IMAGES

1. Clockwise from top: Thomas Love Peacock as a boy; Sarah Peacock; Thomas Love Peacock at thirty-one

2. Peacock at seventy-three, painting by Henry Wallis

3. A previously unknown photograph of Peacock

4. “Fighting Nicolls,” General Sir Edward Nicolls, K.C.B.

5. The beautiful three-year-old George Meredith

6a. Peacock’s house along the Thames, where Mary Ellen grew up and Peacock lived till his death

6b. Vine Cottage, where George Meredith and Mary Ellen lived after moving out of Peacock’s

7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portrait of Arthur Meredith

8. George Meredith with his son Arthur.

9. Wallis’s original sketch of a portrait of Ant. Leisman (with handwritten notes by Wallis). It was said by Peacock to be a remarkable likeness of Shelley, superior to any portrait of Shelley himself

10. Mary Shelley in 1841, painting by Richard Rothwell

11a. Henry Wallis in later years

11b. Photograph of Felix at age four or five

12. Henry Wallis’s The Death of Chatterton, for which George Meredith was the model

13. George Meredith by George Frederic Watts

14. Photograph of George Meredith, again in profile, when he is old and eminent, by J. Thomson

15a. Drawing by Henry Wallis

15b. Henry Wallis’s famous painting The Dead Stonebreaker.