Hotten.
His cousin-sister Mary had been sent to a day-school when Mrs.Ruskin's lessons were superseded by Dr.Andrews, and she had learnt enough drawing to attempt a view of the hotel at Matlock, a thing which John could not do.

So, now that he too showed some power of neat draughtsmanship, it was felt that he ought to have her advantages.

They got Mr.Runciman the drawing-master, chosen, it may be, as a relative of the well-known Edinburgh artist of the same name, to give him lessons, in the early part of 1831.

His teaching was of the kind which preceded the Hardingesque: it aimed at a bold use of the soft pencil, with a certain roundness of composition and richness of texture, a conventional "right way" of drawing anything.

This was hardly what John wanted; but, not to be beaten, he facsimiled the master's freehand in a sort of engraver's stipple, which his habitual neatness helped him to do in perfection.