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c Remarks upon Wayside Chapels ; ' in 1847, ' History of the Architecture of the Abbey Church of St Alban.' He died at Rock- ingham Row. New Kent Road, December 6, 1851, aged 81.

BUCKSHORN, Joseph, drapery and portrait painter. Born in the Nether- lands. He settled in England in 1670; and was the pupil and assistant of Lely, painting his draperies and accessories, and copying his works with great skill. He also painted portraits, imitating Leljr's manner, with much ability. He died in London in his 35th year, and was buried in St. Martin's Churchyard. Bardwell, in his work on painting (1756), says, ' Buckshorn was one of the last good copyers we have had in England.' The copy of ' The Staf- ford Family/ at Wentworth Castle, after Vandyke, is by him.

B V DD, George, portrait and landscape painter. He was Dred a hosier, but left that business and became a teacher of drawing. He also painted landscapes, still-life, and portraits. A portrait by nim of the so-called ' Patriotic Shoemaker.' who maintained the right of way through Bushey Park, was mezzo-tinted by Mc Ardell in 1756. A painting by him is also en-

E raved, representing the execution of ords Balmeriuo and Kilmarnock in 1746, with a background of the Tower and sur- rounding buildings, and the whole picture crowded by a dense mass of small figures.

BULL, Samuel, medallist. Was en- graver to the Mint in the reigns of Anne and of George I.

• BUNBURY, Henry William, ama- teur. He was the second son of the Rev. Sir W. H. Bunbury, Bt., of Mildenhall. Suffolk, and was born in 1750. Educated at St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, he was a good classic scholar. He was colonel of the West Suffolk Militia, and was in 1787 appointed one of the Duke of York's equerries, and constantly attended him at Court. Early distinguished by his taste for drawing, he became celebrated as a caricaturist, and was occasionally an honorary exhibitor at the Royal Academy. His drawings are marked examples of harmless humour. His ' Long Minuet at Bath/ 'Propagation of a Lie/ 'Barber's Shop/ 'Country Club/ 'Hints to bad Horsemen/ and ' Academy for gi own Horse- men/ are among his best productions. He made 40 drawings illustrative of Shake- speare, which were engraved by Bartolozzi and others, and Macklin's ' Poets ; ' but his art was essentially caricature, and his higher attempts were weak sentimentalities only. He was an accomplished performer in private theatricals, and wrote an epilogue in verse spoken by Mrs. Jordan in 1791. Died at Keswick, May 7, 1811.

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mental painter. An obscure painter of landscapes, still-life, candle-light effects, and figures for the decoration of clocks, giving to them mechanical movement. He exhibited in the Free Society of Artists from 1766 to 1769, and is supposed to have died soon after.

BUNKING, James Bunstone, archi- tect. Born October 9, 1802. He was the son of a surveyor in London, was self- taught, and began early in life to practise on his own account. He was fortunate, on the commencement of his career, in gaining the appointment of surveyor to the Foundling Hospital Estates. He first ex- hibited at the Royal Academy in 1819, and continued to be an. occasional exhibitor. In 1837 he gained, in competition, the erection of the City of London School In 1839 he was appointed surveyor to the City Cemetery Company, and afterwards to several other institutions. In 1843 he gained the lucrative office of architect to the Corporation of London, ' clerk of city works/ and during the 20 years he held the appointment he carried out many extensive improvements. Of his principal works may oe named — the City School, the Orphan School, Billingsgate Market, the Coal Exchange, the City Prison, Hol-> loway, Islington Cattle Market, Rogers' Almshouses, Brixton; the City Lunatic Asylum. He had amassed a considerable property, and died November 2, 1863.

!dURCH, Edward, R.A., sculptor and . medallist. He was born in London, and originally studied in the St. Martin's Lane Schools. In 1769 he was admitted a stu- dent of the Royal Academy, where he became noted for the great delicacy, truth, and finish shown in his studies. He exhi- bited at Spring Gardens, in 1765, ' Heads from the Antique/ and first at the Academy in 1770 ; and from that time continued a contributor of models in wax, casts from gems, intaglios, classical heads, and por- traits in wax. He was elected an associate of the Academy in 1770 and a full member in 1771, and was afterwards appointed librarian. As a gem engraver he was unrivalled in his day. Early in his career he married a lady of great beauty, and from that time he devoted himself to miniature painting, and exhibited for the first time a miniature enamel in 1792. He painted a portrait of Mrs. Fitzherbert, the last for which she sat; and of Mary, Duchess of Gloucester. George III. sat to him for a bust. He lived to an advanced age, became nearly blind, and died at Brompton sometime before 1840.

BURCHETT, Richard, subject painter, and teacher of art, was born at Brighton, Jan. 30, 1815. He studied drawing in the classes of the Birkbeck Mechanics' Institution, in Chancery Lane, and after-

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