Our portraits of Mr. G. F. Watts depict him at most interesting ages. The first was painted at seventeen by Mr. Watts himself, at which age his first picture was exhibited at the Royal Academy. At twenty-one, he had painted his first great historical picture; while at forty-seven, the age of our third portrait, he had just received the title of R.A. [Illustration: _From a_ +AGE 22.+ _Photograph._] SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, BART., R.A. +Born 1827.+ Although our first portrait shows Sir John Millais at the early age of twenty-two, he was already an important figure in the world of Art; for he had gained his first medal at the Society of Arts when only nine, and had, like Mr. Watts, exhibited his first picture in the Royal Academy at seventeen. At the age of this portrait he had founded, with Holman Hunt and D. G. Rossetti, the famous Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, of which the object was to depict Nature, not as tinged by the imagination, but as they really saw it; a movement which was at first received with the most violent abuse, but which, greatly owing to the eloquent support of Mr. Ruskin, at last made good its way. Two years later he was elected A.R.A., and ten years afterwards, R.A. At the age depicted in our second portrait he was known, as he is still, as a painter without rival in range, manliness, and vigour, and in bold and masterly brush-work. In the year 1885 the Queen marked her sense of his commanding abilities by conferring upon him the honour of a baronetcy. [Illustration: _From a_ +AGE 40.+ _Photograph._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_ +PRESENT DAY.+ _Messrs. Window & Grove._] [Illustration: _From a Photo._ +AGE 17.+ _by Maull & Co._] [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_ +AGE 32.+ _Hills & Saunders._] SIR RICHARD EVERARD WEBSTER. +Born 1842.+ Sir Richard Webster at seventeen, the age of our first portrait, was leaving the Charterhouse School for Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was greatly distinguished as an athlete, and where he won the two miles race against Oxford. Our second portrait shows him at this period, in his running costume. At thirty-two, as in our third portrait, he had already so distinguished himself at the Bar that two years later he was made a Q.C., at the earliest age on record. The brilliance of Sir Richard's subsequent career is well known. It may interest our readers to be told that some portraits, at a country house, of Sir Richard at various stages of his life, first suggested to the Editor the notion of this series, which has proved so popular. [Illustration: AGE 22. _From a Photo. by Mayland, Cambridge._] For the above photographs we are indebted to the kindness of Sir Richard Webster. [Illustration: _From a Photo. by_ +PRESENT DAY.+ _Hughes & Mullins, Ryde._] [Illustration: _From a_ +AGE 6.+ _Daguerreotype._] [Illustration: _From a_ +AGE 24.+ _Photograph._]