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Mr. J. H. Slater (President of the now defunct Baxter Society) in the Preface to the Catalogue of the Baxter Exhibition at Birmingham in 1895, says: "The Artist was known to a few people as the Inventor of a Process of Printing in Oil Colours; his work was regarded by them as purely mechanical, and therefore as completely outside the pale of true Art as any other Patent Process. It was accordingly despised by the Collector and neglected by everyone else except the very few who were interested either pecuniarily or otherwise in its success, and these were not lovers of Art for its own sake, but for the profit that accrued from it. No wonder that the memory of Baxter faded away in the face of such neglect, and that his works, which should have been for all time, were treated as the products of a day." Baxter's Art was in reality not mechanical, nor was it strictly speaking a Process, as we carry out to-day Processes of Colour Printing, for by it the picture was built up exactly as the painter builds his picture, with a combination of Colours, all beautifully blending in harmony and contrast. Usually Printing is not associated with the Fine Arts, there can be no doubt about that; and to the reader it may possibly occur, is there Introduction 1 5 any practical use in raising the question as to whether Printing is really a Fine Art? Apparently there 'is, for Baxter with his fine Colour Prints plainly shows that Printing can approach to and attain the quality of the Fine Arts. The consciousness of this must have a deep moral effect, and be a stimulant of great potency to the Collector. When one contemplates Baxter's Colour Prints, one realises that the difference between Printing in Colour, and Printing in black or