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CONTENTS
CHAPTER II
"LEIGH'S," 1845–1851
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Fifteen years old, and destined to carry on the business of coachbuilder—To learn first methodical habits with a woollen warehouseman—"The London Carriage Repository" (Marks & Co.)—Comparative idleness—Salesman — The one transaction—Sir Edward Landseer's friend Jacob Bell—An improvised studio—Painting "a portrait or two" — The Polytechnic— Desire for art-instruction—Private Art Schools in London then—Leigh's and Carey's—Entered at seventeen as student at Leigh's—Life-long friendships established with fellow-pupils—H.T. Wells, R.A.; H.H. Armstead, R.A.; F. Smallfield, John R. Clayton, &c. — Longing to leave the Repository—Three days a week "off" for study!—Student at the Royal Academy— Sale of the Repository—Check-taker for a panorama: without salary — Special constable with Leigh in view of the Chartist Demonstration in 1848—James Mathews Leigh: his fine nature, handsome appearance, manners, wit, culture, conversational powers, and teaching—Joseph Clark's picture "The Sick Child"—Suppers at Leigh's—Henry S. Leigh — John Sparkes—Walter Thornbury: his abandonment of Art for Literature—Clandestine visit to the Theatre—the first!—The Royal Pill-Box or Royal Dust-Hole, afterwards the Prince of Wales's—Recollections of the performance — The last days of James Mathews Leigh—Harry Leigh — The "Circle" Club—Leigh's School in Newman Street still carried on |
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CHAPTER III
PARIS, 1852—BELGIUM, 1860
With Calderon to Paris for superior teaching in the French schools of art—An eventless journey, ending with "the key of the street"—After breakfast to the Louvre—Bullet marks
