Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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er.) Dragon, wliicli, l)e<ifini in 1848, wascompleted in 1858, in the ui)per waiting-hall of the palace at Westminster. TheKinir Alfred is also in the House,havini^- been purchased after a time, fora small sum, by the Commissioners. He was now thoroui^hly possessedwith the desire to stimulate the love ofnoble art and the S2)irit of jmtriotismin En<j:land by the adornment of thewalls of public buildings with mightyfrescos of ^^reat subjects, and he pur-sued this great aim with ardor for702 many years after his return from Italy.If such a dream could be fuLtilled bythe will of artists alone, every jiublicbuilding in England would be coveredwith pictures ; for. whatever else maybe alleged against British artists, it cannever be said that they have been want-ing in public and patriotic spirit, orhave weighed their labor by the ounce,when it was to be turned to a nobleuse. Barn-, half starved, laboring athis huge pictures at the Society of Artsfor the cost of his materials, the Royal
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Lord Tennyson. Photographed by F. Hollyer, after the unfinished study in oil in the possession of the artist. The painting was finished May, 1890. Academy as a body, offering- (in 1773)to decorate St. Pauls at their own ex-pense, are striking evidences in tlie past;and of living- men, Leigliton, Shields,Armitage, and others have shown theirwillingness to work for public endsfor nothing, or for journeymans wages.Not least of these is Watts, who executedwithout fee the grand fresco of Jus- tice, 40 feet high by 45 feet long, inthe Hall of Lincolns Inn, and offeredto decorate the great hall at EustonRailway Station with a series of muralpaintings rejDresenting the Progressof Commerce, for the bare cost of scaf-folding and colors. This was refused,and the regret which we must all feelat the rejection of such a great offer is 703

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