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Jagger’s fine work is very fine ; the portrait of General Donkin, 
in the Holburne Museum, is as good a miniature as one can wish 
to see—the artist must have had a keen grasp of character to 
paint such a likeness, and technically both the breadth and 
delicacy of the painting are admirable. He died in 1827, and 
Scovell, a self-taught artist, who was the son of an umbrella 
maker, in Wade’s Passage, was ambitious of filling his place. 
He was, I believe, an able artist, and a clever musician, and he 
drew life-size portraits very well in addition to miniature painting, 
but his miniatures are not in the same rank as those of Daniel 
and Jagger, they lack the breadth and dignity which those artists 
at their best were masters of; still, as will be seen from the 
portrait kindly lent by Mr. John Stone, and from the small 
sketches I show, he was a clever draughtsman. 
The work of Miss Tylee, about this time, is pretty, and is 
obviously based on the then fashionable Books of Beauty ; the 
three examples Mr. Harding has lent me show the quality of the 
work she did—two are local portraits, drawn with delicacy, the 
third a fancy head. Of the work of ‘Mr. Rosenberg, profile 
painter to their Majesties and Royal Family,” as his card 
describes him, who painted at the beginning of the century, I had 
hoped to say a little:* the examples of his work that I had 
hoped to obtain were not, however, available in time, and with a 
passing allusion to Theweneti, I must finish by speaking of the 
two last miniature painters of Bath, Charles Ford and Charles 
Foote Tayler. 
* Charles Rosenberg and his son, Thomas, were jointly the artists 
of many miniature portraits, engraved by Stadler and Freschi, of 
members of the Royal Family and others: Louis XVIII. of France, 
George III., the Prince Regent, the Dukes of York, Sussex (Masonic 
Grand Master), and Northumberland may be mentioned. These 
portraits are good as likenesses, but they are not very artistic. Miss 
Ethel Rosenberg, Charles Rosenberg’s great grand-daughter, who is 
herself a miniature artist of recognised talent, has kindly shown me 
the collection from which these notes are made 
