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outlines, but with no variety of colour, and with none of the concealment, none of the infinity of nature. With this spurious work the walls of the Academy are half covered; of the true school one very small example may be pointed out, being hung so low that it might otherwise escape attention. It is not by any means perfect, but still very lovely,-the study of a calm pool in a mountain brook, by Mr. J. Dearle, No. 191, “Evening, on the Marchno, North Wales.”¹

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

THE AUTHOR OF “MODERN PAINTERS.”

DENMARK HILL, May 4.

¹ [This picture was bought from the walls of the Academy by a prize-holder in the Art Union of London. The purchaser resided in either America or Australia, and the picture is now, therefore, presumably in one or other of those countries. Ruskin noticed another picture by the same artist in Academy Notes, 1855, No. 686.]

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