is typical of British Victorian art, the subject of Maurine Cooper's lunchtime lecture and slide presentation which takes place today at the Bermuda National Gallery.

Mrs. Cooper says this period is interesting in that there were more artists working than ever, because the advent of the industrial revolution meant there was more money around and, consequently, more buyers. "There was a new middle class,'' explains Mrs. Cooper, "and Queen Victoria lavished titles on artists so their status in society was greatly elevated.'' There was also a great variety in quality, "so in a sense, I go from the sublime -- the `greats' being Rossetti, Hung and Millais (most of the time) to the frankly coy and the cute.'' `Selected Victorian Paintings', will also examine the works of Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lord Leighton, James Tissot, Sir Edward Landseer (Queen Victoria's favourite) and Lady Butler, starts at 12.30 p.m. Admission is $5 (members free) and `brown bag' lunches welcome.

Sir John Everett Millais' `The Blind Girl'