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Identifier: preraphaelitismp02hunt (find matches)
Title: Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Subjects: Pre-Raphaelitism Painters -- Great Britain
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ll at Penkhill Castle, andhad gradually grown weaker till he died, 22 nd November1890. But to return to surviving friends and interests. Abanquet was given to art and literature by the LordMayor at the Mansion House ; Millais, representing SirF. Leighton, was seated at the high table next to thehost, and Madox Brown was exactly on the opposite sideof the table, facing Millais and a bevy of other Acade-micians. There were many vacant places between himand me, and I asked him to come and take the chair nextto me, explaining that he would meet friends whoseconversation would interest him. I hank you, hesaid, I would rather sit here. I left him alone, severelyfrowning at his diplomaed brothers of the brush, where heremained all the evening, silent. A mutual friend told methat Brown had said he wished particularly to draw theattention of the Academicians to the fact, that although hewas not a member of the Academy, he had been con-spicuously honoured by the civic authorities with a central
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384 PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE chap. place at the high table. It is possible that many of theAcademicians went home without benefiting by the reproofthat dear old Bruno felt to be so necessary for them.He had now lived beyond the full term of threescore yearsand ten, and his days had become sad. His only sonOliver, a youth of great promise both as painter and writer,had died, and this bitterness was followed soon after bythe death of his wife. While still struggling manfullywith ever-continuing money difficulties, he could notrepress complaint to a friend at his evil fortune. Hishealth was fast failing, and he was seven hundred poundsin debt, which was indeed a disgrace to his country. Theprofession of an artist is an expensive one ; a writerneeds but his pens, ink and paper with a little space towrite in, but an artist must have large rooms withmany appliances, as necessary to him as scaffolding toa builder in his operations. He must have money at allstages of figure subjects to pay mo

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