Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the numerous original illustrations. See 45426-h.htm or 45426-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45426/45426-h/45426-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45426/45426-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/englishillustrat00whit ENGLISH ILLUSTRATION THE SIXTIES [Illustration: MORGAN LE FAY.] ENGLISH ILLUSTRATION 'THE SIXTIES': 1855-70 by GLEESON WHITE With Numerous Illustrations by Ford Madox Brown : A. Boyd Houghton Arthur Hughes : Charles Keene M. J. Lawless : Lord Leighton, _P._R.A. Sir J. E. Millais, _P._R.A. : G. Du Maurier J. W. North, R.A.: G. J. Pinwell Dante Gabriel Rossetti : W. Small Frederick Sandys: J. Mcneill Whistler Frederick Walker, A.R.A. : and Others London Archibald Constable And Co. Ltd. 16 James Street Haymarket 1906 _THIRD IMPRESSION_ *.* _This is a re-impression of the original edition of 1897. A few small errors have been corrected. In other respects the text has been left, as it came from the late Mr. Gleeson White's hands, unaltered._ Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty TO A. M. G. W. AND C. R. G. W. IN MEMORY OF THE MANY HOURS SPENT UNGRUDGINGLY IN PROOF READING PREFACE In a past century the author of a well-digested and elaborately accurate monograph, the fruit of a life's labour, was well content to entitle it 'Brief Contributions towards a History of So-and-So.' Nowadays, after a few weeks' special cramming, a hastily written record of the facts which most impressed the writer is labelled often enough 'A History.' Were this book called by the earlier phrase, it would still be overweighted. Nor did an English idiom exist that would provide the exact synonym for _catalogue-raisonné_, could the phrase be employed truthfully. It is at most a roughly annotated, tentative catalogue like those issued for art critics on press-days with the superscription 'under revision'--an equivalent of the legal reservation 'without prejudice.' To conceal the labour and present the results in interesting fashion, which is the aim of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on a 'Budget' night, ought also to be that of the compiler of any document crammed with distantly unrelated facts. But the time required for rewriting a book of this class, after it has grown into shape, would be enough to appal a person who had no other duties to perform, and absolutely prohibitive to one not so happily placed.