JAMESONS, GEORGE. 



JANIN, JULES-GABRIKL. 



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succeed in bar purpose neither htnelT nor the world will regret the 

 tranfer*noo of her exertion*. 



JAME80HK. GEORGE, called by Walpole the Vndyck of Scotland, 

 was the too of Andrew Jameson , n architect, an<1 wma bora t Aberdeen 

 in 1688. Jama*ooe and Vaudyck were about 1610 fellow-pupila of 

 Rubens at Antwerp. When Charlea I. viiu-d Edinburgh in 1633, he 

 at to Jam**one, and preeented him with a diamond ring from hu own 

 finger. Hi* career U not exactly known, but it mutt have been a 

 rocomfnl one, for he left hi* wife and family well provided for at bin 

 death in 1644 ; and he bequeathed also much in other direction*. He 

 wu probably in Italy, for hi* portrait U in the painter'* portrait 

 gallery at Florence; he trarellod in company with Sir Colin Campbell 

 of Qlenorchy, Many of the considerable families of SootUnd pone** 

 portrait* by Jamesone, but the greatest collection U at Tayuiouth, the 

 eat of the Marqui* of Breadalbane. Sir Colin Campbell, the marqui*'i 

 anoeetor, waa Jauiesone's fint and chief patron. In a manuscript con- 

 taining the genealogy of the house of Olenorchy, there is mention of 

 several portrait* painted by Jsmeaouc for Sir Colin, with memoranda of 

 the prices paid. For portrait* of the kings David and Kobert Bruce, 

 Charles I. and his queen, and for nine queens of Scotland, painted iu 

 1635, Jameaone received only 260 Scotch pouuds, or 20 pounds per 

 portrait, which is equal to 11. 18. 4 d. sterling; the Scotch pound being 

 twenty pence. All other portraits painted for Sir Colin, which were 

 many, were paid for at the same rate. There are several of Jamesone's 

 pictures aUo in the two colleges of Aberdeen. A portrait of Jmnesone 

 by himself i* at L'ullen House. He appears to have often painted 

 hi* own portrait, and he always painted himself with his hat on, which 

 be may have done either in imitation of Rubens, or on having been 

 granted that privilege by Charles 1. when he sat to him. 



Though the pupil of Kubens and the companion of Vandyck, 

 Jamesone's works have neither the fulness nor richness of the former, 

 nor the vigour of the latter. They are painted very thinly, yet with 

 much nature, but there is a sharpness in his outline which reminds 

 of a very different school from tlmt of Rubens. " His excellence," 

 aays Walpole, " is said to consist in delicacy and softness, with a clear 

 and beautiful colouring, his shades not charged but helped by varnish 

 \ylazitiy '*, with little appearance of the pencil." Jamesone's earliest 

 works are painted on panel ; he used afterwards fine canvas, smoothly 

 primed, and prepared in a shade tint. He painted occasionally history, 

 miniature, and landscape. Walpole mentions a view of Edinburgh 

 by him. 



Cunningham has ascribed to Jameaone the illuminations of a manu- 

 script of two hundred leaves of parchment, illustrating the Life of 

 Christ, which belonged to Jamesone, and which he valued at 2002. 

 sterling. Jamesone himself describes it as a manuscript in his posses- 

 lion " containing two hundred leaves of parchment of excellent write 

 adorned with diverse histories of our Saviour curiously limned." This 

 memorandum was in the possession of his descendant, Mr. John 

 Jameaone, a wine merchant of Leith, from whom Walpole (or rather 

 Tertue) obtained the particulars of his account of Jamesone. It is not 

 known what has become of this manuscript 



Cunningham speaks of Jamesone a* without a native rival in Great 

 Britain ; be appears to have overlooked Dobsou, some of whose heads 

 not only approach but equal Vandyck' a. Jamesone's daughter Mary 

 excelled in embroidery, iu textile paintings; some of her works are 

 ftill preserved in the church of St. Nicolas, at Aberdeen. 



