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with the contrast and get effect of light by the fusion of pale luminous tones. He still retains a trace of his former methods of construction, but the essential principles underlying the picture have entirely changed. The distance and sky have now become the points of the picture which interest him, and though his ostensible subject is a gentleman's river-side villa and its garden, these are merely a frame for the exquisite view up the Thames, illuminated by misty morning sunlight. On that distance, and upon the sky above it, he is lavishing already, all that tender science, that deft play of opalescent filmy[?] tones over a dazzling white ground which is in a few years to absorb all other interests with him. - It is interesting to note how that unsubstantiated expanse of rosy distance and golden sky is blended with the solid tree-trunks and earth, the bricks and mortar which

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