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Updated: August 9, 2024
But whether he paint Dante led in a vision by Love to see Beatrice lying dead, or the Angel leading King and Shepherd to adore the new-born Saviour, while the angelic choir in white robes stand around the manger in the night, singing their song of Peace and Good-will, or Queen Guinever and Sir Lancelot meeting in the autumn day at King Arthur's tomb, or Mary of Magdala flying from the house of revels, and clasping the alabaster box of ointment to her bosom, or Ophelia redelivering to Hamlet his gifts of remembrance, while he strips the leaves from a rosetree as he breaks her heart, or the young farmer, who, having driven his cart to London, and crossed one of the bridges over the black river, finds in the cold, wet morning his old love, long lost, now fallen at the side of the street, fainting against the dead brick wall of a graveyard; whether he paint these or other scenes, in all are to be found such sense of the higher truths of Nature and such faithful rendering of them, such force of expression, and such beauty of conception, as place them as works of imagination among the first that this age has produced.
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