. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. portraying rural scenery.—His portrait is subjoined. Rule, a surname, a contraction of Regulus. In the fourthcentury, St. Regulus or St. Rule, a monk of Patras, a city inAchaia, where the bones of St. Andrew are said to have beenkept, arrived with some of them, as tradition asserts, at Mu-cross, afterwards St. Andrews, in the east of Fife, and thusbrought the name into Scotland. The surname, in some in-stances, may have been derived from the rivulet Rule on thesouthern si
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. portraying rural scenery.—His portrait is subjoined. Rule, a surname, a contraction of Regulus. In the fourthcentury, St. Regulus or St. Rule, a monk of Patras, a city inAchaia, where the bones of St. Andrew are said to have beenkept, arrived with some of them, as tradition asserts, at Mu-cross, afterwards St. Andrews, in the east of Fife, and thusbrought the name into Scotland. The surname, in some in-stances, may have been derived from the rivulet Rule on thesouthern side of Teviotdale, the channel of which is a deepgullet through sandstone, and of which Leyden says, Between red ezlar banks that frightful scowl,Fringed with gray hazel, roars the mining Rowll. RUNCIMAN, Alexander, a celebrated paint-er, the son of an architect, was born at Edinburghin 1736. He early evinced a decided taste for draw-ing, and while yet a mere boy employed himselfalmost constantly in sketching landscapes. In1750 he was sent as an apprentice to Messrs. Johnind Robert Nome, house-painters in his native. Having attracted the notice of Sir James Clerkof Penicuick, baronet, then a chief patron of Scot-tish art, he was, in 1766, sent by that gentleman toItaly, to study the works of the great masters ; and,while in that country, he made such a good use ofhis opportunities as to excel many of his contempo-raries, particularly in the rich yet chastened styleof colouring of the Venetian school. He returnedto Scotland in 1771, and the same year was ap-pointed, by the trustees for the Encouragement ofArts and Manufactures, master of the academyestablished at Edinburgh for the study of draw-ing, with a salary of £120. His principal work,of which the design was entirely his own, was the RUSSELL, 389 PATRICK. paintings in the Hall of Ossian at Penicuick. Tothis great undertaking he devoted himself so closelyas to contract an illness, from which he never re-covered, from bein
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