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we have here two of his productions, side by side; they are 

 both good. 



Two portraits by Kneller which hang on the left have 

 suffered much from a green change of the flesh tints. They 

 represent the mezzotint engraver John Smith, a refined and 

 pleasant face, and a daughter of the Duchess of Marlborough. 

 Still further to the left we have Bishop Berkeley, the meta- 

 physician and disciple of Tar-water, and Rooke to whom we 

 owe the possession of Gibraltar. There have yet to be named 

 on the extreme right Addison and his intimate friend James 

 Craggs. The group, it may be admitted, is not wholly con- 

 gruous nor is it designed to be so, but it is sufficiently so to 

 greatly increase its interest. The whole is in excellent light, 

 and the names we have given will well justify a recom- 

 mendation to sit a quarter of an hour and quietly examine 

 the features of men who, if perhaps none of them in the fore- 

 most rank, all contributed their share to mould the character 

 of the age in which they lived. 



There are in the National Portrait Gallery two portraits 

 of the Queen of Hearts. One by Miereveldt represents her 

 probably in her most prosperous times and apparently about 

 35, wearing a large ruff, a much ornamented dress and heavy 

 strings of pearls. The exact age is not given. The other by 

 Honthout is specified as at the age of 46, and shows a 

 refined face chastened by sorrow and disappointment. She 

 is clad in modern low dress and wears but little ornament. 

 Above hang the portraits of two of her daughters, the Electress 

 Sophia, George Us mother, and Elizabeth, Princess Pala- 

 tine, the correspondent of Descartes. 



The whole series from Tudor-Stuart to Brunswick is 

 illustrated in a most instructive manner in this collection. 

 We have Mary Queen of Scots and Darnley her husband, 

 James I., their son, and his wife. Next follow their daughter, 

 Elizabeth of Bohemia, with her husband and. their daughter, 

 the Electress Sophia, mother of George I. Elizabeth's 

 unfortunate husband, " the Winter King," hangs above his 



