, and at the British Institution, Mr. Webster’s first genre subject appeared with the appropriate title of “The Truant Boys;” this was a picture of 2 feet by 3 feet. In 1825 he obtained a medal for a copy of a picture, made in the School of Painting of the Royal Academy. The following list of pictures exhibited in London from 1824 till 1830 will, better than any other record, signalize the energy of the artist, and indicate the direction of his taste and practice. At the Royal Academy in 1827 appeared “The Children of T. Drane, Esq.,” and, in 1829, “Gunpowder Plot.” At the British Institution Mr. Webster’s works of this interval were, in 1826, “Malvolio, Olivia, and Maria;” in 1828 “The Soldier’s Return,” “A Committee of Taste,” and “The Cottage Diorama;” in 1829, “The Prisoner,” “A Foraging Party Routed,” “The Favorite,” “The Modern Diogenes,” “The Disputed Title,” and “A Society of Antiquaries,” and, in 1830, “The Sick Child.” To the Society of British Artists’ Gallery, 1825, he contributed “Lavinia and Her Mother;” 1826, “The Fortune Teller;” 1827, “Young Rebels shooting a Prisoner;” {10} 1828, “Rebels defeated,” and, in 1830, “The Dog in the Manger.” It will be observed that nearly all these subjects comprise children, and that the choice of such themes has been maintained by the artist till recent times. A complete list of Mr. Webster’s pictures which have been shown to the world would add little of value to the above. The following examples were, however, noteworthy in their various ways. At Suffolk Street was, in 1831, “Il Penseroso,” the last of the painter’s works in that place. At the Academy the under-mentioned pieces secured popular attention. 1832, “Smugglers;” 1833, “The Lantern,” and “A Village School;” 1835, “Bird Catchers,” and “The Intercepted Letter;” 1836, “Going to School,” which is now in the National Gallery, and “Coming out of School;” 1838, “Breakfast;” 1839, “Foot-ball;” and 1840, “Punch.” The above-named and other pictures secured the painter’s election as an A.R.A., which occurred in 1841, when “The Boy and many Friends,” “The Smile,” and its companion, “The Frown,” appeared, and have wide-world recognition by means of the engravings made from them for the Art Union of London. These works were succeeded by a group of portraits of the artist’s father and mother, painted in 1843, to commemorate their golden wedding, “The Dame’s School,” which is in the National Gallery, and has been engraved by Mr. Lumb Stocks, “Good Night!” “A Village Choir,” now at South Kensington, “The Internal Economy of Dotheboys Hall,” “A Rubber,” “A See-Saw,” “A Slide,” “A Cherry Seller,” “A Farm-house Kitchen,” “A Chimney Corner,” “A School Play-ground,” “A Letter form the Colonies,” “Village Gossips,” “The Grandmother,” “The Impenitent,” “Sunday Evening” and “Grace,” “Going to the Fair,” and “Returning from the Fair,” are at South Kensington, with “Sickness and Health,” and “Contrary Winds.” Besides these we have had “The Battle of Waterloo,” “Politicians,” “Odd and Even,” “An Interested Adviser,” “The Race,” “A Tea Party,” “Wreck Ashore,” “Waiting for the Bone,” “The Letter,” and a portrait of the painter in his donkey-chair, with the quotation: -- “As the soft after-glow lights up the western skies, So is my evening bright with fond memories.” A very considerable proportion of the above and several other of Mr. Webster’s works have been engraved by various hands. The artist was elected a Royal Academician in 1846. His latest exhibited picture was at the Academy in 1879, and entitled “Released from School.” He became an Honorary Retired Academician in 1877. Since 1856 he has resided at Cranbrook in Kent, where, seated in his own garden, he is represented by the photograph. Original Format Book pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource THOMAS WEBSTER, Hon. Retired, R.A. Biographical sketch of Thomas Webster Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 9-10 Subject The topic of the resource Webster, Thomas (1800-1886), English painter Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. March 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. This text presents biographical data on Thomas Webster's life, highlighting his many accomplishments. He is the oldest of the Artists at Home group and the "doyen" of several artistic practices. Webster spent the latter half of his life in Cranbrook, painting homely images of rural life and leading a group of peers referred to as the Cranbrook Colony. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Webster.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Omeka record contributed by Hilleary Gramling. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 26, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. November 15, 2016 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/26d4f3f7e6d99b4ecd7e8bb926d2da18.pdf 6c082f34bf363ea643a3f722370f3e06 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. VAL. C. PRINSEP, A.R.A. MR. VALENTINE CAMERON PRINSEP is the younger son of Mr. Henry Thoby Prinsep, Member of the Council of India, and Sarah, third daughter of Mr. James Pattle of the Bengal Civil Service. The Prinseps have been connected with India for more than three generations, and were originally from Warwickshire, where my subject’s grandfather held a vicarage, whence, in the days of the great Clive, his son proceeded to seek a larger fortune. Not fewer than seven of his sons attained official honours, and did good service in our eastern dependency, which they helped to form and consolidate. Mr. James Prinsep, one of these, distinguished himself as the author of “An Essay on Indian Antiquities,” the continued use of which attests the learning of the writer, who issued other works of historical importance, and, in 1830, produced “Benares Illustrated,” a folio of lithographic drawings from his own sketches. Mr. Val. Prinsep was born in Calcutta in 1838, and lived there till he was five years old, when he was removed to England, and, being destined for the Indian Civil Service, entered the “Company’s” College at Haileybury, where he remained less than two years ere, his strong inclinations for art coming to free play, he threw up his Civil Service appointment, and became in effect a pupil of <a title="Mr. Watts." href="http://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/exhibits/show/victorian-artists-at-home/george-frederick-watts--r-a---">Mr. Watts.</a> He studied painting at Versailles, in the Parisian atelier of Gleyre, and afterwards at Rome. As the Little Holland House circle included most of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, it may be taken for granted that our young painter, on returning to England in 1859, would be more or less influenced by Dante G. Rossetti, the recognized leader of many who have since achieved renown. Rossetti, warmly appraising his disciple’s powers, induced him to share in decorating the Debating Room of the Oxford Union Society, where, although comparatively little more than a student, he illustrated one of the Arthurian cycle of romances with a mural picture, the {12} subject of which is “Sir Pelleas brought as a prisoner before the Lady Ettarde.” His colleagues in this scheme of decoration were, besides Rossetti, Messrs. E. Burne-Jones, William Morris of the “Earthly Paradise,” R. Spencer-Stanhope, and others. Prinsep’s next picture, 1858, was in oil, and represented the queen who “eats bread and honey” while standing and feasting before a cupboard of quaint device. This work possessed such fine qualities of tone and colour that John Phillip, a master in these matters, commended it warmly when, in 1859, it appeared at the first Hogarth Club. Ere long Prinsep, powerfully affected by the highly-cultured artist Sir Frederic, then <a title="Mr. Leighton" href="http://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/exhibits/show/victorian-artists-at-home/sir-frederic-leighton--p-r-a--">Mr. Leighton</a>, directed his practice to other than Pre-Raphaelite lines, and sent to the Academy of 1862 a picture showing “How Bianca Capello sought to poison her brother-in-law the Cardinal de’ Medici.” From this date pictures succeeded each other in the Exhibition, of which the following are the more important: 1863, “Il Barbagianni;” 1864, “Berenice,” “My Lady Betty,” and “Benedick and Beatrice;” 1865, “The Scarlet Bow,” and “Belinda;” 1866, “La Festa di Lido,” a Venetian scene: 1867, “Miriam watching the Infant Moses,” and “A Venetian Gaming House in the 16th Century;” 1868, “A Venetian Lover,” and “A Greek Widow at a Tomb;” 1869, “Hetty,” and “Bacchus and Ariadne;” 1870, “The Death of Cleopatra,” “Reading Sir C. Grandison,” and “The Dish of Tea;” 1871, “News from Abroad,” “A Beauty and a Beast,” and “Odin, the Northern God of War;” 1872, “Penelope,” and “The Harvest of Spring;” 1873, “Lady Teazle,” and “Devonshire House;” 1874, “A Safe Confidante;” 1875, “A Minuet,” “I Believe!” and “Home from Gleaning;” 1876, “À Bientôt,” and “The Linen Gatherers;” 1878, “Martaba;” 1879, “Roum-i-Sultana;” 1880, “The Imperial Assembly held at Delhi by the Viceroy;” 1881, “The Young Solomon,” and “Fresh Flowers from the Country;” 1882, “At the Golden Gate,” “Phyllida,” and “The Death of Siward the Strong;” 1883, “After the Honeymoon,” and “Titian’s Niece.” The picture of 1880 was of Imperial importance and interest. Four years before, the artist was instructed to depict, on a large scale, the declaration of Her Majesty’s assumption of the title of “Empress of India.” Mr. Prinsep, long familiar with Indian ways, costumes, and motives, was the best artist for the purpose. Officially armed, he traversed the country far and near, taking the portraits of the native royalties, princes, ministers, and others. He travelled from Bombay to Allahabad, to Cashmere, to Madras, and Mysore, and thus, much hampered by etiquette, the hideousness of Western accessories, and routine, he collected materials for the work of thirty feet long, which now hangs in Buckingham Palace, having been presented by the Indian nation to Her Majesty. This tour was fruitful in other than pictorial achievements. Mr. Prinsep gathered notes for that sketch of his experiences and impressions which are embodied in “Imperial {13} India,” a book which had a great circulation, was touched with humour and pathos, and very spirited and original. It is not his sole literary work. In 1879, he entered on a path never before trodden by an artist of distinction, by writing a lively drama entitled “Cousin Dick,” which, when performed at the Court Theatre, attracted numerous audiences, and encouraged the author to put forward in the next season the well-constructed and expressive little piece called “M. Le Duc,” which had a reception equal to its forerunner’s. The painter has written other plays which have not yet been “put upon the boards.” Mr. Prinsep has delivered public discourses on Art and Art-teaching, some of which have been published in the “Architect.” His pictures, “Devonshire House,” “The Garden Gate, “À Bientôt,” and “The Minuet,” have been engraved. The painter was elected an A.R.A. in January, 1879. Mr. Prinsep’s house was designed for him by Mr. Philip Webb, and, in its stately homeliness and breadth of character, is well suited to the ways and studies of the owner. Large, solid, and massive without, and admirably finished in design and execution, its wide and comfortable windows, smooth, dark red brickwork and high-pitched roofs of tiles, are, without being heavy or austere, very sincere and picturesque. Within, rich and sober colours prevail, and set off an abundance of sumptuous porcelain and other ceramics, sketches made in India and in Italy, studies for pictures by the artist and his friends, antiquities and oriental arms. Some of Mr. Prinsep’s Japanese ware is well known to collectors and of extraordinary preciousness. Considerably over six feet in height, and of massive proportions, the painter himself sits in the photograph before his easel, as if he had just turned from the portrait of a lady, which, till the moment, occupied him. On our right is a charming picture destined for the next Academy, and entitled “The Bookworm.” Its design explains itself. Other paintings and some portraits are on the walls and easels; a piece of tapestry hangs on the railing of the gallery which extends along the wall of the chamber on that side. This studio, although it is by no means the largest of its class, is a capital example of a modern chamber of that sort. Lighted chiefly by an immense northward facing window, it is warmed by more than one stove, and fitted with all the appurtenances of a painter’s use. The walls are coloured dark maroon-red; the coved ceiling which appears in the photograph, with the dormer windows on the south side admitting sunlight at will, is white. Large tables are loaded with books, drawings, prints, implements and studies of all kinds. It is needless to say that Mr. Prinsep is a zealous and faithful member of the Artist’s Volunteer Corps, of which he is an original member, and, since the retirement of Sir F. Leighton from the active command, the senior major of the regiment. Original Format Book pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource VAL. C. PRINSEP, A.R.A. Biographical sketch of Val Prinsep Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 11-13 Subject The topic of the resource Prinsep, Valentine Cameron (1838-1904), English painter Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. March 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. Belonging to a refined and stately family with a longstanding connection to India, Prinsep was destined for the Indian Civil Service; however, his strong inclinations toward art led him to pursue a career in painting. He studied in Versailles and Rome, and George Frederic Watts served as his mentor. Growing up in Little Holland House, a frequent meeting place for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Prinsep was influenced by founding member Dante G. Rossetti. While still a student Prinsep helped Rossetti decorate the Debating Room of the Oxford Union. Sir Frederic Leighton also powerfully influenced Prinsep’s works. Prinsep’s long familiarity with “Indian ways, costumes, and motives” resulted in several paintings of imperial importance as well as a book titled Imperial India. Following his return to England, he also wrote the dramas Cousin Dick and M. Le Duc. He was elected an A.R.A. in January 1879, and was a faithful member of the Artist’s Volunteer Corps. References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. James Prinsep, An Essay on Indian Antiquities (London: J. Murray, 1858). James Prinsep, Benares Illustrated in a Series of Drawings (Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1831-1833). Val Prinsep, Imperial India: an Artist's Journals (London: Chapman and Hall, 1879). 