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Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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sgreat through painting great actions and the human furm, I resolved topaint nothing else. And finding Gods most glorious work to l)e icoman,that all human beauty had been concentrated in her, I resolved to dedicatemyself to painting—not the drapers or milliners work, but Gods moatglorious work—more than ever had been done before. No painter was more slow in obtaining success. He never wona prize at the Academy, and it was not until 1<S21 that ho madehis mark with Cleopatra sailing down the Cjdnus. He hadalready been abroad for short periods, but soon after that successhe made a long stay in Italy, where his work proved popularamongst the Italians, the Venetians electing him a member oftheir Academy. At home, however, he was chiefly an artistsfavourite. Thus if was Lawrence who bought his Pandora,and helped him to the Associateship of the Academy, which 1832) PAmriNG he obtained in 1S24 and John Martin became the purchaserof his Hue picture of The Combat: Woman pleading for the
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YOITII U-\ THE IROW AXU ILEASIUE AT TIIK IIEI.JI,BY WILLIAM ETTY, E.A. l^Natioiial Galhry.) Vanquished. The unpopularity of Ettys pictures—in which,true to his original aim, woman, not the drapers or millineiswork, was the principal subject—is a curious sign of the times.They often show not only a profound appreciation of sensuous 70 PEACE. IiETBENCH^fEXT. AND REFORM. (1815 beaut), but a true feeling for decoration. His flesh, too, is fre-quently clean and sweet in colour, though somewhat generalisedin texture, and looking at this day somewhat wanting in trans-parency. One may add that his nude figures, his Herosand Androuiedas are singularly inoffensive, and there is nota hint of salacity in the whole series. But English societ),which looked to George IV. for its standaixl of j^urity and

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