264:. With no need to earn an income from painting, Browning continued to paint for pleasure for the rest of his life until failing eyesight finally prevented it. In October 1889, Robert Browning visited his son and daughter-in-law at Ca' Rezzonico. He wrote, "The Palazzo excites the wonder of everybody, so great is Pen's cleverness... There was a desecrated chapel, which he has restored in honour of his mother." During this stay, Robert became ill, and died there in December 1889. Browning and Fannie took care of Robert's dependants, including his sister Sarianna and old family servants, who came to live with them in Venice.
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seems at once less childlike and less manly than would befit that age. I should not quite like to be the father of such a boy, and should fear to stake so much interest and affection on him as he cannot fail to inspire. I wonder what is to become of him, – whether he will ever grow to be a man, – whether it is desirable that he should. His parents ought to turn their whole attention to making him robust and earthly, and to giving him a thicker scabbard to sheathe his spirit in.
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Browning and Fannie, who had no children, gradually drifted apart, although they never divorced. Their marriage was not helped by the rumoured relationship between
Browning and a beautiful blonde Italian by the name of Ginevra, housekeeper at Ca' Rezzonico, who also modelled for Browning's paintings.
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I never saw such a boy as this before; so slender, fragile, and spirit-like, – not as if he were actually in ill health, but as if he had little or nothing to do with human flesh and blood. His face is very pretty and most intelligent, and exceedingly like his mother's. He is nine years old, and
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Victorian England. Despite this, he achieved reasonable success, partly because of his father's continual efforts to promote his work. He exhibited at the
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academic of the day. With Jowett's help, Pen's Greek and Latin were brought up to the requisite standard, but Jowett was obliged to tell the poet that his son's command of
English left much to be desired. Because Balliol was too demanding for Pen, he went to
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Fannie eventually left him. They later made an attempt to revive their marriage, but it was short-lived. Browning sold Ca' Rezzonico in 1906 and thereafter divided his time between two other homes in Italy, the Torre all' Antella, near
Florence, and
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Browning was educated "with anxious care" by his father and private tutors at the
Brownings' home in Florence, and, after his mother died in 1861, in London. Robert was anxious that his son should attend a university, and sought the help of
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in the United States, obtained a listing of the items sold and the purchasers, and attempted to acquire the collection by donation or purchase. Armstrong's collection was the foundation for Baylor's
Browning collection, now housed at the
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