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when his portrait of Mr. Graves, M.P., was exhibited, his contributions were some- times accepted and sometimes rejected by the Royal Academy, down to 1874, when he contributed portraits of Gathorne Hardy, M.P., and his son. In the following years his pictures were refused, which caused him to fall into ill health, and he died of grief March 19, 1878.

TYLER, WilliaMj R.A., sculptor and architect. He exhibited some busts with the Society of Artists in 1761, and was one of the Directors named in the Charter when granted, 1765. On the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768 he was nominated a member, and was trustee and auditor, taking an active interest in the young in- stitution. To the earlier exhibitions he contributed busts and monumental designs, but later he is described as an architect, and from 1780 exhibited architectural de- signs. In 1786 he designed the Freemasons' Tavern, to which, ten years afterwards, Thomas Sandby added the large hall. He exhibited for the last time in 1787, and died in Caroline Street, Bedford Square, Septem-

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ber 6, 1801, never having attained distinc- tion either as a sculptor or as an architect.

TYSON, Michael, amateur. Was a fellow of Bennet College, Cambridge, and both painted and etched for his amusement. He practised about 1770. Of the etchings by him there is a portrait of Archbishop Parker, copied from a print by R. Hogen- burg, said to be one of the earliest engrav- ings produced in England ; from an illumin- ated manuscript, a portrait of Sir William Paulet, and of Jane Shore, from the por- trait at King's College, Cambridge.

TYTLER, George, lithographic drafts- man. He travelled in Italy about 1820, and published several lithographic views which he had made there. He also com- piled from his sketches a pictorial alphabet, of which a lithographic impression was sold, and it was then produced on copper. He also published in lithography a large pano- ramic view of Edinburgh. He died in Clement's Lane, Strand, in great destitu- tion, October 30, 1859, aged 62. He held the appointment of draftsman to the Duke of Gloucester.

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UNDERWOOD, Richard Thomas, toater-colour painter. He was a man of scientific attainments, and, possessed of an independence, can hardly be said to have followed art as a profession. He was one of the group of artists who studied at Dr. Monro's, and exhibited some of his draw- ings at Cooke's exhibition in Soho Square. He died at Auteuil, near Paris, in 1836.

UN WIN, R., enamel painter. He was distinguished by his skill and taste in enamelling watches, iewelrv, &c. He ex- hibited at the Royal Academy from 1705 to 1801, and the last time in 1812, con- tributing miniature portraits, designs, sub- jects from the poets, and landscapes. er. Was born at Pentonville February 24, 1782, and was educated at a day-school in the neighbourhood. He was apprenticed to an engraver in 1797, but, ambitious to become a painter, quitted him at the age of 16, and was admitted a student of the Royal Academy. He began to draw portraits, and about 1808 was engaged in book illus- tration. He illustrated 'Robinson Crusoe,' ' Young's Night Thoughts,' and many other works, but chiefly by a frontispiece and vignette only for each. He also drew for Ackermann's * Repository.' In 1808 he was admitted an associate of the Water-Colour
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Society, and in the following year a full member, and was in 1813, for. a short time, secretary to the Society. His contributions to the Society's exhibitions were chiefly of a rustic character, introducing children. In 1810, 'The Little Housewife;' in 1811, 'Children returning from School;' 1812, 'Higler's Boy going to Market;' 1813, ' Girl decorating Tier Head with Hops,' with one or two subjects of a higher class. In 1814, his health failing, he went to reside in the south of France, where he made many sketches and studies, but designing for booksellers formed his chief employment up to 1817.

At this time he was subjected to some pecuniary difficulties from the default of a -person for whom he had been surety, and in 1818 he resigned suddenly his member- ship in the Water-Colour Society, and de- voted himself to the drudgery of art till he honourably discharged his obligations. He settled for a time in Edinburgh, and was successful in portraiture, chiefly drawn in chalk. In 1824 he went to Italy, and during seven years' study there visited Florence, Rome, Naples, and the other art cities, returning in 1831 with the materials he had gathered. Hitherto his art had been chiefly in water-colour. His works had not been seen in the London exhibitions

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