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 | | In the former, the Queen, "boldly represented in her ripe maturity, appears majestically enthroned on a magnificent architecturally-designed chair, of which the general lines are manifestly Gothic, though the beautiful statuettes which adorn it are in the Italian style of the sixteenth century, and the fanciful details are all the artist's own. |
 | | Thornycroft, - the third in descent of a line of sculptors, and an older man. His "austere and noble art," as it has been called, is represented here by four works, one of which, the "Teucer," is the most famous and, perhaps, the most characteristic. |
 | | Harry Bates, the second leader of this pseudo-classic modern school, sends two of the classic reliefs of the kind with which he first won his reputation, the "Endymion," from the Royal Academy of 1892, and the triptych of marble panels, "Story of Psyche," first exhibited at the New Gallery in 1890. |
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