. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . sh to attend the trial of Warren Hastings, Gains-borough caught a cold which was the beginning of his last illness. A short timebefore his death he sent for Sir Joshua Reynolds, expressed his reconciliation withhis moved rival, and murmured the memorable speech—We are all going to heaven,and Van Dyck is of the company. Gainsborough was in his sixty-first year at the date of his death, in 1787. liewas buried at Kew. His family, who were left in moderate affluence, consisted onlyof his widow and two daughters, one of whom had
. The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages . sh to attend the trial of Warren Hastings, Gains-borough caught a cold which was the beginning of his last illness. A short timebefore his death he sent for Sir Joshua Reynolds, expressed his reconciliation withhis moved rival, and murmured the memorable speech—We are all going to heaven,and Van Dyck is of the company. Gainsborough was in his sixty-first year at the date of his death, in 1787. liewas buried at Kew. His family, who were left in moderate affluence, consisted onlyof his widow and two daughters, one of whom had married, we think, without herfathers knowledge, and, as it proved, unhappily, the musician Fischer, with whomGainsboroughs delight in music had brought himself and his household in continualcontact. A portrait by Gainsborough startled the art world, after an interval of years, likea revelation. It was that of Mrs. Graham, of Lynedoch, and has a pathetic historyattached to it. The portrait of the much-loved wife was taken shortly before hei * See Steel FUSE LI. I3] death, which occurred previous to the completed pictures being sent home. Thebereaved husband could not bear to look on the semblance of what he had lost inthis world, and did not even have the picture removed from its case. Tn the extremityof his grief, as an effort against the melancholy, which was darkening down uponhim, he joined the army, engaged in the Peninsular war, and as a volunteer distin-guished himself in his first battle. Obtaining a commission, he rose step by step,attaining one martial honour after another, till, first hailed as the gallant Sir ThomasGraham, the hero of Vittoria and Barossa, he had conferred on him the title of LordLynedoch. Waterloo and the long peace came, and the sorrowing widower mergedinto the veteran soldier, lived on till white-haired and blind, and more than ninetyyears of age, and still the picture of his dead wife remained in its case, in the care ofa London me
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