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Bret Harte's Collected Works. Arranged and Revised by the
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The Outcome of a Visit to the United States.
CAMPBELL, M. P.

By Sir GEORGE

"Few persons are likely to take it up without finishing it."-NONCONFORMIST.

ABERDEEN artists, 9

Academicians, female, 233

Academicians, list of, 235
Academy headaches, 203

INDEX.

Bordone, his loved and lost, 103
Boxall, Sir William, 16

British Museum, print room, 230
Brush, pen, and chisel, the, I

Academy, Royal, past and present, 197 Burning a picture, 190

"Adam and Eve," Dubufe's, 71
Advertisement pictures, 227
Advertising, artistic, 209
Albert Dürer's copperplates, 181
Altar-piece by Murillo, 176
Altar-piece by Veronese, 170
Angels and paint, 212

An infelicitous critic, 206

Apelles, the royal, 90

Apollo a German gentleman, 212

Art critic and David Roberts, the, 88
Art criticism of the present day, 93

Art, developing a love for, 211
Art, good and bad, 91

Art, "high," 208

Art in the Far North, 216

Art of miniature-painting, 209

Art, remarkable work of, 192

Art school, the oldest in England, 58

Artist, a grateful, 190

Artist and dealer, 207

Artistic advertising, 210

Artistic taste of the day, 19

Artistic touch, an, 207

Artists as sign-painters, 45
Artists, relics of great, 42
Artists, should they marry? 225
Artists, tragic deaths of, 54

BAILY'S "Eve" and Canova, 61
Bandinelli, death of, 55

Baron de Polnitz and the King, 90
Bartolomeo Passerotti's portrait, 129
Beauty and the beast, 188
Behnes, the sculptor, 30

Behnes, Nollekens, and Palmerston, 31
Behnes, William, last days of, 32
Bequest, Chantrey's, 39
Bett's collection, the, 145

Bonington, R. P., 167

Burns, Robert, portrait of, 39
Buying all the bad ones, 189
Buying his own grandfather, 215

CANOVA and Baily's "Eve," 61
Canova and Flaxman, 64
Canova's statue of Napoleon, 63
Caracci, Louis, 55

Cave, the saint in the, 226
Cavedone, the artist, 55
Chalmers, George Paul, 54
"Cham

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turists, 75

and other French carica-

Cham" and the tailor, 79

Chantrey, Sir Francis, 1

Chantrey as a carpenter, 36

Chantrey bequest, the, 39

Charles and Edwin Landseer, 5

Charles Méryon, 54, 68.

Chendi, the artist, 55

"Chic" and Schick, 80

Chisel, brush, and pen, the, I

Cleaning pictures, 187
Clerk, John, of Eldin, 189
Collie collection, the, 159
Colossal Orpheus, a, 132
Compliment, a pictorial, 185
Compton and Jerrold, 209

Connoisseur, how to become a, 215
Constable, Cooper, and Turner, 41
Contemporary portrait of Richard II.,

135

Contribution, a wife's, 208

Cooke, E. W., 44

Cooper, Sidney, not a, 118

Cooper, Turner, and Constable, 41
Cooper and Wilkie, 38

Copper etching, 217

Copperplates, Albert Dürer's, 181

Copy, giving the original for the, 178

Copyright litigation, 220

Corregio's "Reading Magdalen," 100
Cosway, Richard, 44
Cozens, Joseph, 54

Cox, David, works by, 37, 47, 48, 148,
152, 156

Creswick's pictures at South Kensing-
ton, 12

Critic, an infelicitous, 206
Critics and the dog, 186
Crucifixion, picture of the, 213
Cumberworth, pupil of Pradier, 61

DAVID COX's works, 37, 148
David Roberts and the art critic, 8
David, the painter, and Napoleon, 221
Dawson, Henry, and his works, 24
Dayes, Edward, 54
Dealer and artist, 267

Deaths, tragic, of artists, 54

Delacroix's "Sardanapalus," 71

"Derby Day," Frith's, 20

Destroying an inheritance, 109

Developing a love for art, 211

for, 3

French caricaturists, 77
French illustrated papers, 79
Frith's "Derby Day," 20
Fuseli and Haydon, 40

GAINSBOROUGH'S, "Duchess of Devon-
shire," 95, 101, 137

Gainsborough's portraits, 98, 137, 148,
158

Gallant painter, a, 207
Gallery of M. Kurtz, 172

Gallery of M. Schneider, 161
Gallery, the National, 201

Gawn, the deaf and dumb sculptor, 34
Genius, a disappointed, 194
Genius in gaol, 219

George Jamieson, 9

George Kemp, architect, 28, 54

George Paul Chalmers, 54

Gibbs, James, architect, 9

Gibson, works by, 152, 155
Gigantic painting, a, 223
Gilray, the caricaturist, 54
Girtin, Thomas, 54

