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1817, and on his return in 1819 exhibited at the Academy a coloured drawing of the interior of St. Peter's, made from measure- ment, for which he had received the Pope's gold medal. He was active in his compe- titions for jpublic buildings— in 1820, for the new Post Office, when he gained the third premium ; in 1823, for the new buildings at King's College, Cambridge ; in 1829, for the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, gaining a premium ; in 1830, for Fishmongers' Hall ; and in 1839, for the Royal Exchange. He was one of the secretaries of the Institute of British Architects and a member of the academies of Rome and Naples. He died October 3, 1842, aged 49. He published, in 1825, 'An Account of the ancient Paintings and Mosaics discovered at Pompeii.'

GOLDING, Richard, engraver. He was born in London, of humble parents, August 15, 1785, and apprenticed to an en- graver in 1799 ; but on some disagreement he arranged to leave him at the end of five years, and his indentures were transferred to James Parker, who, dying in 1805, he completed his master's unfinished plates. Gaining by his art an introduction to West, P. R. A., who employed him to engrave his * Death of Nelson,' he was soon after engaged to engrave, after Smirke, R.A.. some of the illustrations for ' Gil Bias ' ana ' Don Quixote/ and completed these plates with great power and delicacy. In 1810 he assisted William Sharp in some of his works, among which were two fine portraits. His reputation continued steadily to increase, and in 1818 he produced, after 30 retouch- ings by the artist, his fine plate of Sir Thomas Lawrence's portrait of the Princess Charlotte, which was greatly admired both here and on the Continent. Commissions were offered to him on all sides, among them Lawrence's portrait of Sir William Grant, which he executed, with some other good works, for which he neither asked nor received a sufficient price ; and he was then engaged upon some plates which were not from subjects worthy of his art.

From this cause, probably, he became apathetic, and fell into a desponding state. At the latter end of 1842 he had been in- duced to commence a work after Maclise, R.A., for the Irish Art Union. He had at this time, he said, ' been without work for several years, and had given up all further thoughts of practice.' He com- menced the work unwillingly, his powers and eyesight diminishing, ana at the end of 10 years it was still unfinished. Of shy and reserved habits, unmarried, able to subsist upon small earnings, there was nothing to rouse him from his desponding indolence. He found some amusement in angling, a solitary sport suited to his secluded habits, but seems to have neglected

all friendly advances. He died in an upper floor in Lambeth, where he had for some months cooked and performed all domestic offices for himself ; and here, though he was not without the means to provide him- self with all proper comforts, he ended his days in neglect and dirt, December 28, 1865. He was buried at Highgate Ceme-

a, and in the following September his / was exhumed, and an inquest held on some entirely unfounded allegations that he had been improperly treated by his medical attendant, who had possessed himself of his property. His art was of a high class, his line free and powerful. Proofs of his works are extremely scarce, and of great value.

GOOCH, T., animal painter. He chief! v painted portraits of horses and dogs, occasionally grouping them with a portrait of their owner. He exhibited at the Spring Gardens Exhibitions, and first ap- pears at the Academy in 1781. In 1783 he exhibited, with other works, ' The Life of a Racehorse, in six different stages,' from the birth to the death. He continued an exhibitor, with some intermissions, up to 1802, when he left the Metropolis and retired to Lyndhurst, in Hampshire. His art, with small exception, did not extend beyond the mere portraiture of animals.

GOOD, Joseph Henry, architect. Was born November 13, 1775, at Sambrook, Somersetshire, of which place his father was rector, and was a pupil of Sir John Soane. He early entered into several

Eublic competitions, and in 1803 gained oth the first and second premiums for his designs for the conversion of the Dublin Parliament House into the uses of the Bank of Ireland. In 1810, in conjunction with Mr. Lochner, he gained the first premium for a design for Bethlehem Hospital. In 1829 ne was appointed surveyor to the Pavilion at Brighton, and made several additions to that palace ; and in 1826 the Commissioners for Building new Churches selected him for their architect. He afterwards held the offices of clerk of the works to the Tower of London, the Royal Mint, and Kensington Palace. He died November 20, 1857, and was buried at the Kensal Green Cemetery. GOOD, Thomas Sword, subject painter. Was a native of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and was born in 1789. He first appears as an exhibitor of *A Scotch Shepherd,' at the Royal Academy in 1820, and coming up to London in 1S22, was for fifteen years an exhibitor. His early works were care- fullv finished, clever and with a leaning to humour. In 1823 he sent to the Aca- demv ' Practice,' a boy trying his prentice hand in shaving a sheep's head; m 1829, 'Idlers;' in 1830, 'The Truant;' in 1831, n2 179
 * ' Medicine,' with occasionally a coast scene

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