Men like Holman Hunt, on the one hand, and on the other hand Whistler, living and working at the same time, exhibiting their works in the same galleries, differ even more in their ideals than Velasquez differed from the fifteenth-century painters of Italy.
Facts such as these make the study of modern art difficult.

Before the nineteenth century, pictures of the same date in the same country were painted in approximately the same style.

But during the last fifty years many styles have reigned together.

At one and the same time painters have been inspired by the Greek and Roman sculptors, by Botticelli, Mantegna, Titian, Tintoret, Velasquez, Rembrandt, Reynolds, and Turner, and the work of each is, notwithstanding, unmistakably nineteenth century, and could never have been produced at any other date.

Every artist finds a problem of his own to solve, and attacks it in his own way.