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November 19, 2016 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/b1e404cb96cef29ff7386204f29c24f9.pdf 5a6100b948e0011ccce306c470cd5beb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, R.A., D.C.L., MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, AND OF THE ACADEMIES OF EDINBURGH, ANTWERP, MADRID, AND ROME; OFFICER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR, ETC. AS the life of an artist is in his works, and Mr. Millais’s labours have been almost as numerous as his successes, the biographers of the painter find only too much material at their hands if, within narrow spaces, they attempt to produce just portraits of him. It is therefore impossible to delineate him at full length unless what may be called a life-size canvas is available for the purpose. A prodigy in childhood, as a youth the most prominent leader in a movement which worked wonders in the practice of art, a member of the Academy when some of his contemporaries were still in the schools, Millais is one of the few living men whose pictures appeal to us from the level of the great ancient masters. A thorough painter per se and proper, whose technical skill is equal to a sixth sense, and, in being exhaustively artistic, is far more than merely scientific, this R.A. is among the fittest men in England to represent painting according to the illustrious mode of yore, when each master, as Titian, Raphael, or Velazquez did shone in the courts of kings, and was not of them. Add to these fine endowments indefatigable industry, the keenest sense of the logic of art, a noble physical presence, perfect savoir vivre, fidelity in friendship, and a genial manner that never tires, and we have the elements of that success which, by merely growing, assured its own magnificence. So many concise studies and deftly-made sketches of Millais have been published that hardly any new thing is left for me to say. That on the 8th of June, 1829, he was born in Portland Place, Southampton, was due to a concatenation of circumstances which determined he should not be a native of Jersey. His mother (born Mary Evamy) was English to the heart; his father, John William, who belonged to an excellent old Jersey family settled at Tapon in that island, in the militia of which he was an officer, was hardly so much as half a Frenchman. Of this union our subject is, by his mother’s second marriage, the second son and younger child. His own elder brother is a well-known landscape painter. The future “English Velazquez,” as, in regard to portraiture at least, he has been not unwisely called, lived in Jersey, till he was nearly six years of age, when the family removed to an old tower on the fosse at Dinan in Brittany, where some picturesquely-clad {16} French artillery officers fixed his attention so strongly that he concentrated on their portraits all the draughtsmanship which must have been already at his hand and latent in his mind. He succeeded in these drawings to the astonishment of his models and some other French officers, who bet a dinner that he would not repeat the feat. In 1837 Millais’s parents, anxious to decide the future of their son, brought him to England, where they settled, and shortly afterwards consulted Sir M. A. Shee, the P.R.A. of that day, on the subject. Shee declared at once it was better to make a boy a sweep than indulge his inclinations for art. When, however, some studies of Millais’s were shown to the P.R.A., his words were changed—“Make an artist of him, by all means,” he said. “Nature has provided for his success.” Accordingly, the boy was placed in the most frequented drawing school of that day, which was established in Bloomsbury, and conducted by Mr. F. Sass, the first trainer of a very large number of painters. He was succeeded by Mr. F. S. Cary, who taught in the same place. In 1838, when he was only nine years old, and still younger in appearance, Master Millais received from the astonished Duke of Sussex, who adjusted his spectacles to look at the little boy approaching his rostrum to take the prize, a silver medal awarded to him by the Society of Arts, for an excellent drawing from the Antique. In 1840, being the youngest person ever admitted to the schools, Millais became a Student in the Royal Academy. A little later than this period the boy-painter used to take likenesses in oil for three, four, or five pounds each, and draw actors for ten shillings apiece. In this stage Millais continued to draw diligently from the Antique, and, chiefly on account of his youth, did not enter the Life School at the Academy until after he had, in 1843, gained a silver medal for a drawing from a statue. He received no more such distinctions until 1847, when, having entered the Lie and Painting Schools in the interval, he won the gold medal for an original picture in oil, the subject being “The Young Men of the Tribe of Benjamin seizing their Brides.” (This was shown at the British Institution in 1848.) Millais had, however, already descended into the arena of art, and in 1846 attracted considerable attention to his prowess by means of “Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru.” At this time he was busy with the much more ambitious “Widow’s Mite,” a picture in oil, which, in 1847, had an honourable reception at the Westminster Hall Exhibition of works by artists competing for the decoration of the Houses of Parliament. This was an astonishing achievement for a youth of seventeen, who designed its life-size figures with grace and spirit, and painted them with freedom approaching power. This example measured 10 feet 7 inches by 14 feet 3 inches, and has since been cut in two; one half is now in Tynemouth, while the other is in America. In 1847 Millais contributed to the Academy a noteworthy picture representing Elgiva, wife of Kind Edwy, seized by Odo, which occupied a bad place in the second tier of the old Octagon Room in Trafalgar Square, and was sold for 120l. He likewise painted for a house in Leeds four panels representing “Childhood,” “Old Age,” “Youth,” and “Manhood.” In the early part of the year 1848, that friendly company, the renowned Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, of which Millais soon became the best-known member, was formed. In {17} accordance with the views of this society his pictures assumed a totally new character, so that nothing could differ more completely from “Elgiva” than the production of the next year, which was named “Isabella” because it represents the banquet scene in Keats’s “Pot of Basil.” Pre-Raphaelitism was neither more nor less than a protest of sincerity against the fatuousness of conventional art, which ruled before its inception. It owed absolutely nothing but the example of sincerity to foreign or ancient artists of any kind; it illustrated that sincerity with greater devotion than any preceding mode of design, and produced nothing which is in the slightest degree like what had gone before it. Nor did the works and technical motives of the brethren in any respect not controlled by their great rule of sincerity, bear the least resemblance to each other. The effect of Pre-Raphaelitism on the practice of its professors was magical and revolutionary. This is not the place to discuss its aims, characteristics, or stupendous effect. Suffice it that, so far as Millais’s development and practice was concerned, his exhibited Pre-Raphaelite pictures are “Isabella,” “Portrait of a Gentleman (Mr. J. Wyatt, of Oxford), and his Grandchild;” “Ferdinand lured by Ariel” (for which I sat), “Christ in the House of his Father” (all at the Academy in 1850); “Mariana of the Moated Grange,” “The Return of the Dove to the Ark,” “The Woodman’s Daughter,” from Mr. C. Patmore’s poem (R.A. 1851); “Portrait of Mrs. Coventry K. Patmore,” “A Huguenot,” “Ophelia,” comprising a likeness of Mrs. D. G. Rossetti (R.A. 1851); in 1853 we had “The Order of Release, 1745,” comprising a likeness of the present Mrs. J. E. Millais, and “The Proscribed Royalist, 1651,” for which Mr. Arthur Hughes sat. The small whole-length portrait of Mr. Ruskin standing near a waterfall was produced in 1854, after the last-named two pictures. This is the outcome of Pre-Raphaelitism in Mr. Millais’s hands. After “Ferdinand” appeared, the astonishing tenacity of the painter’s second manner was relaxed (so to say), step by step, in favour of a less stringent, but not less potent or brilliant mode: pathetic his art cannot fail to be, it is generally dramatic, “The Woodman’s Daughter” was begun before “Christ” made progress, so that it really preceded “Mariana” in the order of the painter’s technical development. But the changes of his practice were not sudden in their effect. “The Royalist” had its due sequel in “The Rescue of Children from a House on Fire,” painted in 1855, exactly as “Autumn Leaves,” “L’Enfant du Régiment,” “Peace Concluded” and “The Blind Girl,” productions of 1856, succeeded the resplendent so-called “fire-picture” of 1855. In 1855 Millais exhibited portraits of “A Young Lady” and “Mrs. John Leach.” In 1854 Mr. Millais was married to Euphemia Chalmers, eldest daughter of Mr. George Gray, of Perth; he was elected an A.R.A., being, except Lawrence, the youngest man who has attained that distinction, and he exhibited no pictures. To “The Blind Girl” succeeded “News from Home,” “Sir Isumbras at the Ford,” “The Escape of a Heretic, 1559,” (1857); “The Vale of Rest,” “Spring,” “The Love of James the First of Scotland” (1859); “The Black Brunswicker” (1860); “The Ransom,” “Trust Me,” “Parable of the Sweeper” (1862); “My First Sermon,” “The Eve of St. {18} Agnes, “The Wolf’s Den” (1863); “My Second Sermon,” “Charley is my Darling,” “Leisure Hours” (1864): “The Romans leaving Britain,” “Satan Sowing Tares,” “Joan of Arc,” “Esther” (1865); “Jephthah,” “The Minuet” (1867); “Sisters,” “Rosalind and Celia,” “Stella,” “A Souvenir of Velazquez” (1868); “The Gambler’s Wife,” Vanessa” (1869); “A Flood,” “The Knight Errant,” “The Boyhood of Raleigh,” “A Widow’s Mite” (1870); “Chill October,” the first of Mr. Millais’s landscapes proper; “Yes or No,” “Joshua,” “A Somnambulist” (1871); “Flowing to the River,” “Flowing to the Sea,” “Hearts are Trumps,” portraits of the Misses Armstrong (1872); “Early Days,” “New Laid Eggs,” portrait of Miss Millais (1873); “Scotch Firs,” “Winter Fuel,” “The Picture of Health,” “The North-West Passage,” Still for a Moment,” and “A Day Dream” (1874); “The Fringe of the Moor,” “The Crown of Love,” “No!” (1875); “Forbidden Fruit,” “Over the Hills and Far Away,” “Getting Better” (1876); “A Yeoman of the Guard,” “The Sound of Many Waters,” “Yes!” (1877); “A Good Resolve,” “The Princes in the Tower,” “A Jersey Lily,” portrait of Mrs. Langtry, “St. Martin’s Summer” (1878); “The Tower of Strength,” a landscape (1879); “Cuckoo!” (1880); “Cinderella” (1881); “Une Grande Dame,” “The Grey Lady,” and “Forget Me Not” (1883). “The Bride of Lammermoor,” “Cherry Ripe,” “Pomona,” “Effie Deans,” and “The Stowaway,” were not at the Academy. Mr. Millais has painted portraits of many celebrated persons, including Mr. G. Grote, Sir J. Paget, Sir W. S. Bennett, Lord Lytton, the Early of Shaftesbury, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. J. Bright, himself (for the Uffizi Gallery at Florence), Mr. Luther Holden, the Early of Beaconsfield, Sir H. Thompson, Cardinal Newman, Mr. Irving, Mr. J. C. Hook, and the Marquis of Salisbury. He designed a very large number of illustrations to books, including “Once a Week,” “Good Words,” “Framley Parsonage,” “The Small House at Allington,” “Orley Farm,” and “Poems by A. Tennyson.” A large proportion of the above-named paintings have been engraved, including “My first Minuet,” “Yes, or No?” “New Laid Eggs,” “The Order of Release,” “Cherry Ripe,” “Pomona,” “The Princes in the Tower,” “The Picture of Health,” “No!” and “Yes!” by Mr. S. Cousins. By Mr. T. O. Barlow, “A Huguenot,” “My First Sermon,” “My Second Sermon,” “Awake,” “Asleep,” “Sir J. Paget,” “Sir W. S. Bennett,” “Effie Deans,” “A Jersey Lily,” “Mr. Gladstone,” “The Bride of Lammermoor,” “Mr. J. Bright,” “The Stowaway,” and “Mr. Irving.” Mr. W. H. Simmons engraved “The Proscribed Royalist,” and “Rosalind and Celia.” Mr. Lumb Stocks engraved in line “A Souvenir of Velazquez,” and Mr. M. C. Waltner etched “The Gambler’s Wife,” and “Chill October.” Mr. Millais’s house, a view of the studio in which is before the reader, was erected for him by Mr. Hardwick; he painted most of his early works in what is now No. 7, Gower Street. He was chosen a Royal Academician in December, 1863; he obtained a French Medal of the Second Class in 1855, a Medal of Honour in 1878; he became an Officer in the Legion of Honour in 1878, and, in the place of Duprè, the Italian sculptor, was elected a member of the Institute of France (Beaux-Arts), in 1882. Original Format Book pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, R.A., D.C.L. Biographical sketch of J. E. Millais Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 15-18. Subject The topic of the resource Millais, John Everett (1829-1896), English painter Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. April 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. Millais was a child prodigy, destined for success as an artist from a young age. At nine years old, Millais earned a silver medal from the Society of Arts for a drawing from the antique; at eleven, he was the youngest person ever admitted to the Royal Academy Schools; at fourteen, he gained a silver medal for a drawing from a statue; and at eighteen, he won a gold medal for The Young Men of the Tribe of Benjamin seizing their Brides. In 1848, Millais and a group of like-minded colleagues formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1854, Millais married Euphemia (Effie) Chalmers and was elected an A.R.A. After his marriage he painted a number of portraits of notable persons, including W. E. Gladstone and Lord Lytton, and designed several book illustrations. In December 1863, he was elected a Royal Academician, and in the following years became an Officer in the Legion of Honor (1878) and was elected a member of the Institute of France (1882). Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Millais.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Jenifer Norwalk Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 28, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. November 19, 2016 January 20, 2017, by LM Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Julie F. Codell, "Biographical Functions, Mediations, and Exchanges," in The Victorian Artist: Artists' Lifewritings in Britain, ca. 1870-1910 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 59 “Short Notices.” The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), issue 8831, April 16, 1884. "The photo-engravings (representing Messrs. J. E. Millais, S. Cousins, G. A. Lawson, and Marcus Stone in their studios) are very graphic and agreeable, and the accompanying biographical sketches are informing and well written." https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/1fa5ac14682b0a816df3a3c5d1ed03ff.pdf 5c00c3f8aaabd3e1279ecea441c2a7db Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. SAMUEL COUSINS, HON. RETIRED R.A. ALTHOUGH Mr. Cousins, who was born on the 9th of May, 1801, being sixteen months younger than Mr. Doo, is not the Doyen of the English engravers, he is, having been elected in 1835, in the place of James Fittler, an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy, the oldest member of that body. Of the members of fifty years ago he is the sole survivor. Mr. Webster, who was admitted a Student of the Academy in 1821, is the oldest artist associated with the body in any degree, and therefore its veritable Doyen. Although Mr. Cousins was elected at this date, he had not previously contributed to the exhibitions; his first appearance on the walls was in 1837, when he sent proofs from the famous plates after Wilkie’s “Maid of Saragossa,” and Landseer’s “Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time.” Mr. Cousins having, as above stated, been an A.E.R.A., was elected an Associate Engraver in the New Class in 1854, the first of that category, and a Royal Academician Engraver, February 10, 1855. Mr. Doo followed him in this grade, and they remained in it till 1867, when it was dissolved, and Mr. Cousins became an R.A. proper, and Mr. Doo entered the ranks of the Honorary Retired R.A.’s. In this respect Mr. Cousins followed his colleague in 1880. In 1855 he received a French Medal of the Second Class as a Graveur Étranger. He was born at, and had his schooling in Exeter. His first artistic practice seems to have been copying engravings in pencil; by diligence and natural gifts he attained such skill in this mode of draughtsmanship that at thirteen years of age his reputation as a taker of portraits in pencil was secured in his native city. When eleven years old he received the silver palette of the Society of Arts for a pencil copy of “The Good Shepherd” by Murillo, after an engraving by James Heath, and, a year later, he won the society’s silver medal for a drawing in black and white. By means of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, who generously helped the lad, Cousins was sent to London and, September, 1814, articled for seven years to S. W. Reynolds, one of the best engravers and most successful teachers of his time, who is famous for his mezzotint reproductions of Sir Joshuas. Cousins remained with this master a full term of seven years, and, as an assistant in the workshop, four years {20} longer. Some of Reynolds’s plates were much indebted to my subject, as four of them bear the names of both engravers. The master had an affectionate pride in his pupil, and, in order to display the skill of the lad of thirteen, took him to Ashburnham House in Sussex, when he went to work there for the Earl of Ashburnham, and introduced the boy to the peer’s family in order that he might draw their likenesses in pencil, according to the above-named mode of his, which he was accustomed to exercise at the rate of five shillings a portrait. Lady Jane Swinburne, one of the earl’s daughters, who survives and is the mother of Mr. Algernon Swinburne, preserves a number of capital drawings of her family made by Cousins on this occasion, and displaying amazing spirit, solidity, and veracity. Photographic copies of these drawings were lately exhibited in the gallery of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street. According to Mr. Cousin’s memoranda, imparted to Mr. C. Pycroft, Mr. T. H. Ward (to whose biographical sketches of the engraver I am much indebted), and myself, the plates bearing the master’s and pupil’s names conjointly are “Sir J. Banks,” after Phillips, the “Rev. T. Lupton,” after Allan, “Viscount Sidmouth,” after Thompson, and the “Rev. J. Mitchell,” after John Graham, of the Trustees’ Academy, Edinburgh. It was Sir T. Dyke Acland who enabled Cousins to start independently by giving him a commission to engrave Sir Thomas Lawrence’s portrait of “Lady Acland and Children.” This was in 1826, and the result was so successful that Lawrence desired to secure the skill of the engraver to himself alone. Not agreeing to this honourable, but somewhat restricting invitation, Cousins next, with even greater success than before, reproduced the much-admired picture of “Master Lambton,” which is at Lambton Castle, the property of the Earl of Durham, and one of the best and most typical of Lawrence’s portraits. The picture owes a great deal to the print. When Messrs. Thomas Agnew and Sons formed a large collection of prints engraved by Cousins, and exhibited the whole in London and Manchester in 1877, the total number of works was 180. Mr. Pycroft, in his “Art in Devonshire,” added twelve more prints to this reckoning of a life’s work. The Exhibition of the Fine Art Society, 1883, comprised in a total of eighty-six examples, a few not included in the greater number. No doubt, therefore, the engraver has produced not fewer than 200 plates. I have to thank him for the following chronological list of what he considers the more important examples of his stupendous labour. “Lady Acland and Children,” “Master Lambton,” “Prince Metternich” (1826), “Pius VII,” (1827), “Duke of Wellington,” three-quarters length, by Lawrence (1838), “Sir Astley Cooper,” “Lady Grey and Children,” “Lawrence,” by himself, “Lady Dover and Child” (1830), “Lady Gower and Child,” “Lady Peel” “Early of Aberdeen” (1831), “Miss Peel,” “Lady Grosvenor” (1832), “W. Wilberforce,” “Statue of Canning,” after Chantrey (1833), “Maid of Saragossa” (1836), “Bolton Abbey,” “Abercorn Family” (1837), “The Queen,” whole-length, “Return from Hawking,” “Lady {21} Clive” (1839), “Lady Evelyn Gower,” “The Queen receiving the Sacrament,” after Leslie (1840), “The Queen and two Children” (1844), “Christ weeping over Jerusalem,” “Beauty’s Bath,” or “Miss Eliza Pell” (1846), “The Duke of Wellington,” “Prince of Wales as a Sailor Boy,” “Group of the Royal Family,” “Shakespeare,” from the Chandos portrait, “Mrs. Fry” (1849), “Sir R. Peel,” “Viscount Palmerston,” “Mr. Adams,” the astronomer (1851), “The Order of Release,” “The First of May, 1851” (baptism of Prince Arthur), “Duke of Connaught,” and “Duke of Wellington” (1854), “Infant Samuel,” after Mr. F. Sant (1853), “Empress of the French,” “Princess Royal of England” (1856), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1857), “Mdlle. R. Bonheur,” “Sir B. Frere,” “Saved!” (1858), “Mitherless Bairn,” “Mr. F. Huth” (1859), “Duke of Northumberland,” “Mrs. Bradyll,” “Sir H. Rawlinson,” “Marie Antoinette,” after E. M. Ward (1861), “Lord Clyde,” “Maid and the Magpie” (1861), “From Dawn to Sunset” (1863), “Piper and Pair of Nutcrackers” (1865), “Lady Mary Hamilton,” “My First Minuet,” “Connoisseurs,” “Earl Spencer,” “Sir T. Watson,” “The Queen” (1870), “The Strawberry Girl,” and “Yes or No!” (1873). Between 1870 and 1873 Mr. Cousins, thinking his share of work in the world was done, and remembering that he had passed the later extremity of “three score and ten” years, determined to leave off work, and did nothing in the interval. Nevertheless, so strong is energy in a healthy frame that, in due time, he took up the graver and plate again, and set to work with something like the zeal of youth. Wonderful to relate, he produced some masterpieces including “The Age of Innocence,” “Penelope Boothby,” “Simplicity,” and “Miss Bowles,” after Reynolds, in 1874, “Lady C. Montagu,” “Sylvia,” “No!” “Moretta,” “Countess Spencer,” “Hon. Ann Bingham,” “Lavinia,” “Lady Spencer and her Sons,” “Miss Rich,” “Yes!” “Princess Sophia of Gloucester,” “Head of an Italian Girl,” “Cherry Ripe,” “Duchess of Rutland,” “Ninette,” “Muscipula,” and “Pomona.” The painters of these pictures are Sir T. Lawrence, Sir D. Wilkie, Sir E. Landseer, C. R. Leslie, Sir J. Reynolds, E. M. Ward, J. E. Millais, and Sir F. Leighton. Among other kindly things of Mr. Cousins’s doing was the unostentatious gift of £15,000 to the Royal Academy in trust for the benefit of deserving and poor artists, seven of whom now receive £80 a year a-piece. The photograph gives a view of Mr. Cousins’s sitting-room; the prints on the walls are those of his own works, being “The Calling of Samuel,” after Mr. Sant; “Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. in the Prison of the Temple,” after E. M. Ward; and “A Mother and Child,” after C. R. Leslie. Original Format Book Pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource S. COUSINS, R.A. Biographical sketch of Samuel Cousins Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 19-21. Subject The topic of the resource Cousins, Samuel (1801-1887), English engraver Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. April 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. The text provides a short biography of Samuel Cousins until the year 1884. Stephens speaks of Cousins’s momentous rise to prominence as a gifted young artist, very skilled in the making of portraits. The text mentions the important patronage of Thomas Dyke Acland (though accounts of Cousins’ early patron differ). Stephens provides a long list of what Cousins himself deemed the most important of his works, and identifies three of the four reproductions visible in Mayall's studio portrait. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Cousins.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Omeka record contributed by Ekaterina Koposova Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 30, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. October 1, 2016 January 20, 2017, by LM References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Pycroft, George. Memoir of Samuel Cousins, R.A., member of the Legion of honour. Exeter: Daily Gazette, 1887. Ward, Thomas Humphry. Notes on the Engraved Works of Mr. Samuel Cousins, etc. London: Fine Art Society: Catalogues of exhibitions, 1883. Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. “Short Notices.” The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), issue 8831, April 16, 1884. "The photo-engravings (representing Messrs. J. E. Millais, S. Cousins, G. A. Lawson, and Marcus Stone in their studios) are very graphic and agreeable, and the accompanying biographical sketches are informing and well written." https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/ddce64f7ba3bbd76ab91c5cdbff55cc3.pdf ec30eda63e3dd127390ef142b3a3bc99 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format Book pages Text Any textual data included in the document MR. GEORGE A. LAWSON, SCULPTOR. MR. GEORGE A. LAWSON was born in Edinburgh in 1832, and, after receiving a sound scholastic education there, followed a very early bent of his mind and feeling by becoming a pupil of Mr. Alexander Ritchie, a Scottish sculptor who had attained some reputation in that metropolis. From the atelier of this artist my subject, being still but a lad, became a Student of the Royal Scottish Academy, and, a few years later, having passed through the curriculum of that institution, visited Rome while the intense classicism of Gibson’s ideal still ruled in the Eternal City. Avoiding this scholastic influence, which had guided many promising men, Mr. Lawson examined the antique for himself, and resolved not to follow the academical leader, but to impart greater vitality to his designs than the canons of traditional art allowed, although, strangely enough, the learned overlooked the Elgin Marbles, which are at once the most animated and the noblest monuments of Greek art. Returning from Italy, Mr. Lawson settled for a few years at Liverpool, and soon enlarged that reputation which certain vigorous designs of romantic and domestic figures and groups in terra-cotta, and some noteworthy portrait-busts, had won for their author in the North, at Edinburgh and elsewhere. A series of dramatic and picturesque works increased this reputation of Mr. Lawson’s, which, however, did not reach London until 1862, when a statuette in marble, entitled “Jeannie Deans,” appeared at the Academy, and compelled some attention to its author. A cast of this production is on our right among the figures shown in the view of the studio, which follows here. Removing in the interval to London and a wider field, the artist allowed four years to elapse before, in 1866, he again contributed to the gallery in Trafalgar Square. On this occasion two works were shown, being “A Group” and “Prayer, an ideal bust,” both of which examples proved that graver notions than before obtained force with him were active in the sculptor’s mind. He sent “The War Song,” terra-cotta group, to the Dudley Gallery in the next year, it being the only plastic design in the room. It was afterwards bought by the “Association for the promotion of Fine Arts,” and presented to the National Gallery of {24} Scotland. To the Academy of this year he sent “Cupid’s Messenger,” a terra-cotta figure. In 1868 we had “Diana Vernon,” a spirited statuette in bronze, and the humorous figure of “Dominie Sampson” standing as if just rising from his knees among the books which load the floor before his gaunt form, while he is in the act of exclaiming “Prodigious!” With these works we remember a portrait-bust, and the graceful group called “The Maiden’s Secret,” a cast of which is still in the studio, see below. “The Ancient Mariner” and “Tubal Cain” were at the Dudley Gallery in 1869. The last-named year produced, at the Academy, “The Maiden’s Secret,” in marble, and “The Murmur of the Shell.” “The Invocation” was at the Academy in 1870, in marble, and in terra-cotta at the “Dudley,” with “The Friar,” a small figure of much vivacity of design. Succeeding years produced the following, among other, but less important pieces—“Psyche,” “Come unto these yellow Sands,” a group (1871), “The Minstrel,” “Girl and Tortoise,” “Hubert and Prince Arthur,” “Nymph at the Pool,” “The Ramblers.” Of the motive of the last-named example there are two versions, each of which is a finely designed and composed and very graceful group of two girls. The maidens are walking side by side, and their draperies and attitudes are charming. One of the best of our sculptor’s works came forth in 1879, being the seated figure of the laurel-crowned boy, “Callicles” in the act of steadying the lyre in his lap while, with the often-tried magic of its strings, he essays to soothe the heart of his master Empedocles, Mr. Matthew Arnold’s moody poet, who is supposed to be contemplating death in the crater of Etna. The pose and execution of the figure are alike beautiful, the sculptural style employed is pure and severe without hardness or crudity, the finish is fine, and the face, of a good Greek type, is full of a grave and tender sentiment. “In the Arena” (1878) is a large and extraordinarily energetic group of a man who, being condemned, bare-handed and unarmed, to fight a panther, has thrown the furious beast upon its back and stoops over it while grappling its body with his hands, as if about to tear it to pieces; his knee binds the creature to the earth. The style of this group being instinct with something that is Etruscan in its force and austerity, is much more pronounced and emphatic than that of “Callicles,” which is altogether Greek. With the lyre-player we had, in 1879, a terra-cotta bust called “A Corsair,” and two portraits. 1880 gave to the world an example of progress in a softer style than that of “Callicles,” being the life-sized naked figure of Daphnis of Mitylene, the graceful youth whom Chloe loved, half standing and half leaning against a tree, holding his pipe, and seeming to hesitate to play again. It is an excellent piece of careful modelling. It is needless to describe the large draped statue of Cleopatra, which was at the Academy in 1881; it appears in the view of the studio, and is in the act of leaning back in the chair while the asp’s poison works its will. “Automate” was at Burlington House two years ago in the form of an heroic size, fully draped statue of the Danaid, who, having slain Busiris, her {25} betrothed, was condemned to toil perpetually, filling a vase with water and emptying it. With the heavy vessel at her hip and clutched between her clasped hands, the neglected drapery drooping from her shoulder, the woman drags her hopeless feet along and slowly swings herself in the weary path she has to tread for ever. “The Girl and Tortoise” of 1883 is shown in the view of the studio. Besides the above poetical examples, Mr. Lawson has executed several important public statues. These include that of the Duke of Wellington, which surmounts the column at Liverpool; “Admiral Cochrane,” which is at Valparaiso; “John Wheelwright,” destined for the same city; “Pease,” for Darlington; “John Vaughan” (Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co.), to be unveiled at Middlesborough on Easter Monday next, and a statue of the late Mr. Moorhouse, for Auckland, New Zealand. At present he is finishing for the Academy a nude figure of an antique Retiarius, or wielder of a net and trident in a Roman arena. Turning to the portrait, the reader will, beginning on his left, recognize the sculptures in the following order: 1, a figure of Lord Beaconsfield, placed on a pedestal between two allegorical statues; 2, “The Girl with a Tortoise”; 3, “Cleopatra”; 4, a bust progressing in clay, being a portrait of the late Mr. Dorman; 5, “Come until these yellow Sands”; 6, “The Nymph at the Pool”’ 7, “Jeannie Deans”’ 8, a terra-cotta group of “Hubert and Arthur”; 9, “The Maiden’s Secret”; 10, on the ground, with one arm raised on high, is a small model for the Retiarius in the act of swinging his ponderous trident, while he cries “Ave Cæsar!” 11, likewise on the ground, represents a handsome, loose-jointed, lounging fellow, lazily looking about him. It is the model of a statue to be. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GEORGE A. LAWSON Biographical sketch of G. A. Lawson Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 23-26 Subject The topic of the resource George Anderson Lawson (1832-1904), Scottish sculptor Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. April 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. Stephens begins with a brief sketch of Lawson’s early development, outlining his early life and education in Edinburgh, his travels in Italy, his subsequent move to Liverpool, and finally his introduction the London art scene in 1862, when his marble sculpture Jeannie Deans was displayed at the Royal Academy. Stephens then recaps the highlights of Lawson’s career, providing a list of works and where they were shown, as well as their contributions to Lawson’s style. He begins by discussing the sculptor’s poetic and narrative works and then briefly describes some of his public portrait commissions. Stephens then lists the sculptures on view in Lawson’s studio at the time of the Mayall photograph. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Lawson.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Karuna Srikureja Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 29, 2016 Language A language of the resource English Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. October 1, 2016 January 20, 2017, by LM Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. “Short Notices.” The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), issue 8831, April 16, 1884. "The photo-engravings (representing Messrs. J. E. Millais, S. Cousins, G. A. Lawson, and Marcus Stone in their studios) are very graphic and agreeable, and the accompanying biographical sketches are informing and well written." https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/d14b68407f4eee30d33deb4907ad385c.pdf 23fdd814acd11d626f7235d6e9b9c96c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. MARCUS STONE, A.R.A. THIS gentleman is the son and pupil of the late well known genre painter, Mr. Frank Stone, A.R.A., from whom, as he died when my present subject was but nineteen years of age, the latter had but brief time for learning the art they both practiced with éclat. It is said that Frank Stone himself never had a lesson in drawing, and it is certain that, although previously distinguished in water-colour art, and an associate of the “Old Society,” he was not less than thirty-seven years of age before he exhibited a picture at the Academy. It is remarkable that the son has inherited a considerable portion of his father’s mantle, and, without the least plagiary, obtained reputation by means of pictures like those among which he spent the first years of his life. Artistic sons generally depart from the predilections of their fathers, and usually avoid the examples of their early days. Mr. Marcus Stone, who was born July 4, 1840, was, according to the ordinary authorities, a draughtsman before he was four years old, and received Dickens’s praise for a design in 1853. Not being a Student of the Royal Academy, the painter obtained none of the distinctions of that body, such as medals or the Travelling Studentship, until January 24, 1877, when he was elected one of its Associates, having, however, at that time, already contributed to its exhibitions since 1858, when his first essay before the world was named “Rest,” and illustrated the verses:-- “In all my wand’rings round the world of care, In all my griefs—and God has given my share,-- • • • I still had hopes, my long vexations past, Here to return—and die at home at last.” “Silent Pleading,” which represented a tramp sleeping in a shed, holding a child in his cloak, and visited by policemen, who hesitate to arrest him, appeared at the Academy in 1859, and was followed in 1860 by “The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon,” the picture of a Puritan hero, which attracted the admiration of many visitors to the exhibition, and deserved to be praised as the work of a young painter who, by its means, won his spurs. {28} Mr. Marcus Stone was, we understand, one of the most precocious artists of his time, and it has been said of him that he began to practice art before he could remember. Extraordinary facility, and what may be called the clearest reading of his subjects, attended this long-sustained practice, and stood him in good stead when, in 1859, the sudden death of his father left him dependent on his own efforts for guidance. The picture of 1864 showed how much progress the painter had made under those conditions. It was entitled “Claudio, deceived by Don John, accuses Hero,” and owed its subject to “Much Ado about Nothing,” Act vi, 1. “A Painter’s first Work” came forth in 1862, and the more important “On the Road from Waterloo to Paris” followed it in 1863. The latter was more ambitious than most of Mr. Stone’s paintings. Its subject was borrowed, as the catalogue of the exhibition tells us, from Béranger. “Working and Shirking” (1864) and “Old Letters” (1865), were succeeded by “Stealing the Keys,” a daughter taking possession of the keys of her father’s prison-chamber, which was shown in 1866. Next in their order severally came, “Nell Gwynne begging aid for the Old Soldiers” (1867), “An Interrupted Duel” (1868), “The Princess (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth obliged to attend Mass by her sister Mary” (1869), “Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn observed by Queen Katherine” (1870), “The Royal Nursery, 1538” (1871), “Edward II. and his favourite, Piers Gaveston,” a telling episode in an historical drama (1872), “Le Roi est Mort; Vive le Roi!” (1873), and “My Lady is a Widow, and Childless” (1874), “Sain et Sauf” (1875), “Rejected,” and “An Appeal for Mercy, 1793,” had places in 1876. “Sacrifice,” a damsel burning love letters in the presence of an elderly admirer and a lady, and “Waiting at the Gate,” signalized the year of Mr. Stone’s election to the A.R.A.ship, and were succeeded by “The Post Nag,” “Head of a Girl,” “The Time of Roses,” and “The Fruit Seller,” all shown in 1878, and, in 1879, by “In the Shade,” “Summer Time,” and “Discord.” In 1880 we remember “Olivia and Dick Primrose,” and “Amour ou Patrie;” in 1881 was exhibited “Married for Love,” and, in 1882, “Il y en a toujours un Autre,” which was bought by the Academy with the Chantrey Fund, “Bad News,” “The Foundling,” and “Miss Frances Sterling.” Of last year the subjects were “An Offer of Marriage” and “Asleep.” Mr. Stone has designed the illustrations of several books, including “Great Expectations,” “Our Mutual Friend,” and “The Child’s History of England,” by Dickens, Mr. A. Trollope’s “He knew he was Right,” &c. Original Format Book pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource MARCUS STONE, A.R.A. Biographical sketch of Marcus Stone Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 27-28. Subject The topic of the resource Stone, Marcus C. (1840-1921), British painter and illustrator Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. April 1884 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Stone.