His hair was brown; but very early in life it became grey, while his unwrinkled face retained to the last a look of wonderful youth.

It is admitted on all sides that no adequate picture was ever painted of him.

Mulready is reported to have said that he was too beautiful to paint.

And yet, although so singularly lovely, he owed less of his charm to regularity of feature or to grace of movement, than to an indescribable personal fascination.

One further detail Hogg pointedly insists upon.