E-text prepared by Audrey Longhurst, Wilelmina Maillière, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/c/) ART IN ENGLAND Notes and Studies by DUTTON COOK. London Sampson Low, Son, and Arston Milton House, Ludgate Hill. 1869. Edinburgh: T. Constable, Printer to the Queen, and to the University. CONTENTS. PAGE EARLY ART-SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND 1 VERRIO AND LAGUERRE 15 A SCULPTOR'S LIFE IN THE LAST CENTURY 28 THE RISE OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY 55 WIDOW HOGARTH AND HER LODGER 104 ALLAN RAMSAY, JUNIOR 123 GEORGE ROMNEY 142 COSWAY, THE MINIATURE-PAINTER 175 THE STORY OF A SCENE-PAINTER 201 THE STORY OF AN ENGRAVER 230 SIR JOSHUA'S PUPIL 244 HOPPNER AND LAWRENCE 260 THE PUPIL OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE 295 TURNER AND RUSKIN 316 PREFACE. It will be readily understood that this little volume does not affect to set forth anything like a formal history of the rise and progress of Art in England. The fitting treatment of such a theme would need much more space--not to mention other requirements--than I have here at command. I have designed merely to submit in a manner that may, I trust, be acceptable to the general reader, and not wholly without value to the student, some few excerpts and chapters from the chronicles of the nation's Art, with biographical studies of certain of its artists.