“ In 1780 he removed to Edinburgh, where, on the death of Alexander Runciman in 1786, he was appointed director and master of the Academy of Arts. There he painted and etched in aquatint a variety of works, those by which he is best known—as the “Scotch Wedding,” the “Highland Dance,” the “Repentance Stool,” and his “Illustrations of the Gentle Shepherd”—being remarkable for their comic humour. He was called the “Scottish Hogarth”; but his drolleries hardly entitle him to this comparison. Allan died at Edinburgh on the 6th of August 1796. ”