NEWTON, Gilbert Stuart, an artist, was born at Halifax in Nova Scotia in 1794. His lessons in painting were begun at Boston under his maternal uncle, and were finished in London at the Royal Academy. The laborious and fastidious style in which he prosecuted his art soon brought him into notice. He first became known by his paintings of "The Forsaken" and "The Lovers' Quarrel," which were engraved in the Literary Souvenir for 1826. "The Prince of Spain's visit to Catalina" and "Macheath" raised him soon afterwards to the height of his reputation. His picture of "Abelard" followed in 1833. Shortly after this he became subject to mental aberrations, which grew in course of time into positive insanity. A few days, however, before his demise his reason returned, and he died in perfect consciousness at Chelsea in August 1835. Newton was a member of the Royal Academy. Some of his other pictures are,—"Shylock and Jessica," "Yorick and the Grissette," "The Abbot Boniface," "Portia and Bassanio," and "Lear attended by Cornelia and the physician."