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GATLE Y, Alfred, sculptor. Was de- scended from an old Cheshire family. He studied under Baily, B.A., and first ex- hibiting at the Academy in 1841, continued an exhibitor of busts, monumental designs, and some other works, for several years. He exhibited some fine works at the Inter- national Exhibition in 1862— a noble bas- relief in marble of ' Pharaoh and his Host/ and • Night ' and ' Echo.' He had studied in Rome for several years, and unknown in England, he came here during the Exhi- bition, but was unappreciated, and finding his works little noticed he returned to Borne, disappointed and depressed. He was attacked with dysentery in July 1863, and died there after a short illness, aged about 40. He expressed a wish that a fine lion which he had carved should be placed over his grave. His statues of and Nubian lions, were sold at Christie's in February 1871.
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GATTY, Margaret, Mrs., amateur. Born at Burnham parsonage in 1809. She was the daughter of Dr. Scott, chaplain to Lord Nelson, and married the Rev. Alfred Gatty in 1839. She etched some clever landscapes, chiefly wood scenes, between 1837 and 1843. Her trees are well drawn and show a feeling for nature, but she is better known as the writer of many in- teresting tales for children, which combine scientific knowledge with religious teaching. She died October 4, 1873.

GAUGAIN, Thomas, engraver. Born at Abbeville, France, 1748. Came very young to London, and was the pupil of Houston. He engraved many plates in the dot and line manner, chiefly after Reynolds, Northcote, Cosway, Henry Mor- land, and Hoare. Died at the beginning of the 19th century.

GAWDIE, Sir John, Bart., amateur. Born in 1639, the second son of Sir William Gawdie, of West Harling, Norfolk. He was deaf and dumb, and became a pupil of Lely, intending to follow portraiture as a profession ; but. on the death of his elder orother, succeeding to the family inherit- ance, he continued art only as an amuse- ment. He died 1708. Evelyn, in his diary, speaks of him as a 'fine painter,' praises nis many courteous qualities, and adds, ' that it was not possible to discern any imperfection in him.'

G A Y F E R E, Thomas, architect. His father was the master mason employed in lie erection of Westminster Bridge. He was appointed, in 1802, jointly with his father, master mason to Westminster Ab- bey, and was charged with the restora- tions of Henry VII. 's Chapel, commenced

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in 1809, a work requiring great skill and ingenuity, and for which lie made the whole of the drawings. He also restored, 1819-22, the north front of Westminster HalL He retired from his employments in 1823, and died at Burton-upon-Trent, October 20, 1828.

GAYWOOD, Richard (or Robert), engraver. Born about 1630. Pupil of Hollar. His works are chiefly portrait — Mary, Queen of Scots; Drummond of Hawthornden, Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, Holbein, and many others. He also en- graved Titian's * Crouching Venus,' a set of animals and birds after Barlow, and of lions and leopards after Rubens. A view of Stonehenge. drawn by him, was pub- lished in 1664 oy Camden. His birds and animals are engraved with much spirit, but his manner was hard and laboured. He died about 1711.

GEDDES, Aitdrew, A.R.A., portrait and subject painter. Was born about 1789, in Edinburgh, where his father, a man of taste, was an auditor of assize. He was sent to the High School, and afterwards to the University of Edinburgh, and was then taken into his father's office. An early love of art had been checked, but on the death of his father it prevailed. He had risen with the sun to draw, and he now resigned an employment he had held nearly five years, and coming to London, was admitted in 1807 to the schools of the Royal Academy. After a few years' close study, he returned to Edinburgh and com- menced practice. He exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1808, while he was residing in Edinburgh, and in 1810, when pursuing his studies in London, his * Draught Players.' In 1813, having commenced practice, he sent four portraits from Edinburgh for exhibition.

In 1814 he returned to London, where from that time he annually spent several months. In 1815 he visited Paris, and in that and the following three years exhibited portraits in the Academy, followed in 1821 by * The Discovery of the Scottish Regalia, with portraits of the Commissioners/ a work which made him known and was engraved. About this time he put down his name for the associateship of the Academy, but, disappointed, he did not renew it for many years. He was for several seasons an occasional contributor to the exhibition, but exclusively of portraits. In 1828 he visited Italy, and remaining some time in Rome he painted the portrait of Gibson, R.A., Cardinal Weld, and a young lady in Italian costume, which with others, he sent home to the Academy Exhi- bitions.

He returned to London in January 1831, and the following year was elected an as- sociate of the Academy. At this time he

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