"Dialogue at Waterloo," price paid Giving the original for the copy, 178

Disappointed genius, a, 194

Discovered works of Veronese, 136
Dog and the critics, the, 186

Dresden Museum, thefts from the, Ico
Drop scene, Meissonier and the, 67
Dry and wet, 186

Du Bost, the painter, 188
Dubufe's "Adam and Eve," 71

"Duchess of Devonshire," 95, 101, 137
Dürer's, copperplate engravings, 181
Dying to paint it, 205

EASTLAKE, Sir Charles, 2, 59
Edwin and Charles Landseer, 5
English climate and sculpture, 218
Engravers, the first, 196
Etching copper, 217
Evelyn, John, 197

Examples of the Italian, Spanish,
Dutch, and Flemish schools, 168

FAED, Thomas, works by, 143, 151,

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Goldsmith and Johnson, 200
Good and bad art, 91

Gordon, Sir J. W., and Palmerston, 17
Grandfather, buying his own, 215
Grand Prix de Rome, the, 194

Grand style, the, 40

Grant collection, the, 162
Great artists, relics of, 42
Great picture sales, 137
"Greek Slave," Powers', 63
Greenwood collection, the, 152

Grevin, and other French caricaturists,

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HANGING, wants it, 209
Hand, sitting for the, 49
Handsome model, the, 214
Hans Makart, the silent, 65
"Harlot's Progress," the, 107
Haydon, 59

Haydon and Fuseli, 40
Haydon and Wilkie, 56
Haydon, death of, 54
Headaches, Academy, 203
Henry Dawson's works, 24
Herbert, a spurious, 122
"High" art, 200

His loved and lost Bordone, 103
Historical portraits, 132

Hobbema's "Watermill near Gueldres,"
162

Hogarth's "Strolling Players," 105
Hogarth's threat, 188

Holbein and Leonardo da Vinci, 128
Holworthy, James, 44

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221

Horace Vernet and Gros, 71
House-painter's point of view, 213
"How long will it last?'
How pictures are manufactured, 123
How Soult obtained his Murillo, 191
How to become a connoisseur, 215
Hunt, William, works by, 145, 149, 166
IMPRISONED Monuments, 222

Ingres and the stride-and-hop gait, 66
"Interior of a Dutch mansion," 162
JACKSON sitting to Wilkie, 50
James Gibbs, architect, 9
Jan Steen and Wilkie, 58
Jerrold and Compton, 209
Johnson and Goldsmith, 200
"Judgment of Paris," 100

KAUFFMAN, Angelica, 171, 233

Kemp, George Mickle, architect, 28, 54
Kensington House Gallery, 162
Kneller's private academy, 197
Knowledge of sculpture, a, 189
Kurtz collection, the, 172

"LA Lotteria Nacional," 163

MACAULAY, Trevelyan's Life of, 36
Macdowall, tenderness of his figures,
61

Madonna, Sonntag's, 85

Makart, Hans, the silent, 65

Marks, Mr. H. S., on good and bad
art, 91

Mazarin's pictures, 232

Meissonier and the drop scene, 67
Mendel collection, the, 126,
Méryon, Charles, 54, 68

Michael Angelo's house, 88

Millais and the lady critic, 8

Millais, Leighton, and Thackeray, 7

Millais, works by, 151, 159, 161, 163
Millet fever, the, 66

Miniature-painting, art of, 209
Mind chiselling, 196
Mismatched portrait, a, 24
Model, the handsome, 214
Model, Verboëckhoven's, 83
Models, 49

Models in Paris, 50
Monuments, imprisoned, 222
Murillo, altar-piece, by, 176
Moser, Mary, 233

Landscape-painter on art criticism, a, Murillo, how Soult obtained his, 191

93.

Landseer, Edwin and Charles, 5
Landseer, old, by his son, 4
Landseer, Sir E., water-colour drawings
by, 166

Landseer's offhand sketches, 3
Landseer's "The Braemar Gathering,"
146

Landseeer's "The Otter Hunt," 163
Landseer's "White Horse in Stable," 2
Last days of William Behnes, 32
Laurent Richard collection, the, 146
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 3, 23, 42
Leaf collection, the, 153

"Le Doreur," Rembrandt's, 173
Leighton, Millais, and Thackeray, 7
Leonardo da Vinci and Holbein, 128
Lesson to picture-buyers, 182

Levey collection, the, 156

Liber Studiorum, the, 44

Linnell, a repudiated, 114

Murillo, the mutilated, 101

NAPOLEON and David the painter, 221
Napoleon, statue of, by Canova, 63
National Gallery, the, 201
Nature, painting from, 192
Naylor collection, the, 155
Nollekens and the Duke of York, 32
Nollekens, Palmerston, and Behnes, 31
Northcote, 43, 59

