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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Lord Tennyson. Photographed by F. Hollyer, after the unfinished study in oil in the possession of the artist. The painting was finished May, 1890. Academy as a body, offering- (in 1773)to decorate St. Pauls at their own ex-pense, are striking evidences in tlie past;and of living- men, Leigliton, Shields,Armitage, and others have shown theirwillingness to work for public endsfor nothing, or for journeymans wages.Not least of these is Watts, who executedwithout fee the grand fresco of Jus- tice, 40 feet high by 45 feet long, inthe Hall of Lincolns Inn, and offeredto decorate the great hall at EustonRailway Station with a series of muralpaintings rejDresenting the Progressof Commerce, for the bare cost of scaf-folding and colors. This was refused,and the regret which we must all feelat the rejection of such a great offer is 703
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Agernon Charles Swinburne (1865)—in the possession of the artist.(Photographed by F. Hollyer.) mitij^ated l)y tlip reflection tliat theworks, if executed, would probably, erethis, have followed the fate of nearlyall frescos in England, and of most inother countries ; while we should havemissed a nund)er of smaller but equallynoble pictures, whicli. witli i)r()per care,will last for an indefinite time. Thefresco at Lincolns Inn has already hadto undergo extensive reparations intempera. It is gratifying to record that704 the Inn, in testimony of their ai:)pre-ciation of this monumental work, pre-sented to Mr. Watts a cup and a hon-orarium of £500.* Mr. Watts has been but a fitful ex-hibitor, and you cannot in his case, as inthat of most English artists of distinc-tion, trace his progress and career from • Amontr other mural paintiuicrs by the artif^t are afresco in the Church of St. James the Less, near Vaux-hall Bridfre, and Achilles, Briseis, and Thetis, atBowood, the scat of Lor

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