Harry Quilter M. A. Ford Madox Brown, the teacher of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Holman Hunt. – See also: Ford Madox Brown, Of the Mechanism of a Historical Picture.
4
William Bell Scott, Autobiographical Notes, vol. I, London, 1892.
5
See the entire scene in William Bell Scott. Autobiographical Notes, vol. 1. On Rossetti, read: Joseph Knight, Life of Dante-Gabriel Rossetti, London, 1887, William Sharp, Dante-Gabriel Rossetti, a Record and a Study. London, 1882, Esther Wood, Dante-Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement. London, 1894, W. Holman Hunt, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in the Contemporary Review, May, June, and July, 1886 and in the Chambers Encyclopedia, F. Q. Stephens, P.R.B., Dante-Gabriel Rossetti, in Portfolio of May 1894, Harry Quilter, Preferences in Art, London, 1892, Myers, Essays Modern, London, 1883, William Michael Rossetti, Ruskin, Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelitism – papers, 1854 to 1862. London, 1899, Edouard Rood, Rossetti et les Préraphaélites anglais.
6
See Redgrave, A Century of Painters of the English School.
7
John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. II, ch. III, § 18. Necessity of finishing Works of Art perfectly.
8
John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. I, ch. V, § 9. The Imperative Necessity, in Landscape Painting, of Fullness and Finish.
9
John Ruskin. Modern Painters, vol. II, ch III, § 21. The Duty and After Privileges of all Students, 1843.
10
Ruskin’s works were handled by a special publisher, Mr. George Alleu of London, who had them printed far from unaesthetic factories in the middle of fields filled with flowers and fruit. It is even said that these precious books were shipped to London without using the railway, so that unaesthetic steam engines would play no part in their distribution. On Ruskin, cf Ruskin et la Religion de la Beauté (Hachette) and The Life and Work of John Ruskin, by W. G. Collingwood.
11
On the fashion in which Rossetti recruited Woolner, it is interesting to read this comment from Harry Quilter: “It is possible that Woolner was never a Pre-Raphaelite by choice, because we found out that it was Rossetti who had claimed him as his own, because of the principles according to which he had written (according to Rossetti) My Beautiful Lady. It seems that this poem was not written according to any principles, and that Rossetti, as he was looking for converts, had decided while admiring the poem that his appreciation could only have come from the fact that these verses were Pre-Raphaelite. Preferences in Art.
12
Nearly every year in London there was an exhibition in the Guildhall of already famous works by great contemporary artists. These works were borrowed from individuals or museums.
Burne Jones, born in 1833, died in 1898.
