ART IN THE EEIGN OF QUEEN ANNE. 
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ART IN THE REIGlSr OF QUEEN ANNE, AND THE POST- 
REFORMATION ART IN ENGLAND PRECEDING IT. 
ABSTRACT OF MR. J. HINE's PAPER. 
(Read December 15th, 1870.) 
Introductory remarks, in which conflicting feelings on the subject 
were expressed. Qualified praise bestowed on the Art of the period. 
The revolution in Art effected by Inigo Jones and Wren. The 
superseded Goth blessing his enemies. A brief sketch of the 
history of the Post-Reformation Art in England. Art taken out 
of the hands of the church, and the influence of the revival of 
classical learning. Holbein, Oliver, and the other early portrait 
painters. Their works criticised and contrasted witl^ those of 
Lely and the later painters. The transitional period of Art in 
Elizabeth's reign described, and the partial revival of Gothic in 
James I.'s reign. Art greatly encouraged by Charles I. in his 
employment of Reubens and Vandyke. The practice of foreign 
artists in England. Native architects. The adoption of pure 
classic form by Inigo Jones. The abandonment of Ai't during the 
Commonwealth; Cromwell's contempt for it, however, balanced 
by Milton's appreciation of it. The painters of Charles II. 's reign, 
and the reigns succeeding. Concluding with a review of some of 
the works of Wren, Yanbrugh, and Gibbons. 
MISTLETOE ON THE OAK. 
( Viscum album, L.) 
Perhaps no fact connected with those ancient priests of our country, 
the Druids, is more generally known than their veneration for the 
Mistletoe {Viscum alhum, L.) when found on the oak; but whe- 
ther their regard for it was confined to those bushes that were 
nurtured by this tree, or extended in a less degree to it wherever 
located, is not, I think, quite clear. If Viscum alhwn were as rare 
on the oak in their day as it is in our own, one would imagine that 
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