76 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Water of Leith.
~ ?? Raeburn married Ann Edgar, daughter of Peter
Edgar, Esq., of Bridgelands, Peebles-shire, and
widow of James Leslie, Count of Deanhaugh, St.
Bernard?s. Ann Leslie had by her first husband
one son, who was drowned, and two daughters
-Jacobina, who married Daniel Vere, Sheriffsubstitute;
and Ann, who married James Philip ?
Inglis, who died in Calcutta, and left two sons-
Henry Raeburn Inglis, deaf and dumb, and Charles
James Leslie Inglis, late of Deanhaugh . . . .
was a favourite residence for those connected with
art and literature; for, in addition to her father,
the professor, and Robert Chambers, many others
bad their dwellings here at different times.
The chief of these was Sir Henry Raeburn, who
was born on the 4th of March, 1756, in a little
slated cottage that stood by the side of the mill-lade,
where the western part of Horn Lane now stands.
It was within a garden, and pleasantly situated,
though immediately adjoining the premises of his
ST. RHRNARD?S WELL, 1825. (Afi?wEwbik.)
father, Rob& Raeburn, who was a yarn-boiler.
Northward of it was a fruit orchard, where Saunders
Street now stands. Southward and west Iay the
base of the beautiful grounds of Drumsheugh, where
now India and Mackenzie Places are built.
In his sixth year Henry Raeburn lost both his
parents, and he was admitted into Heriot?s Hospital
in 1765, and in 1772 he left it, to be apprenticed
to a goldsmith, Mr. James Gdliland, in the
Parliament Close, to whom he soon gave proofs of
his ingenuity and artistic taste We have already
referred to Raeburn in our account of the Scottish
Academy, and need add little here concerning his
artistic progress and future fame.
?At the age of twenty-two,? says, a writer,
Raebum painted a portrait of his much cared-for
half grandson, Henry, holding a rabbit, as his
diploma picture, now in the private diploma room
of the Royal Academy, London.?
? He received a handsome fortune with Mr. Edgafs
daughter, with whom he had fallen in love while
painting her portrait ; and after travelling in Italy
to improve himself in art, he established himself
in 1787 in Gorge Street, where he rapidly rose to
the head of his profession in Scotland-an eminence
which he maintained during a life the history of
which is limited to his artistic pursuits. His style
was free .and bold ; his drawing critically correct ;
his colouring rich, deep, and harmonious; his
accessories always appropriate. He was a member
