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Rock/ * The Desolate Glen.' He died at Edinburgh,:May 8, 1867.

BROWNOVER, T., portrait painter. He practised about the oeginning of the 18th century. A portrait of Locke by him is engraved.

BRUCE, Sir William, Bart., architect. Was born in Scotland ; the second son of the third Baron of Blairhill. He was, in 1671, his Majesty's surveyor and master of the king's works, and enjoyed a high reputation. He was engaged on the re- storation of Holyrood Palace after the fire of 1674. He built Hopetoun House, 1698- 1702— a noble mansion, engraved in the 'Vitruvius Britannicus/ the elevation showing both originality and taste. He died 1710.

BRYER, Henry, engraver. He was a pupil of W. Wynne Ryland, and after- wards entered into partnership with him in the shop opened on Cornhill. He re- ceived, in 1762, the Society of Arts' pre- mium for a plate—* Mars discovered with Venus by Vulcan ;' but his engraved works are few — some plates after Angelica Kauff- mann and a 'Bacchus and Ariadne.' He died 1799.

BUBB, J. G., sculptor. The monu- ment to William Pitt in the Guildhall, erected 1813, is by him. He carved the sculptures for the front of the Custom House, and modelled the terra cotta basso- rilievo in the Haymarket front of the Opera House. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1831, 'A Nymph leaving the Bath ;' and there are several busts by him.

BUCHAN, Henry David Stewart, Earl of, amateur. Born 1699. He was fond of engraving. There is a south view of the cathedral at Icolmkill in aqua-tint by him, dated 1761 ; and among his later works are some portraits. These attempts are respectable. He died December 1,

1767.

BUCK, Adam, portrait painter. Born in Cork. Believed to have been self- taught, but is said to have studied under Minasi. He practised for several years in Dublin, and first exhibited at the Academy in 1795, contributing two marine drawings ; but his subsequent works were all por- traits, and he continued an exhibitor, with little intermission, to 1833, when he ap- pears for the last time. His portraits were chiefly drawn ? small size, in wax crayons, and slightly tinted ; but he also painted in oil and miniature. His portraits evince no power^ of grouping or composition, are mostly in profile, and hard and without feeling. He published, in 1811, a collec- tion of 100 Greek vases, drawn and en- f raved from the originals by himself. His rother, Frederick Buck, practised at the same time as a miniature painter in Cork.

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• BUCK, Samuel, engraver and topo- graphical draftsman. Drew and en- graved a very large number of views, con- sisting of churches, abbeys, castles, and other ruins; also views of the principal towns in England and Wales, with a large plate of London and Westminster. His works were finished with the graver in a stiff manner; the backgrounds slightly etched ; his drawings hasty and slight ; but in some few instances, elaborately finished with pen and ink, and tinted. He exhi- bited drawings at the Spring Gardens Exhibitions in 1768, 1774-75, and two topographical views at the Academy in 1775. He was in his latter days in dis- tress, and a liberal subscription was made U^qJ, for him ; but he died a few months after, / on August 17, 1779, aged 83. He was buried in St. Clement's Churchyard, Strand. His works are known as ' Buck's Views,' and are records of places long since destroyed ; they are in three volumes, and comprise 420 views of noted ruins in Eng- land and Wales.

• BUCK, Nathaniel, engraver. Brother to the foregoing Samuel Buck, and his partner and assistant in his topographical ,- works. Died many years before him. * t^jO phical draftsman. Born at Culbourne,
 * BUCKLER, John Chesel, topogra-

Isle of White, November 30, 1770. He was articled to an architect and surveyor in Southwark, and on the expiration of his articles commenced business for him- self, and practised for some years as an architect ; but is chiefly known as a topo- graphical draftsman. In 1797 he published 1 two aqua-tint engravings of Magdalen College. Oxford, and in 1729 a soutn-east -c* * 1 [ view of Lincoln Minster; and in these beginnings originated his laborious and valuable work — * The English Cathedrals/ and contemporaneously the finest of our collegiate and abbey churches. He was confirmed in this pursuit by a commission from Sir Richara Colt Hoare to make drawings of the churches and other ancient buildings in Wiltshire ; and in the latter part of his life he was similarly employed by antiquarians in Buckinghamshire, York- shire, Oxfordshire, and Hertfordshire. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, from 1796 to 1840, drawings of cathedrals and colleges, chiefly of an antiquarian charac- ter ; and from 1815 to 1820 drawings of the same class with the Water-Colour Society. He published, in 1809, aqua-tint engravings from his drawings of some of the chief cathedrals and abbey churches ; in 1822, his * Views of the Cathedral Churches in England ; ' in 1826, ' Views of Eaton Hall, Cheshire;' in 1827, ' Sixty Views of Endowed Grammar Schools ; ' in 1828, * Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Palace at Eltham ; ' in 1843,