My Autobiography and Reminiscences
3 Volume Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1:
1. Early days
2. My future destiny discussed
3. My career determined
4. The school of art
5. The life school
6. Practice in portrait-painting
7. 'Posting' from Harrogate to London
8. First attempts at subject-pictures
9. My first success
10. Elected an associate
11. The Old English Merrymaking
12. Dinner-party at Lord Northwick's
13. On subjects
14. Picture-seeing in Belgium and Holland
15. Service of art in detection of crime
16. The Coming of Age
17. Subjects from Goldsmith, Smollett, and Molière
18. The hanging committee
19. Hanging reminiscences
20. Ramsgate Sands
21. The Derby Day
22. Portrait of Charles Dickens
23. Success of The Railway Station
24. The Marriage of the Prince of Wales
25. The great actors of my youth. Volume 2:
1. The Salon d'Or
2. Rejected subjects
3. The pious model
4. Visit to Italy
5. The bearded model
6. The Road to Ruin
7. The Fonthill story
8. The Race for Wealth
9. A mysterious sitter
10. John Forster and the portrait of Charles Dickens
11. Second visit to the Low Countries
12. The doctor's story
13. For Better, For Worse
14. Models - thievish
15. 'Old Masters'
16. A successful dealer
17. A strange adventure
18. Men-servants
19. The Private View
20. Dr Doran
21. My later professional work
22. A strange purchase
23. The crazy artist
24. John Leech
25. A ghost story
26. The story of my portrait
27. Jenny Lind, Mr Barnum, and others
28. Lady artists
29. People I have known. Volume 3: Introduction
1. Great names and the value of them
2. Prelude to correspondence
3. Early correspondence
4. Asylum experiences
5. Anecdotes - various
6. An over-true tale
7. Scraps
8. A Yorkshire blunder, and scraps continued
9. Richard Dadd
10. An old-fashioned patron
11. Another dinner at Ivy Cottage
12. Charles Dickens
13. Sir Edwin Landseer
14. George Augustus Sala
15. John Leech
16. Shirley Brooks
17. Admiration
18. On self-delusion and other matters
19. Fashion in art
20. A story of a snowy night
21. English art and French influence
22. Ignorance of art
23. Oratory
24. Supposititious pictures
25. A variety of letters from various people
26. Mrs Maxwell
27. Book illustrators
28. More people whom I have known
Index.