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Canal, which used to be pointed out as Gainsborough's 

 study ; and certainly the old stunted trees, and the 

 scars which just showed themselves, seemed to group 

 themselves for the very service of the landscape- 

 painter. They were eminently picturesque when 

 looked at from several different points of view. 



The two Barkers, and Hewlett, the exquisite 

 painter of flowers, were, I think, all alive when this 

 paper was read ; now all three are dead, and it is to 

 be feared no artist has yet attained the eminence 

 which they all deservedly reached. The elder Barker 

 found a valuable patron in the late Sir William 

 Cockburn, long a public-spirited resident of Bath. 



Of Mr. Hoare's works there is one of the most 

 living groups that was, perhaps, ever painted, in the 

 board-room of the hospital : a physician and surgeon 

 examining patients, candidates for admission — Dr. 

 Oliver and Mr. Pearce. It is a pity that there is no 

 engraving of it. 



[32] The theatre cannot be named without re- 

 calling to recollection three persons, none of them, 

 however, performers, who were all living at Bath at 

 the time when this paper was written, but who are 

 all now to be numbered with those who are gone — 

 Francis Twiss, the compiler of that work of great 

 labour The Concordance to Shakespeare. He lived 



