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and more correct taste. He painted the allegorical designs on the panels for the new state-coach first used by George III. in November 1762, and still used by our sovereign. Designed the diploma of. the Royal Academy in 1768. He repaired the paintings by Yerrio at Windsor, and the fine Rubens' ceiling in Whitehall Chapel in 1778. He etched some portraits for HolhVs ' Memoirs.' He married in 1761 an English lady of some fortune, and had two sons, and a daughter who died young. He lived many years next the Royal Mews, in Hedge Lane (now Whitcombe Street), Charing Cross, but later in life removed to Hammersmith, where he died of rheumatic fever. December 14, 1786, and was buried in the Chelsea Burial-ground, King's Road, where his friend Bartolozzi erected a monument to his memory. In March 1786 no less than 1100 drawings by him were sold, many of them highly finished, and among them a composition of six figures, ' The Death of Dido,' which fetched 54 guineas. In the following year a col- lection^ his drawings made by Mr. Locke was also sold by auction. % CIPRIANI, Captain Sir Henry, Knt., copyist. Was the youngest son of the f ore-

Sing, and was brought up as an artist, e made a careful drawing in water-colours of Copley's ' Death of Chatham,' from which Bartolozzi executed his engraving. His copy was much praised, and the 100 guineas he received was deemed only a small sunt. In 1781 he exhibited a ' Portrait of a Young Nobleman' at the Academy. But he did not meet with the encouragement he de- served, and he accepted a commission in the Huntingdonshire Militia, forsaking art Then he held a clerkship in the Treasury, and the appointment of exon in the Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, and was knighted. He died September 17, 1820.

CliACK, Riohaed Augustus, portrait painter. He was the son of a Devonshire clergyman, and studied in the schools o"f the Royal Academy. He exhibited at the Academy— commencing in 1830, when he resided m London— domestic subjects and portraits. In 1845 he practised at Exeter, and continued to send portraits to the Academy Exhibitions from that city up to 1856 ; and the following year, when he was living at Hampstead, sent his last contri- bution to the Academy Exhibition.

CLARET, William, portrait painter. Was a pupil of Sir Peter Lely, whose style he successfully imitated. Several of nis portraits, dated 1670-80, were engraved by R. White and R. Thompson. He died at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1706. His portraits are carefully finished and tolerably drawn, hands good, but the ex- pression weak.

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was a corporal in a light dragoon regi- ment, but was a clever draftsman, and pro- duced some good plates in aqua-tint. He died at Limerick in December 1801.

CLARK, Henry, china painter. He was an apprentice in the Water Lane Pot- tery, Bristol, where he was employed nearlv 50 years. He painted flowers and land- scapes, and attained considerable ability. He died about 1862.

CLAT&K^outx. landscape painter. Was known as ' Waterloo Clark' from his scenes drawn on the field immediately after the battle. He published, in 1827, ' Practical Illustrations of Landscape Painting in Water-colours/ with 55 well-executed co- loured views from nature. He was an in- genious man, and invented the toys called 'The Myriorama' and 'Urania's Mirror.' He was also engaged in book illustration. He died in Edinburgh in October 1863, in his 92nd year.

CLARK, Thomas, portrait painter. He was born in Ireland, and educated in the Dublin Academy. Then, about 1768, he came to London, and on the introduction of Oliver Goldsmith became the pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He exhibited an oil portrait at the Academy in 1769 and again m 1770. He drew well, particularly the head, but had no notion of colour or prac- tice in painting, and he soon left Reynolds, to whom he was of little use. Neglected and in difficulty, he died young.

CLARKE, George, sculptor and mo- deller. He practised at Birmingham in 1821, and then sent his first work, a bust of Dr. Parr, to the Academy. In 1825 he had settled in London, ana was then an occasional exhibitor of busts in marble, among them one of Dr. Maltby. He was of much promise, which he did not live to realise. He died suddenly at Birming- ham, March 12, 1842, aged 46, leaving a large family without provision. He mo- delled a colossal bust of the Duke of Wel- lington and the statue of Major Cartwright. in Burton Crescent, which may be referred to as his best work.

CLARKE, Dr. George, LL.D., amateur. Was educated at Oxford University, and became eminent in architecture, with which science Walpole says, 'he was classically conversant' He designed the library at Christ Church, and jointly with Hawks- moor the new towers in the quadrangle of All Souls College. Walpole says also that he built the three sides of the square called Peckwater, at Christ Church, and the gate of the Church of All Saints, in the High Street. But Dallaway ascribes these works to Dean Aldrich. He represented the Uni- versity in Parliament for 15 sessions, and in the reign of Queen Anne was one of the Lords of the Admiralty. He died in 1736, aged 76. He* bequeathed his valuable coir


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