he knew quite well that
the encouragement he had had was only of the smallest; that as a relation
she received him frankly and kindly enough; but checked him when he would
have adopted another character. But it chanced that they met in Paris,
whither he went in the Easter of the ensuing year, having worked to some
good purpose through the winter, and despatched as on a former occasion
his three or four pictures, to take their chance at the Exhibition.
Of these it is our pleasing duty to be able to corroborate to some
extent, Mr. F. Bayham's favourable report. Fancy sketches and historical
pieces our young man had eschewed; having convinced himself either that
be had not an epic genius, or that to draw portraits of his friends, was
a much easier task than that which he had set himself formerly. Whilst
all the world was crowding round a pair of J. J,.'s little pictures, a
couple of chalk heads were admitted into the Exhibition (his great
picture of Captain Crackthorpe on horseback, in full uniform, I must
admit was ignominiously rejected), and the friends of the parties had the
pleasure of recognising in the miniature room, No.
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