Reigate.
[Recognising as we do most fully the value of the idea thrown out by
MR. WAY, that it would be desirable to compile a descriptive Catalogue
of Painted Portraits, as the best substitute which we can have for an
extensive public collection of such memorials of our Great and Good, we
shall always be glad to record in the columns of "N. & Q." any notices
of such pictures as may, from time to time, be forwarded to us for that
purpose. The suggestion that Photography might be usefully employed in
multiplying copies of such portraits, coming as it does from one whose
skill as an artist rivals his learning as an antiquary, is the highest
testimony which could be given to the value of an art which we have
endeavoured to promote, from our conviction that its utility to the
antiquary, the historian, and the man of letters, can scarcely be
over-rated.]
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