"Masterpieces in Colour" Series |
  | Artist. | Author. | | VELAZQUEZ. | S. L. Bensusan. | | REYNOLDS. | S. L. Bensusan. | | TURNER. | C. Lewis Hind. | | ROMNEY. | C. Lewis Hind. | | GREUZE. | Alys Eyre Macklin. | | BOTTICELLI. | Henry B. Binns. | | ROSSETTI. | Lucien Pissarro. | | BELLINI. | George Hay. | | FRA ANGELICO. | James Mason. | | REMBRANDT. | Josef Israels. | | LEIGHTON. | A. Lys Baldry. | | RAPHAEL. | Paul G. Konody. | | HOLMAN HUNT. | Mary E. Coleridge. | | TITIAN. | S. L. Bensusan. | | MILLAIS. | A. Lys Baldry. | | CARLO DOLCI. | George Hay. | | GAINSBOROUGH. | Max Rothschild. | | TINTORETTO. | S. L. Bensusan. | | LUINI. | James Mason. | | FRANZ HALS. | Edgcumbe Staley. | | VAN DYCK. | Percy M. Turner. | | LEONARDO DA VINCI. | M. W. Brockwell. | | RUBENS. | S. L. Bensusan. | | WHISTLER. | T. Martin Wood. | | HOLBEIN. | S. L. Bensusan. | | BURNE-JONES. | A. Lys Baldry. | | VIGÉE LE BRUN. | C. Haldane MacFall. | | CHARDIN. | Paul G. Konody. | | FRAGONARD. | C. Haldane MacFall. | | MEMLINC. | W. H. J. & J. C. Weale. | | CONSTABLE. | C. Lewis Hind. | | RAEBURN. | James L. Caw. | | JOHN S. SARGENT. | T. Martin Wood. | | LAWRENCE. | S. L. Bensusan. | | DÜRER. | H. E. A. Furst. | | MILLET. | Percy M. Turner. | | WATTEAU. | C. Lewis Hind. | | COROT. | Sidney Allnutt. | Others in Preparation.
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[Pg iv] PLATE I.—THE DEPTHS OF THE SEA. Frontispiece (In the possession of R. H. Benson, Esq.) Apart from its technical beauty and its charm of design, this picture has a special interest as the only contribution which the artist ever made to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy. It was shown at Burlington House in 1886, and was painted purposely, during the months that intervened between his election as an Associate in the summer of 1885 and the opening of the 1886 exhibition. In the treatment of the subject there is a touch of slightly grim humour, unusual in the art of Burne-Jones, a humour which finds expression particularly in the face of the mermaid, who drags a human being to her cave at the bottom of the sea without thinking or caring that her sport means death to him.
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