Anecdotes about Authors, and Artists. John Timbs

AN ODD PRESENT TO SHENSTONE.

       WALLER, THE COURTIER-POET.

       NOTE.

       ART AND ARTISTS.

       TITIAN AND CHARLES V.

       CHILDHOOD OF BENJAMIN WEST.

       GUIDO’S TIME.

       CHARACTER OF GAINSBOROUGH.

       BENEFIT OF RIVALRY.

       BACKHUYSEN.

       GEORGE MORLAND.

       DISINTERESTEDNESS OF ENGLISH PAINTERS.

       THE DOUBLE CHIN.

       SYMPATHY AND CALCULATION.

       RUSKIN’S “MODERN PAINTERS.”

       RUBENS’S “CHAPEAU DE PAILLE.”

       A PROMPT REMEDY.

       WILKIE’S SIMPLICITY.

       THE GRAVE OF LAWRENCE.

       “IT WILL NEVER DO.”

       LOST CHANCE OF A NATIONAL GALLERY.

       REYNOLDS’S PORTRAIT OF LORD HEATHFIELD.

       THE ELGIN MARBLES

       HENRY HOWARD, R.A.

       ORIGINALS OF HOGARTH’S MARRIAGE A-LA-MODE.

       HOMAGE TO ART.

       “COLUMBUS AND THE EGG” ANTICIPATED.

       THE RIVAL OF RAPHAEL.

       TURNER’S MASTERPIECE.

       INTENSE EFFECT.

       REYNOLDS AND HAYDN.

       HAYDON’S FIRST SIGHT OF THE ELGIN MARBLES.

       PAINTERS IN SOCIETY.

       ANACHRONISMS IN PAINTING.

       MOVING EARS.

       RUSSELL, THE CRAYON PAINTER.

       WILKIE’S MISTAKEN ANALOGY.

       DEATH OF GAINSBOROUGH.

       FANATICISM THE DESTROYER OF ART.

       THE THORNHILL MIRACLE.

       THE PICTURES AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE.

       FOUNDATION OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL OF PAINTING IN ENGLAND.

       THE CAT RAPHAEL.

       SMALL CONVERSATION.

       CHANGING HATS.

       SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE’S BOYHOOD.

       HARLOW’S TRIAL OF QUEEN KATHERINE.

       DEATH OF CORREGGIO.

       A LUCKY PURCHASE.

       COPLEY’S “DEATH OF LORD CHATHAM”

       THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S CORREGGIO.

       GIOTTO AND THE PIGS.

       HOW WILKIE BECAME A PAINTER.

       CIMABUE AND GIOTTO.

       MICHAEL ANGELO IN BOYHOOD AND OLD AGE.

       HOGARTH’S “MARCH TO FINCHLEY.”

       STORY OF A MINIATURE.

       SITTING