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 74. Painter, and one of the Præ-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his membership of which, however, after a short time he resigned.

75.A disciple of the Præ-Raphaelites, and an artist of considerable skill, who died prematurely.

76.A leading Greek family in London. Constantine Ionides bought many pictures by Rossetti and others, and has left the whole collection to the Victoria and Albert Museum.

77.Solicitor and picture buyer, who died towards 1887.

78.Now Earl of Carlisle; an amateur painter and a friend of Burne-Jones.

79.An early associate of Rossetti's; he first knew Rossetti towards 1852, and was one of the earliest purchasers of his works. He was at first studying as an architect, but changed to landscape-painting, and produced many excellent water-colour landscapes, fine in feeling and colour, without much ambition in subject. He was a member of the old Water-colour Society and died towards 1900.

80.Etcher, painter, and caricaturist, 1792-1878.

81.Landscape painter; one of the first to follow the Præ-Raphaelite lead. He died towards 1890, and has a picture in the National British Gallery.

82.Rossetti was always intensely superstitious in grain. According to his brother, any writing about devils, spectres, or the supernatural generally, whether in poetry or prose, had a fascination for him; at one time—say 1844—his supreme delight was the blood-curdling romance of Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer.

83.According to the same authority, Rossetti, from an early period of life, had a large circle of friends, and