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he died suddenly in June 1788. There is a memoir and portrait of him in the 8th volume of Nichols's ' Literary Anecdotes.'

His portraits are simple and character- istic, and have much elegance. His draw- ings are chiefly in pencil, pure and free in line ; many of them are preserved in the Academy at Bologna. fteynolds praised his pure, classic taste. Barry, who defended him against what he called his mean de- tractors, said few could conceive the perfec- tions that were possible in him ; and he placed his portrait behind that of Phidias in his * Elysium ' at the Society of Arts. West also possessed some of his chalk heads, which he declared had never been surpassed.

HUSSEY, Philip, portrait painter. He was born at Cork, and beginning life as a seaman, he was five times shipwrecked. •He commenced art by drawing the figure- heads of ships' sterns, and, self-taught, was in time able to gain a practice in Dublin as a portrait painter. He painted some fair whole-lengths. He was a clever man, and made himself a tolerable florist, botanist, and musician, and his house was the rendez- vous of the artists and literary men of Dublin. He died there at an advanced age in 1782.

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is said to have been a surgeon and apothe- cary, practising in Covent Garden, to have left that profession for the arts, and to have excelled particularly as a painter of race- horses ; but there appears no known trace of these works. He died in Southwark, August 26, 1769.

HUTCHINSON, Henry, architect. He was of some promise, and designed and executed the additions to St. John s College, Cambridge ; but his career was short. He died at Leamington, November 22, 1831, aged 31.

HUYSMANN (or HOUSEMAN), Jacob, portrait painter. Born at Antwerp in 1656, he came early in life to England, and practised portrait painting, and occa- sionally history, in the reign of Charles II. He painted several portraits of Catherine of Braganza, one of which, a work of much pretension — a full-length seated figure, surrounded by cupids and a lamb — is at Buckingham Palace. The altar-piece at the German Chapel, St. James's, is by him, as is also a portrait of Isaac Walton, in the National Portrait Gallery. He died in London in 1696, and was buried at St. James's Church, Piccadilly. His heads are well drawn and coloured, the character and expression good.

• H3BETSON, Julius Cjesar, landscape and figure painter. His father was one of the first who joined the Moravian frater- nity at Fulneck, Yorkshire, but, marrying, was expelled the society. His mother, in consequence of a fall, died in premature labour, and he was brought into the world December 29. 1759, by the Caesarian oper- ation, hence his Christian name. He was educated for a time by the Moravians, and then sent to a Quaker school at Leeds. Showing an early inclination for art, he was apprenticed to a ship-painter, and though he could only learn from him the mechanical part of his art, his invention soon showed itself in his appropriate ornaments. When only 17 years of age he painted the scenery for a piece acted at the York and Hull Theatres, which gained him a local celebrity. He says : i Having from my earliest youth had a most violent propensity for art, with- out ever meeting witn instruction or en- couragement, I at last, on making my way up to London, found myself safely moored in a picture-dealer's garret* This was in 232

1777, and without money or friends he laboured unknown and in durance for seve- ral years. In 1785 he first appears as an exhibitor at the Academy, contributing in that and the two following years views in the suburbs of the Metropolis.

He had in the interim married, and managed to remove to Kilburn, where he devoted himself to the study of nature, painting both cattle and rustic figures. Many of these works were of much merit, but were sold at very inadequate prices to the dealers. But while so employed he acquired knowledge, particularly of the Dutch and Flemish masters, as well as of the tricks of the picture-dealing trade, as then carried on. He became acquainted, too, with Captain Baillie, the well-known amateur, formed a better connection, and improved his fortunes; and as he was a man of extensive reading and of acute observation, he found his way into much good society. In 1788 he accompanied, as draftsman, Colonel Cathcart's embassy to China, but the ambassador dying on the