Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 254
the Helm, andThe Bather (Fig. 402), in the NationalGallery; Cupid and Psyche, at SouthKensington ; The Storm, in the Man-chester Gallery, and a series of heroicsubjects in the Edinburgh NationalGallery, are among his better things.But the best examples I know in theownership of any public body are… … FIG. 408.—T.ES lEMMES SAVANTES.(LESLIE.) Victoria and Albert Museum. Wilkie was a child of fortune all hislife. His first mishap was the loss ofhealth from which, eventually, he died.His best things show a rare facultyfor building works of real, though modest, originality on the example ofan alien…
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