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of Onnond Bridge, over the Liffey, Dublin ; and in 1808 for Richmond Bridge, over the same river. In 1815 he was the successful competitor for a three-arch bridge over the Ouse at Tempsford, Bedfordshire. In 1819, in a strong competition for building St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, his designs were selected. The work possesses great merit, notable for its general design, and especially for its fine vaulted roof and ex- cellent construction. His design, in 1823, for London Bridge, and his plan for im- proving the river Thames, by a southern embankment, though not adopted, were works of much labour and judgment. He was appointed architect to the Society of the Middle Temple in 1830, and erected the Hall, Clock Tower, and other works, and up to this tune continued an occasional exhibitor at the Academy. In 1840 he was employed to prepare designs for the restoration of the Temple Church, and had commenced the work, when, from difficulties which arose between the two societies in- terested, the completion was entrusted to others, but it was finished according to his original intentions. Among his other works the chief were — Trinity Church, Sloane Street; St. James's Church, Ber- mondsey ; Trinity Church, Tottenham Green; St. Mary's Church, Ilford; St. Michael's Church, Burleigh Street, Strand ; St. Thomas the Martyr s Church, Brent- wood ; St Mary's Church, Speenhamland, near Newbury; St. Mary's Church, Ad- dleston, Surrey. He was one of the active supporters of the plan for restoring and opening to public view the Lady Chapel of St. Saviour's, South wark; a member of the Surveyors' Club, the Graphic Society, the Institution of Civil Engineers, of the Architectural Society, and for a short tune of the Institute of British Architects ; but withdrew from a difference of views upon some matters of regulation. He had much practice in arbitration cases, and was suc- cessfully employed by the defendant in the case of the Crown v. Peto. He died May 7, 1852, in his 74th year, and was buried at his cuurch in Chelsea. He presented to the Architectural Society, in 1806, an essay on bridge building, and published, in 1836, ' Observations on Style in Architecture,' in reference to the designs proposed for the Houses of Parliament.

SA VI LLE, Dorothea, porfrm* painter. Practised in London in the first half of the 17th century. Both Hollar and Thomas Cross engraved after her.

SAXON, James, portrait painter. He was born in Manchester, and practised for a time in London, exhibiting portraits at the Royal Academy in 1795-96. He after- wards went to Edinburgh, where he was practising in 1803, and about 1805 came again to London, and in that and the fol-

lowing years, up to 1817, was an exhibitor of portraits — sometimes of actors in charac- ter — at the Academy. He then went to St. Petersburg, where he was for several years successfully employed, and on his return, he lived for a short time in Glasgow. He died in London in the year 1816 or 1817. His characteristic portrait of Sir Walter Scott holding a large dog, with a landscape background, has been engraved, and is well known.

SAXTON, Christopher, engraver. He lived near Leeds, and was a domestic serv- ant. Shewing an ability for engraving, he was encouraged by his master to undertake a set of county maps, which, after six years' labour, he completed, mostly with his own hand. They were, some of them, decorated with views, published in 1579. They were the first known in England, and were dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.

SAY, William, mezzo-tint engraver. Was born in 1768, at Lakenham, near Norwich, in which neighbourhood his father was land-steward to the proprietors of several estates. He was left an orphan at the age of five years, and was brought up by an aunt, who dissuaded him from an early desire to go to sea. After trying several pursuits, he came up to London at the age of 20, and a love of art, which had been for a time uppermost, induced him to place himself under James Ward, R.A., who was then practising as an engraver. He worked assiduously, and soon made great progress, and his merits gained him full employment In 1807 he was appointed engraver to the Duke of Gloucester. The greater number of impressions to be taken off steel had brought steel plates largely into use, and about 1820 he engraved the first mezzo-tint which had been successfully produced on steel. He executed no less than 335 plates, with his own hand, many of them historical and portrait works of large-size. The British Museum possess a complete set of his works engraved between 1795-1834. He engraved 16 plates for 'Turner's Liber Studlorum,' several for 1 Turner's River Scenery,' ' The Dilettanti Society,' after Sir Joshua Reynolds, and several after Fradelle. He died in Wey- mouth Street, Portland Place, August 24, 1834.

SAYER, James, caricaturist. Was the son of the master of a trading vessel at Yarmouth, where he was born in August, 1748. He commenced life as an articled clerk in an attorney's office, served his time and practised for a while in Yarmouth, where he became a member of the Borough Council. His father having left him a small fortune, he did not continue to practise in the profession, but following the Dent of his inclination, he drew caricatures and wrote songs. There is a political poem by him

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