would have been thought exquisite. That of the Duke of Sussex is a light to the palace; the likeness is excellent, the drawing good, and the colouring such as throws all neighbouring pictures into the shade; while that of Sir James M'Grigor, with the same fine drawing, and a similar brilliancy, has something of the land of the mountain and the flood in the air, which marks it for the north. The portrait of Queen Adelaide is particularly happy, not only for that unaffected lady-born air, but for the fine tone of colour which pervades the whole performance.

Many portraits which he admitted into his pictures are as true as they are beautiful. Though purposely made loutish, that of himself in Alfred in the Neatherd's Cottage, and those of his sister and his mother in Duncan Gray, are, I reckon, perfect. The drawing of his cousin, Mr. Young, in a Dutch costume, though purposely grotesque, is exceedingly like; nor am I disinclined to admit the likeness of his younger brother Thomas in the act of reading a book among his ablest portraits. But The Village Politicians, The Blind Fiddler, The Rent Day, The Reading of the Will, The Waterloo Gazette, The John Knox, The Maid of Saragossa, The Josephine, and The Colum bus, will always stand between his portraits and public admiration, as they stand before all other works of art in the British School.

APPENDIX A.

ADDRESS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY

ΤΟ THOMAS WILKIE, ESQ., THE BROTHER, AND MISS HELEN WILKIE, THE SISTER OF THE LATE SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A.

THE President and Council of the Royal Academy, although reluctant to obtrude on sorrows too recent and severe to admit of present alleviation, yet cannot resist the anxious desire they feel respectfully to manifest to the family of the late Sir David Wilkie how deeply they sympathise in the loss they have sustained by the lamentable and untimely death of that great painter. Connected with him for many years socially and professionally, as an important member of their body, the Academy are fully sensible how much they have been indebted to his valuable services as a man and an artist: they largely participate, therefore, in the grief and regret which have been so generally excited by an event that has deprived the arts and his country of one of their most distinguished

ornaments.

The President and Council are well aware that time alone can assuage the sufferings of affection under such a bereavement; but they sincerely hope that when calmer feelings shall succeed to more acute emotion, the relatives and friends of this eminent man will derive much consolation from the reflection that, although he has been unhappily cut off in the full vigour of his powers, he has lived long enough for his fame; that his works are known and admired wherever the arts are appreciated; and that he has achieved a celebrity unsurpassed in modern times.

MARTIN ARCHER SHEE, President.
JOHN DEERING.

GEORGE JONES.

E. LANDSEER.

RICHARD COOK.

DANIEL MACLISE.

WILLIAM FREDERICK WITHERINGTON.

SOLOMON ALEXANDER HART.

HENRY PERRONET BRIGGS.

HENRY HOWARD, Secretary.

would have been thought exquisite. That of the Duke of Sussex is a light to the palace; the likeness is excellent, the drawing good, and the colouring such as throws all neighbouring pictures into the shade; while that of Sir James M'Grigor, with the same fine drawing, and a similar brilliancy, has something of the land of the mountain and the flood in the air, which marks it for the north. The portrait of Queen Adelaide is particularly happy, not only for that unaffected lady-born air, but for the fine tone of colour which pervades the whole performance.

Many portraits which he admitted into his pictures are as true as they are beautiful. Though purposely made loutish, that of himself in Alfred in the Neatherd's Cottage, and those of his sister and his mother in Duncan Gray, are, I reckon, perfect. The drawing of his cousin, Mr. Young, in a Dutch costume, though purposely grotesque, is exceedingly like; nor am I disinclined to admit the likeness of his younger brother Thomas in the act of reading a book among his ablest portraits. But The Village Politicians, The Blind Fiddler, The Rent Day, The Reading of the Will, The Waterloo Gazette, The John Knox, The Maid of Saragossa, The Josephine, and The Columbus, will always stand between his portraits and public admiration, as they stand before all other works of art in the British School.

APPENDIX A.

ΤΟ

ADDRESS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY

THOMAS WILKIE, ESQ., THE BROTHER, AND MISS HELEN WILKIE, THE SISTER OF THE LATE SIR DAVID WILKIE, R.A.

THE President and Council of the Royal Academy, although reluctant to obtrude on sorrows too recent and severe to admit of present alleviation, yet cannot resist the anxious desire they feel respectfully to manifest to the family of the late Sir David Wilkie how deeply they sympathise in the loss they have sustained by the lamentable and untimely death of that great painter. Connected with him for many years socially and professionally, as an important member of their body, the Academy are fully sensible how much they have been indebted to his valuable services as a man and an artist: they largely participate, therefore, in the grief and regret which have been so generally excited by an event that has deprived the arts and his country of one of their most distinguished ornaments.

The President and Council are well aware that time alone can assuage the sufferings of affection under such a bereavement; but they sincerely hope that when calmer feelings shall succeed to more acute emotion, the relatives and friends of this eminent man will derive much consolation from the reflection that, although he has been unhappily cut off in the full vigour of his powers, he has lived long enough for his fame; that his works are known and admired wherever the arts are appreciated; and that he has achieved a celebrity unsurpassed in modern times.

MARTIN ARCHER SHEE, President.
JOHN DEERING.

GEORGE JONES.

E. LANDSEER.

RICHARD COOK.

DANIEL MACLISE.

WILLIAM FREDERICK WITHERINGTON.

SOLOMON ALEXANDER HART.

HENRY PERRONET BRIGGS.

HENRY HOWARD, Secretary.

would have been thought exquisite. That of the Duke of Sussex is a light to the palace; the likeness is excellent, the drawing good, and the colouring such as throws all neighbouring pictures into the shade; while that of Sir James M'Grigor, with the same fine drawing, and a similar brilliancy, has something of the land of the mountain and the flood in the air, which marks it for the north. The portrait of Queen Adelaide is particularly happy, not only for that unaffected lady-born air, but for the fine tone of colour which pervades the whole performance.

Many portraits which he admitted into his pictures are as true as they are beautiful. Though purposely made loutish, that of himself in Alfred in the Neatherd's Cottage, and those of his sister and his mother in Duncan Gray, are, I reckon, perfect. The drawing of his cousin, Mr. Young, in a Dutch costume, though purposely grotesque, is exceedingly like; nor am I disinclined to admit the likeness of his younger brother Thomas in the act of reading a book among his ablest portraits. But The Village Politicians, The Blind Fiddler, The Rent Day, The Reading of the Will, The Waterloo Gazette, The John Knox, The Maid of Saragossa, The Josephine, and The Columbus, will always stand between his portraits and public admiration, as they stand before all other works of art in the British School.