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GEORGE MEREDITH the ruddy glow of health in firm and solid cheeks to the pallor and the wan, frail look of decaying faculties. Swinburne put the matter tersely by saying he was not young enough to be beautiful and not old enough to be picturesque, when he refused to sit for his portrait. So few know when the picturesqueness begins, and sometimes it never comes at all—it is frequently a question of hair!

At last I obtained material enough to make the portrait, and the work was accomplished to the satisfaction of the President of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and now hangs in the Historic Portrait Collection of that institution.