Not a Sidney Cooper, 118
Novar collection, the, 107
Nude, studies from the, 109

OFFHAND sketches, Landseer's, 3
"Old Landseer, by his son," 4

Old Paris, its poetry and picturesque-
ness, 69

Oldest art school in England, 58

Oldest picture known, 195

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'Ophelia and Laertes," 23

Linnell, works by, 144, 151, 155, 161, Orpheus, a colossal, 132

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Originals, palming off copies for, 113
Ostade's "Interior of an Ale-house," 162

PAINT and angels, 212
Painter, a gallant, 207.

Painters' names and pictures, 52
Painting, a gigantic, 223
Painting from nature, 192
Palgrave, Sir Francis, 196

Palmerston and Sir J. W. Gordon, 17
Palmerston, Behnes, and Nollekens, 31
Palming off copies for originals, 113

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Philippe Rosseau and his pupil, 170
Pictorial compliment to a lady, 185
Picture-buyers, a lesson to,. 182
Picture, burning one, 190
Picture of the Crucifixion, 213
Picture sales, great, 137
Picture, sermon in a, 222
Picture, the oldest known, 195
Pictures, a passion for, 232
Pictures, advertisement, 227
Pictures and painters' names, 52
Pictures by A. Kauffman, 171
Pictures, cleaning, 187

Pictures forged and pictures
covered, 110

Pictures, how manufactured, 123
Pictures lost and stolen, 95
Pictures "skied," 217

Playing chess with Hans Makart, 65
Point of view, a house-painter's, 213
Porter, Sir Robert Kerr, 223

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 59, 96, 143, 155,
168, 199, 200

Reynolds' palettes and brushes, 43
Richard II., portrait of, 135
Richmond, Professor, 227
Robert Burns, portrait of, 39
Roberts, David, and the art critic, 8
Rogers and Chantrey, 36
Rosseau and his pupil, 70
Royal Academy, past and present, 197
Royal Academicians, list of, 235.
Rubens and Raphael, 131
Rubens' paint-box, 44
Rubens' pupil, Schick, 81
Rubens' works, 108
Ruskin and Frith, 20

Ruskin and Henry Dawson, 25
Ruskin and Whistler, 18

Ruskin on the artistic taste of the day,

19

Ruskin's facsimiles of Turner, 121
Russell collection, the, 154
Ruysdael, a disputed point, 173
Ruysdael and M. Thiers, 181

SALE of a Turner, 182
Sam Lorrill's portrait, 5

Sardanapalus," Delacroix's, 72
Schick and "Chic," 80

dis- Schneider, M., gallery of, 161
Scott and Chantrey, i

Portrait of Bartolomeo Passerotti, 129
Portrait of Robert Burns, 39

Portraits, historical, 132

Portraits, refusing to pay for, 187

Portraits, Sir H. Raeburn's, 179

Power's "Greek Slave," 63

Scott Monument, the, 28, 92
Scott on Burns, 39

Sculpture, a knowledge of, 189
Sculpture and the English climate, 218
Sermon in a picture, a, 222

Shah of Persia as an artist, the, 87
Should artists marry? 2251

Siddons sitting to Harlow, 50

Signboard, a famous one by Cox, 48
Sign-painters, artists as, 45

Single stroke, a, 206

Sir H. Raeburn's portraits, 179

Preston, Lord and Lady, portraits of, 133 Sir J. W. Gordon and Palmerston, 17

Prices paid to Wilkie, 56

Prince Demidoff's Ruysdael, 173
Print room, British Museum, the, 230
Putting an old head on young shoulders,

23

QUEEN and Landseer, the, 4
Quilter collection, the, 149

RAPHAEL and Rubens, 131

Raphael, two renowned works by, 170
"Reading Magdalen," Corregio's, 100
Refusing to pay for portraits, 187
Relics of great artists, 42
Remarkable work of art, 192
Rembrandt's "Le Doreur," 173
Repudiated Linnell, a, 114

Sir William Boxall, 16
"Sitter's Chair," the, 42
Sketches by various hands, 185
Sketches, Landseer's offhand, 3
"Skied" pictures, 217
Slick, Sam, on criticism, 216
Some notable losses, 107
Sonntag's Madonna, 85
Soult's Murillo, 191

South Kensington, pictures at, 12
Spurious Herbert, a, 122

Stanfield's "Morning after the Wreck,"

163

Stanhope, Lord, 222

Stride-and-hop gait, the, 66

Stroke, a single, 206

"Strolling Players," Hogarth's, 105

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