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be chief engraver in 1740. He executed medals of the Prince aod Princess of Orange, the large family medal of George I., his Queen, and their children, and a medal of Sir Isaac Newton. After nearly 40 years' service in the Mint he retired. He died in Edward Street, Cavendish Square, March 16, 1775.

TANNOCK, James, portrait painter. Was born about 1780, at Kilmarnock, where his father, to whose trade he was appren- ticed, was a shoemaker. He was so bent upon painting that he was at last allowed his own way, and getting employment as a house -painter, he tried portraiture with sufficient success to gain notice in his own town. He then went to Glasgow and had some practice there, and was, from 1806 to 1809, at Greenock, where he painted chiefly miniatures, but some few oil portraits also, and again for a time resided at Glasgow, where his art was much esteemed. About 1813 he came to London, and lived for many years in Newman Street. His por- traits possessed some merit, and from 1813 to 1841 he exhibited, with little intermis- sion, at the Royal Academy. From about 1820 to 1830 his son, W. Tannock, was also an exhibitor of portraits.

TASSAERT, J. Philip, portrait and drapeiy painter. Was born at Antwerp, ana came to England when very young. He was some time with Hudson the por- trait painter, probably as his assistant. He was, in 1769, elected a member of the In- corporated Society of Artists, and in 1775 a president of the Society, exhibiting with them for several years landscapes and sub-

1"ect pictures. On one or two occasions le sent a small whole-length portrait to the Academy. His works were frequently

Easticcios and copies, and he can hardly, e classed as an original painter. He was also known as a picture-cleaner and dealer. He issued, in 1777, a plan for ' A Most Noble and General Exhibition of Arts and Sciences/ which was partly to be formed of works on loan. . He died in Soho, October 6, 1803.

T A S § I E, James, gem-engraver and mojltiter'. He was bora near Glasgow, of mble parents, in 1735, and was brought up as a country stonemason. Going into Glasgow on the occasion of a fair he saw the Foulis collection of pictures, and was struck with the desire to be an artist ; and removing into Glasgow, where he got em- ployment at his trade for his support, he obtained admission to Foulis' Academy, where he acquired a power of drawing ana modelling. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, in London, in 1769, two modelled portraits, and continued an exhibitor up to 1791. He then went to Dublin to seek em- ployment, and his talent made him known there to Dr. Quin, who was engaged in

making pastes in imitation of precious stones, and, taking him into his confidence, he showed him his processes, and to this art he devoted himself, imitating some of the most precious relics of antiquity in gems and coins. In 1766 he came to London to prepare and sell his pastes, but, diffident to excess, he struggled long under difficulties, from which he slowly emerged, and gained a competence by the perfection of his art, his imitations being so fine as to be sold for originals. He executed about 15,000 for the Empress of Russia. He collected materials of great art value, increasing his stock of casts and pastes to 20,000 impres- sions. He was an excellent artist, a man of taste, judgment, and research, and exe- cuted many likenesses, possessing great accuracy, of men eminent in his day. He died in Leicester Square, 1799, and was succeeded by his nephew, William Tassie, who was the fortunate winner, in 1805, of the Shakespeare Gallery, erected in Pall Mall, the great prize in Alderman Boydell's lottery, and died at Kensington, in 1860.

TATE, W. Christopher, sculptor. Was born at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was apprenticed to a marble-mason, and after- wards worked for a sculptor. Leaving him, and struggling hard to establish himself as an artist, he produced a ' Dead Christ,' and a statue of * Blind Willie/ by which he is known. H e then tried bust-modelling. Several persons of influence sat to him, and he exhibited at the Academy in 1828-29-33, but not afterwards. Later he produced a and a ' Musidora.' His health failing, he made a voyage to the Mediterranean, but his disease making rapid progress, he re- turned, and died, on his way home, in London, March 28, 1841, aged 29, leaving a widow and two children without any pro- vision. There are many monumental tombs by him in the neighbourhood of his native town.
 * Judgment of Paris/ a well-designed group,

TATE, William, portrait painter. He was a pupil of * Wright of Derby/ and prac- tised with some reputation at Liverpool in 1776 ; then, for a short time, in London, at Manchester in 1787, and later, at Bath. He exhibited portraits, with one or two attempts at subject pictures, at the Royal Academy, between 1776 and 1802. He died at Bath, June 2, 1806.

T ATH A M. Charles He athcote, archi- tect. Studied his art in Italy. Was several years at Rome and Bologna, and was elected a member of the academies of those cities. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, commencing in 1797, designs and orna- mental works, and was early in his career well employed, chiefly on works of a deco- rative character. He published ' Etchings from the Best Examples of Ancient Orna- mental Architecture, drawn from the Ori-

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