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attending the Old Bailey as a witness, he caught the gaol fever, and died young, May 1760.

DEAN, John, draftsman and mezzo- tint engraver. Born about 1750. Was a pupil of Valentine Green. Engraved both portrait and historical subjects. There are good plates by him after Reynolds, Gains- borough, Ramsey, Hoppner, Morland, and one or two after the old masters, He ex- hibited at the Academy, in 1789, ' Lavinia,' and some others \ in 1790, ' Journey to the Watch-house ; ' and. for the last time, in 1791. 'Dutiful Children.' He died in London 1798.

DEAN, Hugh Primrose, landscape painter. Born in Ireland. He was called the * Irish Claude.' He was very poor and unprincipled. Of insinuating address and of some ability in art 2 he was assisted by Lord Palmerston to visit Rome, where he settled, abandoning his wife and child. He had exhibited landscapes at the Free Society in 1765 ; and at the Spring Gar- dens Exhibition, in 1768, a ' View of the Danube.' In the following year he was elected a member of the Society, and' in 1775 he sent from Rome to the same ex- hibition a view of Naples. In 1776 he was at Florence, and was elected a member of the Academy in that city; in the same year his wife and child were sent out to him, and surprising him there, he ran away from |them. In 1777 he was at Naples, and sent a picture to the Academy. In 1778 he sent for exhibition from Rome, where he then was, two landscapes,' Morn- ing ' and ' Evening ; ' and the next year returned to London ; but he did not meet with much encouragement, from his mis- conduct, and lost the support of Lord Palmerston. He exhibited at the Aca- demy, in 1779, an 'Eruption of Mount Vesuvius,' and the following year — his last contribution — 'The Banks of the Tiber.' He produced at the same time his ' Erup- tion of Mount Vesuvius,' treated as a trans- parency, which he exhibited in a large room in Great Hart Street, Oovent Garden. It is not supposed that this speculation was very successful, for a year or two after he appeared in a new character, as a Method- ist preacher ; but he did not long survive. He died about 1784.

DEAN, Richard, gem engraver. He practised in the last quarter of the 18th century, and in 1777-78 was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy, but he did not attain any eminence.

DEANE, Sir Thomas, Knt., architect. Born 1792. He was the son of -a builder at Cork, and on his father's death managed to carry on the business for his family, and eventually to realise a fortune for himself. He became mayor of Cork, and was

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alty, by the lord- lieutenant of Ireland. He then commenced practice as an architect, and in his native city built the Bank of Ireland, the Savings' Bank, and the Queen's College, and added a well-conceived classic portico to the Court House. Ex- tending his practice, he built the lunatic asylum at Kwarney. and made a good ad- dition to Trinity College, Dublin. He was for some years m partnership with Mr. B. Woodward. With the assistance of his son, Thomas Deane, who had succeeded him in his profession, be built the museum at Oxford. He was for several years presi- dent of the Institute of Irish Architects. He died near Dublin, aged 80, September 2, 1871.

DEANE, William Wood, water-colour painter. He was educated as an architect, and was in 1844 admitted to the schools of the Royal Academy. In that and the fol- lowing year premiums were awarded to him by the Institute of British Architects. About this time he travelled in Italy, and in 1853 exhibited at the Academy a view of St. Peter's, Rome, followed in 1854 and 1855 by views of churches in Capri and Venice, and continued an occasional ex- hibitor of works in which architecture pictorially treated formed the prominent feature. In 1863, turning more exclusively to art, he was chosen an associate of the Institute of Water-Colour Painters, and in 1867 a full member, exhibiting with the Society till 1870, when he resigned, and was in 1871 elected an associate of the old Society of Painters in Water-Colours, and exhibited in that year a view of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, and of the north porch of Chartres Cathedral, and a number of works in each of the two follow- ing years. He died prematurely, on Jan- uary 18, 1873, aged 47.

DEA RE, John, sculptor. Was born at Liverpool, October 18, 1760. He showed early proofs of genius, and at 10 years of age. carved a human skeleton with his pen-knife. He was articled to a carver in London, and at 16 produced works of so much ability that he was in- duced to turn his attention to art. He was admitted a student of the Royal Aca- demy, and in 1780 obtained the gold medal for a model of * Adam and Eve.' He con- tinued to work for his master ; his reput- ation meanwhile rapidly increasing, he left him in 1783, and was then employed by Bacon, R.A., and byCheere. Commissions now crowded upon him, and he worked till far into the night. In 1785 he was elected travelling student of the Academy, and in May set out for Florence on his route to Rome. For the exhibition in the following year he had completed a large bas-relief —
 * The Judgment of Jupiter,' containing 30

knighted in 1830, the year of his mayor- I figures, but it does not appear to have been