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Autobiographical notes of the life of William Bell Scott - and notices of his artistic and poetic circle of friends, 1830 to 1882 (1892) (14783276253)
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Title: Autobiographical notes of the life of William Bell Scott : and notices of his artistic and poetic circle of friends, 1830 to 1882
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 Minto, William, 1845-1893
Subjects: Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Poets, English -- 19th century Painters -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Osgood, McIlvaine
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN
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to truth the cleverguessing of the practised thought-reader by theexpression of the countenance. Every card-sharperhas this faculty, showing him how far he may go ;and every successful schemer and man of law orbusiness, with or without his consciousness of anyimpropriety, works by the same means. It wasat best guessing nearly right while the first clueguided, and then farther and farther wrong. Read-ing the expression is the art, and I believe w^omenwho are not usually troubled by logic and habitsof ratiocination are quicker than men in it. MissBoyd and I have a game at bezique every evening,and I have found her a hundred times tell me whatcard I had drawn, simply by looking at me. Youhave got a good card this time, I see! I believe itis the king—yes, the king, not the ace! and soit has been. The death of Spencer left his sister well dis-posed to carry out his pious work of re-edifyingthe old house, and she did so by proposing that Ishould paint with some pictorial history the great
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na Tjyiriiiiir Eoikes jZe^z^^^ ^^2i4^^ <^^^<f^v VI WALL-PAINTING OF PENKILL STAIRCASE 83 circular staircase which her brother had built. Iselected as my subject a series of scenes fromthe lovely story of The Kings Quair, the poemwritten by King James the First of Scotland atthe end of his imprisonment at Windsor. Thiswork, executed on the wall with oil pigments, themedium being wax dissolved in turpentine, en-caustic in short, occupied me three or four monthsin each year, beginning in 1S65 and ending 1868.The wall was three feet thick, and therefore takingvery long to be free either of damp or of thecorrosive quality of the lime, I had begun uponit rather too soon, occasioning some repainting,but I found this species of encaustic was almostperfect; most probably the pictures will now re-main without further change. Before determining: on this method of wall-painting, the water-glass being then in successfuluse by Kaulbach in Germany, and as it appearedadmirable in the hands of M
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English painter and poet and one of the co-founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Rossetti was born in London, on 12 May 1828. His family and friends called him Gabriel, but later, he put the name Dante first in honor of Dante Alighieri. While studying painting in London, he was fascinated by the work of Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1847 he discovered the 18th-century English painter-poet, William Blake. By the time Rossetti was 20, he had already done a number of translations of Italian poets. Together with his friends, Rossetti formed and expanded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by linking poetry, painting, social idealism and a romanticized medieval past. Rossetti’s own paintings were elaborate in symbolism. Elizabeth Siddal who served at first as a model, married him. Around 1860, after ten years of writing poetry, Rossetti returned to oil painting. His marriage ended tragically in 1862 with her death from an overdose of laudanum. Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems with his wife at Highgate Cemetery, though he later had them dug up. Rosetti compared his love for his wife to Dante’s love for Beatrice. After the death of his wife, Rossetti moved from riverside London’s Blackfriars to Chelsea, where he lived for 20 years surrounded by extravagant furnishings, exotic birds, and animals. Rossetti grew affluent and enjoyed modest success in 1861 with his published translations of the Early Italian Poets. The publication of his own poems followed in 1870 but criticism of Rossetti's poetry contributed to a mental breakdown in June 1872, so he "spent his days in a haze of chloral and whisky". Toward the end of his life, he sank into a morbid state, darkened by drug addiction and mental instability. He had been suffering from alcohol psychosis. On Easter Sunday, 1882, he died at the country house of a friend, where he had gone in a vain attempt to recover his health. He is buried in the churchyard of All Saints at Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England. Rossetti remains an important figure in the history of 19th-century English art.
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