GEORGE VINCENT (1796--about 1831) is best known for his _View of Greenwich Hospital_, shown from the river. It was painted for Mr. Carpenter, of the British Museum, and was in the International Exhibition of 1862. Vincent was specially fond of sunlight effects or clouds in his pictures. JOHN SELL COTMAN (1782--1842) having escaped the life of a linen-draper's shopman, devoted himself to art, and coming to London found a friend and patron in Dr. Monro. From 1800 to 1806 Cotman exhibited pictures at the Academy, and, returning to Norwich, was made a member and secretary of the Society of Artists there. In the year 1808 he contributed to the Norwich exhibition sixty-seven works. Cotman paid many visits to Normandy, and after 1834 was Professor of Drawing in King's College School, London. He was more successful as a water-colour artist than a painter in oils. He painted chiefly landscapes, marine pieces, and executed many engravings of architecture. The Norwich school no longer exists as a distinct body. * * * * * FRANCIS DANBY (1793--1861) excelled Martin in the poetry of landscape art. He was born near Wexford, and gained his first knowledge of art in Dublin, where, in 1812, he exhibited his first picture, _Evening_. In 1813, he was established at Bristol as a teacher of drawing in water colour. He became known to the artistic world of London by his _Upas Tree of Java_, which was at the British Institution of 1820, an intensely poetic work, now in the National Gallery. His _Sunset at Sea after a Storm_, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824, was purchased by Sir Thomas Lawrence. A year later Danby exhibited _The Delivery of Israel out of Egypt_, for which he was elected an A.R.A. He is most famous, however, for quiet scenes, calm evenings at sea, sunset effects, combined with some poetic incident, and always remarkable for great brilliancy of colour, among which are _The Artist's Holiday_ and _The Evening Gun_. In the National Gallery is _The Fisherman's Home, Sunrise_. He never became a R.A.