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"Love's Labours Lost" - painted by F. R. Pickersgill - from the Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1856. Engraving of a painting. 'Mr. F. R. Pickersgill is left the leading representative of a particular school of art in this country that never failed to supply pictures that arrested and retained the attention of the well-informed and the uninformed. Young Mr. Pickersgill...never puts his pallet on his thumb without devoting his best talents and time to what he is about...You see that he never relies on mere unaided genius. Shakspeare's own words will explain our Engraving - Biron: Lady, I will commend you to my own heart. Rosaline: Pray you, do my commendations; I will be glad to see it. Longaville: I beseech you a word? what is she in the white? Boyet: A woman, sometimes, an you saw her in the light...Shot by heaven proceed, sweet Cupid.- Act ii'. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.