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Anna Mahony Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 28, 2016 Abstract A summary of the resource. Highlights of Marcus Stone's career until 1884, beginning with a description of the artist's precociousness. Charles Dickens was a close friend of his father, genre painter Frank Stone, and an early admirer of Marcus's drawings. Stone received training from his father, whose death in 1859 pushed the young artist to produce many "more ambitious" works in the following years to support himself and his family. The artist became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1877, and in 1882 the Academy purchased his painting A Prior Attachment (Il y en a toujours un Autre) with the Chantrey Fund. Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. December 2, 2016 January 20, 2017, by LM Is Referenced By A related resource that references, cites, or otherwise points to the described resource. Julie F. Codell, “Biographical Functions, Mediations, and Exchanges,” in The Victorian Artist: Artists’ Lifewritings in Britain, ca. 1870–1910 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 58. “Short Notices.” The Derby Mercury (Derby, England), issue 8831, April 16, 1884. "The photo-engravings (representing Messrs. J. E. Millais, S. Cousins, G. A. Lawson, and Marcus Stone in their studios) are very graphic and agreeable, and the accompanying biographical sketches are informing and well written." References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, (London: Chapman & Hall, 1861). Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, (London: Chapman & Hall, 1865). Charles Dickens, A Child's History of England, (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852). Anthony Trollope, He Knew He Was Right, (London: Strahan and Co., 1869). https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/8bb9e8d3dbbbb52e06aca4d9d4268763.pdf 42e13030e5c587686e49dc53d2128254 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. LAWRENCE ALMA TADEMA, R.A., MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, THE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS, AND OF THE ACADEMIES OF EDINBURGH, AMSTERDAM, MUNICH, BERLIN, STOCKHOLM, NAPLES, VIENNA, AND MADRID, OFFICER OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR, AND OF THE ORDER OF THE LION OF NASSAU; KNIGHT OF THE ORDERS OF LEOPOLD, THE DUTCH LION, ST. MICHAEL OF BAVARIA, AND OF THE CROWN, AND “POUR LE MÉRITE” OF PRUSSIA THIS artist was born, says the best authority (himself), January 8th, 1836, at Dronriyp, near Leeuwarden, in Friesland, a province so long allied to Holland that the outer world takes, although erroneously, its natives to be Dutchmen. His patronymic is a very ancient one, and associated with a part of the history of the Zuider Zee, according to which a Tadema held lands in that now submerged district. After the catastrophe the family found a refuge in Ameland. At the Reformation they were settled in Friesland, and their head was Pastor of the Mennoniet Sect: to him our painter’s pedigree can be traced. In English the name means Adamson, the prefix “t” being equivalent to the English suffix “son.” Alma is a cognomen and independent of the bearer’s surname. The painter’s father, a notary by profession, was officially Notary of Leeuwarden. He had considerable skill and some reputation in music. He died in 1840. The young Lawrence began to practice drawing when he was little more than four years old, and his vocation was found when a friend gave him a box of water-colours. Educated at the Lycée of Leeuwarden, he, instead of devoting himself mechanically, and almost exclusively, to the dead languages, cultivated that knowledge of antique life and men which now distinguishes his art. His mother intended he should be educated at an university, and practice one of the learned professions. They therefore opposed the boy’s artistic proclivities. The reports of a local doctor that he was not robust enough to bear severe studies obtained for my subject leave to follow that art of painting which was supposed to be easy, if not lucrative or very honourable. His first models were family portraits of a {30} jejune kind; his first teacher was a village drawing-master; Da Vinci’s treatise on painting, and the “Jesuit’s Perspective” were his first guides, and with characteristic energy he exhausted the latter. Thus it became impossible for the student, whether by means of colour, light, shadow, or outlines, to be satisfied with less than perfect representation of form in the solid. In the verisimilitude and logical technique of the master we see fruits of this training. His first complete painting in oil was (1849) a portrait of his sister. A nearly life-size portrait of himself, painted in 1851, which we saw at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1882, was Tadema’s most noteworthy production ere he obtained leave to devote himself to art; its sterling qualities attested the tenacity and astonishing diligence of the youth who was then, in every sense, busily making himself. It shows with intense energy a boy with thin set lips, seated at an easel, and with eager eyes already searching nature. Hard, sharply defined, crude, and dark in its brown shadows, and pallid in its flesh, there is much in this remarkable exercise which predicates the solidity, searching modeling, and true drawing of many another picture in the following list. Mr. Gosse’s memoir, to which I am indebted for some details in addition to those furnished by our common friend, the artist, states that when it was determined to obtain better instruction for the latter than Leeuwarden afforded, a painter of Amsterdam was requested to become his master; but, “as no one coveted a Frisian pupil,” the boy was in 1852 sent to the Royal Academy at Antwerp, which is the lineal descendant of the Guild of St. Luke founded in the fifteenth century by the Duke of Burgundy. The ruling master at Antwerp was M. Wappers; from him Tadema’s first art-teaching was obtained. In a year Wappers gave place to Professor Dyckmanns, whose smooth, academical, but intensely popular “Blind Beggar” is in our National Gallery. Given his own resolute and energetic genius, Tadema could not have found a better teacher than the laborious professor under whom he continued to study technical art until he was twenty years of age. The learned antiquary, M. De Taye, Professor of Archæology at Antwerp, assisted the youth in those studies of antiquity which from childhood he had never ceased to affect. It was not, however, as a painter of antiquity Tadema made his débût. His first finished picture (1856) must have been in the Dyckmanns manner; thus he produced “A Poacher returning Home.” Dutch history supplied the subject of the next year’s work, which represented “The Inundation of the Biesborch in 1421.” “The unfavourable Oracle,” which followed, has been damaged, but retains interest as the first of Tadema’s series of Egyptian subjects. It represents the envoys of the Kind of Egypt imparting an unfavourable answer to him after they had consulted an oracle with regard to the life or death of his sick heir. “The Destruction of the Abbey of Ter Doest,” embodying a highly energetic and dramatic design, was received with a little applause in the Brussels Exhibition of 1856, and marked the first success of the painter. In 1859 praise attended “Clotilda weeping over the Tomb of her Grandchildren.” This picture was at the Grosvenor Exhibition, 1882. {31} It was evident, however, that the artist had yet to educate his public, or to teach himself that large canvases were not in demand. Some of the works produced before 1861 were, on being returned unsold to him from the exhibitions, more or less effectually destroyed by their author, who was, in fact, disappointed by the result of his previous studies, and perhaps a little at issue with himself. We except from this record of destruction “A Bargain,” which, being dated 1860, was probably finished immediately after Tadema’s next departure was made; it bears distinct evidence of the influence of Van Eyck, the model of our artist’s next, and most effectual master, to whom we now come. In 1860, being then in his twenty-fifth year, he found the right path on becoming an assistant of Baron H. Leys, who, while painting on a large scale at Antwerp, required help from a master of architectural perspective. Becoming Leys’s pupil, my subject soon produced “The Education of the Grandchildren of Clovis,” which is now in the Palais du Roi at Brussels (this picture fell as a prize to the King of the Belgians, who had subscribed to the Art-Union Society of Antwerp). When exhibited no one would buy it. The King’s entire subscription was 10,000 francs. This work was at the Grosvenor Exhibition, 1882, and it marked a prodigious advance in power and skill. This noble drama has been engraved, and well deserves that honour. A visit to Cologne, during which he was much impressed by the old German pictures gathered there, occupied part of the year 1861. In the next year the already distinguished artist painted “Venantius Fortunatus and Radagonda” (this is the only Tadema now in Holland), and “Gonthran Bose,” which was sold for £100. The latter concluded the first stage of his art, which, although far below it, was not unlike that level where the complete master stands. In 1862 Tadema made his first visit to London, and obtained ample welcome. In 1865 he painted “How the Egyptians amused themselves 3,000 Years Ago,” which, with two other works of his, was exhibited in the French Gallery, Pall Mall, in 1865, and thus made him known in England. It had appeared with great éclat in Paris in 1864, and won the admiration of all the great French artists. Several other works of his have been shown in Pall Mall since 1865, including “Tibullus’s Visit to Delia,” “The Honeymoon,” “Going to Mass,” “A Roman Dance,” “A Roman Poet,” “Ancient Roman Wine Merchants,” “In the Temple,” and “An Improvisatore.” In 1863 Tadema married a French lady and visited Italy, where he was profoundly impressed by the remains of Roman art and life, and thenceforward was induced to devote his genius and rapidly developing powers chiefly to subjects of antiquity. In 1864 he illustrated the Merovingian history by means of “Fredegonda and Prætextatus,” a noble dramatic piece. Tadema’s fortune did not grow so rapidly as his reputation. Therefore, in 1864, while in Paris for the first time, he, stipulating that at least half the number should represent {32} antique subjects, was glad to accept a commission from Mr. Gambart to paint, “at low but ascending prices,” not fewer than twenty-four pictures. In 1865 our artist settled in Brussels and began the series of Roman subjects in which we mostly know his genius, learning, skill, and industry. As a painter of all sorts of effects of light he, by this series, secured honour. This is apart from the marvelous felicity of his technique, the subtlety of his character-rendering, a sub-vein of humour which he possesses, his inexhaustible archæology and indomitable energy. In 1865 he produced that brilliant new reading of antiquity and intense love-poem in painting, “Catullus at Lesbia’s,” where fresh fire was breathed into those cold ideals of “classicality,” the bequests of David to art. Much had yet to be achieved by the painter, but his way was now clear. For the first time classical genre subjects were represented with verisimilitude, learning, and technical mastery; the graces of the antique overcame the heaviness of the Belgian Leys, while the deep tones and splendid coloration of Venetian and early Low Country painting were united in the exposition of designs of the most dramatic movement. After this we had, in chronological order, the following chief works: “The Egyptian at his Doorway,” “The Soldier of Marathon,” “Agrippina visiting the Ashes of Germanicus” (1866); “The Mummy” and “Tarquinius Superbus destroying the Poppies” (1867); “Phidias at the Parthenon,” “Flowers,” “A Roman Flower-Market,” and “A Roman Amateur” (1868); “The Pyrrhic Dance,” and “The Roman Wine Shop” (1869). “The Vintage” (1870), which has world-wide honours in the plate by M. Blanchard; “The Grand Chamberlain of Sesostris,” and “The Discovery of Claudius” (etched by M. Rajon), were exhibited at the Academy in 1871; “The Mummy, Roman period” (1872); “The Siesta,” and “The Death of the First-Born” (1873); “The Picture Gallery,” and “Joseph, Overseer of Pharaoh’s Granaries” (1874); “The Sculpture Gallery,” and “Water Pets” (1875); “An Audience at Agrippa’s,” and “Cleopatra” (1876); “The Seasons,” four picture (1877); “A Sculptor’s Model,” and “A Love Missile” (1878); “A Hearty Welcome,” “Down to the River,” and “In the Time of Constantine” (1879); “Spring Festival,” “Not at Home,” and “Fredegonda” (1880); “Sappho” (1881); “An Oleander” (1883). At the Summer Exhibitions of the Grosvenor Gallery have been shown: “Sunday Morning,” “A Mirror,” “A