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the two very clever portraits I have here, which show well his 
peculiar mode of using crayons as water colours: it may be that 
there are others remaining in the locality, the medium is so 
unusual that they should be easily recognised. Among the 
engravings after Benwell, by Bartolozzi, are, ‘The Beggar Girl,” 
““The Return of the Sailor,” “The Soldier’s Farewell,” “The 
Soldier’s Return,” “The St. James’s Beauty,” and “The St. 
Giles’s Beauty,” the latter two being portraits of two of the 
daughters of James Burrough, of Alton Priors, Wilts. 
The New Bath Guide, of 1780, gives me another name, that 
of Thomas Redmond, who practised in the Orange Grove. He 
was the son of a clergyman at Brecon, and is said to have been 
apprenticed to a house-painter in Bristol ; going thence to London 
he studied a short time at the St. Martin’s Lane Academy, and in 
1863 was a member of the Free Society of Artists. He then 
settled in Bath, where he practised his art with success, exhibiting 
at the Royal Academy from 1775 to 1779, and dying in this city 
in 1785, at about forty years of age. 
A little earlier than this Samuel Collins, who stands high in 
the ranks of English miniaturists, was practising in Bath. The 
son of a clergyman at Bristol, the date of his birth is not recorded, 
put he flourished between 1750 and 1780. He left the profession 
to which he had been educated—that of an attorney—to embark 
on the more congenial career of an artist, and settling in Bath he 
gained a large and lucrative practice, and a great reputation, 
which secured him many pupils, among them the celebrated 
Ozias Humphrey, to whom he is said to have relinquished his 
connection when he removed to Dublin. I should much have 
liked to show some of Collins’ delicate, strong, faithful and 
beautiful work, either on ivory or in enamel, but I found it. 
impracticable, and I could not obtain any of Ozias Humphrey’s 
brilliant portraits either, though I have a print of Mrs. Sheridan 
after him, which is of extreme interest to Bathonians, for it was 
with the Linleys that he lodged in Bath when he succeeded 
