DANIEL MACLISE (1811--1870) was born at Cork, and was intended for the unromantic calling of a banker's clerk. Fortunately for the world he soon left the bank stool for the studio of the Cork Society of Arts. In 1828, he transferred his attention to the Academy schools in London, and soon obtained the gold medal for the best historic composition, representing _The Choice of Hercules_. He had previously exhibited _Malvolio affecting the Count_. In due course appeared, at the British Institution, _Mokanna unveiling his features to Zelica_, and _Snap-Apple Night_, which found a place at the Royal Academy. Maclise became a full Academician in 1840. His latter years were chiefly occupied with the famous water-glass pictures in the Houses of Parliament, _The Interview of Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo_, and _The Death of Nelson at Trafalgar_. The noble cartoon (bought by subscriptions of artists, who likewise presented the designer with a gold port-crayon) of the former is now the property of the Royal Academy. Maclise executed many book illustrations, including those for "Moore's Melodies," and "The Pilgrims of the Rhine." He executed a noble series of designs delineating _The Story of the Norman Conquest_. A collection of his drawings has been bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum by Mr. John Forster. Maclise painted a few portraits, among them that of Charles Dickens, who spoke thus of the dead painter, "Of his prodigious fertility of mind and wonderful wealth of intellect, I may confidently assert that they would have made him, if he had been so minded, at least as great a writer as he was a painter. The gentlest, and most modest of men; the freest as to his generous appreciation of young aspirants; and the frankest and largest-hearted as to his peers. No artist ever went to his rest leaving a golden memory more free from dross, or having devoted himself with a truer chivalry to the goddess whom he worshipped." The most remarkable works of Maclise are _Macbeth and the Witches_; _Olivia and Sophia fitting out Moses for the Fair_; _The Banquet Scene in Macbeth_; _Ordeal by Touch_; _Robin Hood and Coeur de Lion_; _The Play Scene in Hamlet_ (National Gallery); _Malvolio and the Countess_ (National Gallery). CHARLES LANDSEER (1799--1879), the elder brother of the more famous Sir Edwin Landseer, was a pupil of Haydon and the Royal Academy Schools. In 1836 appeared his _Sacking of Basing House_ (now in the National Gallery). He was elected an A.R.A. in the following year, became a full member in 1845, and Keeper in 1851. Amongst other good works by him are _Clarissa Harlowe in the Spunging House_ (National Gallery), _Charles II. escaping in disguise from Colonel Lane's House_, and _The Eve of the Battle of Edgehill_.