. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. HA YD ON. •9 then in Spring Gardens. The success of Solomon, he says in hisdiary, was so great, and my triumph so complete, that had I died thenmy name must have stood on record as a youth who had made a standagainst the prejudices of a country, the oppressions of rank, and the crueltyand injustice of two public bodies. It was purchased by two Devonshiregentlemen, Sir W. Elford and Mr. Tingecombe, for 600 guineas, thoughwhat became of it for many years, till it came into the hands of the lateSir E. Landseer, we know not;

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. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. HA YD ON. •9 then in Spring Gardens. The success of Solomon, he says in hisdiary, was so great, and my triumph so complete, that had I died thenmy name must have stood on record as a youth who had made a standagainst the prejudices of a country, the oppressions of rank, and the crueltyand injustice of two public bodies. It was purchased by two Devonshiregentlemen, Sir W. Elford and Mr. Tingecombe, for 600 guineas, thoughwhat became of it for many years, till it came into the hands of the lateSir E. Landseer, we know not; but when, in 1827, a public subscriptionwas made to relieve the painter from his pecuniary difficulties, he gavethe following account of the disposition of his great pictures:— My Judg-ment of Solomon is rolled up in a warehouse in the Borough; my Entry into Jerusalem, once graced by the enthusiasm of the rank andbeauty of the three kingdoms, is doubled up in a back room in Holborn;my Lazarus is in an upholsterers shop in Mount Street; and my Cruci-fixion in a hay

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