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colour painter. He practised in the tinted manner in the last quarter of the 18th century, when his works were well esteem- ed. He painted landscapes and moonlight scenes, introducing figures and cattle, and was from 1777 to 1790 an exhibitor at the Royal Academy. In the latter part of his career he resided at Canterbury.

GROSE, Captain Francis, amateur, He was born in 1731 at Richmond, where his father, who left him an independent fortune, was a jeweller, and was employed to fit up the coronation crown of George II. His brother became ajudge of the Court of King's Bench. He received a good classical education, but was never at college. He studied art in Shipley's drawing school, and was in 1766 a member of the Incor- porated Society of Artists, and in 1768 exhibited with the Society, 'High Life below Stairs,, a stained drawing. Early in life he devoted himself to sketching the ruins of the old edifices in England. He afterwards visited Scotland and studied the ancient architecture of that country, where he made the acquaintance of Burns. He was * the chiel amang ye taking notes ' of the poet, who wrote some verses upon him, concluding —

'Now by the pow'rs o' verse and prose, Thou art a dainty chiel, Grose! Whae'er o' thee shall ill suppose, They sair misca' thee.'

He next carried his antiquarian re- searches into Ireland, visiting several parts of that country in 1790, to collect the materials for a work on Irish Antiquities. returning again in 1791. He was noted for his corpulency, it was a constant theme, and the hospitably of Dublin was too much for him. He had, as he said, * been going it too hard for three or four days/ when after a convivial dinner he died suddenly, on May 18, 1791. He had a good taste, drew well, and the figure very creditably. He was an honorary exhibitor at the Aca- demy of tinted drawings, chiefly of archi- tectural remains, in 1769 and for several foDowing years. But he was eminent as an antiquary, and is well known by his able researches. His chief published works are — 'The Antiquities of England and Wales,* 1773-87; * The Antiquarian Re- pertory,' 1775; * Advice to Officers of the British Army,' a satire, 1782; * Guide to Health/ 1783; 'Military Antiquities/ 1786-88; 'Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons/ 1786-89; ' The Antiquities of Scotland/ 1789-91; ' The Antiquities of Ireland/ 1791; ' Rules for drawing Carica- tures/ 1791. He held a captain's com- mission in the Surrey Militia and was pay- master to the regiment, also from 1755 to his resignation in 1763 the office of Rich- mond herald.

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GROVES. Joinr Thomas, architect Was one of the contributors to the Aca demy's first exhibitions. He travelled in Italy, and on his return in 1791. exhibited the ' Sibyls' Temple.' In 1794 he was ap- pointed clerk of the works to St. James's Palace, and in 1807 architect to the General Post Office. The baths at Tunbridge Wells were designed by him. He died in Great Scotland Yard, August 24, 181 1. There is a good drawing by him of the exterior of Westminster Abbey, which was engraved to a large scale in 1779.

GROZER, Joseph, eivjraver. Born about 1755. Practised in London the greater part of the last half of the 18th century. His works were well drawn and effectively finished in mezzo-tint. He en- graved, after Sir Joshua Reynolds, ' Dido/ ' Shepherds with a Lamb/ 1784; 'Inno- cence/ 1788; 'Miss Johnson, as a girl, Dancing/ 1792; and some others.

GRUBB, Edward, stone carver and painter. He executed some busts in a rude manner, but with ability. His figures of a boy and a girl at the Bluecoat School, Bir- mingham, are examples of his art. He had a local reputation, and painted some family portraits, of which the family of the Cannings, at Stratford, possess several. He diea at Stratford-upon-Avon, April 8, 1816, aged 76.

GRUNDY, Thomas Lebmino, engraver. Born at Bolton, Lancashire, January 6, 1808, the son of Lieut. Grundy. He was apprenticed to a writing engraver at Man- chester, but, aspiring to higher work, at the end of his apprenticeship he came to London, and was employed upon some plates for the annuals, after Liversege and Stanfield, R.A. Having attained some power in the line manner/he was then em- ployed by Mr. Doo, and afterwards by Mr. Goodall, the landscape engraver. He pos- sessed great taste, and was of some promise in his art, when he was attackea by in- flammation, and died in Camden Town, March 10, 1841. He engraved the por- traits of several clergymen, and produced some clever etchings.

G U EST, Douglas, history painter. He studied in the schools of the Royal Aca- demy, and first appears as an exhibitor of a portrait in 1803. In 1804 he sent ' A Madonna and Child; ' in the next year he gained the Academy gold medal for his 'Bearing the dead body of Patroclus to the Camp, Achilles's Grief;' in 1806 he exhibited* Penelope unravelling the Web; ' in 1811, 'Cupid and Psyche/ He had at the same tune occasionally exhibited a portrait, and he contributed a portrait in 1816-17, and then he ceased to exhibit up to 1834, when he sent two works to the Academy — ' The second Appearance of the Messiah ' and ' The Judgment of Hercules.'

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