 The works Etty painted following his return began to show a departure in style from his previous efforts . While the figures in his previous original paintings had been painted from sketches of models made in the studio or life classes , from now on he began to work from memory , and as a consequence his figures began to appear more idealised ; Farr ( 1958 ) describes his figures from now on as " [ conforming ] less to a particular aspect of the model than to a preconceived notion of what the model ought to look like " . 
