h._]

[Illustration: AGE 20.

_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 28.

_From a Photo. by Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Photo. by Russell & Sons, Baker Street, W._]

HUBERT HERKOMER, R.A.

BORN 1849.

Mr. Herkomer, who was born at Waal, in Bavaria, is the son of a wood
engraver who settled at Southampton in 1857. At thirteen he entered the
Art School in that town, and afterwards studied for a time at South
Kensington. His first Academy picture was "After the Toil of the Day,"
exhibited in 1873, when he was twenty-four, a work which extended his
reputation and prepared the way for "The Last Muster," 1875, the
memorable picture of the Chelsea pensioners, which afterwards figured in
the Paris Exhibition of 1878, and was there awarded one of the two Grand
Medals of Honour carried off by the English School. Among his best known
later pictures may be mentioned "Missing" (1881), "Homeward" (1882), and
"The Chapel of the Charterhouse" (1889). He was elected A.R.A. in 1879
and R.A. in 1890.

[Illustration: AGE 12 MONTHS.

_From a Drawing._]

[Illustration: AGE 3.

_From a Drawing._]

[Illustration: AGE 11.

_From a Photograph._]

[Illustration: AGE 47.

_From a Drawing by Himself._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Photo. by Gabell, Ebury St., S.W._]

THE HON. ERSKINE NICOL, A.R.A.

BORN 1825.

The Hon. Erskine Nicol, A.R.A., was born at Leith, Scotland, in 1825,
and received his art education in the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh,
under Sir William Allan and Mr. Thomas Duncan. In 1846 he went to reside
in Ireland, where he remained three or four years. It was this residence
in the sister isle which decided the painter's choice of his peculiar
field of representation, for most of his subsequent pictures have been
Irish in subject. From Ireland he returned to Edinburgh, and after
exhibiting for some time, he was ultimately elected a member of the
Royal Scottish Academy. In 1862 he settled in London, and after that
date contributed regularly to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, of
which body he was elected an Associate in June, 1866.

[Illustration: AGE 19.

_From a Pencil Sketch by Peter Clelland._]

[Illustration: AGE 32.

_From a Photo. by J. G. Tunny, Edinburgh._]

[Illustration: AGE 55.

_From a Photo. by Fradelle & Marshall._]

[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.

_From a Water Colour Drawing by Himself._]

JOHN MACWHIRTER, A