when he gave the following neat reason for preferring portraiture:-" Painters of history," said he, "make the dead live, and do not begin to live themselves till they are dead. I paint the living, and they make me live!" In a conversation concerning the legitimacy of the unfortunate son of James the Second, some doubts having been expressed by an Oxford Doctor, he exclaimed with much warmth, "His father and mother have sat to me about thirtysix times a-piece, and I know every line and bit of their faces. Mein Gott! I could paint King James's now by memory. I say the child is so like both, that there is not a feature in his face but what belongs either to father or to mother; this I am sure of, and cannot be mistaken: nay, the nails of his fingers are his mother's, the queen that was. Doctor, you may be out in your letters, but I cannot be out in my lines."

PORTRAIT IN CRAYONS OF TAYLOR WHITE, Esq.,

(Treasurer of the Hospital from 1746 to 1771)

BY FRANCIS COTES, R. A.

The father of Cotes was an apothecary of great respectability, residing in Cork Street, Burlington Gardens, and his son was the pupil of Mr. Knapton, but, in the sequel, much excelled his master. He was particularly eminent for his portraits in crayons, in which branch of the art he surpassed all his predecessors, though, it must be confessed he

owed something of his excellence to the study of the portraits of Rosalba. He also painted with considerable ability in oil colours; and, if Hogarth's opinion could be considered as oracular, excelled Reynolds as a portrait-painter. But though his portraits in oil were by no means so masterly as those of his rival, yet they were very pleasing and well finished, coloured with great spirit, and, by the aid of Mr. Tom's draperies, were deservedly ranked with the best portraits of the time.

Cotes was in very excellent practice as a painter in oil; but his chief excellence, as before observed, was in crayons, which were greatly improved under his hands, both in their preparation and application. Walpole has given a list of some of his principal portraits in crayons, to which may be added, the whole-length of Queen Charlotte with the Princess Royal in her lap, which he painted in oil, about the year 1767. He was very early in life afflicted with the stone, and, before he attained the age of fortyfive, he fell a victim to that disease. He died at his house in Cavendish Square, July 20th, 1770, and was buried at Richmond, in Surrey.

PORTRAIT IN CRAYONS OF GEORGE WHATLEY, Esq.,

(Treasurer of the Hospital from 1779 to 1791)

BY A PERSON UNKNOWN.

PORTRAIT OF CHARLES POTT, Esq.

The present Treasurer, whom God preserve! This Portrait was painted by the late eminent artist,

THOMAS PHILLIPS, Esq., R. A.

Its origin will be better explained by the following extract from the Minutes of the Court of Governors of the 12th May, 1841.

"A Governor in his place, stated to the Court, that several Members of the Corporation, being sensible of the great services rendered to the Charity by the Treasurer, Charles Pott, Esq., were anxious to testify their individual approbation of the able and zealous manner in which he has performed the duties of his office, and had therefore entered upon a subscription in the hope that he would oblige them by sitting to an eminent artist for his portrait, with the view of its being placed in some suitable situation. within the walls of the Hospital.

"The Chairman having communicated this desire to the Treasurer, obtained his acquiescence."

THE VESTIBULE.

THE OFFERING OF THE WISE MEN.

"And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child, with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshipped him, and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh."

BY ANDREW CASALI,

Commonly called Chevalier, an Italian, said to have been a native of Civita Vecchia. At what time he came to England is not ascertained, but he was in London before the year 1748, for he was employed to paint the transparencies which formed a part of the decorations of the fireworks exhibited in the Green Park, St. James's, on the celebration of the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, which pictures were for many years to be seen in the Ordnance Office at the Tower. He was much employed by the elder Mr. Beckford, at Fonthill, where he painted some ceilings. He was one of the first candidates for the premium offered by the Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, for the best historical picture, the subject to be taken from the English history; and in the year 1760, he obtained the second premium, fifty guineas; in 1761 and again in 1762, he obtained the first premium, one hundred guineas; and in 1766, for an historical picture in chiaro scuro, the first premium, fifty guineas. At the time the Foundling Hospital was completed, he painted the above picture for the altar of the Chapel, which he presented to the Charity. This picture remained

several years in its primitive situation, but was removed to make way for the picture of West, which now occupies the place.

Of the hand of Casali, there are also two figures of St. Peter and St. Paul, in chiaro scuro, at the altar of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster. These figures were painted about the year 1758. This artist's productions are said to be carefully painted, clean in their execution, showy, but tawdry in the colouring.

ACTION OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE,

May 13th, 1779.

BY LUNY.

The particulars of this Picture are as follows, viz. "Sir James Wallace, Commander of H. M. Ship Experiment, with the Pallas, Unicorn, Fortunæ, and Cabot, Brigs, attacking the Danæ, Valeur, Recluce, three French Frigates, and a Cutter, in Concale Bay. The Dane he brought off. The other three being aground, he burnt, amidst a smart fire from a battery of six twelve-pounders, and several cannon from the shore. The battery he silenced in half an hour."

PORTRAIT OF LORD CHIEF JUSTICE WILMOT,
BY DANCE.

The members of the family to which this eminent judge belonged were, from an early period, liberal supporters of the Hospital, and it is to a collateral branch, namely, The Right Honourable Lord Saye and Sele, that the Governors are indebted for this picture.