84 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [The Water of Leith.
he was again in his native city, when he re-entered
.the Academy, then under the charge of Sir
William Allan, and won the friendship of that
eminent landscape painter the Rev. John Thomson,
minister of Duddingstone, whose daughter he
married. After remaining five years on the Continent,
studying the works of all the great masters
in Venice, Bologna, Florence, and Rome, he settled
in London in 1838, &here his leading pictures began
to attract considerable attention. Among them
brance,? as the inscription recods it, ?of his unfailing
sympathy as a friend, and able guidance as
a master.?
His brother, James Eckford Lauder, R.S.A., died
in his fifty-seventh year, on the 29th of February,
1869-so little time intervened between their deaths.
In an old house, now removed, at the north end
of Silvermills, there lived long an eminent collector
of Scottish antiquities, also an artist-W. B. Johnstone,
soine of whose works are in the Scottish
THE EDINBURGH ACADEMY.
were the U Trial of Effie Deans ? and the ? Bride
of Lammermuir,? ?? Christ walking on the Waters,?
and ? Christ teaching Humility,? which now hangs
in the Scottish National Gallery. His pictures are
all characterised by careful drawing and harmonious
colouring. He was made a member of the Royal
Scottish Academy in 1830.
Returning to Edinburgh in 1850,he was appointed
principal teacher in the Trustees? Academy, where
he continued to exercise considerable influence on
the rising school of Scottish art, till he was struck
with paralysis, and died on the zIst April, 1869,
at Wardie. A handsome monument was erected
over his grave in Wamston Cemetery by his students
of the School of Design, ? in grateful remem-
Gallery, where also hangs a portrait of him, painted
by John Phillip, R.A.
At the north-west corner of Clarence Street, in
the common stair entering from Hamilton Place,
near where stands a huge Board School, there long
resided another eminent antiquary, who was also a
member of the Scottish Academy-the well-known
James Drurnmond, whose ? Porteous Mob ? and
other works, evincing great clearness of drawing,
brilliancy of colour, and studiously correct historical
and artistic detail, hang in the National Gallery.
Immediately north of Silvermills, in what was
~ formerly called Canonmills Park, stands the
Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Institution, a large
square edifice, built a little way back from Hender
