"The first, third, tenth and fifteenth chapters in the present volume have seen the light already in 'the Nineteenth century'; the ninth is re-arranged from 'the Anglo-Saxon review'; and the sixteenth reprinted from 'the Magazine of fine arts' ... Certain of the remarks in other portions of this book were first made in the 'Standard.'"--Note A candid word.--The place of Whistler.--Venetian painting.--Fantin and Boudin.--Richard Wilson.--Goya.--The rise of English water-colour.--Romney and Lawrence.--Raeburn and Zoffany.--Ruskin.--Constable's "English landscape."--Etty.--Large water-colours.--Hine.--An endless roll-call.--The field of the print collector.--The Norwich masters.--Thomas Collier.--Pictures by Orchardson.--Charles Keene.--Paris and Fulleylove.--D. Y. Cameron.--Still life.--The art of Brabazon.--The personality of Watts