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| Louis Antoine Carolus The Reprimand ca. 1850 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Frederick Richard Pickersgill Samson Betrayed 1850 oil on canvas Manchester Art Gallery |
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| Charles Allston Collins Convent Thoughts 1851 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Philip Hermogenes Calderon By the Waters of Babylon 1852 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Ernest Meissonier The Recital ca. 1852-53 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| attributed to Samuel Laurence Portrait of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1854 oil on canvas National Trust, Carlyle's House, London |
"I do not wish for fortune more than is sufficient for my wants – my natural wants, and the artificial ones which habit has rendered nearly as importunate as the other – but I will not marry to live on less; because in that case every inconvenience I was subjected to, would remind me of what I had quitted; and the idea of a sacrifice should have no place in a voluntary union – Neither have I any wish for grandeur – the glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools – But I conceive it a duty which every one owes to society, not to throw up that station in it which Providence has assigned him; and having this conviction, I could not marry into a station inferior to my own with the approval of my judgement, which alone could enable me to brave the censures of my acquaintance."
– letter of 1825 to Thomas Carlyle from Jane Welsh Carlyle (written before their marriage)
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| Frederic Leighton Head of an Italian Model ca. 1855 oil on canvas Leighton House Museum, London |
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| Abraham Solomon First Class - The Meeting ca. 1856 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| William Edward Frost The Three Graces 1856 oil on canvas Yale Center for British Art |
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| Joseph Noel Paton Hesperus, the Evening Star, sacred to Lovers 1857 oil on panel Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow |
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| George Frederic Watts Portrait of Jane Elizabeth Hughes 1857-58 oil on canvas National Trust, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton |
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| Frederick Sandys Queen Eleanor 1858 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Charles Rossiter To Brighton and Back for Three and Sixpence 1859 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
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| John Everett Millais Spring (Apple Blossoms) 1859 oil on canvas Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Arthur Hughes The Long Engagement 1859 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |