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Chapter 18: INDEX
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A series of personal essays and critical sketches recalling the Bohemia of the later Victorian era, blending art criticism, theatrical memoir, and biographical portraiture. The writer offers firsthand impressions of painters, poets, and performers, reflects on movements such as the pre-Raphaelites, debates originality and imitation in art, and considers theatrical practice, humour, and staging. Essays range from intimate reminiscences of studio visits to broader reflections on artistic temperaments, public reception, and aesthetic principles, combining anecdote with analysis to map changing relationships between artists, critics, and society.

INDEX

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence, 26-41


Barnard, Fred, 217, 218

Barry, James, 119

Beauty Stone, the, 251

Bell, Professor: Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth, 167

Bernhardt, Sarah, 233, 237, 238

Black, William, 264

Blake, William, 120

Bleheris: story of the Holy Grail, 148

Boaden, James: Mrs. Siddons as Lady Macbeth, 167

Bohemia Past and Present, 1-11

Bough, Sam, 131

Bret Harte, 215

Brough, Robert Barnabas, 119

Brown, Ford Madox, 126

Brown, Oliver Madox, 52

Browning, Robert, 12

Burne-Jones, Edward, 56-88;
friendship with Alma-Tadema, 31;
appreciation of Rossetti, 49, 56, 86;
paintings referred to, 60;
friendship with William Morris, 86;
paintings at Roman Exhibition, 127;
Du Maurier’s opinion of, 217


Caldecott, Randolph, 216

Clayden, P. W., 164

Clint, George, 109

Collins, Henn, 255

Constable, John, 130

Coquelin, B. C., 233, 234, 240

Cotman, John Sell, 131

Cox, David, 131

Craven, Hawes, 207

Crestien de Troyes—story of the Holy Grail, 148

Crome, John, 131

Crompton, Charles, 253


De Hoogh, 33

Desclée, Mme., 237

Dickens, Charles, 215

Du Maurier, George, 216

Duse, Eleanora, 238

Dyce, William, 125


English School of Painting at the Roman Exhibition, 101-133

Etty, William, 120


Faulkner, Charles, 86

Faust, Irving’s preparations for, 206

Fletcher, Charles, 232

Fletcher, Mr., 164

Frith, William Powell, 107

Froude, James Anthony, 264

Furse, 119

Fuseli, Johann Caspar, 119


Gainsborough, Thomas, 113, 114, 115, 129

Geddes, Andrew, 118

George Eliot, 142

Gilbert, Sir William, 247-250

Gregory, E. J., 109


Haydon, B. R., 119

Herschel, Sir F., 255

Hogarth, William, 104-106

Holker, Sir John, 255-257

Holl, Frank, 119

Hook, 131

Hoppner, John, 113, 118

Humour, A Sense of, 213-226

Hunt, Holman, 44, 124;
pre-Raphaelite movement, 43, 50, 121


Irving, Sir Henry, 199-212, 233, 235, 240


Junior of the Circuit, the, 253-263


Keene, Charles, 216

Kemble, Mrs., 163

Kennedy, Mr. Justice, 253, 255

King Arthur, Mr. Carr’s version of, for Henry Irving, 210;
music for, written by Sir Arthur Sullivan, 247

Kingsley, Charles, 264


Lang, Andrew, 264

Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 118

Lawson, Cecil, 131

Leech, John, 216, 217

Leighton, Sir Frederick, 19, 35, 128, 234;
paintings at Roman Exhibition, 129

Lewis, John Frederick, 109

Leyland, Fred, referred to, 52

Lorraine, Claude, 131


Macbeth, 162-198;
Irving’s reading of, 205

Maclise, Daniel, 108

M‘Connell, W. R., 262

Malory, Sir Thomas, 147

Mason, 131

May, Phil, 217

Meredith, George, 134-146

Mersey, Lord, 255

Millais, Sir John Everett, 13-25, 65;
pre-Raphaelite movement, 43, 50, 121;
paintings referred to, 23, 44, 123;
Rossetti’s praise of, 51;
portrait painting, 119;
paintings at Roman Exhibition, 123;
Du Maurier’s praise of, 217

Montgomery, Walter, 231

Morris, William, 86


Nutt, Alfred: story of the Holy Grail, 150, 160


Opie, John, 119

Orchardson, Sir William, 106


“Parsifal”: origin of legend, etc., 147-161

Pettie, John, 110

Phelps, Edmund (jun.), 231

Phelps, Samuel, 230

Pope, Sam, 255

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—aims and achievements of, etc., 5, 42, 50, 55, 120, 125


Rae, Mr., 45

Raeburn, Sir Henry, 113, 118

Ramsay, Allan, 118

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 110, 114, 116

Ristori, Mme., 234

Roman Exhibition, English school of painting at, 101-133

Romney, George, 113, 117

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 42-55;
paintings referred to, 46, 122;
praise of Millais, 51;
encouragement and appreciation of Burne-Jones, 56, 57;
pre-Raphaelite movement, 43, 50, 55, 121;
paintings at Roman Exhibition, 122;
Du Maurier’s opinion of, 217

Ruskin, John, 125

Russell of Killowen, Lord, 255, 256, 258


Salvini, Tomaso, 234

Sandys, Frederick, 119, 126

Selby, Lord (Mr. Gully), 255

Sex in Tragedy—Macbeth, 162-198, 205

Shield, Hugh, 262

Siddons, Mrs.: personation of Lady Macbeth, 166-170, 205

Sitting at a Play, 227-241

Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 242-252


Terriss, William, 202

Terry, Ellen, 201, 210, 239

Terry, Kate, 232

Tissot, Amédée Angelot, referred to, 31

Toole, J. L., 220-226

Tristram and Iseult, 147

Trout-fishing, 264-277

Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 131-132;
paintings at Roman Exhibition, 131


Walker, Frederick, 131

Watts, G. F., 119, 128

Wauchier: story of the Holy Grail, 148

Weston, Miss Jessie: story of the Holy Grail, 150, 156

Whistler, James McNeill, 89-100

Wilkie, Sir David, 106

Wills, W. G., 206, 210

Wilson, Richard, 130, 131

Wolfram von Eschenbach: story of the Holy Grail, 149


Zoffany, Johann, 109

THE END

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