As regards the fourth Marquis, it is a curious fact that, notwithstanding his vast wealth, and his tastes as an artist and connoisseur, no painted or engraved portrait of him is known. The photograph here reproduced is the only counterfeit presentment extant, and is enough, if further evidence were needed, to dispose for ever of the idea that he was the prototype of the Marquis of Steyne. It is hardly necessary to remind the reader that it is to him, through Sir Richard and Lady Wallace, that the nation owes a debt of gratitude for the splendid collection now housed in perpetuity in Hertford House.[8] [7] This is the description of the Marquis in _Coningsby_: “Lord Monmouth was in height above the middle size, but somewhat portly and corpulent; his countenance was strongly marked: sagacity on the brow, sensuality in the mouth and jaw; his head was bald, but there were remains of the rich brown hair on which he once prided himself. His large, deep blue eye, madid, and yet piercing, showed that the secretions of his brain were apportioned half to voluptuousness, half to common sense.” This might well pass as a description of the Thackeray drawing. [8] Just before Lady Wallace’s death, an examination of the Hertford House library failed to discover a first edition of _Vanity Fair_, in which I fancied some note might possibly have been found. This was probably due to the fact that a large number of the Hertford books were destroyed in the Pantechnicon fire. [Illustration: The Third Marquis of Hertford. (_From the engraving by W. Holl, of the painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence_)] [Illustration: The Fourth Marquis of Hertford. (_From a photograph_)] {21} It will be noticed that in this photograph Lord Hertford wears his Star of the Order of the Garter, to obtain which he made the “tremendous sacrifice” of which an amusing account is given in the _Lippincott_ article mentioned above. Of him the _Speaker_ wrote at the time of his death: