23 DECEMBER 1876, Page 3

The Duke of Richmond's tenants presented him on Thursday week

with a portrait of himself, by Sir Francis Grant, as a sort of congratulatory recognition of his assuming the title of Duke of Gordon, as well aaDuke of Richmond. The Duke, in return- ing his thanks, said that he wished to look on " that magnificent picture " as evidence that he had succeeded in fulfilling his father's injunction to live on intimate and affectionate terms with his tenants, and to remember that property has its duties as well as its rights. The Duke explained subsequently that he did not esteem the picture so much because it was a picture of himself, as because it would be handed down from generation to generation as evidence of the good-relationship subsisting between his tenants and himself ; and no doubt.the Dake is an excellent landlord, but Sir Francis Grant must have surpassed himself in the " magnificence " of his drawing, if he managed to express the Duke's relations to his tenants in.it. The President of the Royal Academy is not gene- rally at all celebrated for the expressiveness of his pictures, and it would take a good deal to convey all that the Duke supposed the picture would convey to succeeding ages.