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 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 297 and qualities. For the rest, several of these gentle- men objected to the costume as belonging to the Puritan rather than to Knox's time ; concerning which preliminary objection more anon, and again more. Mr. Robert Tait, a well-known Artist, of whom we have already spoken, and who has taken great pains in this matter, says : ' unusually correct and successful representation of it, ' itself does ; the features, especially the eyes and nose, ' are finer in form, and more firmly defined in the ' sensual character to the head. These defects or pecu- ' or forty years ago ; and signs are not wanting of ' even earlier manipulation .... Some persons have ' said that the dress, especially the falling band, belongs
 * The Engraving from the Somerville Portrait is an
 * yet it conveys a higher impression than the picture
 * engraving than in the picture, while the bricky
 * colour in the face of the latter and a somewhat
 * glistening appearance in the skin give rather a
 * liarities in the colour and surface are, however, pro-
 * bably due to repainting ; the Picture must have been
 * a good deal retouched, when it was lined, some thirty
 * to a later age than that of Knox, and is sufficient to