nted the allied sovereigns, their statesmen,
princes, and generals--all the leading personages, in fact, in alliance
against Napoleon. His pictures in the exhibition of 1815 were Mrs. Wolfe,
the Prince Regent, Metternich, the Duke of Wellington, Blucher, the Hetman
Platoff, and Mr. Hart Davis. During the Congress that met at
Aix-la-Chapelle in 1818, Lawrence was commissioned by the Prince Regent to
paint its principal heads for an especial gallery. He thus had for sitters
nearly all the leading statesmen of Europe. From Aix-la-Chapelle he went
to Vienna, and thence to Rome in 1819, where among others he painted
likenesses of the Pope, of Cardinal Gonsalvi, and of Canova. Of the
latter, Canova cried out, "Per Baccho, che nomo e questo!" It was
considered a marvellous likeness; and without violating good taste he
worked into the picture crimson velvet and damask, gold, precious marble,
and fur, with a most brilliant effect. Before reaching home in London he
was elected President of the Royal Academy. At this time he had been
elected a member of the Roman Academy of St. Luke's, of the Academy of
Fine Arts in Florence, and of the Fine Arts in New York. He continued to
improve as a painter, and between 1825 and the year of his death, painted
and exhibited some of his finest works. He usually exhibited eight
pictures each year, and although without a rival, gave evidence of anxious
care to sustain his reputation. He was especially successful with
children, and many of these pictures--as well as of celebrities--were
engraved, and have thus become known all over the world. Of his eight
pictures exhibited in 1829--the last he ever contributed--Williams says:
"It is difficult to imagine a more undeviating excellence, an infallible
accuracy of likeness, with an elevation of art below which it seemed
impossible for him to descend." Lawrence died on the morning of the 7th of
January, 1830, with but little warning, from ossification of the heart; he
was buried with much pomp and honor in St. Paul's Cathedral, by the side
of Sir Joshua Reynolds.

[Illustration: FIG. 73.--PORTRAIT OF TURNER.]

JOSEPH M. W. TURNER, R.A. (1775-1851).--It is believed, by those who have
investigated the question most carefully, that this eminent artist and
most remarkable man was born in Maiden Lane, London, April 3, 1775,
although the artist himself has stated that he was born in Devonshire,
April 23, 1769. Turner's father, William Turner, was a native of