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and, ruined in fortune and in spirit, he died, Feb. 17, 1831. He 
painted many portraits and portrait groups of large size, and 
some subject pictures, and he received large prices for his pictures. 
Several of his works are engraved.” 
Before passing to a review of a group of miniature painters 
who were more closely associated with Bath than these last, I 
must mention Gahagan, who in the early part of the century was 
a well-known modeller here, and who drew a very good portrait 
miniature. Among the engravings on the table there are a 
couple of portraits of Queen Charlotte, taken by him during her 
stay here, and he was the author of a very ghastly production, 
the model of the body of Maria Bagnell as she was found 
murdered in Marlborough Buildings. He also drew and litho- 
graphed caricatures 4 la Rowlandson, and he modelled a medallion 
of John Arthur Roebuck, M.P., a meritorious performance: one 
would like to know more of his work in this line. 
One would not expect Robert Montgomery, the poet, to be 
included in the list of Bath miniaturists, but it is known he lived 
here for some time, and the portrait of him in the Holburne 
Museum is said to be by his own hand. It is not of great artistic 
merit, but it is interesting, and had the following autograph verse 
attached : 
“ Impassioned, proud, enthusiastic wild, 
Too soon a man, and yet too late a child, 
Beloved by some, misunderstood by more, 
And rich in feeling as in fortune poor.” 
I have now to pass to a group of artists who were more nearly 
connected with Bath, in that they were not birds of passage, who 
stayed for a less or a greater number of years, but were permanent 
residents, who laboured here each for a lifetime, and who 
carried on the tradition of a local school (if that is not using too 
strong a word) of miniature art, that has existed for considerably 
over a century. One of the earliest of these was Abraham 
Daniell, who died in 1802 ; his work is highly esteemed, and 
justly, judging by the one miniature by him in the Holburne 
