Studio: international art (16.1899)

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(No. 19), and the only two
finished water-colours out
of an intended set of six,
entitled The Garland (Nos.
20 and 26). There are
many others worthy of
note in this exceptionally
large and instructive
gathering of the artist's
earlier works, the product
of the time when his keen
pictorial instinct and
strong poetic feeling were
still struggling to express
themselves through the as
yet unfamiliar medium of
form and colour, but lack
of space forbids further
lingering on them.

Among the pictures
unseen for many years are
the beautiful Cinderella
(No. 11), the smaller
Chaucer's Dream (No.
44), and Zephyrus and
Psyche (No. 60). The
unfinished pictures in-
clude The Boat (No. 112),
called by the artist simply
Girls with Lanterns;
Perseus and the Sea-
nymphs (No. 115), and
in particular, the great
Arthur in Avalon (No.
124), upon which he had
worked for many years
and was still engaged
when his hand was stayed
for ever. It is even now
a noble picture, with its
stately figure of King

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ber under a marvellous
canopy of bronze and

altogether, for a time, from the public galleries in gold, surrounded by the three guardian queens and
1870, while a few are works unhappily left un- their accompanying maidens, with, on the one hand,
finished at his death. attendants bearing his armour ready for the awaking,

and, on the other, bearers of long carved ivory
Among the first are the charming Chess-Players horns watching for the expected signal to rouse the
(No. 5), the King's Wedding (No. 14), Venus monarch and lead him back to battle upon earth.

Epithalamia (No. 21), Clerk Sanders (No. 1), an
Annunciation (No. 55), the at-one-time fateful On the west wall of the South Room hangs a
Triptych (Nos. 7 and 8), St. Valentine's Morning picture, a small one as mere inches go, and one

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