“The Death of Chatterton” by Henry Wallis (1856)

The Death of Chatterton was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition with a quotation inscribed on the frame from the Tragedy of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe: “Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo’s laurel bough.” The famous writer, philosopher, artist, and art critic John Ruskin described it as “faultless and wonderful”. The painting was Henry Wallis’s first exhibited work. – WIKIPEDIA

BELOW: La Merveille, Mont St Michel, Normandy, by John Ruskin (1848)