In 1885, among the five contributions of the President to the Academy, appeared the vivacious portrait of Lord Rosebery's little daughter, _The Lady Sybil Primrose_, who appears in white with a blue sash, carrying a doll. _A Portrait of Mrs. A. Hichens_ and _Phoebe_ were the only other pictures this year. A frieze, _Music_, was shown, and at the Grosvenor Gallery _A Study_ of a fair-haired girl, in green velvet dress. 1886 was chiefly notable for the statue in bronze of _The Sluggard_, in which Leighton again furnished us with a plastic characterization of Sleep, which he designed by way of contrast to his statue of the struggling Athlete. It was suggested, Mr. Spielmann says, by accidental circumstances. The model who had been sitting to him fell a-yawning in his interval of rest, and charmed the artist, not only with his exceptional beauty of line and play of muscle, but also with the artistic contrast of energy and languor. But that he might not lay himself open to the charge that the work was a glorification of indolence, the sculptor made concession to what after all was an artistic suggestion, and placed under the yawner's foot "The glorious wreath of laurel leaves Heel trodden and despised." The graceful statuette of a little girl who is alarmed by a toad on the edge of a pool or stream of water, called _Needless Alarms_, appeared at the same time; and was so much admired by the President's colleague, Sir John Everett Millais, that he wished to purchase it, whereupon Sir Frederic presented it to him, and received, in return, the charming picture of _Shelling Peas_, which Sir John painted specially for this pleasant exchange. In 1886 also appeared the _Decoration in Painting for a Music Room_, destined for New York, which is illustrated[7] by the completed work, and its preliminary studies from life for it. _Gulnihal_, a single figure, is the only other painting exhibited at the Academy in this year. [Illustration: THE LAST WATCH OF HERO (1887) _By permission of the Manchester Corporation_] [Illustration: PORTRAIT OF THE LADY SYBIL PRIMROSE (1885)] In 1887 appeared a picture which seems scarcely to have received its due appreciation, _The Jealousy of Simætha the Sorceress_. This is a seated figure in yellow and white drapery, with a purple mantle wrapped around her shoulders; a well-wrought, finely-rendered work. _The Last Watch of Hero_, also first seen this year, is now in the Manchester Corporation Gallery. It is in two compartments; in the upper, and larger, Hero, clad in pink drapery, is seen drawing aside a curtain and gazing out over the sea. Below, in the smaller panel, is the body of the dead Leander, on a rock washed by the waves. A quotation from Sir Edwin Arnold's translation of Musæus was appended to its title: "With aching heart she scanned the sea-face dim. * * * * * Lo! at the turret's foot his body lay, Rolled on the stones and washed with breaking spray."