JOHNSTON

Alexander (son of an architect). b. Edinburgh 1815; with a seal engraver 1830; student in Trustees acad. Edinb. 1831–4; at Royal acad. London 1836; exhibited 73 pictures at R.A., 49 at B.I. and 16 at Suffolk st. 1836–80; The gentle shepherd 1840 and Sunday morning 1841, are well known by the engravings; his The interview of the regent Murray with Mary, queen of Scots 1841, was purchased by Edinb. art union; Archbishop Til lots on administering the sacrament to lord William Ru ell in the tower. 1845, is in National gallery. d. 21 Carling ford road, Hampstead 2 Feb. 1891. I.L.N. 14 Feb. 1891 p. 207, portrait .