Deverell has worthily filled up the place left vacant by Collinson.[234] His work at the National Institution this year[235] was a strong ground of claim; and this has been confirmed by what he has since done, and is doing. He hopes to exhibit two pictures next year: _Rosalind witnessing the Encounter of Jacques and Orlando in the Forest_, which is pretty nearly finished, and _The Ordering of Hamlet’s Departure for England_, of which Gabriel has seen an uncompleted design. Other recent designs of his are _The Converse of Laertes and Ophelia_, _Claude du Val Dancing with a Lady of Quality after attacking her Carriage_ (in the possession of Stephens), _James II. in his Flight Overhauled and his person rifled by Fishermen_ (given to Gabriel), and _The Flight of an Egyptian Ibis_. Millais left town about the beginning of June, and has continued in and about Oxford ever since. He had made a design for--and I believe had begun painting before he left--Tennyson’s _Mariana_; in the country he has been engaged on his picture from Patmore: He sometimes, in a sullen tone, Would offer fruits; and she Always received his gifts with an air So unreserved and free That half-feigned distance soon became Familiarity. His brother William Millais is also turning his attention to art; and produced, when in Jersey during the summer, some excellent and most promising landscapes, which he will probably exhibit. I heard from Patmore the other night that Tennyson, on being told that Millais was doing something from _The Woodman’s Daughter_, observed, “I wish he’d do something from me.”