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• Dr. Johnson
  Samuel Johnson is one of the great names in English literary history ; but his celebrity depends not so much on his Dictionary or other works, as on the record of his life and table talk by Boswell. The portraits of him show his rough exterior; but as Goldsmith said of him, he had "nothing of the bear but his skin," and he was one of the kindest as well as the most celebrated men of his time.
• Oliver Goldsmith conjuring
  A child's wonder makes a wise man's fun.
• The Doge
  The chief of the Venetian state was called the Doge, or Duke.
• Blind Love
  (Water Colour drawing, 1862.) Love as a pilgrim is holding in his right hand an arrow, wherewith he is feeling his way along the street. "Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." --Shakespeare.
• The late Mr. Ashton Dilke, M.P.
  Mr. Ashton Dilke, younger brother of Sir Charles Dilke, was M.P. for Newcastle from 1880 to 1883 when he died. He was also proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch.
• Oedipus and Antigone
  Oedipus was Kind of Thebes and did a great wrong un- wittingly. And when he learned the truth, with his own hands he tore out his eyes, for that "it was not fit that the eyes which had seen such things should ever look upon the sun again." And not long after Oedipus was driven forth in wretchedness and beggary, and his daughter Antigone led him by the hand, and sought to cheer him in his agony. She ' Leads the old man through many a wild wood path, ' Hungry and footsore, threading on her way ; ' And many a storm, and many a scorching sun ' Bravely she bears, and little recks of home, ' So that her father finds his daily bread.' And the story goes on to tell of the healing virtue of love ; for in the end the furies of remorse are turned into the kindly Goddesses of forgiveness, and Oedipus is received up into heaven.
• George IV, relieving a poor family
  The story is told of George IV, when prince of Wales, hearing of any officer's family in distress; straightway borrowing six or eight hundred pounds, and in disguise carrying the money to the starving family.
• A Jester in gaol
  His legs are fettered but his mind is free, and he still fancies himself in old scenes making others merry./ Stone walls do not a prison make,/ Nor iron bars a cage.-- Lovelace
• Glen Orchy, Scotland
  The mists which make London fogs make alos the soft beauty of Scotland.
• Beech Trees, New Forest
  "In some green melodious plot Of beechen green and shadows numberless." -- (Keats).
• The "Echo" Boy
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• Giants at Play
  The giants find a playmater in the puppy, and forget the weariness of work in watching the little creature's fear and fierceness. What esle are giants themselves than puppies, in the eyes of thos larger giants whose glory it is "to have a giant's stregnth," but never "to use is like a giant?"
• Grandfather's Portrait
  the young artists is anxiously awaiting the verdict of his critics. It will depend as much on the grandfather's temper as on the likeness itself.
• Collecting Sheep; Warwickshire
  On the great sheep-runs, hundreds of animals are often lost in a storm. the dogs are here shown gathering them in before the storm breaks.
• French Shepherd
  A picture in what is called the "Impressionist" school, the method of which is to transfer rapidly to the canvas the general impression of any scene. The Impressionists are thus the complete opposite of the Pre-Raphaelites, of whose work there were several good examples in last year's Exhibition, and who aim at presenting every detail with absolutel fidelity.
• A Letter from Papa
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• French Fisherwoman
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• St. Jerome
  St. Jerome, who first made the great Eastern book, the Bible, legible in the West, by translating the Hebrew into Latin, was one of the chief saints of the Latin or Western Church, and was a favourite subject in Christian art. There are eleven pictures of him in the National Gallery alone.The men who help the world by study must "scorn delights and live laborious days."
• Into the Bay
  A wet sheet and a flowing sea,/ A wind that follows fast,/ And fills the white and rustling sail,/ And bends the gallant mast./ The white waves heading high, my lads,/ the good ship bright and free,--/ The world of waters is our home,/ And merry men are we.--/ (Allan Cunningham)
• Summer on the Sands
  "Now the great winds shoreward blow,/ Now the salt tides seaward flow;/ Now the wild white horses play,/ Champ and chafe and toss in the spray." / (Matthew Arnold).
• Four Sketches of St. Mark's
  St. Mark's is the cathedral of Venice, and one of the most famous buildings in the world. the interior is thus described by RuskinL "it is lost in deep twilight, to which the eye must be accustomed for some moments before the form of the building can be traced. Round the domes of its roof the light enters only through narrow apertures like large stars; and here and there a ray or two from some far away casement wanders into the darkness and casts a narrow phospheric stream upon the waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor. What else there is of light is from torches, or silver lamps, burning ceaselessly in the recesses of the chapel; the roof sheeted with gold, and the polished walls covered with alabaster, give back at every curve and angle some feeble gleaming to the flames, and the glories, round the heads of the sculptured saints, flash out upom us as we pass them, and sink into gloom."
• Six Sketches of Rhodes
  Rhodes is a Greek island in the Mediterranean, and these sketches are full of "the deep divine dark dayshine of the sea." "There the sunshine in the happy glens is fair," and Greek poets called the island "the bride of the sun." There was a fable, too, that when the gods made division of the earth among them, the sun-god did not obtain his portion; and when the other gods were for casting lots afresh, he suffered them not, for he said that, beneaht the hoary sea he saw a certain land waxing from its root in the earth, which should bring forth food for many men, and rejoice in flocks, and that he wanted this for his portion. And the gods granted him his wish, and in the end there spraing up from the sea the Island of Rhodes.
• John Stuart Mill
  John Stuart Mill, who died in 1873, and of whom there is a memorial statue on the Thames Embankment close to Blackfriars Bridge, was the greatest English writer of his time on logic, political economy and politics. In 1865, he gave up, as he said, his "tranquil and retired existence as a writer of books, for the less congenial occupation of a Member of the House of Commons," and was returned to Parliament by the working men of Westminster. Like all great portraits, this picture shows the character as well as the features of the man -- his clear and incisive intellect, his broad and keen observation, his strong memory, and his latent stores of tenderness.
• Shrimpers
• Dutch Lady