[Illustration: PEACE. _By_ LANDSEER. A.D. 1846. _In the National Gallery._] WILLIAM BOXALL (1800--1879), after study in the Royal Academy Schools and in Italy, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1829 his first picture--_Milton's Reconciliation with his Wife_--and continued to contribute to its exhibitions till 1866. Though his first works were historic and allegoric, he finally became famous as a portrait painter, and reckoned among his sitters some of the most eminent men of the time--poets, painters, writers on art, and others, _e.g_. Copley Fielding, David Cox, Coleridge, Wordsworth. In 1852 Boxall became an associate, and in 1864 a full member of the Royal Academy; he was Director of the National Gallery from 1865 to 1874; and received the honour of knighthood in 1871, in recognition of the valuable services which he rendered to art. PAUL FALCONER POOLE (1810--1879), a painter of high class of _genre_ pictures as well as of history, exhibited his first picture at the Academy in 1830, _The Well, a Scene at Naples_. In 1838 he produced _The Emigrant's Departure_. Other pictures are _May Queen preparing for the Dance_, _The Escape of Glaucus and Ione_, _The Seventh Day of the Decameron_. Among the historic works of this artist are _The Vision of Ezekiel_ (National Gallery) and others. Poole became a full member of the Academy in 1860. GEORGE HEMMING MASON (1818--1872), a native of Witley, Staffordshire, found art to be surrounded by difficulties. His father insisted on his following the profession of medicine, and placed him with Dr. Watts, of Birmingham. A portrait painter having visited the doctor's house, young Mason borrowed his colour-box, and, unaided, produced a picture of such promise that the artist advised him to follow art. Mason left the doctor's house, made his way to Italy, and, without any teacher, developed an original style which is marked by simplicity of design, refinement of colour, delicacy of chiaroscuro, and pathos of expression. He was elected A.R.A. in 1868, but died of heart-disease before becoming a full member. Mason's best-known works are _Campagna di Roma_, _The Gander_, _The Return from Ploughing_, _The Cast Shoe_, _The Evening Hymn_, and _The Harvest Moon_, unfinished. ROBERT BRAITHWAITE MARTINEAU (1826--1869), son of one of the Masters in Chancery, nephew of Miss Martineau, commenced life as an articled clerk to a solicitor. After four years' study of the law he forsook it for the brighter sphere of art, and entered the Academy Schools. In 1852 Martineau exhibited at the Academy _Kit's Writing Lesson_, from "The Old Curiosity Shop," which indicated the class of subjects which he delighted in. His _Last Day in the Old House_, and _The Last Chapter_, by their originality of conception, and exquisite painting, won the artist a renown which he did not long live to enjoy. He died of heart-disease.