[137] Must be the well-known picture named _April Love_. [138] _Cromwell on his Farm._ Brown seems by this date to have settled on the subject, but he had not, I think, made any beginning with it. [139] I do not understand this phrase. [140] _Cromwell at the Deathbed of his Daughter._ [141] Wife of Daniel Casey, the painter, mentioned on p. 94. [142] Madox Brown’s first wife. [143] _i.e._, _Cordelia at the Bedside of Lear_. [144] Jullien’s Promenade Concerts. [145] The sketch of a street in Hampstead, which Brown had undertaken as a study for the scene of his picture named _Work_. He gave the sketch to Mr. Woolner. [146] A prominent sculptor of that time. [147] All the three works here mentioned remained in Brown’s possession up to his death in 1893, and were disposed of in the sale held soon afterwards. THE P.R.B. JOURNAL, 1849-53 THE P.R.B. JOURNAL, 1849-53. The facts regarding the formation of the Præraphaelite Brotherhood, or P.R.B., have been frequently summarized ere now in print, by others and by myself: but I must run them over again briefly, in order to make the P.R.B. Journal the clearer. In 1848 there were four young students in the Royal Academy Schools--John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt in the Life-school, Thomas Woolner in the Sculpture-school, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the Antique-school. Woolner, born in 1825, was the eldest; Millais, born in 1829, the youngest. These young men were all capable and ambitious: they had all, except Rossetti, exhibited something, to which (more especially in the case of Millais) the Art-authorities and the public had proved not wholly indifferent. They entertained a hearty contempt for much of the art--flimsy, frivolous, and conventional--which they saw in practice around them; and wanted to show forth what was in them in the way of solid and fresh thought or invention, personal observation, and the intimate study of and strict adherence to Nature. The young men came together, interchanged ideas, and were joined by two other youthful Painter-Students, James Collinson and Frederic George Stephens, and also myself, who was not an Artist. So there were seven men forming the Præraphaelite Brotherhood. I will not debate at any length why the term Præraphaelite was adopted. There was much defiance in it, some banter, some sense, a great deal of resolute purpose, a large opening for misinterpretations, and a _carte-blanche_ invitation for abuse. After thus constituting themselves, what they had to do was to design, paint, and model, and one of them in especial, Dante Rossetti, to write poetry; and they did it with a will. Some little while having elapsed, it was determined that one of the P.R.B.’s should be Secretary, and should keep a journal; and I, as not being taken up by art-work, was pitched upon for the purpose. I accordingly began the P.R.B. Journal.