[111] This means Mr. Windus the picture-collector, who was said to be the proprietor of the medicine for children known as “Godfrey’s Cordial.” [112] I don’t know what Brown meant by “XXX”; perhaps it indicates that the works were in a very _ex_treme or exaggerated style of PRB’ism. [113] This is entitled _The Bridesmaid_. [114] I suppose the meaning is that Millais and Collins intended to hire horses, for exercise in riding. [115] Serjeant Ralph Thomas, a legal gentleman who had bought a great number of Mark Anthony’s pictures, finished or sketched. Brown (as the reader may have remarked) was rather free in using the epithet “scoundrel”--whether with reason or without. [116] Campbell’s Scotch Stores, Beak Street, Regent Street. The P.R.B.’s had a liking for this dining-room, as it was hung round with pictures by Theodore Von Holst. It is now named Blanchard’s Restaurant. [117] _i.e._, “Beer.” [118] “Scoundrel” means a certain personage in _The Last of England_--a _mauvais sujet_ who shakes his fist as a demonstration against the old country, in which he has been deservedly unlucky. [119] His first picture, the _Cimabue_. [120] _i.e._, a meeting of certain artists, to decide whether or not they would exhibit for themselves, apart from the R.A. [121] This description of Michael F. Halliday--as friendly and obliging a man as I have known--cannot be called good-natured, but I let it stand for what it is worth. He was not truly a sinecurist, but a clerk in the House of Lords; neither was he a gent, but a gentleman. [122] Mr. R. P. Burcham was a druggist, in whose house my sister Maria and I had at one time taken apartments. I discovered him to be an amateur artist, of superior attainment in subjects of still life, such as those painted by W. H. Hunt, of the Watercolour Society. He was in fact well acquainted with Hunt. [123] _i.e._, in my house in Albany Street, Regent’s Park, No. 166. [124] Miss Boyce was a sister of George P. Boyce the water-colour painter: the head which she exhibited this year was named _Elgiva_. She afterwards married Mr. Wells the Portrait-painter, and died young. [125] _The Taming of the Shrew._ [126] A head entitled _Christabel_. [127] The wrestling scene from _As You Like It_. [128] Nearly the same subject which Brown had painted in 1849, _Cordelia at the Bedside of Lear_. [129] Daughter of the Mrs. Helen Bromley mentioned in p. 64. [130] This was (as I understand it) the wife of Mr. William Jones, a solicitor in the City, and at Greenwich: she had been a Miss Madox. [131] Monti was author of a sculptured bust then very famous, _The Veiled Vestal_. [132] Colleone is meant. [133] Intended to serve as a wing (or as the two wings) for the _Chaucer_ picture. [134] I suppose this is the picture called _The Hayfield_. [135] Brown had a bad habit of using this Latin word as if it meant “seriously.” [136] “We” seems to mean Brown himself and Thomas Seddon.