Beatrix Knighting Esmond, by Augustus Leopold Egg. 1857 Oil on canvas, 86.9 x 117.1 cm Tate Britain. Accession number N01385. Purchased 1893. Click on image to enlarge it.
Egg, one of the few Royal Academicians who sympathized with the works of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, generously supported the young painters, several times providing William Holman Hunt financial assistance to complete his works for exhibition. The damask tablecloth and flowers at right are the kind of details that John Everett Millais and Hunt depicted meticulously, and Egg’s including them suggests that they influenced his work as does his not dropping the four corners of the painting into shadow.
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Bibliography
The Complete Works of Shakspeare [sic] Containing the Illustrations of Kenny Meadows, Frith, Nicholson, Courbould, Hayter, etc.. Volume 2 (Comedies). London and New York: The London Printing and Publishing Company, n.d. [1839-42] Hathi Trust online version of a copy in the University of California Library. Web. 6 August 2021.
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