Prraphaelite Diaries and Letters Author:William Michael Rossetti General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: Hurst and Blackett, limited Subjects: Preraphaelitism Pre-Raphaelitism Painters Art / General Art / History / General Art / European Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Art / Individual Artist Literary Criticism / Eu... more »ropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Madox Brown To Elizabeth Brown, Hastings. LETTER I. Brown and his first wife (his cousin, Elizabeth Bromley) married at a very, early age, and lived for a while in Paris. They left Paris and settled in England in the summer of 1 844. The state of her health was such as to require her to live out of London, and she went to Hastings ; he occupied a studio in the Regent's Park or Camden Town district, in the same house with the painter Charles Lucy and his family. Another inmate was Frank Howard, an artist of rapid facility and some cleverness, who engaged in the cartoon-competitions for the Houses of Parliament. " My coloured sketch " was (I take it) the same design as Brown's cartoon, The Spirit of Justice, sent to the second of these competitions. The name of the painter, William Etty, explains itself. Martin must be the celebrated John Martin. 35 Arlington Street, Camden Town. [ ? December 1844.] My Blessed Lizzy, You can't think how I was pleased to receive your long letter. ... I am in no mood to write a long letter. I am bothered and anxious. This is a horrid place : that study is a regular castle of indolence, and it is catching -- indeed, nothing is more so. The study is continually full of all of them, gabbling, and it distracts me. That infernal Howard is a pest, and yet he is so good-natured on...« less