Bath,” “Sunflowers,” “A Bacchante,” “Hide and Seek,” “Architecture,” “Sculpture,” “Painting,” “Cherries,” “A Question,” “A Pastoral,” “Ave Cæsar! Io Saturnalia,” “A Torch Dance,” “An Audience,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” and “Amateurs.” The Winter Exhibition of 1882 at the Grosvenor Gallery comprised one hundred and thirty of Alma Tadema’s works, including nearly all the above, and “A Juggler” (1870); “Une Fête Intime” (1871); “A Widow” (1872); “A Staircase” (1871); “Visit to the Studio” (1876); “The Sculptor” (1877); “After the Audience,” and “A Well-Protected Slumber” (1879), and “Tepidarium” (1881). Besides these examples in oil, Mr. Tadema has produced so many admirable water-colour drawings, that his position in {33} that respect is second to none. A large proportion of his works have been engraved by MM. Blanchard, Rajon, Lowenstam, and others. He has painted many portraits which are distinguished by great vigour and verisimilitude. The distinctions and honours which have illustrated the labours thus concisely described are far too numerous for exhaustive mention here. Suffice it that among other professional honours not named above, Mr. Alma Tadema received a French Medal in 1864; another, of the Second Class, at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867; and a third, of the First Class, at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878. His first wife died in 1869. He settled in London in 1870; married Miss Laura Epps, herself now an artist of position, in 1871; was elected an Associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, his first English honour, in 1873, and a member of the same body in 1875. He was elected an A.R.A. in January, 1876, and an R.A. in June, 1879. He received letters of Denization from the Queen in 1873. All London sympathized with him when, October 2nd, 1874, his house, a very treasury of art, was shattered by the explosion of a barge’s cargo of gunpowder and benzoline. That now reinstated house would require a volume for its illustration. The view before us gives part of the painter’s studio, with a bronze bust of Mrs. Alma Tadema standing over the fireplace and backed by a curtain of cloth of gold. Original Format Book pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource L. ALMA-TADEMA, R.A. Biographical sketch of Lawrence Alma-Tadema Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 29-33. Subject The topic of the resource Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912), English painter of Dutch origin Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. May 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. The text provides a brief overview of Alma-Tadema’s early years, artistic education, and career. It describes his early days as a pupil of several important masters who had influenced his art and his subsequent rise to eminence, first in his own country and then in England and France. The text makes note of his numerous awards and provides a list of his main works. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Alma-Tadema.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Stuart A. Rose Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA Omeka record contributed by Ekaterina Koposova Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 30, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. October 1, 2016 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Gosse, Edmund. Studies in the Literature of Northern Europe. London: C.K. Paul & Co., 1879. https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/a5fa36c5e5125095f9ca4e43baf421f9.pdf 13d7d735ee6ae202b8a421f0b4cd39be Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format Book pages Text Any textual data included in the document MR. RICHARD REDGRAVE, HON. RETIRED R.A., COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF THE BATH, KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR ON the day before that on which this memoir is dated, the venerable artist and energetic public servant whose name it bears will have completed his eightieth year. It is our privilege to wish him “Many happy returns of the day.” Mr. Redgrave’s life began, as above suggested, on the 30th of April, 1804. The son of a manufacturer, he was, as we learn from an autobiographical note communicated (February, 1859) to the “Art Journal,” born in Pimlico, where, after leaving school, he entered the counting-house of his father, who entrusted him with the duties of making the designs and working drawings for the men employed, and journeying into the country to measure and direct the works in progress. According to the same authority, this business did not prosper, and the boy was allowed to follow his early-manifested inclination for art, which had been occasionally directed to landscape painting. He began to draw from the Elgin Marbles in 1822, from which date we may reckon his serious studies. His first appearance in an exhibition was at Somerset House in 1825, where, No. 273, “River Brent, near Hanwell,” was hung in the School of Painting, and attracted no attention whatever. He was admitted a Student of the Royal Academy in 1826. Compelled to gain a livelihood by his skill in landscape drawing, and having resolved not to burthen his father, he gave lessons during the days and studied at Somerset House in the evenings. He thus often worked fourteen in the twenty-four hours, but never worked on Sundays; these days being, as he told us, “always sacred to me.” This unflinching labourer in art tried to deserve the gold medal of the Academy, but, under the circumstances attending such divided toils, it is not wonderful he failed to win that distinction. Several years passed in these occupations. In 1829 Redgrave sent “A Portrait of a Gentleman,” and, in 1830, “Venus entreating Vulcan to forge Arms for Æneas,” to the gallery of the Society of British Artists, where his later works were seen on rare occasions. It was not until 1831 he again contributed to the Academy Exhibition, when a subject— {36} which, although it is a fine one, has seldom been selected by artists—was illustrated by his “Commencement of the Massacre of the Innocents—Alarm of a Hebrew Family.” In 1832 he sent “Rosalind and Celia” and “Cottages” to the British Institution. Three Welsh landscapes with figures, and “The Banishment of Posthumus,” were at the Academy in 1833. On later years the painter was represented at the Institution by pathetic, genre, and poetical subjects, including, as was common in those days, pictures which had been already shown at the Academy and returned unsold to the artist. Among these instances were “Thoughts of the Absent,” “The Disenchantment of the Lady in ‘Comus’” (1835), “Bad News from the Sea,” “The Trial of Griselda’s Patience” (1838), and “The Strawberry Gatherer.” It was at this gallery, and in 1837, my subject’s first sight of fortune was obtained by means of a noteworthy picture, which, having been bought for engraving, was repurchased at a later date by Mr. Sheepshanks, and is now in the national collection at South Kensington. By means of the print by Mr. Mollison it is well known as “Gulliver exhibited to the Brobdingnag Farmer.” In 1837 it was fortunate for Redgrave the Directors of the Institution rejected his “Ellen Offord,” a picture of a subject borrowed from Crabbe’s “Tales of the Borough,” which, in the following year, occupied an excellent place on the line at the Academy. Meanwhile, and later, the latter exhibition contained, of Redgrave’s productions, two subjects from “A Pilgrim’s Progress” (1835), a landscape, and “The Faery Queene.” After this the artist’s themes were taken severally from the life of Quentin Matsys and “The Vicar of Wakefield,” and represented “The Reduced Gentleman’s Daughter,” “The Wonderful Cure by Paracelus” (1840); “The Castle Builder,” “Sir R. de Coverley’s Courtship,” and “The Vicar of Wakefield finding his Daughter” (1841); “Ophelia,” “Cinderella,” and “Bad News from the Sea” (1842); “The Fortune Hunter,” “Going to Service,” and “The Poor Teacher” (1843); “The Seamstress,” which illustrated “The Song of the Shirt,” and “The Wedding Morning” (1844); “The Governess” and “Miranda” (1845); “The Suppliant,” “The Brook,” “Preparing to throw off her Weeds,” a widow disrobing, “Sunday Morning—The Walk from Church,” with a motto from George Herbert (1846); “Fashion’s Slaves,” a scene in a milliner’s shop, “The Guardian Angel,” and “Love and Labour” (1847); “The Awakened Conscience,” “The Lost Path,” a woodland landscape, “Foreshadows of the Future,” which included the Virgin and Child, “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Handy Jamie,” “The Well-known Footstep,” “The Growth of Love,” “The Emigrant’s last Sight of Home,” “The Strayed Flock,” and (1860) “The Children in the Wood.” Since 1830 the artist has never failed to exhibit one or more pictures in the galleries of the Royal Academy. His “Glade where the Pixies Hide,” was at Burlington House last year. It must have been painted long before his sight, which is now almost entirely gone, began to fail. Designed to serve as moral lessons, Mr. Redgrave’s subjects were often distinguished by motives which ambitious pictures more emphatically illustrated. {37} In addition to these we saw at the Academy and elsewhere a number of landscapes, all marked by a fine sense of sylvan beauty and extreme care. It would serve no considerable purpose to enlarge this list of paintings by Redgrave, which embraces many scores of exemplary works, the general purport and motive of which has been declared by their author to be that of “helping them to right that suffer wrong.” These objects he has pursued earnestly and constantly, the very titles given here indicate the prevailing goodness and high moral tone of the subjects chosen by him. The popularity of such works as “The Poor Teacher,” “The Seamstress,” “The Governess,” and others, many of which have found wide-world acceptation, attests the welcome the paintings have deserved. It is a welcome which has been enlarged by means of engravings and transcripts of other kinds. Besides the above named illustration of “Gulliver,” the national collection contains not fewer than six of Redgrave’s pictures, including “Cinderella,” “The Governess,” and “Ophelia.” His “Country Cousins” was painted for Mr. Vernon, and engraved by Mr. H. C. Shenton. With Sir (then Mr.) Charles Barry and Mr. Thomas Webster (see the preceding biography of this artist), Redgrave was elected an A.R.A. in November, 1840. He is therefore, except Mr. S. Cousins (as before stated) and Mr. Webster, his companion in election, the oldest member of the Academy. Cousins, Redgrave, and Webster are the survivors of this body as it existed in 1841, and, all told, comprised seventy-one persons. In 1851, when he produced the “Flight into Egypt,” Redgrave became a Royal Academician. By 1840 his professional success had relieved him from the drudgery of private teaching of drawing, a labour which, however ungratifying it may have been, qualified the artist for the next field of exertion which then, or soon after, was opened to him. This mode of duty took effect when, in 1847, he was made Botanical Teacher and Lecturer, and, in 1851, Head Master of the Government School of Design, which was then conducted in the rooms Sir William Chambers built at Somerset House for the Royal Academy and which this body occupied till it removed to Trafalgar Square. On the reorganization of the School in 1852, Redgrave became Art Superintendent in the Department of Practical Art as then constituted; in this capacity he devised the whole, or nearly the whole, of that system of instruction in “practical art” which was directed by the Department. In this year he wrote an elaborate report on the general state of design as applied to manufactures in this country. In 1855 the British artistic arrangements of the Paris Universal Exhibition were directed by him, and he received the Cross of the Legion of Honour on that occasion. In conjunction with T. Creswick, R.A., he arranged the English pictures at the International Exhibition of 1862. At a later date he had a considerable part in forming the Historical Collection of Water-Colour Drawings at South Kensington. In 1857 he was appointed Inspector-General for Art in the Department of Science and Art then formed. In the execution of this office he continued to promote the interest of the Department, {38} and to assist in developing its schools, museum, and collections at South Kensington. In 1858 he succeeded Mr. T. Uwins, R.A., as Surveyor of the Royal Pictures, and, as such, began to collect materials for an exhaustive and as yet unpublished catalogue of those very numerous works. In 1880 Mr. Redgrave resigned the above named offices in connection with the Royal Household and the Art Department, and, two years later, he entered the grade of the Honorary Retired Royal Academicians. Mr. Redgrave, besides designing on wood, is a member of the Etching Club, and, as such, has contributed largely to its publications, including the “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith.” He has compiled and delivered many public addresses in connection with the business of the Art Department. Some of these essays have been printed and published. In conjunction with his brother, the late Mr. Samuel Redgrave, he wrote “A Century of Painters of the English School,” 1866, the most comprehensive and valuable work of the kind. Among his other writings is “An Essay on the Gift of the Sheepshanks Collection.” He was the intermediary selected by Mr. Sheepshanks for the transfer to the nation of this magnificent body of pictures. Distinguished by an honourable performance of so many important duties as these, Mr. Redgrave has with universal respect retired from active life. