Footnotes:
[2] Letter to William Allingham, May 10th, 1861.
[3] "Athenæum," April, 1864.
[4] The original title of this picture was Eastern Slinger scaring Birds in Harvest-time: Moonrise. See Illustration at p. 112.
[5] This picture was re-sold at Christie's in 1892 for 3,750 guineas.
[6] Sometimes entitled An Athlete strangling a Python.
[8] Engraved in the "Magazine of Art," March, 1896.
[9] "Current Art" ("Magazine of Art," May, 1889).
[10] "The Studio," vol. iii.
[11] Reproductions of both of these drawings are given at p. 18.
[12] "Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to William Allingham," by George Birkbeck Hill, D.C.L., LL.D. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1897.
[13] "La Peinture Anglaise Contemporaine" (Paris, Hachette, 1895).
[14] "Magazine of Art," March, 1896, p. 197.
[15] The asterisk denotes works exhibited at the Winter Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1897.
[16] R.A., Royal Academy; G.G., Grosvenor Gallery; R.W.S., Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours; S.S., Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street; D.G., Dudley Gallery; S.P.P., Society of Portrait Painters.
[17] Exhibited in the Roman Section, by some blunder of the Committee; the picture having been painted in Rome.
[18] Purchased for £2,000 by the President and Council of the Royal Academy, under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest.
[19] Painted by invitation for the Collection of Portraits of Artists painted by themselves in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
[20] Painted for the house of Mr. Murquand, New York.
[21] Purchased for 1,000 guineas by the President and Council of the Royal Academy, under the terms of the Chantrey Bequest.
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