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Hamerton was invited by the Society of Illustrators to accept a Vice-Presidency along with Sir J. E. Millais, Sir F. Seymour Haden, and Mr. Holman Hunt. Messrs. Scribner having planned a work on American wood-cuts, wrote to ascertain if my husband would undertake it. Mr. Burlingame's letter explains the scheme.
He considers him finer than Millais." "What does he think of the portrait?" "He hasn't seen it yet. My people are much pleased with the likeness. I find it flattering." "Indeed!" said Sara thoughtfully. "Did you give him many sittings?" "He knows my face pretty well. We are acquaintances of some years' standing. Papa has a high opinion of him." "And you?" "I am no judge.
For instance, in discussing a paragraph about the Academy in the London letter of the Westmoreland Gazette, he fired up and paced the room, haranguing his listener in a loud, eager voice. Of course she knew every one knew that all the best men and all the coming forces were now outside the Academy. Millais, Leighton, Watts spent talents, extinct volcanoes!
Even landscapes are dragged into the domain of sentiment, and Mr. Millais, who copies Nature with the exactest reverence, cannot call his brook a brook, but "The sound of many waters;" and a graveyard is not named a graveyard, but "Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap;" and instead of Winding the Clock we are told "The clock beats out the life of little men."
In a few minutes Wilderspin's name was again uttered by this man, and I found he was telling anecdotes of the eccentric painter telling them with great gusto and humour, in a loud voice, quite careless of being overheard by me. Then followed other anecdotes of other people artists for the most part in which the names of Millais, Ruskin, Watts, Leighton, and others came up in quick succession.
Before he was graduated from Oxford in 1842, he wrote the beautiful altruistic story, The King of the Golden River for Euphemia Gray, the young girl unhappily chosen by his mother to become his wife. He married her in 1848, but was divorced from her in 1854. In 1855 she was married to the Pre-Raphaelite artist, John Millais.
During the years 1862–3 various translations of his appeared in Once a Week, a magazine that then numbered amongst its contributors such writers as Harriet Martineau and S. Baring-Gould, and artists as Leech, Keene, Tenniel, Millais and Du Maurier.
It is admitted, by them and by all who have understood the movement, that Gabriel Rossetti was the founder and, in the Shakespearian sense, "begetter" of all that was done by this earnest band of young artists. One of them, Mr. Millais, was already distinguished; two others, Mr. Holman Hunt and Mr.
If any one of this strenuous young band had been a painter of the first rank, this prediction might have been abundantly verified. But it must be owned that none of them was. Holman Hunt came nearest to being, and Millais probably thought he was, when he had abandoned his early principles and shaped for the Presidency of the Academy.
He also was supposed by his friends to understand something of the subject; whereas Ralph did not know a Cooke from a Hook, and possessed no more than a dim idea that Landseer painted all the wild beasts, and Millais all the little children.
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