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Rapid movements, and utterances that glistened with 

 prompt remarks, sharp, concise, with quick humour, 

 but not seeking occasions for wit, and imbued through- 

 out with a perfect frankness distinguished the man. 

 Even in 1867 there was little outward change, although 

 not long after that date the attacks of nervous 

 depression occurred with fewer and briefer intervals." 



Sir Edwin Landseer died on October 1st, 1873. To 

 judge from the prices which his pictures have fetched 

 at recent sales, his fame has rather increased than 

 diminished, and certainly we have had no animal-painter 

 to take his place. Nor is there any artist on whom his 

 mantle has fallen as a portrayer of the picturesque and 

 poetic side of the field sports which are dear to so many 

 hundreds of his countrymen. 



Sir John Everett Millais, though sport does not enter 

 into his art as much as it did into Landseer's, was a 

 far greater sportsman than the famous animal-painter. 

 From his boyhood he was a devoted angler. When 

 his father lived in Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, 

 John and his brother William would start at daybreak, 

 when they had a holiday, tramp off to Hornsey for 

 a day's fishing in the New River, and walk back 

 when their sport was over. No one who looked at 

 his fine, stalwart figure in the prime of life would have 

 guessed that Millais had been a delicate boy ; but so 

 it was, and he owed the strength and vigour of his 

 manhood to long autumn holidays of sport among the 

 breezes of moor and mountain. 



In appearance, as everyone who saw him will 



