We ought not to overlook another idyllic picture in the same exhibition, _Whispers_, an illustration of Horace's well-known line, "Lenesque sub noctem susurri." In this charming work, amid masses of crimson flowers and green leaves, two lovers are seen seated upon a marble bench, while he whispers tenderly in her ear, and she listens with dreamy eyes and maidenly mien. The noble picture of _Elisha and the Shunamite's Son_ (reproduced at p. 114) was also shown this year, as well as _Bianca_, a fair-haired girl in a white dress, standing with folded arms, _Viola_, and two portraits, _Mrs. Augustus Ralli_, exhibited at the Royal Academy, and _Mrs. Algernon Sartoris_, at the Grosvenor Gallery. In the 1882 Academy appeared two of the most popular of Sir Frederic's pictures, _Wedded_ and _Day Dreams_. In the latter, a fair Sybarite is pressing her cheek against her hands, as she stands near a tapestry, with eyes gazing far away, the images of love-dreams in them; her purple mantle, embroidered with silver, produces a charming effect of colour. Still more famous is _Wedded_,--"one of the happiest of Sir Frederic's designs," said a critic at the time, "and as a composition of lines, difficult, subtle, and original, may be called one of the most remarkable productions of this decade." Other pictures shown this year were _Antigone_ and the much-debated _Phryne at Eleusis_--a notable study of the famous hetaira, who is seen standing, and holding out with one hand the mass of her deep auburn hair. Her skin is of a ruddy golden hue, as if seen under a glow of sunlight. Red tissue, which falls from her shoulders and extended arms, and an olive-coloured mantle that has fallen at the foot of the marble columns behind her, backed by a sky, very characteristic of the painter, in which snowlike masses of cloud float in a southern azure, produce a total effect of a certain super-womanly order of beauty. A _Design for a portion of a Proposed Decoration in St. Paul's_, a picture entitled _Melittion_, and a _Portrait of Mrs. Mocatta_, were also hung at the Academy in 1882; _Zeyra_, a little Eastern child in plum coloured headdress, a rich bit of colour elaborately painted, was shown at the Grosvenor Gallery.