98 JAMES MUSPRATT 



"Traveller" and "The Deserted Village." 

 Those who were the companions of his 

 travels, remember how he would repeat 

 whole cantos of "Childe Harold," and 

 Rogers "Italy." 



His extensive reading, romantic adventures 

 and social tastes made him a delightful 

 companion. He gathered round him in his 

 home at Seaforth a circle of literary and 

 artistic friends, as well as comrades with 

 whom he had fought hard battles for the 

 social and political progress of the people. 

 Many a young artist found in James Muspratt 

 a true and generous patron. He was an 

 intense admirer of the sculptor's as well as 

 the painter's art; it was his design to 

 have made a collection which would have 

 illustrated the progress of English art during 

 the first fifty years of the century, but this 

 he was prevented from achieving. How 

 he would have rejoiced to have seen 

 how splendidly his idea was carried out 

 in the Manchester Jubilee Exhibition of 

 1887. 



He had in his own collection some very 

 valuable pictures, he greatly admired Linton's 

 landscapes, and he possesssd Sir George 

 Harvey's " Battle of Drumclog." 



