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“ At the age of twenty he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, his first picture being By Babylon's Waters. At thirty-one—which is the age at which the second of our portraits represents him—he was elected A.R.A., his promotion to the honour of R.A. following only three years later, in 1867, in which year he received at the Paris International Exhibition the first medal awarded to any English painter. ”

“ R. HERMANN VEZIN was born at Philadelphia, where his father was a merchant, and was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, where he took his degree at eighteen, at which age our first portrait represents him. He was intended for the legal profession, but, desiring become an actor, he came to England, and made his first appearance in 1850 at the Theatre Royal, York. ”

“ R. PHILIP HERMOGENES CALDERON was born at Poitiers, his father being the Rev. Juan Calderon, and received his artistic education chiefly in the atélier of M. Picot, at Paris, where he was a student at the age at which he is represented in the first portrait of this series. ”