the lonely, old man rose at daybreak to watch, from the
roof of the cottage, the sun rise and the purple flush of the coming day.
The funeral, from the house in Queen Anne Street, was imposing, with a
long line of carriages, and conducted with the ritual of the English
Church in St. Paul's Cathedral. Dean Milman read the service, and at its
conclusion the coffin was borne to the catacombs, and placed between the
tombs of James Barry and Sir Joshua Reynolds. Turner's will, with its
codicils, was so confused and vague that the lawyers fought it in the
courts for four years, and it was finally settled by compromise. The real
estate went to the heir-at-law, the pictures and drawings to the National
Gallery, one thousand pounds for a monument in St. Paul's Cathedral, and
twenty thousand pounds to the Royal Academy for annuities to poor artists.
Turner's gift to the British nation included ninety-eight finished
paintings and two hundred and seventy pictures in various stages of
progress. Ruskin, while arranging and classifying Turner's drawings, found
more than nineteen thousand sketches and fragments by the master's hand,
some covered with the dust of thirty years.

Sir DAVID WILKIE (1785-1841) has been called the "prince of British
_genre_ painters." His father was a minister, and David was placed in the
Trustees' Academy in Edinburgh in 1799. In 1805 he entered the Royal
Academy in London, and was much noticed on account of his "Village
Politicians," exhibited the next year. From this time his fame and
popularity were established, and each new work was simply a new triumph
for him. The "Card Players," "Rent Day," the "Village Festival," and
others were rapidly painted and exhibited.

In 1825 Wilkie went to the Continent, and remained three years. He visited
France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, and after his return he painted a new
class of subjects in a new manner. He made many portraits, and his other
works were historical subjects. His most celebrated works in this second
manner were "John Knox Preaching," "Napoleon and the Pope at
Fontainebleau," and "Peep-o'-Day Boy's Cabin." The portrait of the
landscape painter William Daniell is a good picture.

In 1830 Wilkie succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as painter to the king, as he
had been limner to the King of Scotland since 1822. He was not knighted
until 1836. In 1840 he visited Constantinople, and made a portrait of the
sultan; he went then to the Holy Land and Egypt. While