Title: The life and letters of Frederic Shields
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Shields, Frederic, 1833-1911 Mills, Ernestine Bell, ed
Subjects: Shields, Frederic, 1833-1911
Publisher: London New York [etc. : Longmans]
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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for some reason,never used for its original purpose, though Duvalexpressed himself as being delighted with it. It isundoubtedly one of the artists finest designs, quite unlikeanything hitherto produced; it marks the commencementof an entirely different period of the development of hisgenius. On receiving the drawing, Shields evidently wanted totouch it up, and also wished to know whether Boughwould like it to be priced in the catalogue of the exhibi-tion. Bough replies November 4th : Let me say that Iam perfectly satisfied with the drawing as it is, and I wouldreally advise you not to touch it. State any price you likein the catalogue, but let me beg you not to sell it, Iwouldnt part with it for any money—unless such partingwas to do you a service, and then, my dear Shields, youare welcome to it. This must have been the drawingexhibited at the Manchester Shields Exhibition in 1875,catalogued as In Mothers Absence; Somersetshire,1865/ lent by Sam Bough, The Artists first Commission.
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The Nativity(1865) RETURNS TO MANCHESTER 107 The diary is blank for October and November, butshortly after the completion of the Nativity design hereturned to Manchester, driven away from London by theincessant organ-grinding and street music, and in Octoberhe was at work on the portrait of Professor Scott at hishouse in Halliwell Lane. CHAPTER VII Porlock revisited—Return to London—The Old Water-Colour Society—James Hollands generosity—Bands, organs, nerves—Sandgate—■Boulogne—Military pictures—Chelsea—C. H. Bennetts death—Ruskins help—Manchester again—The old house at Cornbrook Park—Rossettis letters—Madox Brown and the condemned Fenians—Warwick Brookes. Early in December he returned to Porlock, rejoicing to beagain in that romantic region, where he could paint rusticcottages, picturesque fishermen and their surroundings,and the dear, troublesome country children, who figure sovividly in these early pictures. He remained there untilApril, when the diar

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