GOOD FRIDAY

name given to the Friday before Easter, on which the Savior was crucified. It is kept as a very solemn fast in the R. ©. Church, increasingly so_in the Anglican, not so much among Nonconformists, 1904), Eng. artist; at fourteen was awarded the ‘Isis’ medal of the Soc. of Arts, two years later gaining the silver medal from the same body; at seventeen he exhibited at the Royal Academy: elected A.R.A, 1852 and R.A. 1863: first confined himself to subjects of Eng. life, later to historical subjects. His visit to Egypt, 1857-9, strongly infiuenced his work, and his Eastern and Scriptural pictures proved very popular with the public. He also met with some succe in portraiture. His style was conventional but attractive.