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edited by Robert Buchanan, and Maria R. 

 Audubon, Audubon and His Journals. 



4. 1826 (?). Oil portrait by W. H. Holmes, 36 by 28 



inches ; painted for Audubon's friend, Walter 

 Horton Bentley, Manchester, England, and in 

 possession of the Bentley family ever since. 

 Audubon is represented in a green coat, a crim- 

 son cloak with deep fur edging thrown over one 

 shoulder, and with portfolio in hand. 



For information concerning this fine but little known por- 

 trait, as well as for the photograph reproduced in Vol. I, p. 416, 

 I am indebted to Mr. Ruthven Deane. In 1918, Mr. John Con- 

 way Bentley, a grandson of the former owner, formerly of 

 Glasgow, but then living in Cheshire, England, attempted to 

 dispose of the Holmes portrait in this country. 



5. 1826. Oil portrait by John Syme; painted at Edin- 



burgh, November, 1826; supposed to have been 

 engraved by W. H. Lizars, but no trace of 

 painting or engraving has been found. See 

 Maria R. Audubon, op. cit., vol. i, pp. 157 

 and 165. 



On November 27, 1826, Audubon wrote: "At twelve I went 

 to stand up for my picture, and sick enough I was of it by 

 two; at the request of Mr. Lizars I wear my wolf-skin coat, 

 and if the head is not a strong likeness, perhaps the coat may 

 be." In writing to his son, Victor, in 1833 (see Chapter 

 XXVII, p. 57), Audubon said: "I am glad to hear of Kidd & 

 Co.'s publication of Parrots, but I regret that my face should 

 have been there from Syme's picture, which in my estimation 

 is none of the best." 



6. 1828. Oil portrait painted in London by an American 



artist named Parker, in August, 1828 ; Parker 

 subsequently accompanied Audubon and 



