BRITISH INSTITUTION
These three notices of the Exhibition at the British Institution are signed ‘W. H.’
[243]. C. L. Eastlake. Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865), elected President of the Royal Academy and knighted in 1850; Director of the National Gallery from 1855. ‘Antique Roman.’ Hamlet, Act V. Sc. 2. A hint from a high quarter. Hazlitt presumably refers to the fact that Canning had not been in office since his quarrel with Castlereagh in 1809. [244]. ‘A great book is a great evil.’ A saying of Voltaire’s. Cf. vol. V. (Lectures on the English Poets), p. 114. ‘It is place,’ etc. Cymbeline, Act III. Sc. 3. [245]. G. Hayter. George (afterwards Sir George) Hayter (1792–1871). His ‘Ezra’ gained a prize of £200. Mr. Harlowe’s Hubert and Arthur. By George Henry Harlow (1787–1819), a pupil of Sir Thomas Lawrence. ‘Deep scars,’ etc. Paradise Lost, I. 601. Miss Geddes. Margaret Sarah Geddes (1793–1872), better known as Mrs. Carpenter, and a portrait-painter. Chalon. Alfred Edward Chalon (1781–1860). Burnetts, etc. James M. Burnet (1788–1816) and John Burnet (1784–1868); Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (1787–1855); Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777–1843); John Glover (1767–1849). Both the Nasmyths, Alexander (1758–1840) and Peter (1787–1831), were represented at the Exhibition.