30 APRIL 1859, Page 21

Among the pictures lately secured for the National Portrait Gallery

are a copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds's fine portrait of John Hunter, executed by the skilful hand of Jackson before the original had fallen into its present hopeless state of decay ; also a portrait said-on what authority is not declared-to be that of John Knox, and a study of the head of Lord Nelson, taken at Vienna in 1800, by Fiiger.

The bold and colossal statue of Victory, now being placed in the garden of Apsley House, is to form part of a design for the monument to be erected in St. Paul's Cathedral in honour of the Duke of Wellington, as proposed by Baron Marochetti.