4 JUNE 1831, Page 19

DEATH OF MR. JACKSON, R.A.

WE did not think, when we regretted the absence of Mr. JACKSON'S works in the Royal Academy, that we should so soon have had to lament his death ; it took place on Wednesday. He had been lin- gering for several months under an attack of pleurisy ; which circum- stance sufficiently accounts for his not having contributed his usual quota of picturesqo the Exhibition.

His loss is a severe one to art, and to the Academy ; for since the death of the late President, he was the best portrait-painter of the day. In male portraits lie excelled Sir Tin :As, and rivalled him in those of female beauty. Ile was only in the prime of life ; and has left a widow and four children, who, we believe, are well provided for.