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demy Exhibitions in 1771-72-73, and in the latter year went to Italy with Wright, of Derby. Immediately after his return to England he was killed by lightning, while riding across Salisbury Plain in a storm. He was an artist of some promise. A portrait by him was mezzo-tinted by Dean. His picture of Sterne's 'Maria 7 was also engraved.

HURLSTONE, Frederick Yeates, portrait and history painter. He was the grand-nephew of the above, and was born in London in 1800. He was early engaged in the office of the ' Morning Chronicle, of which paper his father was one of the pro- prietors, but attached himself to art. and was admitted to the schools of the Royal Academy in 1820. He became a pupil of Sir William Beechey, and also received some instruction from Sir Thomas Lawrence and B. R. Haydon. He first exhibited at the Academy, in 1821, 'Le Malade Imaginaire ;' and the following year, * The Prodigal Son/ with a portrait ; m 1823, portraits ; in 1824, portraits, with 'The Contention between the Archangel Michael and Satan for the body of Moses,' a work which had gained the Academy gold medal in the competition of the preceding year, and from that time to 1830 ne exhibited several portraits yearly. In 1824 he was also an exhibitor at the newly-founded Society of British Artists, and continuing an occasional exhibitor, was in 1831 elected a member of the Society, and for the following 14 years exhibited exclusively with its members, sending a large number of portraits and occasionally a subject picture. In 1835 he was elected

E resident of the Society, and in that year e first visited Italy. In 1844 he resumed his contributions to the Academy Exhibi- tion, sending his ' Prisoner of ChiUon/ with some portraits, and exhibiting there again in the following year, but then for the last time.

He visited Spain in 1851-52, and in 1854 Morocco; and at this time, greatly influenced by the art of Spain, he painted some Spanish subjects, boys naif -clad, in the manner of Muriilo, and some Moorish scenes. He became much opposed to the Royal Academy, and was one of the party who gave evidence against the constitution and management of that institution in the parliamentary enquiries instituted in 1835. He filled the office of president of iihe Society of British Artists nearly 30 years. He had a knowledge of foreign literature, made several visits to Italy, and studied in Spain the works of the great Spanish painters. He was in 1855 awarded a gold medal at the Paris Exhibition, but his latter works did not maintain his reputa- tion. Of those most esteemed may be mentioned * Armida,' from Tasso ; ' Eros/
 * Constance and Arthur/ ' Card-players in

a Posada in Andalusia,' ' Boabdil el Chico, mourning over the Fall of Granada, re- proached by his mother/ and 'Monks at the Convent of St. Isidore distributing Provisions.' He died June 10 ? 18H9, in his 69th year, and was buried m Norwood Cemetery.

HURTER, John Henrt, miniature painter. Was born at Schaftnausen, Sep- tember 9, 1734. He was induced to visit this country by Lord Dartrey, and was much employed here practising in enamel, and chiefly as a copyist. He exhibited at the Academy about 1782. He returned to Switzerland. J. F. C. Hurter, believed to have been his brother, worked with him. • HUSSEY. Giles, portrait painter. Was descended from an old Dorsetshire family, and was born at Marnhull, in that county, February 10, 1710. Educated at Douai and St. Omer, where he acquired a taste for drawing, he was, in opposition to the wishes of his family, permitted to fol- low art, and placed with Richardson, the portrait painter, as his pupil. But he soon left Richardson, and placed himself under Damini, a Venetian painter then in Eng- land, and after four years' study went with him to Italy. On their arrival at Rome the master decamped, robbing his unsus- pecting pupil of all his money and the best of his clothing. Assisted by the English Minister, he remained several years in Italy, chiefly at Bologna, and returned to England in 1737.

He did not, however, settle in London till 1742. He then was obliged to submit to what he called the drudgery of portrait painting for his subsistence, and worse than that, he for some time earned his scanty meals by making copies of a likeness of the Pretender, which he had painted at Rome. He imagined that, after having long sought the unerring principles of art, tney had been mysteriously revealed to him in Italy ; that the drawing of the human race, on a ruling principle of concord in nature, should be corrected by the musical scale, and that after the key-note had been obtained, the

Eroportions of the face should be determined y it. He was wounded by the jealousy, as he deemed it, with which his discovery and his art were received, and he complained that his spirits were depressed, his ardour cooled, ana he conceived a disgust for the world and a dislike for his profession. His temper was soured, and in October 1768 he retired into the country, to recover the wounds inflicted on a too sensitive mind. In 1773, his elder brother dying, he suc- ceeded to the family estate at Marnhull, where he amused himself with his favourite studies and in gardening, till 1778, when, from religious motives, he resigned all his worldly possessions to a near relative, and retired to Beeston, near Ashburton, where

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