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also some excellent prints after his friend, Alfred Chalon, R.A. In 1827 be was elected an associate engraver of the Royal Academy. In 1864 ne was appointed director of the etching class at the South Kensington Museum, an office for which he was peculiarly fitted by his large knowledge of art, and his patient, gentle temper. He died at Kensington, November 21, 1872. He wrote * Life at the Water-cure/

L ANGLE Y, Batty, architect Was the papular architect of his day. He preten- tiously attempted to adapt the proportions of the Gothic to the Roman, and invented five orders of his new style. These he pub- lished, also 'An accurate Description of Newgate/ 1724; and a ' Design for a new Bridge at Westminster,' 1736. He also published a useful ' Builders' Price-book,' successive editions of which have continued to the present time; and a ' Survey of Westminster' which he had made; and on some squabble with the city authorities, who preferred the Swiss architect (Labelye) to him, in a vignette to his work, introduced his foreign rival hung by the neck under an arch. He had sufficient assurance and influence to corrupt the taste of the time. He died March 3, 1751. Walpole calls him a ' barbarous architect; ' but ne was one of those who, in his day, helped to keep alive a taste for Gothic architecture. Thomas Lanoley, brother of the above, engraved many of his plates, and was joint author of several of his works.

LANGTON, John, glass painter. He was originally a writing-master at Stamford, and presented to Queen Anne specimens of his penmanship. He made some experi- ments in glass painting, and paintea the east window of the church at Stamford, and claimed to have revived the art of painting on dass.
 * Christ blessing the Elements/ in 1700;

/ LANIERE, Nicholas, portrait painter. Was one of the sons of Jerome Laniere, an Italian, who came to England with his family in the latter part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and belonged to her Majesty's band. He was painter and musician, and skilled in both these arts. Charles I, employed him as his agent in the purchase of pictures, and sent him to Italy, where he laid out large sums on the commission given by his Majesty. When the royal collection was sold by the order of Parliament, he was a large purchaser, and deposited his acquisitions in nis father s apartments at Greenwich, and, taking care to remove them before the Restoration, none could be recovered. He wrote the music and painted the scenes for a masque by Ben Jonson, which was per- formed in 1617; also a vocal composition for a funeral hymn on his royal master. As a musician, he had a pension of 2001. a year ior life, and he also held the office of closet- 260

keeper to the King. His portrait by him- self, in the music school at Oxford, proves him to have possessed great powers as an artist; it is well drawn and coloured, the composition and expression excellent. He died November 4, 1646, and was buried at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. He published a Drawing-book, in which the examples were engraved by himself, and there are also some etchings by him.

LANK RINK, Prosper Henry, land- scape painter. Born in Antwerp in 1628. He was the son of a German soldier in the Dutch service. His mother had devoted him to the Church, but showing a talent for painting, she sent him to the academy at Antwerp, were he made rapid progress. On his mother's death, he came to England in the reign of Charles II., after having visited the chief galleries in Italy. He bad copied much from Salvator Rosa, and was an able imitator of his works. His own landscapes, into which he introduced small figures, were much admired; and Sir Peter Lely employed him on his landscape back- grounds. Many of his works were lost in a fire. As he advanced in life he became idle and dissipated. He resided several years in Piccadilly, and dying in Covent Garden in 1692, was buried in the Church there. J. Smith mezzo-tinted ' Nymphs Bathing ' after him.

portcullis pursuivant to Queen Elizabeth, and a gentleman in the service of Sir Philip Sydney. He drew the funeral pro- cession and obsequies of his master, which were engraved in 34 plates by De Brie.
 * L A N T, Thomas, amateur. He was

LAPlDGE, Edward, architect. He was the son of the gardener at Hampton Court Palace. He exhibited some designs at the Academy in 1808 and following years, but was rarely an exhibitor. He was the architect of Kingston Bridge, completed in 1828, and in the following year built St. Peter's Church, Hammersmith; also a chapel on Ham Common. He was a com- petitor, sending in a set of designs, for the new Houses of Parliament in 1836. He exhibited at the Academy, in 1850, a design for a suspension bridge on a new principle. He died in March 1860.

LAPORTE,G. H., animal painter. He was an occasional exhibitor at the Suffolk Street Exhibition from 1825, andat the Royal Academy from 1827. On the foundation of the Institute of Painters in Water-colour he became a member and a constant exhi- bitor, but his yearly contributions did not exceed two or three works, chiefly animals and figures, military and Arab groups, and. some hunting subjects. He was appointed animal painter to the Duke of Cumberland. He died October 23, 1873.

LAPORTE, John, water-colour painter. He. first appears as an exhibitor at the