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Excerpt from British Contemporary ArtistsBut though so different in many respects they are alike in one -their subject is mankind, and their works are all more or less rich in those human elements which are the very life of all great art, whether it be music or poetry or painting. Whether we look at those spiritual conceptions in which Watts has suggested the profoundest problems of human life, or wander in that romantic wonderland where the deli cate fancy of Burne-jones lived and revelled; whether we visit with alma-tadema a Roman villa in the days of the Caesars, or, with Orchardson, a Salon in Paris in those of Louis XVI; whether we drink the classic air with Leighton or the very breath of daily life with Millais, we are never far from our kind - its beauty or its char acter, its hopes or its fears, the sights of its eyes or the dreams of its imagination.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.… (more)