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 *lery of New British Institution, 37 Old Bond Street, London, and not since heard of. Original sketch in grisaille (H. 1 ft. 11 in. × 1 ft. 3 in.), Viscount Clifden, Dover House; engraved by Graves. Replica of Wynn-Ellis picture, Earl Spencer, Althorp Park; engraved in mezzo. by unknown. There is also a mezzo. of the Wynn-Ellis picture, engraved about 1773. A similar pictture (H. 5 ft. 2 in. × 3 ft. 10 in.), claimed to be a Gainesborough, owned by Mr. John Foster, who brought it from Australia, was exhibited at Byron Gallery, London, in 1877.—Brock-Arnold, 41, 55; Leslie & Taylor, ii. 215; Gower, Hist. Gals. of England; Notes and Queries (1876), 416; London Times, May 8, 27, 1876, July 30, 1877; London Illus. News, May 20, 1876.

Duchess of Devonshire, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Althorp Park.

DEVONSHIRE, DUCHESS OF, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Earl Spencer, Althorp Park; canvas. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, full-length, descending a flight of steps. Exhibited in 1776. Another portrait (H. 3 ft. 8 in. × 4 ft. 8 in.), at Chatsworth, representing the Duchess with her infant daughter Georgiana in her lap, was exhibited 1786; a good copy, by Etty, painted for George IV., at Windsor Castle.—Leslie & Taylor, ii. 155, 485; Art Journal (1855), 6.

DEW (La Rosée), Jules Joseph Lefebvre, Wm. Astor, New York; canvas. Female figure, nude, reposing on a bank of clouds, floating over a lake covered with water-plants; one foot, hanging downward, touches the water; the head reclines upon one hand, the other points languidly to the sky.—Art. Treas. of Amer., ii. 69.

DEWEY, CHARLES MELVILLE, born in Lowville, N. Y., in 1851. Landscape painter, self-taught. Exhibited first at the National Academy in 1875. Member Society of American Artists. Studio in New York. Works: Along the Shore—September, November Day, After the Rain, Water Lily, T. B. Clarke, New York; Idyl (1879); Sunshine and Shadow (1880); Ebb Tide, Trees and Grasses (1881); Many Things—Study by the Sea, Summer Morning (1882); Lowery Weather (1883); Ebb of the Tide, Fall (1884).

DEWING, THOMAS W., born in Boston, Mass., May 4, 1851. Figure painter; in 1876-79 pupil of Lefebvre and Boulanger in Paris. Studio in New York. Works: Young Sorcerer (1877); South Wind, A Musician (1878); Fortune-Teller (1879); Morning (1880); A Concert (1881); Portrait of Mrs. Dewing (1882); Prelude (1883); A Garden (1884); Slave, T. B. Clarke, New York.

DEWING, MRS. THOMAS W. (Miss Oakey), born in New York. Figure and portrait painter; pupil of the National Academy, of John La Farge, and in Paris of Couture. Visited France and Italy in 1876, and again in 1883. Studio in New York. Ideal works: Woman Serving (1876); In a Balcony (1877); Violets (1878); Votive Panel to Paul Veronese (1879); Mother and Child