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource RICHARD REDGRAVE, Hon. Retired R.A. Biographical sketch of Richard Redgrave Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp.35-38 Subject The topic of the resource Redgrave, Richard (1804-1888), English painter Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. May 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. Stephens provides an outline of Redgrave’s early life, describing his background in his father’s business and his self-education in art. This short biography is followed by an overview of Redgrave’s career, including his turn to the pathetic genre subjects that made him popular. Stephens lists a long string of works exhibited by Redgrave, illustrating how regularly his works were shown, and then provides some description of Redgrave’s various posts in public service and a list of some of his publications. Stephens ends his texts by praising Redgrave’s long and varied career and telling the reader that Redgrave has now retired from public life. References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. Richard Redgrave, “British Artists: Their Style and Character,” Art Journal 21 (1859): 205. Richard Redgrave, “Autobiography of Richard Redgrave,” Art Journal 12 (1850): 49. J. Dafforne, “British Artists: Their Style and Character. No. XLV.—Richard Redgrave, R.A.,” The Art Journal 5 (July 1, 1859): 205-7. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Redgrave.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Karuna Srikureja Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 29, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. October 27, 2016 (by LM) December 6, 2016, by LM https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/e9d79ed22725ce46148f1ea512b3db82.pdf 17d4662e1c6d80e0e7cc24014d704dc4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. JOHN PETTIE, R.A. ACCORDING to the best authorities, this brilliant and powerful artist, who was elected a Royal Academician in December, 1873, in the place of Sir Edwin Landseer, was born in Edinburgh in 1839, and, like several other living members of the Royal Academy, was educated in art in the Trustees’ Academy of the Scottish metropolis, which has facilitated the studies of nearly all the modern artists of the “north countree.” The gentlemen who may be said to have formed the style, and developed the powers of most of the painters in question, were Messrs. R. Scott Lauder and J. Ballantyne, instructors whose methods and influence are distinguishable in abundance wherever current Scottish pictures are shown. Some of Mr. Pettie’s earlier works were recognized in Edinburgh while he was still little more than a youth, and they illustrated romantic and dramatic subjects not dissimilar to those which the energy and tact of the artist has since made familiar in the galleries of London. His early pictures in Edinburgh were styled “The Prison Pet,” “False Dice,” “Distressed Cavaliers,” and “One of Cromwell’s Divines.” The Royal Academy knew nothing of Mr. Pettie till 1860, when he contributed “The Armourers” to that year’s display in Trafalgar Square. Since this date he has been an unfailing exhibitor in the same gallery, and yearly added to the large share of popularity which his early successes secured for his pictures. These works were, in the order of their exhibition, as follows: --“What d’ye lack, Madam? What d’ye Lack?” a scene outside a fripperer’s booth in London in the “olden Time” (1861); “The Sub-Prior and Edward Glendenning,” a scene from “The Monastery,” by Sir Walter Scott (1862); “The Trio,” with a motto from Chaucer’s “Romaunt of the Rose,” representing, in a humorous and satirical vein, a group of itinerant musicians exercising their craft in a public street (1863); “The Tonsure,” a monkish theme, and the more serious “George Fox refusing to take the Oath at Holker Hall, A.D. 1663,” a telling and dramatic illustration of one of the few subjects which, in a painter’s phrase, are “good,” and to be found in the “Journal” of George Fox, the Quaker missionary (1864); “A Drum-head Court Martial” (1865); “An Arrest for Witchcraft” (1866); “The Doctor,” and “Treason,” conspirators plotting while at a table (1867); “Pax Vobiscum!” “A Tussle with a Highland Smuggler,” and “Weary with {40} present Cares and Memories sad” (1868); “The Disgrace of Cardinal Wolsey,” and “The Gambler’s Victim” (1869); “A Sally,” “’Tis blythe May-Day,” and “Touchstone and Audrey” (1870). “The Pedlar,” “Portrait of John McWhirter, Esq.,” “The Love Song,” and “Scene in the Temple Garden,” an illustration of Shakespeare’s history of the origin of the distinctions of the White and Rose Red factions, as given in “Henry VI.,” Part I., Act II., Scene iv., appeared in 1871; “The Gipsey’s Oak,” “Terms to the Besieged,” “Portrait of G. B. Robertson, Esq.,” and “Silvius and Phebe,” from “As You Like It,” the scene of Phebe’s scornfulness and Silvius’s entreaties (1872); “Sanctuary,” Midnight Watch,” and “The Flag of Truce” (1873); “Juliet and Friar Laurence,” “A State Secret,” and “Ho! Ho! Ho!” (1874); “Scene in Hal o’ th’ Wynd’s Smithy,” a subject borrowed from Scott’s “Fair Maid of Perth,” “Portrait in the Costume of the Sixteenth Century,” “Portrait in the Costume of the Seventeenth Century,” and “Jacobites, 1745,” would-be rebels holding council while one of their number reads a political missive (1875); a “Portrait of Dr. Ullathorn,” of Birmingham, “The Threat,” which was much admired for its energetic melodrama, “The Step,” and “Portrait in the Costume of the Seventeenth Century” (1876); “Hunted Down,” a melodramatic subject borrowed from the penultimate event in the life of a Scottish “thief with the strong hand,” “A Knight of the Seventeenth Century,” a likeness of Mr. William Black, author of “A Princess of Thule,” &c., “A Sword and Dagger Fight,” the passion of which was intense, and “A Lady of the Seventeenth Century” (1877); “The Hour,” “Colin Hunter, Esq.,” “A Member of the Long Parliament,” “S. Taylor-Whitehead, Esq.,” “Rob Roy,” and “The Laird” (1878); “The Death Warrant,” Edward VI., when doomed to die, signing an order for the execution of a condemned person, “A. Watt, Esq.,” “A. Strahan, Esq.,” and “Portrait in the Costume of the Fifteenth Century” (1879); “Mrs. D. Gregg and Children,” “Before the Battle,” “His Grace,” a standing figure admirably associated with a costume of the seventeenth century; and “Mrs. E. Fox White” (1880). “Her Grace,” the apt pendant to “His Grace,” “Trout Fishing in the Highlands,” a single figure on the bank of a stream, “J. Ballantyne, Esq.,” and “Before his Peers,” appeared in 1881; “He Talked with Him of Cain,” an illustration of “Eugene Aram,” “The Duke of Monmouth’s Interview with James II.,” and “The Palmer” (1882); “A Queen’s Scholar, Westminster,” “Dost know this Water Fly?”, “The Ransom,” and “The Jester’s Merry Thought,” a large subject from Rabelais (1883). “The Time and Place,” a duelist waiting for his antagonist, was at the British Institution in 1864, and was followed in the same gallery by “Out of an Engagement,” and “The Wounded Despatch-Bearer” (1865). There can be no doubt of the energy and uncommon facility of the artist who, since 1860, has produced all these pictures, besides others not exhibited at all, or which have {41} been shown at other than the London galleries named above. All the paintings in costume are portraits. Mr. Pettie left Scotland, and settled in London in 1862; he was elected an A.R.A. in 1866; an R.A. as above stated. Several of his pictures, including “The Time and Place,” “Out of an Engagement,” “The Bible and the Monk,” “His Grace” and “Her Grace,” have been engraved. Original Format Book pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource JOHN PETTIE, R.A. Biographical sketch of John Pettie Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 39-42. Subject The topic of the resource Pettie, John (1839-1893), Scottish painter Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. May 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. Born in Edinburgh, John Pettie was educated under the instruction of R. Scott Lauder and J. Ballantyne. He began exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1860, and has since exhibited popular paintiings every year without fail. He settled in London in 1862 and was elected an A.R.A. in 1866; he became a full Academician in 1873, taking the place of Sir Edwin Landseer. Pettie's subject matter is typically historical or literary, and many of his works have been engraved. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Pettie.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Linda Merrill Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 25, 2016 https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/1091c00db3bf87257a0ceda9808834a4.pdf 316e3aa24cb6832fe7ea44ad981538fd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. F. DICKSEE, A.R.A. MR. FRANK DICKSEE, a member of a family of artists, is the son of Mr. T. F. Dicksee, a well-known genre, historical, and portrait painter, who was a pupil of H. P. Briggs, R.A. The younger artist was born in London November 27, 1853; becoming a Student of the Royal Academy in 1871, he obtained a silver medal in the Antique School in 1872, and a gold medal for an historical picture in the Painting School in 1875, and having profited by the instructions given at that institution, as well as by his father’s example and counsel, made his débût as an artist in 1876, when he contributed to the Royal Academy the premiated work of the preceding year, being “Elijah confronting Ahab and Jezebel in Naboth’s Vineyard,” which attracted a considerable share of public attention. In the same year the young painter sent to the Winter Exhibition of Cabinet Pictures in Oil at the Dudley Gallery, a landscape entitled “Afternoon near Shiplake.” At the former gallery in 1877 appeared “Harmony,” which not only obtained the extraordinary distinction of being purchased by the Council of the Royal Academy with part of the Chantrey Fund, one of the earliest instances of that nature, but it was honoured by being made the subject of a brilliant and effective etching by M. Charles Waltner. In 1879 Mr. Dicksee showed at the Academy his very popular “Evangeline;” in 1880, to the same place he sent two pictures, namely, an exhaustive group of three-quarters length figures called “The House Builders,” portraits of “Sir W. E., and the Hon. Lady Welby Gregory;” he also contributed “Benedicta,” a head, which Mr. S. Cousins has engraved. In 1881 appeared “Miranda.” In 1882 Mr. Dicksee exhibited “A Love Story,” which was designed to illustrate Lord Tennyson’s lines: -- “In whispers, like the whispers of the leaves That tremble around a nightingale.” In 1883 an unusually large illustration of the ancient parable of “The Wise and Foolish Virgins” was displayed at the Academy by the newly-elected Associate. It bore the title “Too Late,” and its motto was: -- “Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now.” In March, 1881, the painter was, with four other artists, elected an A.R.A.; this five-fold election is supposed to have been an unprecedented event. His companions were Messrs. J. Brett, W. Burges, A. Gow, and H. Thornycroft. Our subject had contributed only five pictures to the Academy. Original Format Book pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource FRANK DICKSEE, A.R.A. Biographical sketch of Frank Dicksee Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by phototengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 43-44. Subject The topic of the resource Dicksee, Frank (1853-1928), English painter Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. May 1884 Abstract A summary of the resource. This text presents biographical data on Frank Dicksee's life, highlighting his accomplishments at a young age, in the Royal Academy and as an artist from a family of artists. Dicksee studied under his father, T. F. Dicksee, who was also an accomplished artist. Dicksee was the youngest of the artists chosen for Artists at Home. His most famous work, Harmony, was purchased by the Royal Academy. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Dicksee.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Omeka record contributed by Hilleary Gramling. