are Gallery
formed by Alderman Boydell. He went to Paris in 1790, where Lord and Lady
Gower introduced him to Louis Philippe, and through him to all the art
treasures of the French capital. On his return to London he formed a plan
of an art museum, to be furnished with casts of the finest statues in
Rome, and spent a good deal of money in the erection of a large building
for the purpose. His powers as an artist gradually waned. He left his
Cavendish Square residence in 1797, and in 1799 returned to his family and
home at Kendall. From this time to the close of his life in 1802 he was a
mere wreck, and his artist life was over.

GEORGE MORLAND (1763-1804) was born in London, and the son of an artist.
His father was unsuccessful, and poor George was articled to his father,
after the English fashion, and was kept close at home and at work. It is
said that his father stimulated him with rich food and drink to coax him
to work. He was very precocious, and really had unusual talents. His
subjects were those of rustic life, and his pictures contain animals
wonderfully well painted, but his pigs surpass all. His character was
pitiful; he was simply, at his best, a mere machine to make pictures. As
for goodness, truth, or nobleness of any sort, there is not a syllable
recorded in his favor. Strange to say, the pictures of his best time are
masterpieces in their way, and have been sold at large prices.

Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE (1769-1830), born at Bristol, England, in the White
Hart Inn, of which his father was landlord. He was wonderfully precocious,
and as a child of five years would recite odes, and declaim passages from
Milton and Shakespeare. Even at this early period he made chalk or pencil
portraits, and at nine he finally decided to become a painter from having
seen a picture by Rubens. At this period he made a colored chalk portrait
of the beautiful Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, which still hangs in
Chiswick House, in the room in which Charles Fox died. His father was the
son of a clergyman, and was bred a lawyer, but had never prospered; still
his culture and education gave a certain zest and tone to the mind of
young Lawrence, and made him, with his elegant figure and handsome face,
the successful courtier that he afterward became. He worked hard, with
considerable success, and with but little instruction until, at the age of
eighteen, he went to London for the first time. At that period he was
described as being extre