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FOOTNOTES:
[89] The greater portion of this preface appeared as an article in the Magazine of Art, October 1899. It is with the kind permission of the proprietors that it is reprinted.
[90] Mr. De Morgan is at present engaged in making two jars in pottery, which he intends to present to the House, to fill the niches in the Arab Hall.
[91] "Leighton has been cut up unmercifully by the critics, but bears on, Robert says, not without courage. That you should say his picture looked well, was comfort in the general gloom."—Letter from Mrs. Browning to Mrs. Jameson, May 6th, 1856, Paris.
[92] Nineteen years later, I happened to copy the same group in water-colour; but it was only after Leighton's death that I saw this extraordinarily beautiful drawing.