Likajoko, London]
_Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives._
[Illustration: AGE 10.
_From a Photo. by W. Andrews, Dublin._]
[Illustration: Age 20.
_From a Photo. by W. & D. Downey._]
HARRY FURNISS.
BORN 1854.
At ten years old Mr. Furniss was a pupil at the Wesleyan College School
at Dublin, where he started and edited _The Schoolboy's Punch_, in the
manner described in the extremely interesting interview which appears in
the present number. At twenty he had just come up to London, and was
working for the illustrated papers. At twenty-six he joined the staff of
_Punch_, with which his name has ever since been intimately connected.
[Illustration: AGE 26.
_From a Photo. by C. Watkins, Camden Road, N.W._]
[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo by Debenham & Gould._]
[Illustration: AGE 17.
_From a Photo, by A. Adams, Aberdeen._]
[Illustration: AGE 24.
_From a Photo. by John Lamb, Aberdeen._]
SIR GEORGE REID, P.R.S.A.
BORN 1842.
Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A., was born in Aberdeen, N.B., in the year 1842,
and when nineteen years of age commenced his artistic studies at the
"Trustees' Academy," in the City of Edinburgh, and shortly afterwards in
Utrecht, under Mollinger. In 1870 he quitted the latter place for Paris,
where he continued his studies; and for several months in 1871 completed
his student life with Israels, at The Hague. He has proved himself a
true artist, and proficient in all departments--both figure and
landscape. Latterly he has applied himself to portrait painting, in
which he finds few competitors. He has done much in the way of book
illustrating. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy
in 1870, and a full member seven years afterwards, receiving on the
death of Sir W. Fettes Douglas the unanimous call of his brethren to
occupy the chair as President.
[Illustration: AGE 36.
_From a Photo. by John Lamb, Aberdeen._]
[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo. by A. Inglis, Edinburgh._]
COLIN HUNTER, A.R.A.
BORN 1841.
[Illustration: AGE 15.
_From a Daguerreotype._]
Colin Hunter, A.R.A., was born in Glasgow, July 16, 1841, and is the son
of John Hunter, bookseller and postmaster, of Helensburgh. He was
educated in that town, and began painting at twenty years of age, after
four years' clerkship. His education as a painter was derived from
Nature. Mr. Hunter was elected an Associate of the Royal Aca
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