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Matthew Reynolds in the current tls online notes, inter alia: It is a paradox of Pre-Raphaelite art that the more accurately natural forms are rendered in oils the more artificial they appear. Millais was the painter who most noticed this peculiarity and turned it to advantage. In ³Mariana², leaves from the detailed autumn trees outside have come into the interior, perhaps through the window or a door out of shot, or perhaps gathered by Mariana to serve as models for the leaf-and-flower embroidery with which she is passing the time (this piece of womanıs work shows that Millais was responding to ³The Lady of Shalott², with its weaving, as well as to the other poems by Tennyson that were his main sources, ³Mariana² and ³Mariana in the South²). etc On 26/10/07 3:40 AM, "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > consider John Everett Millais, the founder of the pre-Raphaelite > Brotherhood, and 'Bubbles'. Or any pre-Raphaelite painting. > Sentimentality seems to drip from their pores yet stay just the right > side of kitsch. > > Roger >