PREFACE. 



pleasantest of my life ; and if I am able to impart even a 

 small proportion of the pleasure I received from their 

 conversation to my readers, I shall have accomplished as 

 much as I dared wish. 



My thanks are also due to those gentlemen who so 

 liberally placed their paintings at my disposal, and allowed 

 me to reproduce whatever I thought Avould be of interest 



to the public. 



WILLIAM SCARTH DIXON. 



CLEVELAND HOUSE, 



SALTBUKN-BY-THE-SEA, 



November, 1888. 



