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have etched himself. His caricature of the Duchess of Queensberry, and of a cele- brated Irish physician are mentioned as full of clever humour. He was in 1767 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and said him- self that he had caricatured every officer of his staff. He died September 14, 1807.

TRACY,, antiquarian draftsman.

Was chiefly engaged upon the antiquities of the county of Kent. Was living at Brompton, near Chatham, in 1792. He made the drawings for Thorpe's * Antiqui- ties. '

TRAIES, William, landscape painter. He was born at Crediton in 1789, and prac- tised his art at Exeter, where he gained a local reputation. In 1820, and on one sub- sequent occasion, he was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He drew the illustra- tions for a work on natural history, by Dr. Neal. He died at Exeter, April 23, 1872.

TRENCH, Henry, historical painter. Was born in Ireland. Towards the com- mencement of the 18th century he went to Italy, where he studied for- several years, and gained a medal in the Academy of St. Luke at Rome. He came to England, and professed historical painting, but, meeting with no encouragement, returned to Italy, and for two years continued his studies. In 1725 he came again to England, and died in London the following year. He was buried at Paddington. • T RE SHAM, Henry, R.A., history painter. Was born in Dublin about 1756, some accounts say 1749, and, showing an early taste for art, was placed in the Dublin* School, under West. After exhibiting some attempts at Dublin, he came to London in 1775, and found employment in drawing small portraits. He was then invited by Lord Cawdor to travel with him in Italy, and continued for fourteen years on the continent, chiefly at Rome, where he studied zealously from the antique. He returned to England in 1789, having made himself a good draftsman and attained much knowledge and skill in matters of art and taste. He was also a member of the Academies of Rome and Bologna. He exhibited at the Academy in that year, and in 1791 sent an 'Adam and Eve,' 'Phryne,' and a subject from St. Luke. These works confirmed his continental re- putation, and he was in the latter year elected an associate of the Royal Academy. He was chiefly employed on the illustrated publications of the time, eschewing por- traiture, but he added to his income by dealing in art. He is said to have bought of a servant of Mr. Thomas Hope a number of Etruscan vases, the refuse of a collec- tion purchased by his master, who gave them to him, and to have afterwards sold one moiety of the collection for 800/., and

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for the remainder, with some additions, to have received from Lord Carlisle an annuity of 300/. With some dealers he opened a gallery of the works of the old masters for sale. In 1795 and 1796 he exhibited his- torical subjects, and in 1799, * Christ and Nicodemus,' and was elected a member of the Royal Academy, and in 1807 professor of painting, an office which he resigned in 1809 from failing health, and afterwards only exhibited again on two occasions. He contributed three paintings to BoydelPs Shakespeare Gallery. His drawings in pen and ink and in black chalk are his best productions. He made some designs in water-colour. He was generally an accom- plished man and a writer. He published at Rome in 1784, *Le Avventure di Satfo/ 18 designs of no merit produced by himself in a rude kind of etching mezzo- tint; and, after his return to England, ' The Sea-sick Minstrel; or, Maritime Sorrows,' a poeni, 1799: 'Rome at the close of the Nine- teenth Century' 1796; 'Britannicus to Buonaparte, an Heroic Epistle,' 1803; and he edited for Messrs. Longmans, contri- buting the descriptive letter-press, 'En- gravings from the Works of the Ancient Masters in the British Collections,' a costly work. His health became visibly impaired after his return from Italy, and for several years before his death he was reduced to a state of great feebleness and infirmity. He died in Bond Street, June 17, 1814.

TREVETT, Robert, draftsman and engraver. Practised at the beginning of the 1 8th century. He painted architecture, and planned, with Vertue, in 1710, a work on St. Paul's Cathedral, for which he made several drawings of the interior and the exterior; some of which were engraved, but the work was not completed. His last en- graving was an extensive view of London, on several sheets, from the tower of St. Mary Overy, but he died in 1723. and left it unfinished. He was master of the Paper- stainers' Company.

TREVINGARD, Anna, subject painter. Practised in London in the second half of the 18th century. She painted a romantic class of subjects. Some of her works were engraved.

TROLLOPE, Robert, architect. Built Capheaton. near Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1659, and also the old exchange at Newcastle. Buried at Gateshead, December 11, 1686.

TROTTER, S. C, portrait painter. Native of Ireland. Drew, in 1782, a por- trait of Dr. Johnson, which was engraved in 1784. The doctor said, when he saw the drawing, 'Well, thou art an ugly fellow, but like the original.' There are by him three other portraits of the doctor, which were engraved; one of them, a whole-length, in the dress he wore in the Hebrides.

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