Like his contemporaries the Cruikshanks, with whom he was familiar, Theodore Lane mixed freely with the young bloods of his day, termed in the slang of his time "Corinthians," and the results are shown in his designs. He might often be seen at the "Craven's Head," in Drury Lane, kept by a host known to his patrons by the familiar title of "Billy Oxberry"; at the Saturday night harmonic meetings held at the "Kean's Head," in Russell Court, Drury Lane; at "The Wrekin," in Broad Court, Long Acre, at that time frequented by gentlemen of the Press; at "The Harp," in Russell Street, Drury Lane, a well known house of call for actors, and appropriately immortalised in one of his illustrations to "The Life of an Actor"; at the "Cider Cellar"; at the "Fives Court"; at the numerous "Masquerades" of the day; at any place of resort, in fact, which offered studies of life and character or subjects of social satire. He figures in his own sketch of _The Masquerade at the Argyll Rooms_, where we recognise him (in one of the right hand boxes) in a white sheet, a tall paper cap on his head, and a staff in his hand. His impersonations were sometimes singularly original. At one of these "masquerades," for instance, he represented a "frozen-out gardener" soliciting charity, and holding in his hand a cabbage covered with icicles; at another, he appeared as a hospital "out-patient," wearing a hideous mask (designed by himself) representing some dreadful disease, from which the bystanders recoiled in horror and amazement. With all this drollery Lane kept himself well out of mischief, and was moreover, in days when young and old were more or less inclined to be topers, a strictly temperate man. But Lane's talents were not confined to comic etching or designs on wood. He was also an artist in oil and water colour. He painted in oils _The Drunken Gardener_; _The Organ of Murder_, a clumsy, nervous craniologist feeling his own head in doubt and perplexity to ascertain whether the dreadful "organ" is developed in himself; _An Hour before the Duel_ (exhibited at the Institution in Pall Mall). Other subjects of his pictures were: _The Poet reading his Manuscript Play of Five Acts to a Friend_; _Too many Cooks Spoil the Broth_; _The Nightmare_; _The Mathematician's Abstraction_ (the latter purchased by Lord Northwick). His most ambitious work in oils (upwards of seventeen feet in length) was called _A Trip to Ascot Races_. His last work, _The Enthusiast_ (the first we have mentioned), was exhibited at Somerset House at the time of his death.