WILLIAM ETTY (1787--1849), the son of a miller at York, had few advantages to help him on the road to fame. His education was slight, and his early years were spent as a printer's apprentice in Hull. But he had determined to be a painter; and his motto was, as he tells us, "_Perseverance_." In 1806, he visited an uncle, in Lombard Street, and became a student at the Academy, though his earliest art-school was a plaster-cast shop in Cock Lane. Through his uncle's generosity, he became a pupil of Lawrence, who had little time to attend to him. Though overwhelmed with difficulties Etty persevered bravely. He laboured diligently in the "Life School," tried in vain for all the medals, sent his pictures to the Academy only to see them rejected; unlike Haydon, he never lost heart. In 1820 _The Coral Finders_ was exhibited at the Academy, and in the following year _Cleopatra_. His patience and diligence were rewarded; henceforth his career was one of success. In 1822, he visited Italy, and in 1828 became a full member of the Academy. His art was very unequal. He chiefly devoted himself, however, to painting women, as being the embodiments of beauty. As a colourist few English painters have rivalled him, and as a painter of flesh he stands high. As showing the different forms of his many-sided art, we may mention _Judith and Holofernes_, _Benaiah_, _The Eve of the Deluge_, _Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the Helm_, _The Imprudence of Candaules_, _The dangerous Playmate_, and _The Magdalen_ (all in the National Gallery). Etty died unmarried, and the possessor of a considerable fortune. HENRY PERRONET BRIGGS (1792--1844), distinguished as an historic and portrait painter, began his art studies at the Academy in 1811, and was made a full member of that body in 1832. His best-known works are _Othello relating his Adventures_, _The first Conference between the Spaniards and Peruvians_, and _Juliet and her Nurse_; the two latter are in the National Gallery. This master in his later years forsook historical painting for portraiture. [Illustration: GREEK FUGITIVES. _By_ EASTLAKE. _Painted for Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart._ _Exhibited at the Royal Academy in_ A.D. 1833.]