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in 1764 and 1766 with the Incorporated Society of Artists, of which body he was a member, and died some time before 1770.

EVANS, Richard, copyist. He was for awhile an assistant to Sir Thomas Law- rence, and painted drapery and back- Sounds, and also painted a few portraits, e lived many years in Rome, where he was chiefly employed in copying. The Raphael arabesques in the South Kensing- ton Museum are his copies. Retiring from art, he resided at Southampton, where, after several years, he died in November 1871, aged 87.

EVANS, William, water-colour paint- er. Was born at Eton, December 4, 1798, and was the son of W. Evans, a teacher at Eton College. He succeeded his father as drawing-master in 1818. He was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Water-colours in 1828 ; in which year he contributed a fine drawing of Windsor, with others of Llanberris, Eton, Thames fisher- men, and Barmouth. He gained his mem- bership in 1830. and died December 31, 1877, in the college where he had been born and educated. His art was eclectic rather than original, and his landscape painting produced no marked or original result in the school of water-colour paint-

JSVANS, William, engraver and draftsman. About 1800 he assisted Ben- jamin Smith. He engraved * The Grand- mother's Blessing/ after Smirke. About 1805 he finished some works for Alderman Boydell, and in 1809 engraved with much ability part of the ' Specimens of Ancient Sculpture.' He soon after sank into a state of morbid melancholy, impressed with* doubts of his future state, and traces of him disappear.

E V ANS, William, water-colov/r painter. Known as 'Evans of Bristol.' He lived for many years in North Wales, and painted the mountain scenery, the cottages, and their interiors, with great originality and success. He afterwards visited Italy, and made many fine sketches of the mountain and lake scenery of that country, winter- ing successively in Genoa, Rome, and Naples. He was from 1845 till his death an associate member of the Water-Colour Society. His first contributions to its exhibitions were exclusively Welsh scenes, but after 1852, for the next six years, as exclusively Italian; but at all tunes his contributions were few. He died in Mary- lebone Road, London, after a long illness, December 7, 1858, aged 49.

EVELYN .John, amateur. He was born at Wotton, Surrey, where his family had settled in the reign of Elizabeth, on Octo- ber 31, 1620. He was educated at the Free School, Lewes, afterwards at Balliol College, Oxford, and then became a student of the 146

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law in the Middle Temple. On the out- break of the Civil War he joined the King at Oxford, but, with his Majesty's consent, travelled abroad, and went to Rome, where he made some sketches, which were en- graved by Hoare. On his return in 1651. he became by marriage possessed of Saves' Court, near Deptford, where he lived, in close retirement, and was the author of several works. In 1660 he published his ' Sculpture,,' after that his ' Sylva.' He in- troduced Gibbons, the carver, to the notice of the King, and from Hollar having etched several views in the vicinity of Wotton, is supposed to have befriended him. He was a distinguished lover of the fine arts. He etched five small plates from his own draw- ings made on his journey from Rome to Naples, which bear his cypher, ' J. E., ft.' He died February 27, 1706, aged 86, and was buried at Wotton.

EVESHAM, EmnAmu8,sculptor. Was the pupil of Steevens, a Fleming^and prac- tised in the reign of James I. He is men- tioned as the first native sculptor whose name has been rescued from oblivion, but his works are unknown.

EWBANK, John W .,R.S.A..landscape painter. He was born at Gateshead about 1779, and was adopted by a wealthy uncle. Intended for the Roman Catholic ministry, he absconded from his college, and in 1813 engaged himself as apprentice to an orna- mental painter in Newcastle. He removed with his master to Edinburgh, and showing a talent for art, was allowed to study under Alexander Nasmyth, and soon distinguished himself both as a teacher and a painter. His sketches from nature showed much freedom and truth ; and a series of views of Edinburgh by him were engraved in 1823 by Lizars. He painted the banks of rivers, coast scenes, and marine subjects of a ca- binet size. About 1829 he tried works of greater pretensions, and was nominated in 1830 one of the foundation members of the Royal Scottish Academy. He painted ' The Visit of George IV. to Edinburgh/ ' The Entry of Alexander the Great into Baby- lon,' and ' Hannibal crossing the Alps,' and was at this time at the height of his repu- tation. Fame and wealth were before him, but he gave way to habitual intoxication — his wife and family were reduced to penury, and during the last 12 years of his life, he worked in the most abject misery, selling his pictures wet and unvarnished for a few shillings, to be spent in sensual gratifica- tion. He died of typhus fever in the Infirmary at Edinburgh, November 28, 1847. His works are little known in Lon- don. He made the drawings, 51 in number, for James Browne's ' Picturesque Views of Edmburgh/published in 1825.

EXSH AW,, history painter. Born

in Dublin; studied some time in Rome.