The last drawings he did for Ruskin (January, 1848), the "Bruenig" and the "Descent from the St.Gothard to Airolo," showed his condition unmistakably; and the lonely restlessness of the last, disappointing years were, for all his friends, a melancholy ending to a brilliant career.

Ruskin wrote: "This year (1851) he has no picture on the walls of the Academy; and the _Times_ of May 3 says: 'We miss those works of INSPIRATION'!" "_We_ miss! Who misses?
The populace of England rolls by to weary itself in the great bazaar of Kensington,[3] little thinking that a day will come when those veiled vestals and prancing amazons, and goodly merchandise of precious stones and gold, will all be forgotten as though they had not been; but that the light which has faded from the walls of the Academy is one which a million Koh-i-noors could not rekindle; and that the year 1851 will, in the far future, be remembered less for what it has displayed, than for what it has withdrawn." [Footnote 3: The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park.].