. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. hat was perhaps of more immediate service, to SirRobert Walpole, who aimed at being thought a friendto men of genius. Among the more intimate friendsof Aikman was William Somerville, author of TheChase, from whom he received an elegant tribute ofthe muse, on his painting a full-length portrait ofthe poet in the decline of life, carrying him back, bythe assistance of another portrait, to his youthfuldays. This poem was never published in any editionof Somervilles works. Aikman painted, for the Earlof Burlington, a large picture of the royal famil


. A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen. hat was perhaps of more immediate service, to SirRobert Walpole, who aimed at being thought a friendto men of genius. Among the more intimate friendsof Aikman was William Somerville, author of TheChase, from whom he received an elegant tribute ofthe muse, on his painting a full-length portrait ofthe poet in the decline of life, carrying him back, bythe assistance of another portrait, to his youthfuldays. This poem was never published in any editionof Somervilles works. Aikman painted, for the Earlof Burlington, a large picture of the royal family ofEngland; all the younger branches being in themiddle compartment, on a very large canvas, and onone hand a full-length portrait of Queen Caroline;the picture of the king (George II.)—that king whonever could endure boetry or bainting, as hestyled the two arts in his broken English—intendedfor the opposite side, was never finished, owing tothe death of the artist. This was perhaps the lastpicture brought towards a close by Aikman, and it. \ium Mm f THE POSSSSSION OF M»=FORBES EBIN BUCBIEtSOK OtlSSOWEOUrenBCBJ HEW AINSLIE WILLIAM AITON. 2S is allowed to have been in his best style; it cameinto the possession of the Duke of Devonshire by amarriage alliance with the Burlington family. Someof his earlier works are in the possession of theArgyle and Hamilton families in Scotland; his moremature and mellow productions are chiefly to befound in England, and a large portion at Blickling,in Norfolk, the seat of the Earl of Buckinghamshire;these are chiefly portraits of noblemen, ladies, andgentlemen, friends of the earl. He died, June 4,1731, at his house in Leicester Fields, and, by hisown desire, his body was taken to Scotland for in-terment; his only son, John (by his wife MarionLawson, daughter of Mr. Lawson of Cairnmuir, inPeeblesshire), whose death immediately preceded hisown, was buried in the same grave with him, in theGreyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh. A monumentwas erec


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