SOURCE: “Edward John Trelawny,” Temple Bar Vol. 63, November, 1881, pp. 325-42.

Ward's essay, published just after Trelawny's death, reflects the general nineteenth-century acceptance of Trelawny's version of his own life and celebrates him as one of the last of the truly adventurous spirits.

In the course of last season a collection of pictures was exhibited in Bond Street which not unnaturally attracted a good deal of notice. It was a small collection, comprising not more than eighteen or twenty canvases, and all the works were by one hand; but that hand was Mr. Millais'. Each step in the development of his genius and characteristics was illustrated by at least one picture, and his later style was shown by none better than by the “North-West Passage.” Visitors to the Academy exhibition of some four or five years ago, may remember that this picture had a conspicuous position in the large...