His portraits give the idea of an expressive face, sensitive, refined, every feature a gentleman's.
So, after those nine years of work and waiting, he went to Perth to claim his cousin's hand.

She was for further delay; but with the minister's help he persuaded her one evening into a prompt marriage in the Scotch fashion, drove off with her next morning to Edinburgh, and on to the home he had prepared in London at 54, Hunter Street, Brunswick Square (February 27, 1818).
The heroine of this little drama was no ordinary bride.

At Edinburgh she had found herself, though well brought up for Croydon, inferior to the society of the Modern Athens.

As the affianced of a man of ability, she felt it her duty to make herself his match in mental culture, as she was already in her own department of practical matters.

Under Dr.Brown's direction, and stimulated by his notice, she soon became--not a blue-stocking--but well-read, well-informed above the average.