ABSTRACT

1. Joy in Switzerland: more work for "Modern Painters": projects for the future. 2. The disintegration of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: McCracken seeks Ruskin's advice: Ruskin's first letter to Rossetti: portrait of a young painter: Rossetti's training: his difficulties and susceptibilities: Ruskin's practical help. 3. Miss Siddal: her connection with the Pre-Raphalites: her illness: Madox Brown: Ruskin subsidises Miss Siddal: suggests to Rossetti he should marry her: sends her to Oxford for her health: Acland's diagnosis. 4. The painter and the critic: friendship and friction: the hostility of Madox Brown.