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terpieces of Industrial Art and Ancient Sculpture/ * Ceramic Art in Remote Ages/ etc. He was engaged in the superintend- ence of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857, and the Exhibition of Works of Art at Leeds, 1868. He died March 23, 1875.

WARREN, John, architect. Was the builder of St. Mary's Church, Cambridge, where he is buried, and there was a tablet to his memory against the east wall of the chancel, now removed to the vestry, which records that i with the church his own life finished/ December 17, 1608. t WARREN, Alfred William, engraver. He practised in London about the middle of this century, working both in line and in mezzo-tint. He engraved 'The New Coat/ after Wilkie ; some portraits of the British poets, and for the illustration of Pope's * Essay on Man ' ; ' The Arabian Nights/ after Smirke ; and Coxe's ' Social

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• WARREN, Charles, engraver. He was born in London, June 4, 1767, and married when about 18 years of age ; but little is known of his early career. In 1802 he emerged from the difficulties attending upon a large young family, and, employed chiefly on book illustrations, became dis- tinguished for works of that class and largely known. In his youth he had been employed in engraving on metal for calico- printing, and was able to perfect the pro- cess of engraving on steel plates attempted by Raimbach, and was awarded a gold medal by the Society of Arts. But he did not seek to secure the advantage to himself by a patent. He illustrated an early edi- tion of the ' English Poets/ and engraved two plates from the BoydeU Shakespeare. He lived in Gray's Inn Road, and was im- provident and fond of society. He died suddenly in Wandsworth, April 21, 1823, and was buried in the vaults of St. Sepulchre's church, Old Bailey.

W ATKINS, Joseph, R.H.A., sculptor. He was late in commencing the study of his art. He practised in Dublin : was of much promise, and was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1869. He exhibited a bust at the Royal Academy, London, in each of the years 1867, 1868, and 1870, and died in Dublin at the close of the year 1871, aged 33.

WATSON, William, portrait painter. He practised in Dublin, painting both in oil and crayons. He was known as an admirable flute-player. His wife painted flowers and fruit.

WATSON, James, mezzo-tint engraver. Was born in Ireland in 1740, and was brother of the above, and equally distin- guished in his art. He engraved many fine portraits after Vandyck, Reynolds, Gains- borough, Roinney, and also some fine his-

torical and subject plates. He exhibited some mezzo-tints at the Spring Gardens' Rooms in 1775. His works are full of colour, powerful, the flesh tenderly ex- pressed. He resided many years in Little Queen Street, near Portland Chapel He died in 1790.

WATSON, Caroline, engraver. Daughter of the above James Watson. Born in London about 1760. She made many drawings of celebrated paintings, which she afterwards engraved, working both in mezzo-tint and in the dot manner. She also engraved some good portraits. Her works are well drawn and expressed, and possess great merit. She was ap- pointed engraver to Queen Caroline in 1 785, She engraved Correggio's * Marriage of St. Catherine/ and Reynold's i Death of Cardinal Beaufort.' She died in Pimlico, June 10, 1814, in her 54th year, and was buried in St. JVlarylebone Church, where there is a tablet to her memory with some lines by Hay ley. She was singularly modest and retired in her habits, and was highly esteemed.

WATSON, Thomas, engraver. Was born in London, 1743, and was apprenticed to an engraver on plate. He gave early proofs of talent, practising in the dot man- ner, but his later and best works are in mezzo-tint. In this manner he engraved the * Windsor Beauties/ after Kneller, many fine portraits after Reynolds, which constitute nis most esteemed works, and also after West, Nathaniel Dance, and others. He exhibited at the Spring Gar- dens' Rooms in 1775 and several following years. For a while he kept a print shop in Bond Street with W. Dickenson. Some fine plates after Rembrandt and Correggio by him are greatly valued. He died in 1781, at Bristol, and was buried there.

WATSON, John Burgess, architect. Practised in London with some repute, and was a good draftsman. He built the Gothic church at Staines in 1820. He was a member of the Institute of British Architects. Died in 1847.

WATSON, John, portrait painter. Was born in Scotland in 1685, and studied in the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh. He emigrated to New Jersey in 1715, and is said to have been the first painier who settled in America, and, though a very in- different painter, to have amassed a pro- perty by the practice of his art. He paid one visit to his native country, and took back with him a collection of pictures. He died in America, August 22, 1768.

WATSON, Musgravb Lewthwaite, sculptor. Was born at Hawkesdale, near Carlisle, 1804, the son of a small independ- ent yeoman. At the age of 17 he was articled to a solicitor at Carlisle; but he

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