arce one dissentient voice by the simple academy at Gandish's.
Besides, he drew very well. There could be no doubt about that.
Caricatures of the students of course were passing constantly among
them, and in revenge for one which a huge red-haired Scotch student, Mr.
Sandy M'Collop, had made of John James, Clive perpetrated a picture of
Sandy which set the whole room in a roar; and when the Caledonian giant
uttered satirical remarks against the assembled company, averring that
they were a parcel of sneaks, a set of lick-spittles, and using epithets
still more vulgar, Clive slipped off his fine silk-sleeved coat in an
instant, invited Mr. M'Collop into the back-yard, instructed him in
a science which the lad himself had acquired at Grey Friars, and
administered two black eyes to Sandy, which prevented the young artist
from seeing for some days after the head of the 'Laocoon' which he was
copying. The Scotchman's superior weight and age might have given
the combat a different conclusion, had it endured long after Clive's
brilliant opening attack with his right and left; but Professor Gandish
came out of his painting-room at the sound of battle, and could scarcely
credit his own eyes when he saw those of poor M'Collop so darkened. To
do the Scotchman justice, he bore Clive no rancour. They became friends
there, and afterwards at Rome, whither they subsequently went to pursue
their studies. The fame of Mr. M'Collop as an artist has long since
been established. His pictures of 'Lord Lovat in Prison,' and 'Hogarth
painting him,' of the 'Blowing up of the Kirk of Field' (painted for
M'Collop of M'Collop), of the 'Torture of the Covenanters,' the 'Murder
of the Regent,' the 'Murder of Rizzio,' and other historical pieces, all
of course from Scotch history, have established his reputation in
South as well as in North Britain. No one would suppose from the gloomy
character of his works that Sandy M'Collop is one of the most jovial
souls alive. Within six months after their little difference, Clive and
he were the greatest of friends, and it was by the former's suggestion
that Mr. James Binnie gave Sandy his first commission, who selected the
cheerful subject of 'The Young Duke of Rothsay starving in Prison.'

During this period, Mr. Clive assumed the toga virilis, and beheld with
inexpressible satisfaction the first growth of those mustachios which
have since given him such a marked appearance.

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