Alfred Chalon, Abraham Cooper, Collins, Eastlake, Howard,
Hart, George Jones, Uwins, Patten, Charles Landseer, Red-
grave, Webster, are also names still familiar to us: the
President was the fashionable, and now already more than
half-forgotten, portrait-painter Shee. Outside of the Academy
were Cope, Dyce, Ward, Egg, Elmore, Goodall, Hook,
F. R. Pickersgill, Poole, Frank Stone ; some of them quite
young aspirants, the best of them yet unexercised in their
full strength : the only one who had as yet done his best
was Poole. Haydon and Martin were the very promi-
nent hostile outsiders ; in Scotland there was David Scott
All these, or most of them, were the hommes (Pklite; the
rank and file were, as a rule, extremely characterless and
unimportant to the cause of art. The school, as such, was
the remains of the * Annual' phase of work — ^a phase whose
essence and resource may be described as mere attractive-
ness to a class of patrons and dabblers to whom that quality,
in its most obvious and flimsy forms, stood in stead of the
great and sound excellences of art Some of the names
above cited suffice to show indeed that the school was not
wanting in talent of a high and exceptional order; but it



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was talent in a slough, without organization, enlarged point
of view, or adequate means of development.
