By Lady Raeburn, who still survives him, Sir Henry had two sons, the eldest of whom, inheriting his father's talent, died at the early age of nineteen. His second son, Mr. Henry Raeburn, who is married and has a fa mily, lived always under the same roof with his father.
Sir Henry Raeburn was no less elevated above the ordinary level of men of genius by his religious and moral character, than he was by his skill as an artist. That overweening vanity, the weed which grows so rankly under the influence of public applause, and which so often intoxicates and corrupts the painter and the poet, had never taken root in the mind of Sir Henry. The praise which was so liberally bestowed on his works served only to make him more humble, and to nourish those grave virtues which marked his character. Ile was a regular and habitual attender upon the pub lic duties of religion ; a Christian in heart as well as in practice. In the hosom of his family, and of that of his son, he spent the happiest hours of his life, and took particular pleasure in the society and playful sports of the young. To young men of promising talent he
was ever ready to afford assistance and advice; towards the labours of his brother artists his candour was pro verbial ; and if the term error could ever be associated with any act of his, it could only be in those cases where a little severe and decided criticism may be regarded as truer kindness, than that mild and gentle praise which often pushes the dull pretender into a sphere far above his own.
Sir Henry has left behind him a good portrait of him self, from which an engraving is now executing by Mr. Walker of Edinburgh. There is an engraving of Sir Henry by Mr. Nicholson, and a bust by Mr. Campbell, a promising Scotish sculptor now residing at Rome; but none of them are characteristic likenesses. We trust, however, that the genius of Mr. Joseph w.11 supply this defect in the bust of Sir Henry, with which he is at pre sent occupied.