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original sketch is in the National Portrait Gallery, Scotland, and there were many repetitions. Gordon also painted Scott in his study at Castle Street, and painted a portrait for Cadell in March 1830, seated with his greyhound ‘Bran.’ Sir Thomas Lawrence (see above) painted in 1822 a portrait for George IV, finished in 1826, now at Windsor Castle. Wilkie in 1822 made a study of Scott for his picture of ‘George IV at Holyrood’ (now at Windsor), and finished the separate portrait for Sir W. Knighton. Gilbert Stuart Newton [q. v.] painted a three-quarter portrait for Mrs. Lockhart in 1824, now at Abbotsford, said by Lockhart to be ‘the best domestic portrait ever done.’ Charles Robert Leslie [q. v.] painted a half-length for Mr. Ticknor in 1824, now in America. In 1825 Daniel Maclise [q. v.] made a sketch of Scott during his Irish tour, which was lithographed and largely sold. Another is in the ‘Maclise Portrait Gallery’ (ed. Bates). John Prescott Knight [q. v.] painted in 1826 a portrait, ‘ill-drawn and feeble in expression,’ engraved for Lodge's ‘Portraits.’ James Northcote [q. v.] painted, in May 1828, a portrait for Sir William Knighton, in which the artist is introduced. Colvin Smith painted a portrait in 1828, of which he made as many as twenty copies for various people. John Graham-Gilbert [q. v.] painted a portrait in 1829 for the Royal Society of Edinburgh. A portrait by the same is in the National Portrait Gallery, which has also a portrait of Scott in his study, painted by Sir William Allan [q. v.] in 1831, and a sketch by Sir Edwin Landseer. Sir Francis Grant [q. v.] painted a portrait in 1831; and Sir Edwin Landseer, who had known Scott, painted him, after his death, in the ‘Rhymer's Glen.’ R. S. Lauder painted him as ‘Peter’ Paterson. Wilkie painted a picture of the Abbotsford family in 1817, and Thomas Faed a picture of Scott and his friends at Abbotsford.

Chantrey made two busts of Scott, one in 1820, presented to Scott, and copied in marble for the Duke of Wellington, and one in 1828, bought by Sir Robert Peel. The latter is now in the National Portrait Gallery, London. A replica of the former, executed by Mr. John Hutchison, R.S.A., at the expense of some of Scott's admirers, was placed in May 1897 in Westminster Abbey. There are also busts by Samuel Joseph [q. v.] of 1822, and one by Lawrence Macdonald in 1830. A statue made by John Greenshields at the end of Scott's life is now in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh. Two casts of the head, one taken during life and the other after death, are at Abbotsford.

The Scott monument designed by George Kemp, with a statue of the novelist by Sir John Steell, was erected in Princes Street, Edinburgh, and was inaugurated 17 Aug. 1846.

Scott's works are: 1. ‘Disputatio Juridica,’ &c., 1792 (exercise on being called to the bar). 2. ‘The Chase and William and Helen … from the German of Bürger,’ 1796 (anon.). 3. ‘Goetz of Berlichingen,’ with the ‘Iron Hand,’ a tragedy, 1799, translated from the German of Goethe, author of the ‘Sorrows of Werter,’ by Walter Scott, Advocate. Some copies have ‘William’ (afterwards cancelled) instead of ‘Walter.’ 4. ‘Apology for Tales of Terror,’ 1799 (twelve copies privately printed, includes some of his own ballads. For contents see Catalogue of Centenary Exhibition, where a copy from Abbotsford was shown). 5. ‘The Eve of St. John: a Border Ballad,’ 1800. 6. Ballads in Lewis's ‘Tales of Wonder,’ 1801. 7. ‘Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’ (anon.), vols. i. and ii. 1802, vol. iii. 1803. 8. ‘Lay of the Last Minstrel,’ 1805. 9. ‘Ballads and Lyrical Pieces,’ 1806 (from ‘Border Minstrelsy’ and the ‘Tales of Wonder’). 10. ‘Marmion: a Tale of Flodden Field,’ 1808. 11. ‘Life of Dryden,’ prefixed to Works (fifty copies separately printed), 1808. 12. ‘The Lady of the Lake,’ 1810. 13. ‘Vision of Don Roderick,’ 1811 (some poems collected in second edition of this). 14. ‘Rokeby,’ 1813 (really 1812). 15. ‘The Bridal of Triermain, or Vale of St. John’ (anon.), 1813. 16. ‘Abstract of Eyrbiggia Saga’ in Jamieson's ‘Northern Antiquities,’ 1814. 17. ‘Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since,’ 1814. The later novels, except the ‘Tales of my Landlord’ (four series), are ‘by the author of Waverley.’ 18. ‘Life of Swift,’ prefixed to Works (1814). 19. ‘Chivalry’ and the ‘Drama’ in Supplement to ‘Encyclopædia Britannica,’ 1814. 20. Introduction to ‘Border Antiquities,’ 1814–17. 21. ‘The Lord of the Isles,’ 1815. 22. ‘Guy Mannering,’ 1815. 23. ‘The Field of Waterloo,’ 1815. 24. ‘Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk,’ 1815. 25. ‘The Antiquary,’ 1816, 3 vols. 12mo. 26. ‘Tales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham: the Black Dwarf, Old Mortality,’ 1817 (really 1816). 27. ‘Harold the Dauntless, by the author of the Bridal of Triermain,’ 1817. 28. ‘The Search after Happiness; or the Quest of Sultan Solimaun,’ and Kemble's address on the ‘Sale room,’ 1817. 29. ‘Rob Roy,’ 1818, 3 vols. 12mo. 30. ‘Tales of my Landlord, 2nd ser. Heart of Midlothian,’ 1818, 4 vols. 12mo. 31. Articles in ‘Provincial Antiquities of Scotland,’ issued in two parts, 1819–26 (2 vols. 4to, 1826). 32. ‘Tales of my Landlord, 3rd ser. The Bride of Lammermoor: a Legend of