THE ASSOCIATE-ACADEMICIAN. 



N 1827 Landseer exhibited at the Academy five pictures, of which the 

 principal were " Highlanders Returning from Deerstalking with 

 Dead Game," and " The Monkey who had seen the World." Of 

 the former of these subjects the artist painted more than one or 

 two, but at this distant date it is difficult to identify them with the 

 period of exhibition ; yet I believe this early example is that which was painted for the 

 late Mr. Wells, of Redleaf, and afterwards was in the possession of the late Mr. Fallows, 

 of Manchester, whose collection was sold in 1868, when the "Deer Stalkers" was 

 bought by Messrs. Agnew for 1,680 guineas. A large engraving of it, by Ryall, was 

 published many years ago by the Art-Union of Glasgow ; it represents two stalwart 

 Highlanders returning from their sport, with two ponies, a white one and a brown, 

 across whose backs dead deer are slung. On one side of the men is a single dog, and 

 on the other a couple of these animals leashed together, and eyeing very intently the 

 skull of a dead stag which lies by the wayside. The landscape is a mountainous 

 district, half shrouded in mist. The other picture is in the collection of Mr. Thomas 

 Baring. It is a most humorous composition ; the travelled monkey wears the costume 

 of the early part of the last century, his coat being scarlet ; and in this gorgeous dress 

 he makes an appearance before his wild brethren of the forest, to one of which he offers 

 a pinch out of his snuff-box, which is accepted, to the discomfiture of the recipient and 

 the amazement of his companions. 



In the same year the artist sent to the exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy a 

 picture which, from the appended quotation, I assume had for its title " The Death of the 

 Buck." In that inimitable series of imaginary colloquies called "Noctes Ambrosianse," 

 by Professor John Wilson, published many years ago, and which gave to Blackwood's 



