text:  It is a graceful homage paid by a great living painter to the memory of one who is no more: a kindly and as we believe an honest testimony to the moral and professional worth of one whose works stand out with a striking and distinct character in the English school of landscape-painting and which we are confident will retain the place which they have slowly gained in public estimation as long as a feeling of pictorial truth in its more elevated sense and as distinct from a mere literal imitation of details shall continue to endure