. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ics, acquired French ami Ital-ian. While yet a boy he designed and engravedillustrations for various publications. He soon,however, turned his attention from engraving topainting; and in April 1827, with the aid of someother young artists, lie established the first Lifeacademy in Edinburgh. His first exhibited pic-ture, in 1S28, The Hopes of early genius dispelledby Death, gave great promise, while it also fore-shadowed his own fate. During the Bession of thosame year, he
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ics, acquired French ami Ital-ian. While yet a boy he designed and engravedillustrations for various publications. He soon,however, turned his attention from engraving topainting; and in April 1827, with the aid of someother young artists, lie established the first Lifeacademy in Edinburgh. His first exhibited pic-ture, in 1S28, The Hopes of early genius dispelledby Death, gave great promise, while it also fore-shadowed his own fate. During the Bession of thosame year, he studied anatomy in Dr. Monrosclass in the university of Edinburgh. Several largepictures painted by him at this period indicated thepossession of high imaginative faculties, and weremarked by a loftiness of aim and a depth ofmeaning which all his work showed, in a greatei SCOTT, 422 DAVID, or less degree. Among them were Lot and hisDaughters, and Fingal and the Spirit of Lodi. In 1821 he had commenced drawing in theTrustees Academy, Edinburgh, then under thedirection of Andrew Wilson. His portrait In 1832 he visited Italy, taking the Louvre inhis way, returning homeward by Lyons. He re-mained for two years in Italy, visiting every cityremarkable for its collections, and in letters to hisbrother, gave expression to his feelings on theworks of the old masters. His own carefully keptjournals also contain many valuable and deeplyappreciative remarks on the various pictures whichhe had seen. He did not, like the generality ofartists, make elaborate copies of celebrated works,but only small sketches of what he conceived ex-cellent in design. At Rome, where he remainedfor nearly a year, he commenced his large pictureofFamily Discord—the household Gods destroy-ed, which, with Sappho and Anacreon, and aseries of impersonations, called Morning, Noon,Evening, and Night, were exhibited in the roomsof the Scottish Academy. For the Roman Cath-olic chapel of St. Patric
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