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| EARLY ART-SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND | 1 |
| VERRIO AND LAGUERRE | 15 |
| A SCULPTOR'S LIFE IN THE LAST CENTURY | 28 |
| THE RISE OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY | 55 |
| WIDOW HOGARTH AND HER LODGER | 104 |
| ALLAN RAMSAY, JUNIOR | 123 |
| GEORGE ROMNEY | 142 |
| COSWAY, THE MINIATURE-PAINTER | 175 |
| THE STORY OF A SCENE-PAINTER | 201 |
| THE STORY OF AN ENGRAVER | 230 |
| SIR JOSHUA'S PUPIL | 244 |
| HOPPNER AND LAWRENCE | 260 |
| THE PUPIL OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE | 295 |
| TURNER AND RUSKIN | 316 |
It will be readily understood that this little volumedoes not affect to set forth anything like a formal historyof the rise and progress of Art in England. The fittingtreatment of such a theme would need much morespace—not to mention other requirements—than I havehere at command. I have designed merely to submitin a manner that may, I trust, be acceptable to thegeneral reader, and not wholly without value to thestudent, some few excerpts and chapters from thechronicles of the nation's Art, with biographical studiesof certain of its artists.
In this way I have felt myself bound so to select mymaterials as to avoid more travelling over familiarground than seemed absolutely necessary. I havetherefore assumed the reader's acquaintance with thelive