WILLIAM LINTON (1791--1876) was employed in a merchant's office in Liverpool, but quitted it to begin an artist's career in London. In 1821, he exhibited his first picture, _The Morning after the Storm_. After visiting the Continent, Linton returned to England, and produced pictures of the classic scenes he had studied. After a second foreign tour, in which he visited Greece, Sicily, and Calabria, he exhibited _The Embarkation of the Greeks for Troy_, _The Temples of Paestum_ (National Gallery), and several works of a like character. PATRICK NASMYTH (1786--1831), son of a Scotch landscape painter, was born in Edinburgh, and came to London. His first exhibited picture at the Academy was a _View of Loch Katrine_, in 1811. In the British Institution Gallery of the same year his _Loch Auchray_ appeared. It is by his pictures of simple English scenery that Nasmyth is best known. He took Hobbema and Wynants as models, and chose country lanes, hedge-rows, with dwarf oak-trees, for his subjects. Nasmyth was deaf in consequence of an illness, and having lost the use of his right hand by an accident, painted with his left. In the National Gallery are a _Cottage_, and _The Angler's Nook_; at South Kensington are _Landscape with an Oak_, _Cottage by a Brook_, and _Landscape with a Haystack_. [Illustration: ST. GOMER, BRUSSELS. _By_ DAVID ROBERTS.] DAVID ROBERTS (1796--1864), a native of Stockbridge, near Edinburgh, began life as a house-decorator, and, becoming a scene-painter, found employment at Drury Lane in 1822. Marked success in this capacity led him to attempt a higher flight in architectural landscape. He exhibited _Rouen Cathedral_ at the Academy in 1826, and very often contributed pictures to the British Institution and Society of British Artists; of the last-named body he was a foundation-member. Roberts made a tour in Spain for materials of pictures and sketches; noteworthy among the results of this journey are _The Cathedral of Burgos_, an exterior view, and a small Interior of the same, now in the National Gallery. Extending his travels to the East, Roberts produced _The Ruins of Baalbec_, and _Jerusalem from the South-East_. He was made a full member of the Academy in 1841, and lived to see his pictures sold for far higher prices than he had originally assigned to them. David Roberts is well known by "Sketches in the Holy Land, Syria, and Egypt."