. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. urpose, during its early difficulties,he contributed materially to placing it on a suc-cessful and permanent footing. In 1838 the Scot-tish Academy was incorporated by royal consists of thirty academicians, and twenty as-sociates. Mr. Watson died before the charterwas obtained, September 6, 1837, aged 70, after along illness of 15 years. He was survived by awidow, two sons, and three daughters, out of afamily of nine children. Upon exhibiting some of his portra
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. urpose, during its early difficulties,he contributed materially to placing it on a suc-cessful and permanent footing. In 1838 the Scot-tish Academy was incorporated by royal consists of thirty academicians, and twenty as-sociates. Mr. Watson died before the charterwas obtained, September 6, 1837, aged 70, after along illness of 15 years. He was survived by awidow, two sons, and three daughters, out of afamily of nine children. Upon exhibiting some of his portraits at theRoyal Academy of London about 1815, Mr. Wat-son received numerous invitations to that city,and while there he painted, among many others,the portraits of the Dean of Canterbury, Lord andLady Combermere, and a characteristic one ofBenjamin West, president of the Royal latter is now in the National Gallery of Scot-land at Edinburgh, having been presented to theRoyal Scottish Academy by his son, Mr. WilliamSmellie Watson, A duplicate of this por-trait having been sent to the Academy of Art at. ^^Co^-^7 *^^-x^
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