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GYF He left his property to a natural son, and in case of his death, to the Royal Academy and the Royal Society. Many of his designs are preserved in the British Museum. Mr. Wyatt Papworth contributed a very in- teresting memoir of him to ' The Builder/ 1863.

GYFFORD, Edward, architectural draftsman. He studied in the schools of the Royal Academy, and in 1792 gained the Academy gold medal for his design for a ' House of Lords and Commons.' He ex- hibited some drawings at the Academy, the last in 1799, when he appears to have held a commission in the West London Militia. He published, in 1807, designs for small picturesque Cottages and Hunting-boxes.' He was a rapid, clever draftsman, but HAT managed only to gain a poor subsistence by his profession, lie died about 1834. His son was a gold medal student and painted general subjects.

• GYLES, Henry, glass painter. Prac- tised chiefly at York, where he resided from 1640 to 1700. He painted the east window at University College, Oxford, in 1687, and some other windows at Oxford. He also painted some historical subjects and land- scapes. His own portrait in crayons, by himself, in the print-room of the British Museum, shows a power of drawing and some taste for colour. He established a school of glass painters at York, which maintained a reputation for nearly a cen- tury. There is a letter by him in the Ash- molean collection.

H HABERSHON, Matthew, architect. He was born in 1789, of a Yorkshire family, and was articled to an architect. He built a church at Belper, Derbyshire, in 1824, with two other churches in the same county, and a church at Kimberworth, Yorkshire. At Derby he built the town hall, since burnt down, the county courts and the market, and Hadsor House at Droitwich. He was an occasional exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1827. He published 'The Ancient Half-timbered Houses of England,' with 36 plates, in 1836, and several works on the prophetical Scriptures and on the prophecies. He died in London in 1852.

HACKERT, Johann Gottlieb, land- scape painter. Born 1744, in Germany, of a family of painters. Was pupil of Le Soeur in Berlin, and studied some time in Rome. In 1766 he was in Paris, and in 1771 again at Rome, when he sent some views in water-colours to the Spring Gar- dens Exhibition. In 1772 he accompanied some English gentlemen to London, where, finding encouragement, he settled. In the following year he exhibited some Italian views in oil and water-colours— his first and only contributions to the Royal Aca- demy — and a picture of four hounds, which was engraved and published by Boydell. His constitutional weak health soon after failed. He went to Bath for his recovery, and died there, in his- 29th year.

HACKETT, David, architect. An Irish architect of this name is reputed to have designed the great church of Batalha, ' erected by King John of Portugal in 1430* a work of the pure Gothic of that era.

HADFIELD, George, architect. Was the brother of Maria Cosway. He studied in the schools of the Royal Academy, and in 1784 gained the Academy gold medal for his ' Design for a National Prison/ a strange subiect. Elected in 1790 to the travelling studentship, he went to Rome in that year, accompanied by Mrs. Cosway, and was studying there in 1794. He made drawings of the temples of Palestrina ; Mars, and Jupiter Tonans, which he exhibited at the Academy on his return in 1795. A drawing by him of the interior of St. Peter's was much praised at the time. He was soon after invited to America to assist in the erection of the capitol at Washington, and arrived in that city about 1800. He did not long continue in this employment, but leaving it, practised on his own account, and erected several buildings there. He died in America in 1826.

HAID, Johann Gottfried, engraver. Born in Wurtemburg in 1730, the son of an artist, by whom ne was taught. He painted portraits, but chiefly practised as a mezzo-tint engraver. He came to London when young and was much employed by Alderman Boydell, engraving after Rey- nolds, Dance, and, among others, ' Foote as Major Sturgeon,' after Zoffany. He after- wards returned to Germany. Died 1776.

HAINES, William, miniature painter. He was born in 1778, and was from 1808 to 1830 a constant exhibitor at the Royal Academy. Among his numerous sitters