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BARTHOLOMEW, Alfbed, architect. Was born in Clerkenwell, March 28, 1801. Showing an early taste for architecture, he was placed under an architect, but devoted himself to the literature of the profession. He published ' Specifications for Practical Architecture ; ' ' Hints relative to the Con- struction of Fire-proof Buildings :' a ' Cy- clopaedia of the Metropolitan Buildings Act ;' and was the editor of ' The Builder' on its commencement. He died January 2 1845. ' BARTHOLOMEW, Anne Charlotte, flower painter. Born March 28, 1800. at Loddon, Norfolk. In 1827 she marriea Mr. Tunbull, a musical composer, who died in 1838, and under this name she published — 1825, ' It's only my Aunt/ a farce ; and in 1840, 'The Song of Azreal,' and other poems. She first exhibited miniature por- traits at the Royal Academy in 1829, and continued for several years as an exhibitor of miniatures. In 1840 she married Mr. V. Bartholomew, a flower painter, and then occasionally exhibited flowers or fruit ; but her chief works were miniatures for brooches and jewellery. She painted also some miniatures in character. Her last exhibited works, in 1856 and 1857, were flowers and fruit. She died in Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place, August 18, 1862, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. • BARTLETT, William Henry, topo- graphical landscape painter. Born at Kentish Town, March 26, 1809. In 1823 he was articled to Mr. John Britton, whose architectural publications are well known, and accompanied him on his tour when collecting the materials for his ' Picturesque Antiquities of English Cities.' He soon made great progress in drawing, and was employed in sketching views and buildings in Essex, Kent, Bedford, Wilts, and other counties. He afterwards made drawings of many churches in Bristol, Gloucester, and Hereford. In 1829 he was engaged in making drawings of Fountains, Roche, Rievaulx, and other abbeys. Then he travelled on the Continent, and in 1834-35 extended his journeys to the East, explor- ing, in a succession of visits up to 1852, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Tur- key, and the Arabian Deserts. He also took four voyages to America. In these journeys he made numerous sketches and drawings, above 1000 of which have been published, in addition to those comprised in the following works — * Walks about Jeru-

Route/ 1850; * Footsteps of our Lord/ 1851 ; * Pictures from Sicily,' 1852 ; and tion of his indefatigable labours, he had started again for the East, when, on his 30
 * The Pilgrim Fathers/ 1853. In prosecu-

passage from Malta to Marseilles, he was suddenly attacked by illness, and died on board, September 13, 1854. His drawings were sold by auction at Messrs. Sotheby^s in the following January.

BARTOLOZZI, Francesco, R.A., en- graver. W&s the son of a goldsmith in Florence, and born there September 21, 1725. He studied drawing under a master in Florence, and then became the pupil of Joseph Wagner at Venice, by whom he was taught engraving. He afterwards went to Rome, where he established his reputation by his plates from designs for the ' Life of St. Vitus ' and the engraved portraits for an edition of ' Vasaii.' Dalton, the libra- rian of George III., who was travelling in Italy, engaged him to engrave a series of Guercino 9 s drawings and on the completion of this work induced him to come to Eng- land, where he arrived in 1764, and was soon after admitted a member of the Incor- porated Society of Artists and appointed engraver to the king, with a salary of 3001. a year. He was thus brought into rivalry with Robert Strange, who had lost the long's favour ; and stimulated by this he produced his fine plate of * Clytie/ after Caracci, followed by his * Virgin and Child/ after Carlo Dolci. His skill in drawing the figure and knowledge of the principles of painting were unequalled, and on the estab- lishment of the Aoyal Academy in 1768, he was nominated a member. As an en- graver, he was a complete master of his art, and the diploma of the Royal Academy, engraved by him, is unrivalled ; this, with the works mentioned above, the ' Venus and Satyr,' after Luca Giordano ; the ' Silence,' after Caracci; and the portraits of Lord Clive and Lord Thurlow, are talented speci- mens of his art and finest manner. In his boyhood he formed a friendship with Ci- priani, R. A., which continued through life, and he became the best engraver of the works of his friend. He engraved several fine plates for Alderman Boydell. He was not less excellent in his lighter productions, which were rapidly executed, than in his exquisitely-finished plates — both bore evi- dence of character, sweetness, and beauty, while both equally imitated the spirit of the originals. Laborious, working early and late, he was generous and profuse in spending his gains, but he was without

{>rudence, and made no provision for the atter days. His difficulties drove him to expedients to meet his expenses. The chalk manner offered him facilities, and his studio became a mere manufactory of this class of art ; plates were executed by many hands under his directions, which received only some finishing touches by him ; and his art was further vitiated and his talents wasted by the trifling class of works thus produced. In 1802 he accepted