Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1879-1884. Practical Work : Early Exhibits And Commissions : Marriage. IN the second year of her studentship at the Academy Schools Miss Rae ventured to send to the Royal Society of British Artists a small landscape for the Spring exhibition, which was duly accepted. The catalogue entry of this, her first exhibited work, stands "' Sketch near Lee,' £3. 3. o." At the following winter exhibition of the same society she was represented by two landscapes: " A Glimpse of Sunshine," and " The way is dark and cold and drear." At the Dudley Gallery Exhibition of the same period—the winter of 1879-80 —her first figure subject, a portrait study of herself in Empire costume, was shown under the title of " La fille de 1'Ancienne Noblesse." In 1880 the name of Henrietta Rae appeared for the first time in the Royal Academy Catalogue, in connection with a figure entitled " Chloe," which, again, was a portrait study of herself. Work at the schools was varied with landscape study from nature during the ensuing summer, and the principal result was chapter{Section 4an oil study, " Through the Woods" (a reminiscence of the Redlands, Coldharbour), which appeared at the winter exhibition at Suffolk Street of 1880-1. It is of interest that the catalogue price of this work is £7 7 o— more than double that of her first exhibit of two years previous. By this time Mr. Ernest Normand and Miss Henrietta Rae had determined to link their fortunes together, and the engagement was duly announced and ratified. Marriage was an event connected with " the dim and distant future," and the meantime was to be occupied by each with hard work and strenuous study for the provision of current necessities. A friendship with John Steeple, the water-colour painter—who took a practical interest in t... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.