n too great. He began a picture straight away on the canvas, rarely making any preparation beforehand beyond the merest blocking out of masses on a sheet of note-paper. Of his more important works, however, he sometimes made painted sketches, but this was not enough to cure him of that readiness to… … SKETCH PORTRAIT OF SIR J. E. MILLAIS, BART., R.A., WHEN A BOY. BY J. PHILLIP. The National Gallery of Scotland, indeed, possesses an unfinished canvas on which his facility, his animation, and some hint at his power as a colourist, are to be read. The subject is Spanish Boys playing at…
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