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tion, where he received a premium of 50J. in 1827. His later works were chiefly sacred subjects and from the poets. He died in August, 1844. His early manner was marked by a neat execution, but he grew careless in his finish, and his colour was crude' and chalky. In the National Portrait Gallery the portraits of Mrs. Fry and Sir Isambard Brunei are by him.

DRURY, Susannah, landscape painter. Practised about the middle of the 18th century. Vivares engraved 'The Giant's Causeway' after her.

DUBOIS, Edward, landscape painter. Was born at Antwerp in 1622, ana studied there under a landscape painter. He passed eight years in Italy, ana was employed by the Duke of Savoy. He then came to England in the reign of William III., and settled here, practising landscape, and occasionally history. He died, aged 77, in 1699. and was buried at St. Giles's Church, London.

DUBOIS, Simon, portrait painter. Younger brother of the foregoing. Was a pupil of Philip Wouvermans. He came to England in 1685, and commenced practice as a portrait painter. He excelled in battle-pieces, and afterwards painted with great minuteness figures, horses, and cattle. He was an imitator of the manner of others, and sold his pictures under assumed names, several of them as originals by the Italian masters. He lived in Covent Gar- den, with his brother, in a miserly way, both heaping up their gains together. On his brother's death fie became ac- quainted with Vandevelde, and married his daughter. He died in May 1708, the year after his marriage, and was buried at St. Giles-in-the-Fields. He left his hoarded money and a large collection of pictures to his widow. He painted the portrait of the Lord Chancellor Somers, and many distinguished persons sat to him. There is a whole-length portrait by him of Arch- bishop Tenison at Lambeth Palace.

DU B OS C, Claude, engraver. Was born in France, and brought to England by Dorigny in 1712, to assist in engraving the cartoons, but left him upon some differ- ence, and engaged to engrave them himself for the publishers. He also undertook to engrave the Duke of Marlborough's battles, and, with the assistance of Baron and Beauvais, whom he brought from Paris, completed them in 1717. He then set up as a printseller, and in 1733 published an English translation of Picarrs 'Religious Ceremonies,' with illustrations, part of which he engraved himself. He also en- graved some plates after eminent masters, the best of which was ' The Continence of Scipio.' after Nicholas Poussin. His draw-. ing of the figure, particularly the nude

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form, was weak and incorrect ; his style black and heavy.

DUDLEY, Thomas, engraver. He was born about 1634, and was esteemed one of Hollar's best pupils. In style he closely imitated his master. He etched some good plates, and his best work was a set of etchings, after Barlow, for the 'Life of JSsop/

DUFFIELD, William, stUM if e paint- er. He was born and educated at Bath, where his father was the proprietor of the Royal Union Library. When a boy he was fond of drawing, and was placed as a pupil with George Lance, and studied in the schools of the Royal Academy. For a time he practised portrait painting at Bath, sending from thence, in 1849, a fruit-piece, his first contribution to the Academy Ex- hibition, and in 1856 a similar work. He then studied for a season at Antwerp, and in 1857 settled at Bayswater,and continued with increasing reputation to exhibit at the Academy and m Suffolk Street. He paint- ed dead game, flowers, and still-life with Seat ability, and was of much promise, e had lost the sense of smell, and paint- ing in his room from a dead deer, was in- sensible to its dangerous state of putrefac- tion, which caused an illness, of which he died September 3, 1863, aged 46.

DUFFIN, Paul, portrait painter. His father kept a mad-house in Chelsea. ' He for some time towards the middle of the 18th century practised as an itinerant artist, and painted several portraits in the neighbourhood of Canterbury ; afterwards he became a picture-cleaner and dealer. There is a ' Country Wake ' painted and etched by him, but it is entirely founded upon Teniers. He was living about 1755.

DU GUERNIER, Lewis, engraver and draftsman. Born at Paris in 1677. Was a pupil of De ChatUlon. He came to Eng- land in 1708, and greatly improved by his studies in the Artists' Academy, of which he was chosen the director, and continued in that office till his death. His chief em- ployment was in engraving book frontis- pieces. He assisted Du Bosc in engraving the Duke of Marlborough's battles; en-

Saved the portrait-heads of the Duke and uchess of Queensberry. after Kneller, and a 'Lot and his Daughters,' after Caravaggio. He never attained much skill with his graver, but he was a good drafts- man, and some small figures engraved by him are of great merit. He died of small- pox at the age of 39, on September 19, 1716.

history and portrait painter. Was born at Kinclaven, Perthshire, May 24, 1807. While at school he painted the scenery for the play of ' Rob Roy,' which was got up by his schoolfellows, and had a desire to be 2 131
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