crowned with Thorns", a large and important work regarded as his masterpiece, subsequently bought as the first purchase of the Chantrey Fund in 1878. In 1827 he succeeded Henry Thomson as Keeper of the Royal Academy. Two of his works were bought by the British Institution for churches for £525 and £1050, but the failure of "Edith finding the Body of Harold" (1834) to make more than £200 marked the end of the taste for such works. Hilton may be compared with Benjamin Haydon, though he was always more successful. In 1828 he was awarded the Freedom of Lincoln. He died in London on 30 December 1839. He was buried in the family grave in the Savoy Chapel (destroyed by fire on 7 July 1864). The chapel was restored in 1866 and Mrs De Wint placed a beautiful font in the edifice. Close by a tablet bears the words: 'This font was presented to the Chapel Royal of the Savoy by Harriet De Wint, in place of a Monument previously erected to the memory of her brother William Hilton R.A. her husband Peter de Wint, and other members of her family, whose remains are interred in the adjoining cemetery. The Monument was destroyed by the fire, July VII., MDCCCLXIV. May this tribute be long preserved to the glory of God'. In Lincoln Cathedral, a Cenotaph to the joint memory of her husband and brother was erected by Mrs De Wint. The following year an engraving by Charles Wass, of a portrait in chalk of Keats by Hilton was used in The Poetical works of John Keats published by Taylor and Walton, London (1840). In 1921 the artist's great-niece Miss Tatlock bequeathed a canvas by his father William Hilton snr, and five of the son's pictures, including a self portrait (exhibited in the National Portrait Exhibition of 1868) to the Lincoln City and County Museum. Some of his best-regarded pictures include "Angel releasing Peter from Prison" (life-size), painted in 1831, "Una with the Lion entering Corceca's Cave" (1832), the "Murder of the Innocents," his last exhibited work (1838), "Comus" and "Amphitrite". The Tate Gallery now owns "Edith finding the Body of Harold" (1834), "Cupid Disarmed, Rebecca and Abraham's Servant" (1829), "Nature blowing Bubbles for her Children" (1821), and "Sir Calepine rescuing Serena" (from The Faerie Queene) (1831). In the National Portrait Gallery is his likeness of John Keats, with whom he