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or religion to believe that Mr. De Louther- bourg has performed any cures by a divine power ? without any medical application?' He died March 11, 1812, and rests in Ghiswick Churchyard, under these pomp- ous lines —

'De Loutherbourg, repose thy laurelled head,

While art is cherished thou canst ne'er be dead.

Salvator, Poussin, Claude, thy skill com- bines,

And beauteous nature lives in thy designs/

De Loutherbourg's art was peculiarly suited to the stage. He was a good draftsman. He painted from sketches, rarely from nature. His colouring is bad, his manner conven- tional; but ne had great vigour and in- vention. In his battle-pieces the various incidents are well conceived, painted with fire and animation, and have great sem- blance of truth. His subjects were noble and grandly treated, and he deserved the reputation ne enjoyed. He etched a few plates, chiefly of a humorous character. ~ DEL VAUX, Laurent, sculptor. Came to this country from the Continent, and was assistant to Bird in the reign of George II. He then went to Italy with Scheeraakers in 1728, and returning with him after an absence of f our or five years, they found em- ployment together on monumental works. The monument of Dr. Chambers, and that to the Duke of Buckingham, both in West- minster Abbey, are their joint work. The bronze lion on Northumberland House, now removed to Sion House, Isleworth, is by Delvaux, who was the abler of the two ; and there is a 4 Venus/ in bronze, after the antique, by him at Holkham. He also copied some other antique statues in'bronze. He returned to the Continent, to enjoy the property he had earned here.

DE MAYNE, John, gem engraver. Practised in England in the reign of Henry VIIL, cuttingheads and engraving seals.

DENBY, William, art teacher and subject painter. Was born at Great Book- ham, Surrey, in the early spring of 1819. He studied in the Government School of Design under Mr. Dyce, R.A., and was appointed an assistant master in 1847. He was afterwards a student in the Royal Academy, and assisted Mr. Horsley, R.A., in his work at Westminster. He first ex- hibited at the Royal Academy ' St. John ' in 1847, and from time to time other Scrip- ture subjects until 1868. He visited Italy in the summer of 1863. and unfortunately contracted the Roman lever, from which he never entirely recovered. He died in London, July 15, 1875, and was buried at his native village.

DENH AM/Sir John, K.C.B., architect. Born at Dublin 1615. His father, one of

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the barons of the Exchequer in Ireland, was in 1617 appointed to the same office in England, ana in that year brought his son to London with him. He received a good education, took his bachelor's degree at Oxford, ana then studied the law in Lincoln's Inn. In 1641 he gained celebrity by his tragedy of * The Sophy/ which was confirmed dv his poem of 'Cooper's HihV by which he is now best known. In 1647 he performed some important services for Charles I., then a prisoner, which becoming known, he fled to France, but in 1652 re- turned to England, and on the restoration of Charles II. was appointed surveyor- general of his Majesty s buildings, and created a Knight of the Bath. It does not appear what qualification he possessed for this office, in which he was for a time associated with Wren, who was appointed assistant surveyor-general in 1661. He had charge of the repair of old St. Paul's after the great fire in 1666. He designed part of Burlington House, Piccadilly, and after the designs of Inigo Jones, part of the river front of Greenwich Hospital He also made some additions to Windsor Castle. His mind had been for some time impaired by domestic troubles, when he died March 19, 1687-88. He was buried in Westminster Abbey. His name survives as a poet rather than as an architect.

DENNING, Stephen Poyntz, minia- ture painter. Born in 1795; and was a pupil of Mr. J. Wright, portrait painter. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1814. In 1821 he was appointed curator of the Dulwich Gallery ? but he continued without much intermission to exhibit miniatures up to 1851. He died at Dul- wich College m June 1864.

DERBY, William, miniature painter. Was born at Birmingham, January 10, 1786. He was taught drawing in that town. In 1808 he tried to establish himself in London, and engaged to make the reduced drawings of the Stafford Gallery for the engravers. He at the same time practised portrait and miniature painting, occasionally making water-colour drawings of portraits and pic- tures. In 1825 he undertook to make the drawings for Lodge's 'Portraits of Illus- trious Persons/ and he also made for Lord Derby copies, in water-colour, of all the known portraits of his family from the time of Henry VII. which are to be found in the different collections. He was an occa- sional exhibitor at the Royal Academy, commencing in 1811. In 1838 he was attacked with paralysis, but rallied and resumed the pencil with his usual vigour. He died in Osnaburgh Street, Regent's Park, Januarv 1, 1847, leaving a widow and eight children. His copies were ex- ecuted with extreme minuteness; careful imitations of the original, both in manner

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