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Wilderspin? 'Not in the flesh; in the spirit, who knows him so well? Your mother I have had the pleasure of meeting at the house of Lord Sleaford, and indeed I have had the distinguished honour of painting her portrait; but the great author of The Veiled Queen the inspired designer of the vignette symbolical of the Renascence of Wonder in Art I never had the rapture of seeing.
'Awfully fine picture, said Sleaford, 'but the Queen there Isis: more like a European face than an Egyptian. I've been to Egypt a good deal, don't you know? 'This is not an historical painting, my lord. As Philip Aylwin says, "the only soul-satisfying function of art is to give what Zoroaster calls 'apparent pictures of unapparent realities." Perfect beauty has no nationality; hers has none.
The veil seemed to be growing more and more filmy more and more like the 'steam' to which Sleaford had compared it, till at last it resolved itself into a veil of mist into the rainbow-tinted vapours of a gorgeous mountain sunrise and looking straight at me were two blue eyes sparkling with childish happiness and childish greeting, through flushed mists across a pool on Snowdon.
Each of these vast levels is equally distinguished by the splendour and conspicuousness of its ancient churches. Travelling by railway between Nieuport and Dixmude, you have on every side of you, if the day be clear, a prospect of innumerable towers and spires, just as you have if you travel by railway between Spalding and Sleaford, or between Spalding and King's Lynn.
I was delighted to be told by Sleaford, whom I met one afternoon in Piccadilly, that Cyril had returned to London within the last few days. 'He is appointed artist-in-chief of the new comic paper, The Caricaturist, said Sleaford, 'and is in great feather. I have just been calling upon him. 'The very man I want to see, I replied.
Soon I was conscious that my mother, Sleaford, and Wilderspin were standing by my side, that Wilderspin's hand was laid on my arm, and that I was pointing at the predella pointing and muttering, 'She lives! She is saved. My mother led me into the other studio, and I stood before the great picture.
'The portrait will look better yet, he said. 'I always leave the final glazing till the picture is in the frame. After we had thoroughly examined the portrait, we turned to look at a large canvas upon an easel. Wilderspin had evidently been working upon it very lately. 'That's "Ruth and Boaz," don't you know? said Sleaford.
Sleaford thereupon directed me to Cyril's studio 'You'll find him at work, said he, 'doin' a caricature of Wilderspin's great picture, "Faith and Love." Mother Gudgeon is sittin' as his model. He does everything from models, you know. 'Mother Gudgeon? 'A female costermonger that he picked up some where in the slums, the funniest woman in London: haw! haw!
We omitted to state that our interesting particulars of the Heckington Sepulchre were from Vetusta Monumenta, a splendid folio work published by the Antiquarian Society. Sketches of New and Old Sleaford, County of Lincoln, and of several places in the Neighbourhood, p. 224. 8vo Baldwin and Co. Guernsey, Dec. 17, 1831.
Your mother I have had the pleasure of meeting at the house of Lord Sleaford, and indeed I have had the distinguished honour of painting her portrait; but the great author of The Veiled Queen the inspired designer of the vignette symbolical of the Renascence of Wonder in Art I never had the rapture of seeing.
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