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in Paris, and was employed there in illus- trating some of the best works at that time published. He died in Paris, April 20, 1773. He was gifted with great facility and taste, and finished his drawings with much minuteness, but his numerous illus- trations are not of a character to maintain his reputation in the present day.

GRAVES, Robert, A.E., engraver. He was born in St. Pancras, May 7, 1798, and was a member of the oldest established family of printsellers in London. He be- came, in 1812. a pupil of John Romney, the engraver, ana studied in the life-school, then held in Ship Yard, Temple Bar, and gained a thorough knowledge of his art, practising in the line manner. Among his first works he engraved for the illustra- tion of the Waverley novels, and was soon largely employed. In 1836 he was elected, it is said by a unanimous vote, an associate engraver of the Royal Academy, and com- menced a series of important works, among which may be distinguished, ' The Abbots- ford Family/ after Wilkie, R. A. ; ' The Highland Whisky Still/ after Edwin Land- seer, R.A. ; 'The Slide/ after Webster, R. A. ; ' The Children of George III./ after Copley, R.A.; 'The Sisters/ after East- lake, P.R.A. Latterly, he was engaged upon engraving from the portraits of Rey- nolds, P.R. A., and Gainsborough, R.A. Of industrious habits and zealously working to the end, his engravings are very numerous and are highly esteemed. He died at Highgate Road, February 28, 1873, and was buried in the cemetery at Highgate.

GRAY, Paul, wood engraver arid de- signer. Was born in Dublin, May 17, 1842. He came to London in 1863 or 1864, and found employment as a drafts- man on wood. He designed some book illustrations, but is best known by his cartoons for ' Fun/ a comic weekly periodi- cal. His health failing, he was sent to Brighton in the hope to restore it, but died there of consumption, Nov. 14, 1866.

GREEN, Benjamin, mezzo-tint en- graver. Was born at Hales Owen, Shrop- shire, of poor parents, about 1736. He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766, and exhibited with the Society for several years. He was ap- pointed engraver to George III. He also held the appointment of drawing-master to Christ's Hospital. He possessed a con- siderable knowledge of drawing, and his engravings are vigorous and powerfully executed. Some of his plates after Stubbs, A.R.A., are good examples of his art— 'The Lion and Stag/ 1770; 'The Horse and the Lioness/ 1774 He also engraved the illustrations for Morant's ' Essex/ and
 * The Horse before the Lion's Den/ 1768 ;

Sublished many plates of antiquities, both rawn and etched by himself ; and he was 184

a painter as well as an engraver. He died in London about 1800.

GREEN, A*Los,Jlowerpainter. Brother to the above. Born at Hales Owen. He practised in the latter half of the 18th cen- tury. Though he chiefly excelled in flowers, there are some landscapes by him which are brilliant in colour and well composed, and some engravings which he executed at the commencement of his career. He retired about 1757 to Bath, where he lived with a friend, and then did little more in art He died at York in June 1807.

GREEN, John, engraver. Another brother of the above. Born at Hales Owen. About 1724 was pupil of the elder James Basire. He excelled both in land- scape and portrait. He engraved some of the plates for Borlase's ' Natural History of Cornwall/ including the seats of the principal nobijity and gentry ; and was for many years-employed on the plates for the Oxford almanacs. He died young, about 1757.

GREEN, John, draftsman and picture dealer. He was well known as 'Johnny Green/ Practised 1749—63.

GREEN, James ; engraver. He was born in 1755. He practised in mezzo-tint. His works are beautifully drawn and expressed, his tints excellent He produced some fine engravings after Reynolds, P.R. A., in which the character of the painter is well imitated. He died about 1800.

GREEN, James, portrait painter. He was born March 13, 1771, at Leytonstone, Essex, where his father was a builder. He was early distinguished by his water-colour portraits, and later more especially by his paintings in oil. In 1808 he was a member and the treasurer of the short-lived ' Asso- ciated Society of Artists in Water-Colours/ He was also for several years, up to 1826, an exhibitor at the British Institution, and in 1808 the directors awarded him a

Eremium of 60?. Lately he frequently exhi- ited at the Royal Academy, and in 1820 sent a good subject picture of large size. ' A Lady preparing for a Masked Ball/ His works are graceful and harmonious in colour; they possess a characteristic ori- ginality, of which his portrait of Stothard, II. A, in the National Portrait Gallery, is a fair example. He died at Bath, March 27, 1834, ana was buried in Wolcot Church. Several of his portraits are engraved. There is a memoir of him in Arnold's ' Magazine of the Pine Arts' for May 1834.

GREEN, Mrs. Mary, miniatwe painter. Born in 1776 ; she was the second daughter of William Byrne, the landscape engraver, and married in 1805 to the aoove James Green. She was a pupil of Arlaud, and became eminent as a miniature painter, regularly exhibiting her works at the Royal Academy, from 1796 till her husband's