GEORGE HENRY HARLOW (1787--1819) emerged from a childhood, in which he was petted and spoilt, to a brief manhood which the society of actors and actresses did not improve. He was, for a time, a pupil of Lawrence, and it is supposed that if he had lived Harlow would, as a portrait painter, have been his successful rival. After a foreign tour, he, like many of his brethren, longed to succeed in historic painting. His _Queen Catherine's Trial_, in which Mrs. Siddons appears as the Queen, does not prove that he would have succeeded in this branch of art. It was at the "Old Masters" Exhibition, 1882. WILLIAM OWEN (1769--1825), the son of a bookseller at Ludlow, came to London in 1786, after receiving a good education at the Ludlow Grammar School. He became a pupil of Charles Catton, landscape and animal painter, and of the Academy. In 1792 he exhibited a _Portrait of a Gentleman_, and a _View of Ludford Bridge_. He is chiefly known as a portrait painter, and found that branch of art remunerative, but his real tastes appeared in _Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green_, _The Fortune Teller_, _The Village Schoolmistress_, and other simple stories of country life. A picture of two sisters gained him one of the two as a wife; and portraits of _Pitt_, _Lord Grenville_, the _Duke of Buccleuch_, and other noteworthy persons brought him into fashion. Owen was elected full member of the Academy in 1806, and appointed portrait painter to the Prince of Wales in 1810. He was an unwearied worker, and his subject-pictures commanded an interest which does not continue. In the National Gallery is _The Dead Robin_. His _William Croker_ and _Lord Loughborough_ are in the National Portrait Gallery. [Illustration: TRIAL OF QUEEN CATHERINE. _By_ HARLOW. A.D. 1817. In the possession of Mrs. Morrison.]