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IR JAMES DRUMGOLE LINTON, President of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, was educated as a designer for stained glass, and was later engaged as a draughtsman for The Graphic; but it was in water-colour that he was destined to display the full extent of his ability. At twenty-seven he was elected a member of the Institute, not at that time in a very flourishing condition, and it is largely owing to his enterprise that the Society increased rapidly in importance, and the present fine building in Piccadilly was erected. He became President in 1884, and one year later—at the age at which our third portrait represents him he received the honour of knighthood. Sir James Linton's work is remarkable for its excellent draughtsmanship and for its richness and depth of colouring. His "Marriage of the Duke of Albany," painted by command of the Queen, is one of the most successful subjects of the kind ever represented.