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Title: Historical portraits; some notes on the painted portraits of celebrated characters of England, Scotland and Ireland
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917
Subjects: Portrait painters
Publisher: London, G. Bell
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, BY H. W. PICKERSGILL.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY SIR W. ALLAN. SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART 23 I My dear Sir,—The debts which I contractedin my fathers lifetime will not be cleared off byme for some years. 1 therefore think it uncon-scientious to indulge myself in any article of elegantluxury. But in the meantime you may die or 1may die, and I should regret very much that thereshould not be at Auchinleck my portrait paintedby Sir Joshua Reynolds, with whom I have thefelicity of living in social intercourse. I have aproposal to make to you. I am for certain to becalled to the English bar next February. Willyou now do my picture, and the price shall be paidout of the first fees that I receive as a barrister inWestminster Hall ? or if that fund should fail, itshall be paid at any rate in five years hence, bymyself or my representatives. At the South Kensington Exhibition of 1868were a portrait of Cowper by Romney, and one ofthe poets mother, a picture of miniature size(the canvas being 6 in. by 5 in.). The latter

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