International studio . PROF. GEORGE DOWNING LIVEING, SIR GEORGE REID. THE EAKL OF HALSBURVBY SIR GEORGE REID Siy Geoy^e Reicfs Portraits applied to himself. The same point of view isevident in The Rev. Dr. Mitchell, in Dr. WalterSmith, and Thomas Graham Murray. Indeed,in his presentation of Church dignitaries he paintsthem as members of a Church Militant. Behindhis Scottish divines stands the full defiance of theSolemn League and Covenant and the Thirty-nineArticles. When you look into their faces youthink of Drumclog and Airds Moss, of John Knoxand Andrew Melville. Sir George Reids S

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International studio . PROF. GEORGE DOWNING LIVEING, SIR GEORGE REID. THE EAKL OF HALSBURVBY SIR GEORGE REID Siy Geoy^e Reicfs Portraits applied to himself. The same point of view isevident in The Rev. Dr. Mitchell, in Dr. WalterSmith, and Thomas Graham Murray. Indeed,in his presentation of Church dignitaries he paintsthem as members of a Church Militant. Behindhis Scottish divines stands the full defiance of theSolemn League and Covenant and the Thirty-nineArticles. When you look into their faces youthink of Drumclog and Airds Moss, of John Knoxand Andrew Melville. Sir George Reids Scotsmen could never be any-thing else than men of the Don and the Dee, theClyde and the Forth. They carry their country ontheir shoulders, in the conscious independence ofthe eyes, in the ruggedness of the cheek. SirJames Guthries men of the north are not em-phatically Scottish. Always full of character, theydo not bear their sign-manual of nationality socharacteristically as do those of his Guthrie had painted Thomas Carlyle, he would

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