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 ardour at the rememberance of the works of these divine masters? Who does not regret their loss?—they are gone, and have left but few behind them that can pretend to any degree of competition. The other artists that had seats in the academy are well known: Simpson painted the Jupiter Olympos in the salon of Apollo; a picture which would alone have immortalised him. The most splendid court in Europe was sure to be attended with a multitude of foreign artists. Spinoza, Martileat, and Carvianté, were received in the most distinguished manner by the King, and had each pensions of five hundred pounds granted them, besides being liberally paid for their works. Never was any art so much obliged to a Sovereign, as that of painting to George VI.

The palace itself, which has for so many years been the delight and wonder of Britain, was finished in 1915,