DEATH OF MR. NORTIICOTE, R.A.—Mr. NORTHCOTE, the paia- ter, died
on Wednesday, at his house in Argyll Place, in the eighty-fourth yearof his age. He was the last connecting link between the present gene- ration of artists and Sir Josn ra RE yen LDS, under whom he studied. lie was a successful painter of history and portraits, and bas left several good specimens of his style. Ilis pictures of Hubert mid Prince Arthur, and of the Harder of the young Prince.; in the Tower, were two of his most successfill works. One of his best portraits is in the collection of Lord Grosvenor ; it is a man holding a hawk, and is very much in Sir Josutra's style. Mr. NORTHCOTE'S latter works Wry° feeble, by reason of his age and infirmities. Ile is perhaps better known to the literary world by the high reputation which the late Mr. Haze' T T assigned to his conversational powers. He was a shrewd talker, and an acute ob- server, possessed of good sense and quick perceptions. He was ambi- tious of the honours of authorship, but he did not write so well as he talked. His "Fables" and " Conversations with Mr. Hazlitt," as well as his " Life of Titian," were much indebted to the able pen of the latter. Mr. NORTHCOTE was penurious, and is supposed to have died worth 80,000/. We hope he has remembered the Royal Academy in his will !
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