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 26, 2016 Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. November 15, 2016 Date Copyrighted Date of copyright. No copyright registered. https://artistsathome.emorydomains.org/files/original/2aabf969faedf9e88eecf603c6af53db.pdf de8b6a90a0c61ed0ab908c717ba5c053 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Letterpress Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MR. GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, R.A., LL.D. (OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE), KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR, AND OF THE ORDER OF S. LUIGI, LUCCA. THIS illustrious artist, who has given all his heart and mind to the development of a cultured mode of design in this country, was born in the north of London in 1818, and having, even in early childhood, shown marked predilections for painting, was, by his father, who delighted in their exercise, ardently encouraged to practise drawing. Some of his early studies having been brought to the notice of William Behnes, the boy-draughtsman was permitted to use the antique casts abounding in the workshops of that sculptor at 91, Dean Street, Soho. Behnes was a kind and art-loving man who, besides helping Watts in every way, had aided many another student. In Dean Street our painter made the drawings which, in 1835, procured his admission to the Schools of the Royal Academy. Finding there was “no teaching whatever” in that institution at this period, he very soon ceased to attend, and pursued his way single-handed. His studies being diligent and well-guided, his progress must have been exceptionally rapid and fortunate. As early as 1837, when he could not have been more than nineteen years of age, Watts contributed to the Academy Exhibition “A Portrait of a Young Lady,” “A Wounded Heron,” and a second “Portrait of a Young Lady.” Other portraits followed these works in the exhibitions of 1838 and 1840. In the latter year “Isabella e Lorenzo,” from Boccaccio, his first subject-picture put before the world, appeared to illustrate the expanded scope of the painter’s studies, and indicated the direction of those energies he has since, without ceasing, exercised in works of a high and poetic category. In the same year the British Institution contained “The Fount,” a subject borrowed from the Odyssey. The next year produced at the same place “Vertumnus and Pomona,” and, at the Academy, a “Portrait of Miss Brunton.” Part of 1842 was applied to the preparation of “Guiderius, Arviragus, and Belarius,” from Cymbeline, which was shown in Trafalgar Square in this year, and at the British Institution in the year following. The greater part of 1842 and early months of 1843 were devoted to the cartoon of “Caractacus led in Triumph through {46} the Streets of Rome,” which, in May, 1843, won the draughtsman one of the three First Premiums in the Westminster Hall competition for the decoration of the Houses of Parliament. At another competition held at the same place in 1847 Watts’s picture of “Alfred inciting the Saxons to prevent the Landing of the Danes by encountering them at Sea” obtained the national prize of five hundred pounds. It is now in one of the committee rooms of the House of Commons. With it at Westminster Hall was “Echo,” which commanded ample artistic praises. At the British Institution in 1843 the artist displayed the romantic subject of “Blondel.” Mr. Watts was already distinguished as a portrait painter, and, becoming acquainted with the late Lord Holland, who was then English Envoy at Florence, he lived from July, 1843, till the spring of 1847 in Italy, with that nobleman, and devoted himself to studies of Venetian art, without preparing anything for the exhibitions. The Academy of 1848 contained portraits of Lady Holland and M. Guizot, the technical qualities of which attest the searching mode of drawing and painting the student then affected. In 1849 he executed and sent to the Academy a large moral allegory called “Life’s Illusions,” the first of a class by which he, in many later instances, has striven to express his ideas of the nature and progress of life by “abstract embodiments of diverse forms of hope and ambition,” and the other great motive forces of humanity. “A Subject from Isaiah, a design for a fresco,” another ambitious work, appeared in the last-named exhibition. In the next year portraits of “Miss Virginia Pattle” (Countess Somers) and her sister “Mrs. Jackson,” accompanied a large ideal picture of “The Good Samaritan,” which, being designed to express homage for the noble philanthropy of Thomas Wright of Manchester, was in itself a noble example presented to the Town Hall at Manchester by the artist. A numerous series of portraits followed these works, and among them were likenesses of the under-mentioned noteworthy persons: Mr. John Ruskin, Col. (Sir Henry) Rawlinson, (Sir) Henry Taylor, Lord John (Early) Russell, H. T. Prinsep, Prince J. Bonaparte, Herr Joachim, Sir A. Panizzi, Lord Shaftesbury, Sir F. Leighton, Dean Stanley of Westminster, Lord Lyndhurst, Dean Liddell of Christ Church, Lord Lawrence, William Morris of the “Earthly Paradise,” Lord Tennyson, A. C. Swinburne, Robert Browning, W. E. Gladstone, Viscount Sherbrooke, Sir C. W. Dilke, Leslie Stephen, Thomas Carlyle, J. S. Mill, The Duke of Argyll, Sir Alexander Cockburn, Sir Edward Sabine, Lord Wensleydale, Dr. James Martineau, P. H. Calderon, Sir William Armstrong, W. Spottiswoode, Matthew Arnold, J. E. Millais, Mrs. Langtry, Viscount Stratford de Redclyffe, General Garibaldi, Prince of Wales, Prince de Joinville, E. Burne Jones, and Lord Campbell. The portraits of persons whose names are here printed in italics belong to the Little Holland House Gallery, and will, it is understood, be ultimately presented to the nation by the painter as records of some of the abler men of his time, whose {47} features and outward semblances of their inner selves deserve to be held in memory by men of the future. Mr. Watts painted several of the above more than once, e.g., the Laureate, Sir A. Panizzi, and Sir H. Taylor. In addition to these, he has delineated many gentlemen, ladies, and children, whose names are not on the lips of the world at large. Of course each of these portraits embodies subtle searchings of character rarely employed in modern likeness-taking, and is a work of art per se, distinct from all the others, and free from mannerism, although bearing emphatic and easily recognizable marks of the style of the master who produced it. Notwithstanding his success in artistic portraiture, Watts’s heart is devoted to higher flights of design, and works of deeper significance than the above have occupied most of his graver thoughts. Among the most important of these examples have been (1) a fresco in the Houses of Parliament representing “The Red Cross Knight overcoming the Dragon,” from Spenser’s Faery Queen; (2) “The School of Legislation,” which is in the Dining Hall of Lincoln’s Inn, and forty-five feet wide by forty feet high, and comprises thirty-three figures; it was finished in 1859;<a title="" href="#_ftn1">[1]</a> (3) “Christ in Glory,” over the chancel-arch of the Church of St. James the Less, built by Street, in Garden Street, Westminster; (4) “The Parting of Briseis and Achilles,” a composition in Lord Lansdowne’s house at Bowood; (5) “The Gods of Parnassus and Olympus,” painted on the walls of Mr. Hardy’s dining-room in Carlton House Terrace; (6) several paintings, now destroyed, on the walls of rooms and corridors of the first Little Holland House at Kensington, where Mr. Watts resided for many years, a house which has since been pulled down. It has given its title to a second building, where the painter now lives, in Melbury Road, and on the walls of which he has delineated a few figures of great beauty. During several years following 1852, the painter, occupied by his public commissions, did not exhibit any works at Trafalgar Square. “Isabella” appeared in 1859; “Sir Galahad” (1862); “Ariadne” (1863); “A Design for Sculpture—Time and Oblivion” (1864); “Esau” (1865); “Thetis” (1866); “The Meeting of Jacob and Esau” and “The Wife of Pygmalion” (1868); “The Return of the Dove,” “The Red Cross Knight,” “Una,” and “Orpheus and Eurydice” (1869); “Fata Morgana,” from Bojado, and “Daphne” (1870); “My punishment is greater than I can bear” (1871); “The Prodigal” (1873); “Dedicated to all the Churches,” a large composition representing the churches as children of Faith wrapt by the robes of the Supreme Being, which are gathered about His feet. “By the Sea—a Study” (1876); “The Dove” (1877); and “Britomart and her Nurse,” from Spenser (1878), the scene where the former describes the vision of her knightly lover. {48} Besides these, Mr. Watts has painted designs, which have appeared at the Grosvenor Exhibitions; of these let me name “Time, Death, and Judgment;” “The Three Goddesses,” of which there are more than one version; “Mid-day Rest,” a noble group of brewers’ horses and their drayman; “Love and Death,” which I consider to be his masterpiece—it shows Love endeavouring to repulse Death, in the form of a gigantic figure veiled from head to foot in opalescent white robes, when he enters the house of one who is doomed to change the phase of life for another. To these must be added “The Angel of Death,” “Love and Life,” “Diana and Endymion,” “Paolo and Francesca,” “Eve,” one of a series of compositions intended to illustrate the life of our first mother, “Watchman, what of the Night?” a knight in armour, “Eve penitent,” “Time and Oblivion,” “Ariadne deserted by Theseus,” a lovely illustration of romantic pathos, full of emotion, and rich in silvery colour; “Psyche,” “Dorothy,” “The Creation of Eve,” and “The Temptation of Eve.” Mr. Watts has taken up a distinguished position as a sculptor, and produced a nobly picturesque bust of Clytie turning with the intensest passion to the Sun. A colossal equestrian group of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, by him, is just finished in bronze, and intended to be set up in the City of the Dee. Another colossal equestrian group on hand represents the artist’s ideal of Active Force as a conqueror like Pizarro or Alexander, scanning distant and unconquered lands, while he shades his eyes with one hand and reins up his horse with the other. Besides occasional contributions to “The Nineteenth Century,” Mr. Watts wrote an admirable essay on the public employment of artists, which is appended to the third volume of the “Life of Haydon.” He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1867, and a Royal Academician in 1868. In 1878 he obtained a First Class Medal as a contributor to the Exposition Universelle, Paris, and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. In July, 1880, he received the honorary degree of LL.D. at Oxford, and, in 1883, a like distinction at Cambridge. In the former year he was, as a representative English artist, invited to contribute his portrait to the Collection in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence of Portraits of Artists painted by themselves. A numerous collection of his works was formed at Liverpool a few years ago; later (1882), and on a still larger scale, a similar gathering was made of his pictures of all classes in the Grosvenor Gallery. The portrait before the reader comprises in the background, on our left, part of “Dedicated to all the Churches;” on the floor, “Cardinal Manning;” above the last, “Lady Lindsay (of Balcarres),” with a violin; over this, “Britomart and her Nurse;” on the ground at the painter’s left is the Duke of Devonshire’s portrait; over this, “The Meeting of Jacob and Esau;” “Paolo and Francesca” is on our right, on the floor. The chamber containing these pictures was built by the painter to contain his works, including those of the Little Holland House Gallery. <div> <div> <a title="" href="#_ftnref1">[1]</a> This was painted as a gift to the Inn, the Benchers paying for the materials, &c. After it was completed they presented to the artist 500 guineas in a silver cup. At this time, desiring to aid the development of mural painting, Mr. Watts offered to cover the walls of several other buildings, especially Euston Terminus, with frescoes; this offer was not accepted. </div> </div> Original Format Book pages Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, R.A., LL.D. Biographical sketch of George Frederick Watts Date Created Date of creation of the resource. c. 1884 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Frederick George Stephens (1828-1907), author and editor Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived F. G. Stephens, Artists at Home, photographed by J. P. Mayall and reproduced in facsimile by photoengraving on copper plates; edited, with biographical notes and descriptions, by Frederick George Stephens (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington; New York: Appleton & Co., 1884), pp. 45-48. Subject The topic of the resource Watts, George Frederick (1817-1904), English painter and sculptor Date Issued Date of formal issuance (e.g., publication) of the resource. June 1884 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. G. F. Watts, contributions to The Nineteenth Century G. F. Watts, essay in 3rd volume of Life of Haydon Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource The online edition of this work in the public domain, i.e., not protected by copyright, has been produced by the National Gallery of Art. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context NGA_Watts.pdf Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Omeka record contributed by Albertine Lee Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). September 28, 2016 Abstract A summary of the resource. Born in London in 1818, Watts was discovered by his father to have great talent in painting at a very young age. In 1835, he was admitted to the Royal Academy, yet left soon after, but at the age of nineteen contributed several works to the exhibitions at the Academy and the British Institution. In 1842-43, his cartoon Caractacus won him one of the First Premiums in the Westminster Hall Competition, funding his travel to Italy. Watts’s works in 1849 illustrated his desire to express his ideas of nature and progress of life by abstract embodiments of hope and ambition. In 1852, Watts was so preoccupied with public commissions that he did not exhibit any works at Trafalgar Square. In 1882, an exhibition of many of his works was held at Grosvenor Gallery. Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. October 1, 2016