Note 3 — NATURALISM IN ENGLAND (continued 3)

He does not seem to have had any understanding of plastic art. Desiring to give an impression of the old Puritan in The Heart of Midlothian, he evolves the following artistically impossible fabulous creature: "The whole formed a picture, of which the lights might have been given by Rembrandt, but the outline would have required the force and vigour of Michael Angelo."