Naïf Enfant
Close to this is another portrait of extreme interest, and, though of another kind, it is not inappropriately near Mr. Hunt’s work. The Times, May 2, 1881. This is Mr. John Ruskin, painted by Mr. Herkomer. It is difficult to dissociate this picture, as regards the merit of its painting, from the interest which attaches to it as being the first oil portrait we have ever seen of our great art critic.... The picture remains a singularly fine one, and is, in our opinion, Mr. Herkomer’s best portrait.