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 'AINTING are of the highest value as compositions, and have a touching interest of genuine power. John Frederick Lewis (1805 — 1876) succeeded equal! in water-colours and in oil : in 1857 he was elected Presi- dent of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, and later became a Royal Academician. His pictures are views, with figures, in Spain, Italy and the East. His Interior o a Harem gained him great reputation William Edward Frost (1810 — 1877) painted pictures very similar in subject to those of Etty : his female figures are graceful, but he lacks the powerful colouring of his rival. Edward William Cooke (1811—1880) was one of the best English marine painters of the present century. His works may be seen both in the National Gallery and at the South Kensington Museum. Alfred Elmore (1815 — 1881) earned much renown as a subject painter. George Hemming Mason (1818 — 1872), who produced many fine works of landscape and figure, painted both in Italy and England : they are noteworthy for their fine colouring. 6. Later English Water-colour Painters. Before we close our notice of the British schools of painting, it is our pleasant task to speak of a group of men who are allowed, even by foreign critics, to be un- rivalled in their peculiar line by any of their European cotemporaries. We refer to the distinguished painters in water-colours, who carried on the work inaugurated by Cozens, Girtin and Turner. John J. Chalon (1778—1854) and Thomas Heaphy I