April. 1912. 



KNOWLEDGE. 



Eastlake was a native of 

 Plymouth, where he was born 

 on November 17th, 179J. He 

 was studying the master- 

 pieces of the Louvre, when 

 the news of Napoleon's 

 landing caused him to quit 

 Paris on ^L'lrch 19th. the 

 same day as Louis the Weli- 

 Beloved took to flight. \\'hen 

 the '■ Bellerophon '" arrived 

 in Plymouth Sound. Eastlake 

 promptly post[K)ned all the 

 work he had on hand, and. 

 " hovering round the ship " 

 in a boat, took a series of 

 rapid sketches of Napoleon 

 as he stood in the gangwav. 

 from which he elaborated a 

 small full-length portrait of 

 the Emperor, and another 

 life-size. The latter was 

 subsequentl\- exhibited i n 

 London. The fine mezzo- 

 tint executed from it b\- 

 C. Turner, is familiar t<j 

 most collectors, but when 

 used as an illustration In- 

 the present writer, an art 

 critic declared that the 

 picture represented Napoleon 

 at Malmaison, and that the 

 rolled - up hammocks and 

 other accessories belonged 

 to a garden instead of a 

 ship ! The Turner mezzo- 

 tint, of which an exception- 

 ally fine example in the 

 second state is now in the 

 possession of Mr. Henr\- 

 Parker, of W'hitcombe Street, 

 bears the following inscrip- 

 tion : — 



'■ Napoleon Honeparte as he 

 presented himself at the gangway 

 of His Majesty's Ship " Belle- 

 rophon," in Plymouth Sound, in 

 the month of .August. 1815. To 

 His Royal Highness the Prince 

 Regent this print, as commemora- 

 ting the result of the persevering 

 resistance of (Ireat Britain to 

 the ambition of Napoleon, and as 

 exhibiting one of the immediate 

 and most important consequences 

 of the Victory of N\'aterloo. Is. 

 with His Royal Highness's per- 

 mission, humbly and respectfully 

 dedicated by His Royal Highness's 

 faithful, devoted servant, Charles 

 Lock Eastlake. London. Published 

 August 26, 1816, by C.Turner, 50. 

 Warren Street, Fitzroy Square." 



Mr. Denzil Ibbetson," of 

 the Commissariat Depart- 



.Napoluon on the "' .Northumberland." from an 



aquatint by Williams, published by Thomas Parker. 



January 14th. 1816, presumably from one of 



Denzil Ibbetson's sketches. 



FlGURli 159. 

 Napoleon. Portrait forming the frontispiece to 

 Barnes's "Tour through the Island of St. Helena." 



ment. sailed in the ■North- 

 umberland," and between 

 Monday, August 7th. when 

 the ship left the Sound, and 

 Tuesday, October 1 7th, when 

 Napoleon disembarked at 

 Jamestown, executed the 

 various portraits described in 

 the current issue of The Cen- 

 tury Miif^iizine. tiie majoritv 

 of which were unknown and 

 unidentified until discovered 

 by the present writer. It was 

 most probably from one of 

 those that Mr. Williams pre- 

 pared the print issued b\- 

 T. Patser, on January 14th, 

 1816, now given as an illus- 

 tration. (See Figure 158.) 

 This was certainly one of the 

 first portraits of Napoleon 

 published in Europe after 

 his arrival at St. Helena. The 

 figure of the Emperor bears 

 a strong resemblance to that 

 introduced into Major 

 Stewart's view of the "Briars" 

 which appeared in the last 

 issue of "Knowledge." 

 (See page 100.) 



Early in 1904, a letter 

 addressed h\ Sir Stamford 

 Raffles to "Mr. Sholto V. 

 Hare, came into the posses- 

 sion of the writer. It is dated 

 " Off St. Helena, May 20th, 

 1816," and covers no less 

 than twenty - four quarto 

 sheets. It gives a most de- 

 tailed account of an interview 

 \\hich our Minister in Java 

 had had with Napoleon at 

 Longwood, a day or two 

 before. The visit of Sir 

 Stamford Raffles is not men- 

 tioned by M. .Albert Schuer- 

 mans in his " Itineraire 

 General." He notes that it 

 was on Ma\- 16th, Sir Hudson 

 Lowe communicated to the 

 Emperor the Convention of 

 Paris, of August 2nd. On 

 May 17th, Napoleon was 

 working on the events of 18 

 Brumaire and the Egyptian 

 Campaign. On Ma}- 19th he 

 was making notes on the 

 events of 1815. 



The personalit\of Napoleon 

 in May, 1816, did not impress 

 SirStamford Raffles as fa vour- 

 abl\- as it did Major \'ivian 



