[149] This design (we all considered it a very fine one, and with good reason) represented the spoliation of the grave of Queen Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror. It was included in the Millais Exhibition of 1886. [150] About this poem I remember now next to nothing. I suppose it was never finished. [151] No doubt the poem named _Dante at Verona_. [152] From a song in Browning’s _Pippa Passes_. [153] Cottingham was an architect, who first came into our circle by offering to buy Rossetti’s earliest picture, _The Girlhood of Mary Virgin_. He never did buy it, and his transactions with the P.R.B. were considered anything but satisfactory. [154] It will be understood that the year 1849, to which the beginning of this Journal belongs, was the first year when pictures pertaining to the “Præraphaelite” movement were exhibited. Hunt’s picture was _Rienzi Vowing Revenge over his Brother’s Corpse_; Millais’s was the _Lorenzo and Isabella_ (from Keats), now a leading ornament of the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Though that distinguished authority, _The Court Journal_, was thus contemptuous, the general tone of press-opinion regarding the Præraphaelite pictures of 1849 was moderate and sometimes laudatory; the systematic abuse developed in 1850. [155] The first beginning of _My Beautiful Lady_. [156] Edward L. Bateman, the Decorative Artist, who, not long afterwards, emigrated to Australia. Bernhard Smith contemplated at this time emigrating to America. He relinquished that project, but went to Australia towards the same date as Mr. Bateman. [157] Two poems in Mr. Patmore’s first volume, published in 1844. Dante Rossetti read the volume soon after publication, delighted in it much, and must have introduced it to other P.R.B.’s. [158] This was not done. [159] Lowes Dickinson. [160] This would be the room appropriated to my brother and myself at the top of our family residence, 50 Charlotte Street, Portland Place. It was certainly an anti-luxurious apartment, but we had of course the run of the rest of the house. [161] These are two paintings by Hunt; they may have been finished, or may not. [162] Augustus Leopold Egg, the R.A. painter. [163] William North, author of _Anti-Coningsby_, and of some other novels etc. [164] This project, as will be seen, resulted in the publication of _The Germ_. [165] Mr. Orchard was a young painter, of very feeble physique, whose brief and harrassed term of life barely allowed him to do more than show that there was something in him much beyond the commonplace. I have a faint recollection of one exhibited picture which I believe to have been his--_Thomas à Becket escaping from England_. [166] _The Girlhood of Mary Virgin._ It had been exhibited in this same year, 1849. [167] Of this song no trace now remains. It had not, I think, any definite relation to his English poem, written ere now, _My Sister’s Sleep_. [168] Must be the same as _On the Refusal of Aid between Nations_.