JAMIESON, JOHN, D.D. (so he himself spelt the name, though he 

 made his children drop the i), was born March 3, 1759, in Glasgow, 

 where hi* father, the Rev. John Jameson, was pastor of one of the two 

 congregations of Seceders, which then comprised all the persons of 

 their denomination iu that city. The subject of the present notice 

 remained throughout his life a steady, but by no means a narrow- 

 minded Seceder. His mother's relations, the Bruces of Kennet iu 

 Clackmannan, early introduced him extensively into general society, 

 and his literary tastes and associations further helped to liberalise him. 

 Yet even long after he numbered among bis intimate acquaintances 

 and friends many person* of great eminence and influence, and hod 

 become known in literature, his worldly circumstances continued 

 extremely narrow. The chronology of bis life may be given in a few 

 sentence*. He was lent to the University of Glasgow when he was 

 only nine yean old, an unusually early age for the commencement of 

 academic education even in Scotland. The urgent motive in this case 

 aeeuis to have been not any extraordinary precocity, or appearance of 

 precocity, in the boy, so much as the anxiety of his father, who had 

 no other son surviving and nothing to leave to his family, to see him 

 eitabliahed a* a clergyman before he should be himself, and he was 

 in very broken health, removed from the world. He commenced the 

 study of theology at the age of fourteen, under the Rev. William 

 Huncrieff, who lectured on that subject to the young men intended 

 for the Secession ministry, at Alloa. After having been a session at 

 Alloa however he attended the lectures of Dugald Stewart in the 

 University of Edinburgh. In July 1779, having just completed his 

 twentieth year, he was licensed a* a preacher by the Seceder Presbytery 

 of Glasgow. For some time he wss employed, as the practice in his 

 communion was, to do duty without any pastoral appointment; first 

 at Colmonell in Ayrshire, then in the Me of Bute, then at Cowal in 

 Argyllshire, then at various places in Perthshire. At last he received 

 at the same time calls, or popular invitations, from congregations in 



Forfr, Dundee, and Perth ; upon which the synod appointed him to 

 that at Forfar, tho poorest and in all other respect* the least desirable 

 of the three. Here be managed to exist upon an uncertain stipend of 

 fifty pound* a year, for a dozen years or more. About a year after 

 settling at Forfar, he married, and bo soon had a numerous family . 

 While thus situated he made aeveral journey* to London, and both 

 there and in Scotland formed many literary acquaintanceship*. He 

 had when very young contributed some verses to Ruddiuiau'a ' Weekly 

 Magazine,' and he bad also communicated come paper* on the ai 

 tie* of Forfarahire to the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth , 

 of which he was a member ; but he first properly came out as au 

 author in 1786, when he published, under tho title of 'Socinianism 

 Unmasked,' an examination of certain opinions deemed heretical which 

 had been promulgated through the press by Dr. Macgill, one of the 

 established ministers of Ayr. This work procured him considerable 

 reputation in the religious world, and it waa followed in 1789 by ' The 

 Sorrows of Slavery, a poem ;' in 1790 by two octavo volumes of 

 ' Sermons on the Heart;' and iu 1791 by 'Congal and Feuells,' a 

 metrical tale, in two part*. 



After he had been ten or twelve years at Forfar he received a call 

 to be their pastor from the Seceder congregation of Nicolson-street, 

 Edinburgh, which however the synod would not allow him to accept. 

 But when, a few years after, he WHS again unanimously invited by the 

 lame congregation, the synod did not make any further opposition ; 

 and he accordingly removed to the Scottish metropolis with its literary 

 society and other advantages of position, aud exchanged bis fifty 

 pounds a year for an income of perhaps four time* the amount. In 

 this situation Jamie-ion remained tor the rest of his life. To the last 

 much of his time continued to be given to literature ; and in addition 

 to the works already mentioned he published, among others of a slighter 

 nature, in 1795, A Reply to Dr. Priestley,' in 2 vols. 8vo; in 1798, 

 ' Eternity,' a poem; in 1799, 'Remarks on Rowland Hill's Journal ;' 

 in 1802, ' The Use of Sacred History,' iu 2 vols. 8vo. ; in 1806, ' An 

 important Trial in the Court of Conscience; ' in 1808, his ' Etymolo- 

 gical Dictionary of tho Scottish Language,' in 2 vols. 4to ; in 1818, 

 ' An Abridgment of the Scottish Dictionary,' in 1 voL 8vo. ; in 1811, 

 'An Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of lona;' in 1614, 

 'Hermes Scythicus, or the Radical Affinities of the Greek and Latin 

 Languages to the Gothic,' 8vo. ; iu 1825, a ' Supplement to his Scottish 

 Dictionary,' in 2 vols. 4to ; and subsequently, ' Au Historical Account 

 of the Royal Palaces of Scotland.' He also produced, in 1820, an 

 edition of Harbour's poem of ' The Bruce,' aud Harry the Minstrel's 

 ' Sir William Wallace,' in 2 vols. 4to. Here then was at any rate no 

 want of industry. Neither Jamiesou's learning however, nor his critical 

 ocutencss, was of a high order ; and scarcely anything that he has done, 

 with the exception of his 'Scottish Dictionary,' retains much value. 

 His 'Hermes Scythicus' is founded upon a mere examination of the 

 vocabularies of some of the northern languages, and has been long 

 superseded. Nor has his 'Dictionary ' (of which a second edition has 

 been published) any merit as a critical performance ; but it is valuable 

 as by far the most extensive collection that has been formed, both of 

 old words and phrases, and of notices of old customs, peculiar to 

 Scotland, a large portion of the matter it contains being derived from 

 the people themselves, their conversation and traditions, and being 

 thus rescued from the probably imminent danger of irrecoverable 

 oblivion. 



Jamieson early in life received the diploma of a Doctor in Divinity 

 from the college of New Jersey in the United States ; he was for many 

 years secretary to the Society of Scottish Antiquaries; and he received 

 a pension of 1UOI. a year as an associate of the Royal Society of Litera- 

 ture from its institution till the general withdrawal of the allow. mues 

 on the accession of William IV. Iu 1833 a pension to the same amount 

 was as."ixned to him from the civil list. He died at Edinburgh on the 

 12th of July 1838. 



JANIN, JULES-GABRIEL, a popular French critic, was born at 

 St-Etienne, in the department of La Loire, on tho llth of December 

 1804. He received bis earliest instruction from his father; he then 

 spent two years at school at Lyon, after which he was sent to complete 

 his education at the College Louia-le-Grand in Paris. Early in 1823, 

 within a few mouths after his leaving college, Jan in became a contri- 

 butor to the ' Figaro,' in which journal he continued to write his squib*, 

 pasquinades, and personal lampoons, until it was suppressed by the 

 govt-rnment in 1825. Jauin waa engaged to write for the ' Messager 

 des Chambres,' in 1827, and he now began to acquire fame and in- 

 fluence, by the vivacity of his style, and the fearless manner in which 

 he distributed both praise aud blame. In 1828-29 his vigorous attacks 

 on the despotic administrations of Charles X., stimulated the Poliguoo 

 ministry, who had been the principal objects of his satire, to taku pro- 

 ceedings against the ' Messager,' which was fined for the abuse, liut 

 Janin, though he denounced the aggression of power, was then, and 

 still is, a supporter of Conservative principles, both in literature and 

 politic*. As soon therefore as the new Romantic school began to rebel 

 against the established rules of authorship, Janin singled out their 

 leader, Victor Hugo, and ridiculed him iu a parody, called ' L'Ane 

 mart et la femme guillotine*,' which appeared with great success in 

 1829. In all the papers and periodicals to which his fertile pen has 

 since contributed something daily, Jules Janin has pursued the same 

 course. When he began these hostilities, aud exposed the false ta*te 



