HOW MILLAIS LECTURED HOLMAN HUNT.,

Otago Witness, Issue 2735, 15 August 1906, Page 71

HOW MILLAIS LECTURED HOLMAN HUNT.,

' A painter must work, for the taste of his ' own day. How does he know what people will like 200 or 306 rears- hence? I raai*j tain that a man should hold- up the miner to hia own tim«s. I want proof that the 1 people of my day enjoy- my •vyork, and ! how can I get this better Ukm> by finding : people willing to give me money for nsy ! productions, and thai I win honours from ' contemporaries? What good would- rcceg- ! nition of my labours hundreds o£ years I hence do me? Don't let us bother our- ' selves about the destinies of our work in. the world, but as it brings us fortune and I recognition. Let the artista of the future work for the future; they will see what's wanted. t For my part, I paint what there ie a, demand for. There is a. fashion going now for htt!e girls :n: n mob caps. Well, I satisfy this while it continues ; but immediately the demand shows signs of flaggins? I am ready to take to some other fsush"ion of th^-lset eantnry which people j now are quite keen on, or- I ehali do | portra>l& or landscapes. A man is sure j to get himeeif disliked if he is always ! opposing the powers that be. Now, I'm • really .=orry when I see you attacking pre- ■ jutlices. 'Why did you make that wild! i onslaught in The Time* or the Hoyfcl I Acaderav? If Jt isn't perfect, nothing is loa'lv perfect. You say that the laws after ! 120 years require modification, aad that ! men shouldn't be elected from within, nor ' in any way for one whole term of their . life. I»'3 only a few people, who are imj patient to get in, who want a change. Oh, , 1 <ioti't nn'on you. I know you don't waui ' io be elected. ■'Why di 3' you, make a ferment about nrctets' materials, saying they were no* j always leli&Wo? You only disturb buyers' ' confidence in pictures, and of course you ■ wilf suffer as well as othet«. j It is to-day we have tc live, and you, j for the sake of some far-off good which I may never come to anyone, sacrifice your : present chances. Why, if I wero to go ! on like you do I should never be able to go away in the autumn to fish or to shoot, and I should always be out of health. I and spirits, and one should always try uofc ; to be a "distressful person."' I should become- so if I did not get my holiday. You take' my advice, old" boy, and just take the world ac it is, and don't make it your business to rub up people- (he wrong way. — From "PreKaphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood."

— For his bt-atuo of Queen Victoria a» sho app-.-ared on her corocation day, which has been <mnt out 10 Rawai Pindi, India, Air J. H. Gardner was allowed to use the coronation robes at St. James's Palace, and the royal jewels at the Tbwes;