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for the few hours he had to live, by bailiffs, who entered his apartment, to seize his only remaining piece of furniture. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Margaret hard by. That he was laboriously indus- trious his etchings and engravings testify. They have been calculated to number 2,400— costumes, portraits, history, anti- quity, views, and landscapes, and a catalogue has been made of his works, which extends to 132 quarto pages. He worked with the

Soint with extraordinary minuteness of nish, yet with an almost playful freedom. His drawings are equally truthful and finished; many of his views of our cathe- drals and antiquities are excellent. Wal- pole feelingly says of him, ' To have passed a long life in adversity, without the errors to which many men of genius have owed it, and to have ended that life in destitution of common comforts, merely from the in- sufficient emoluments of a profession, and with a strictly moral character, such was the fate of Hollar! ' Vertue published, in 1745, a description of Hollar's works, with some account of his life. Gustav Parthev's descriptive catalogue, published at Berlin in 1853, enumerates 2,733 mints by him.

HOLLINS, John. A.R. A., portrait and subject painter. Born at Birmingham, where his father was a glass painter, June 1, 1798. He was early devoted to art, and first exhibited portraits in 1818. In 1822 he came to London, where he practised painting in oil and occasionally in miniature. In 1825 he travelled to Italy, and studying there two years, returned in 1827. He re- sumed portrait painting, contributed largely to the Academy Exhibitions, and from this time till his death was a constant exhibitor of portraits, portrait-groups, and subjects, chiefly from the poets and novelists. His likenesses were accurate, his drawing and

Souping good, and he excelled in colour, e was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1842. He died, unmarried, in Bemers' Street, March 7, 1855, in his 57th year.

HOLLINS, William, architect and sculptor. Cousin of the above. Was a self-taught man, and for above half a century practised at Birmingham. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, com- mencing in 1821, some busts, a nead of Thetis and of Christ. His last contribu- tion to the exhibition was in 1824, ' Model of the Garden of Gethsemane. ' He erected in Birmingham the public office and prison, the old library, ana dispensary. He also made some alterations m the mansion at Alton Towers. He designed the Royal Mint at St. Petersburg, but declined to

fo to Russia to superintend its execution. [e died in 1843, in his 80th year. HOLLIS, George, engraver. Born at Oxford in 1793. He was a pupil of George 220

Cooke, and was largely employed on topo-- graphical works — Hoare f s ' History of Wiltshire,' Warner's ' Glastonbury Abbey,' Ormerod's * Cheshire,' &c. In 1818 he published six views of Chudleigh, from drawings by De Cork He also Engraved a series of plates of the Oxford colleges and halls, some of them from his own drawings. He practised in the line manner, and con- tributed some of the plates on steel for the ' Oriental Annual,' 1834. In 1837 he finished a large plate after Turner, R.A., which was exhibited at the Academy the following year. He died at Walworth, January 2, 1842, aged 49.

HOLLIS, Thomas, draftsman. Only son of the foregoing. Entered the schools of the Academy in 1836, and became a pupil of Pickersgill, R.A. In 1839 he commenced, in conjunction with his father, who etched the greater number of the plates, a work on Sepulchral Effigies, on the plan of Stothard's, for which he made the drawings. The first part was pub- lished in 1840. Some of the etchings were by him, and showed much spirit. His health gave way soon after, and he died October 14. 1843, aged 25.

HOLLOWAY, Thomas, engraver. Born in London 1748. His father was in easy circumstances, and gave him a useful education; of a Dissenting family, he was himself a Baptist. He was apprenticed to a steel engraver, and soon showed his ability in the ornaments in that material which were then worn. But this fashion passed away, and after trying several branches of engraving he adopted, the copper-plate, ana produced some portraits and embellish- ments for magazines. He was at the same time a student, both drawing and model- ling, at the Royal Academy. He first made himself known by the engravings for Lavater's 'Essays on Physiognomy,' an extensive work, containing 700 illustrations. He was also employed on the publications of Boydell, Macklin. and Bowyer, and on editions of the Britisn classics. He painted some portraits in oil and miniatures, which were exhibited, with some life-size crayon portraits. But he is chiefly known as the engraver of the cartoons of Raphael. He desired to produce a more finished series than those of Dorigny, and having obtained from the King the exclusive use of the cartoons, he removed to Windsor, where they were then deposited, to commence his work, of which he had scarcely considered the full magnitude. Here, with the assist- ance of two former pupils and of Joseph Thompson, he worked for many years, the labour and expense of his undertaking be- coming more and more apparent; and as his work proceeded, his original inadequate price of 3 guineas for the set was increased to 10 guineas. The cartoons, during the