XXII.

MEDALLION PORTRAIT BY HENNING. 1810.

JOHN HENNING, Sculptor, as already stated (p. 4, No. 11, and p. 45), who was born at Paisley in 1771, exhibited at Edinburgh a Medallion Portrait of Scott, in 1809. The Drawing of which a facsimile is here given belongs to the subsequent year. A cast of a similar Medallion in the present Exhibition (No. 11), was most likely made from this drawing by Henning in 1810. It was recently found by Mr. Drummond, R.S.A., in a volume of Studies acquired not long since by his friend JOHN PENDER, Esq., M.P., who allowed the Volume to be brought to Edinburgh for this purpose. purpose. It contains twelve drawings which had remained in the possession of one of Henning's family.

They have

since been carefully mounted for preservation, and handsomely bound, with this title

STUDIES FROM LIFE, BY J. HENNING, SCULPTOR.

The contents of this Volume may be enumerated :—

1. Medallion Head of King William the Fourth, in black lead, with the date June 25, 1827, at the Admiralty, done for the Medal struck by William Wyon, on the King's accession.

WILLIAM WYON, R.A., gem-engraver and medallist, was born in 1795. In 1828 he was appointed chief engraver to the Mint. Amongst his numerous works he executed a medal of Sir Walter Scott, the reverse of which was designed by that worthy old man Thomas Stothard, R.A. Wyon, who had been a student of the Royal Academy in 1817, was elected an Associate in 1831, and an Academician in 1838. He died October 29, 1851.-(Sandby's History, vol. ii. p. 192.)

2. Portrait of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, drawn 1822.

3. Medallion Head of the Duke of Wellington, March 1827.

of Dr. Adam Fergusson, 1807.

of the Rev. Sir Henry Moncreiff, Bart., minister of St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, 1806 or 1808.

Of Henning himself, who was an Honorary Member of the R.S.A., and died in 1851, there are two or three characteristic photographs or calotypes in his venerable old age. In one of these, along with Henning, there is a striking likeness of Alexander Handyside Ritchie, Sculptor, A.R.S.A., who died in 1870. His figures for the pediment of the Commercial Bank, and other public buildings in Edinburgh, show that he was no unworthy pupil of Thorwaldsen. The prints have neither names nor date, but were taken by Messrs. D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson, at their "Calotype Studio, Calton Stairs, Edinburgh" (1844-1848).

XXIII.

TWO HEADS, BY GEDDES, 1818, AND SLATER, 1821.

(A.)

THE Portrait of Scott by Geddes, exhibited as No. 52, was one of the studies or sketches made for a large painting of "the Discovery of the Regalia" in February 1818. The present head is taken from an engraving (No. 150), under the Artist's inspection, by F. C. Lewis, in 1824.

The following note by Mr. Geddes, addressed to Abraham Cooper, R.A., proves that the large painting referred to had been completed. This note is contained in a very interesting volume of Autographs and Engravings, which was recently acquired for the British Museum :— "15 BERNERS STREET, 6th July 1843.

"MY DEAR SIR,-I fear I cannot name to a certainty the year I painted the study of Sir Walter's head; it was done at the same time I did the heads of the other Commissioners, to be inserted into the large picture I painted of the FINDING OF THE REGALIA OF SCOTLAND. Yours faithfully, ANDW. GEDDES.

"To ABR. COOPER, ESQ."

(B.)

This head represents an excellent Engraving by R. W. Sievier, of an original sketch by Mr. Slater, in the possession of Sir Robert Henry Inglis, Bart., and published by the Artist in 1821 (No. 155).

JOSEPH SLATER was a well-known Portrait-Painter, who was settled in London as a resident, first in Greek Street, Soho, afterwards for many years in Newman Street, Oxford Street. Slater continued to

year 1806 till 1836.

be an exhibitor at the Royal Academy from the By him are the drawings of all the heads in the first volume, and of four in the second volume, of Portraits of the Members of Grillion's Club, 1813-1863 (London, privately printed, 1864, folio), of which there is a