The printers' names appear on the t.p. verso and in the colophon: 'London: Bradbury, Evans, And Co., Printers, Whitefriars.'
The work is dedicated by Henry O'Neil to the President and the Members Of the Royal Academy of Arts.
References
R. Treble, Great Victorian pictures [exhibition catalogue] (1978); C. Wood, Victorian panorama (1976).
Summary Note
The work consists of the following lectures: I. On the character of nature in general, and on the mission of art; II. On portraiture, domestic and historical subjects, and on the causes and decline of art; III. On poetical and religious subjects; IV. General advice to students; and the Appendix, On the value of portraits to posterity. The caption-titles of each lecture state the date on which it was delivered: 1866 February 12; 1866 February 26; 1866 February 26; 1866 February 5 (perhaps the last date is a misprint, as the lecture opens with a reference to 'my previous Lectures'.
The author had been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1860, but held no posts in the Academy.
Binding Note
19th-century green cloth-covered boards, upper and lower covers with blind-stamped borders, upper cover with gilt-stamped decoration centre; spine lettered 'Lectures On Painting - H. O'Neil.'