Some of my sitters.--Mrs. Tom Caley.--Lady Leucha Warner.-- Lady Loudoun.--Colonel Corbett.--Miss Reiss.--The late Mrs. Harry McCalmont.--The Duke of Hamilton.--Sir W. Jaffray.-- The Queen of Spain.--Soldier sitters.--Millais.--Sir William Cunliffe Brooks.--Holman Hunt.--George Richmond.--Sir William Richmond.--Sir Luke Fildes.--Lord Leighton.--Sir Laurence Alma Tadema.--Sir George Reid.--Orchardson.--Pettie.--Frank Dicksee.--Augustus Lumley.--"Archie" Stuart Wortley.--John Varley.--John Collier.--Sir Keith Fraser.--Sir Charles Fraser.--Mrs. Langtry.--Mrs. Cornwallis West.--Miss Rousby. --The Prince of Wales.--King George as a boy.--Children's portraits.--Mrs. Weldon.--Christabel Pankhurst. "In portraits, the grace and one may add the likeness consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature." _Sir Joshua Reynolds._ Of the study of portraiture I was always fond, and the prospect of becoming a portrait painter appealed greatly to me. Although Fate interrupted this good intention through the unforeseen offer to work for _Vanity Fair_ (which, with my love for caricature, I could not resist the temptation of accepting), I did not refuse commissions to execute portraits, but as the number of cartoons that I had undertaken to do for publication was considerable, naturally private work had to make way for it. Finding it difficult to direct my mind to both the serious and the comic at the same time, I was obliged to select different days for each; in case I might put too humorous an expression into the picture of a baby, or distort the features of a mayor in his robes. [Illustration: _The portrait of a well-known character who claimed direct descent from the Stuarts. He wore gold buttons and spurs with a red stripe down the side of his trousers, and was to be frequently seen in Piccadilly in the seventies._] [Illustration: _At a country dance near Manchester._ 1872. PORTRAITS.] [Illustration: BUCKSTONE. "_New Men and Old Acres._"] [Illustration: _See page 202_.] [Illustration: _A Crusader at "Drury Lane"_.] My father had an admiration for Ouless' method of painting a portrait, and with a slight acquaintance already that artist gave me good advice.