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 In England. 629 and the Valley Farm, in the National Gallery. He is one of the few English artists represented in the Louvre, which has five landscapes by him. Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779—1844), the brother of the celebrated Dr. Callcott, the musical, composer, began life as a portrait painter in oils, but early directed his attention to landscapes, and quickly attained to high rank as a renderer of Italian, Dutch and English scenery. His smaller works, many of which are in the national col- lections, are considered his best, and are chiefly remarkable for breadth and purity of colouring. Towards the close of his career Callcott produced several sacred and historic pictures, of which the Raphael and Fornarina and Milton and his Daughters are the principal. Although showing good taste and feeling for beauty, they are generally speaking inferior to his landscapes. The National Gallery has nine of his works. William Collins (1788 — 1847) was an excellent painter of English rural and seaside scenery, in which the figures and incidents introduced were treated in an extremely lifelike and effective manner. He studied under Mor- land, and spent some time in Italy, producing several fine Italian landscapes, such as the Caves of Ulysses at Sorrento, and the Bay of Naples in the South Kensington Museum ; but his true sphere was English out-door life, and his Happy as a King, the Prawn Catchers, Rustic Civility — all in the national collections — and Sunday Morning, the Sale of the Pet Lamb, Fishermen on the Look-out, and many similar works in private possession, are simple and lifelike renderings of incidents with which every Englishman is familiar. Clarkson Stanfield (1794—1867), who began his artist