PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD confidence.
And then
of these houses.
For
the world was tired
is certain that the world was tired of them, otherwise they would not have been so easily swept away by ten it
and a few small
pictures
statues.
Raphaelites were, of course, a long first
coming
with their protest.
The
Pre-
way from
We may find
the almost infant Gainsborough, who was in no particular sense a revolutionist, protesting first master that, try as he would, he could not see grass of a pleasant and mellow amber colour such as it was in the sketches
to his
His that he was set to copy and to emulate. master replied with a placid assurance that, sooner or later, the infant genius would see, or
would
find it convenient to see, that
leaves,
roses,
could be
made
the trouble.
velvet, armour, to look so coloured, if
flesh,
grass,
or fruit
one took And, upon the whole, Gains-
borough did fall in with his master's ideas, though he never did anything but laugh at the suggestion of his later friends that he "
should attempt "subjects of a sublime nature. Hogarth of course, in a sense, did look at Nature,
and
his
designer
powers as a painter, other than as a of stories, have never been done 32