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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8 . HI. MARCH 10, 1917.

The Linnean Society possess a portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865) painted by Gambardella. Size 30 in. by 25 in.

The undermentioned portraits by him are in various collections :

Apsley House : ' Lord Brougham ' (50 in. by 40 in.), * Lady Douro,' and some others.

British Museum : ' Sir Anthony Panizzi ' (presented by W. L. Rushton of Liverpool).

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool : ' James Pownall' (35 in. by 27 in.) ; a group, Charles Sylvester, Joseph Sandars, and George Stephenson (size 108 in. by 83 in.) ; three life- size portraits. On the right is Stephenson, standing behind a table, his left hand on a model of the Rocket. In the centre, seated, is Sandars, with a map in front of him, and on the left is Sylvester, with pen and paper before him. Sylvester was an eminent mathematician, and Sandars a Liverpool merchant. The three men were associated in the formation of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

'Edward Rushton' (1795-1851), stipendi- ary magistrate for Liverpool. (This is in Liverpool. It has been reproduced in ' The Letters of a Templar,' by William Lowes Rushton.)

' Story of Life of Charles Theodore Christian Follen,' published 1885, vol. ii., contains a portrait of Follen, engraved after a painting by Gambardella.

In the Arras Museum : ' M. Ledru, Avocat.'

' Dr. Charming.' This is probably in Boston.

The artist eventually returned to Italy, where he died. I do not know the date. There is no account of him in Bryan.

I append copies of passages in letters between Emerson and Carlyle. Emerson to Carlyle, November, 1841 :

" I sent you by an Italian, Signer Gambardella who took a letter to you with good intent to per- suade you to sit to him for your portrait a Dial and some copies of an oration I printed lately."

Carlyle to Emerson, November, 1841 :

" About ten days the Signor Gambardella arrived with a note and books from you. . . .The Signor Gambardella, whom we are to see a second time to-night or to-morrow, amuses and interests us not a little. His face is the very image of the classic god Pan's ; with horns and cloven feet we feel sure he would make a perfect wood-god. Really, some of Poussin's Satyrs are almost portraits of this brave Gambardella. I will warrant him a right glowing mass of southern Italian vitality, full of laughter, wild insight, caricature,! and every sort of energy and joyous savagery : a most profitable element to get introduced in moderate quantity I should say, into the general current of your puritan blood

n New England there ! Gambardella has be- tiaved with magnanimity in that matter of the portrait : I have already sat to him in the like lase, some four times, and Gambardella knows it. It is a dreadful weariness. I directed him accordingly to my last painter, one Lawrence, a man of real parts whom I wished Gambardella to know, and whom I wished to know Gambar- della withal, that he might tell me whether there was any probability of a good picture by him, in case one did decide on encountering the weariness. Well, Gambardella returns with a magnanimous report that Lawrence's picture far transcends any capability of his ; that whoever in America or elsewhere will have a likeness of the said individual must apply to Lawrence, not to Gambardella, which latter artist throws down his brush, and says, ' Be it far from me.' The brave Gambardella ! If I can get him this night to dilate a little farther on his visit to the Com- munity of Shakers and the things he saw arid felt there, it will be a most true benefit to me. Inextinguishable laughter seemed to me to lie in Gambardella 's vision of that phenomenon the sight and the seer but we broke out too loud all at once, and he was afraid to continue."

' The Letters of a Templar ' (Edward Rushton), by Wm. Lowes Rushton, 1903, contains many references to Gambardella. Basilio Magni's great work on ' Italian Painting ' Possibly mentions him. MR. WILLIAM MERCER might be able to give some more information.

THOS. WHITE.

Junior Reform Club, Liverpool.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(12 S. ii. 3, 43, 75, 84, 122, 129, 151, 163, 191, 204, 229, 243, 272, 282, 311, 324, 353, 364, 391, 402, 431, 443, 473, 482, 512, 524 ; iii. 11, 46, 71, 103, 132.)

Coldstream Foot Guards (12 S. ii. 164, 230).

THE various regimental promotions are given in Col. Daniel Mackinnon's ' Origin and Services of the Coldstream Guards,' 2 vols., 1833.

John Folliot, lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Foot Guards, April 1, 1743, till he d. Nov. 4, 1748 ; brigadier-general, July 2, 1739 ; major-general, Aug. 13, 1741 ; lieu- tenant-general, June 1, 1745 ; Lieutenant - Governor of Pendennis Castle, June, 1729 ; Governor of Carlisle, July 9, 1739.

Presumably father of John Folliot, major- general, March 30, 1754 ; lieutenant-general, Jan. 18, 1758 ; lieutenant-colonel 7th Horse till colonel 61st Foot, June 15, 1743, to 1747 ; colonel 18th Foot, Dec. 22, 1747, till he d. Feb. 26, 1762 ; Lieut. -Governor of King- sale and Charles Fort (10s. a day) in 1753, till Governor thereof (11. a day), 1761 till death ; Governor of Ross Castle (10s. a day)