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and abrasures in the walls of the houses suggestive of the recent coup d'état — The Luxembourg, dinner, and the theatre — Degazet — Our lodging — Perfect amity : “poor but content” — M. Picot — The atelier — Reception by the students — Models, materials, and methods of study — Duties of the last-comer — Paying his footing — Horse-play — Hard work and long hours — Meals — Admitted student at l’Ecole des Beaux Arts — Probationership there and at the Royal Academy contrasted— The students’ competitions at Picods — Calderon’s brilliant sketch : Marks’s yet gives him “ a cold shudder ! ” — An evening life-school without a master — An eccentric keeper — The English Church : i fr. 25 c. for a seat — “ Those delightful Paris days!” — French fellow-students who have since made names — Mr. Mudie’s little foreign tour — An oddly-assorted but harmonious party through Belgium and Holland — A polyglot courier — Over-rated Paul Potter — Tulips — The Amsterdam Zoo — A trip on the Rhine — Belgium revisited — Antwerp — A grand old city merchant — Genial Baron Leys — Other Belgian painters — "It is possible to have too much of Rubens"— at Antwerp . 35-48
CHAPTER IV
AFTER PARIS— CLAYTON AND BELL— DUBLIN, 1853-1859
Home again and at Leigh’s — My first picture, “Dogberry,” re- jected at the British Institute and accepted at the Academy — Holman Hunt’s opinion — Sold to a fellow-student — An evening at the Vic : the “ Dogs of Montargis” — From hand to mouth — The Portland Gallery — Wood-drawing for the Home Circle — Pierce Egan, junior — Sir John Gilbert held up as a model — A years’-after comparison of notes with Sir John — Professor of Drawing at a “Literary Institute” — “Toothache in the Middle Ages” at the R. A. — A First of April “sell” — Picture purchased by Mr. Charles Edward Mudie, founder of the world-famed library — Mr. Mudie a subsequent purchaser — “The Gravedigger’s Riddle” — Mar-
