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On the completion of his pupilage he travelled, ana setting out in the autumn of 1830, visited Paris, Milan, Venice, and Rome. After a short return to France, he started in 1833 for the East, and saw parts of Greece, Alexandria, Cairo, Thebes, and Constantinople. In this journey his mind received, wnile in Egypt, that strong impression of Arabic form and ornament which founded the ideal of his future art, and led him in 1834 to Granada, where he was allured by the great Moorish work, the Alhambra, which ne made the object of his study. Returning to England in 1836. he began his work on ' The Alhambra/ ana revisiting Granada in 1837, spent another year on the work, which was not completed till 1845. He devoted himself entirety to it, and not only drew the details, but trained artists to assist him in the best use of gold and silver for their reproduction ; and fur- ther, sold a property his father had left him in Wales, and also incurred liabilities in the undertaking, which was unsuccessful, and caused him much difficulty and anxiety. He then illustrated Locknartfs ' Spanish Ballads/ followed by some other works of the same class. In 1842 he issued his designs for ' Mosaic and Tesselated Pave- ments ;' in 1846, ' The Polychromatic orna- ment of Italy ; ' in 1851 he was appointed to superintend the works of the Great Ex- hibition, and took an active part in the decoration and arrangement of the build- ing; in 1852 he published an 'Attempt to define the principles which regulate the employment of Colour in Decorative Arts/ ana afterwards lectured on the principles he had adopted. In the same year he was joint-director for the decoration of the Crystal Palace, and specially designed the Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Alhambra Courts ; in 1856 he published his ' Gram- mar of Ornament ; ' in 1867 his ' Examples of Chinese Ornaments.' He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1831 his design for the 'Town Hall, Birmingham ; J in 1840, for ' St. George's Hall, Liverpool ; ' in 1845, ' Mansions in the Queen's Road. Kensing- ton/ and some designs for shop decoration. His works, the result of fifty years earnest labour, were founded upon the true prin- ciples of structural ornamentation and symmetry in line with harmony of colour. Possessing great fertility of invention, his art tended greatly to the decorative im- provement of our manufactories, such as wall-papers, carpets, and furniture. He received the gold medal of the Institute of British Architects, of the Paris Inter- national Exhibition of 1867, and of the Vienna International Exhibition of 1873. He died in Argyll Place, April 19, 1874, and was buried m Kensal Green Cemetery. JONES, Thomas, landscape painter. Was born about 1730, and practised in

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London. In 1750 he was studying in Rome, where he appears to have continued till 1768, when he was awarded a premium at the Society of Arts. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1784, and con- tinued to exhibit Italian and Welsh views up to 1788, but did not exhibit again till 1798, when he contributed four Italian views. His name does not again occur. Woollett engraved after him, in 1776, the 'Merry Villagers;' and Bartolozzi and others engraved his works. Mortimer, A.R.A., painted the figures in some of his landscapes.

JONES, John E., sculptor. Was born in Dublin in 1806. He studied in that city as a civil engineer, but having a taste for sculpture, he came to London to study for that profession, and practised here. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844, his contributions in that year being busts of 'Daniel O'Connell' and other eminent Irishmen ; and settling in London, found great encouragement, and had many eminent sitters — the Queen, the Prince Consort, Lord Brougham, the Emperor of the French, the Duke of Cambridge, Duke of Wellington, Louis Philippe, the King of Holland, and others. He died in Dublin, July 1862. His art was confined to busts, ana was well esteemed.

JONES, William, landscape painter. He was a native of Ireland, and practised there in the latter part of the 18th century. His views of the 'Waterfall' and the 'Salmon Leap/ county of Wicklow, have been engraved.

JONSON, VAN CEULEN, Cornelius. See Janssen.

JOSEPH, George Francis, A.R.A., portrait and history painter. He was Dorn November 25, 1764, and in 1784 entered the schools of the Royal Academy. He first appears as an exhibitor in 1788, and then contributed a portrait family

g*oup and 'A Bacchante/ an impression om a gem, and, on a subsequent. occasion, a work of the same class. He continued to exhibit portraits, with, in 1792, a sub- ject picture 'Eve met by Adam/ and in that year gained the Academy gold medal for his original painting, 'A Scene from " Coriolanus. " ' Shortly after he exhibited miniatures, and for some time continued a large contributor of them, with sometimes an oil portrait or a subject picture. In 1797 he painted 'Mrs. Sidaons as the Tragic Muse ; ' in 1808, ' Flora dispensing her Sweets to Zephyr.' He was also an exhibitor at the British Institution, and was awarded by the directors two premiums —in 1811, 122L for ' The Return of Priam with the dead body of Hector;' and the next year, 100 guineas, for his ' Procession to Mount Calvary.' This success was followed by his election, in 1813, as an