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England on the taking of Utrecht by Louis XIV., and settled at Oxford. He engraved the first Oxford almanack, 1676, and the greater part for the first 47 years. He drew and engraved the illustrations for Dr. Plot's < History of Staffordshire,' 1686, and for Br. White Kenett's * History of Ambroseden,, and engraved many portraits. He worked almost wholly with the graver, and with great neatness, but in a dry, stiff manner.

BURKE, Thomas, engraver. Born in Dublin 1749. Was pupil of Dixon, the mezzo-tint engraver, and practised both in that and in the chalk manner. He principally engraved after contemporary painters, and his works were highly es- teemed. Among his best are those after Angelica Kauffmann, R. A. : * Telemachusat the Spartan Court/ 1778. and 'Andromache at Hector's Grave; ' * The Battle of Agin- eourt/ after Mortimer; * The Nightmare/ after Fuseli, R. A., 1783; and 'Lord North/ after Dance, R.A. He died in London, December 31. 1815.

BURLINGTON, Richard Boyle, Earl of, amateur. Born April 25, 1695. He early and enthusiastically studied archi- tecture. At the age of 20 he visited Rome, and was distinguished for his genius ana the zeal he displayed in the patronage of art, as well as for the sums he expended on publications more particularly tending to the improvement of architecture. The Bath-house at Chiswick. commenced about 1717, was his first work. The facade of Burlington House, Piccadilly, and the colonnade within the court, both now pulled down, were said to have been from Lis own designs, though the centre gate- way, the principal feature in the facade. is described in the * Vitruvius Britannicus* as designed by Colin Campbell. He built in 1729 an Italian villa at Chiswick, in imitation of a Palladian design, to which James Wyatt added two wings; also the dormitory of the Westminster School; the Assembly Rooms at York — two large, handsome rooms, in the Corinthian order, without any variety in form, and of very inconvenient access. Lord Harrington s house at Petersham; the Duke of Rich- mond's house at Whitehall, which occupied the site of Richmond Terrace; and General Wade's house in Cork Street, Saville Row, were also designed by him. Lord Chester- field wittily said of this house, which was not celebrated for its interior arrangements, that 'as the owner could not live in it with comfort, he had better take a house opposite and look at it.' He died December 4*1753.

BURLOWE, Henry Bbhnes, sculptor. Was the brother of Behnes, the sculptor, and following the same art took the name of Burlowe, as distinctive. He exhibited

busts at the Academy in 1831-32-33. He afterwards went to Rome, where he was much employed as a bust modeller. On the memorable outbreak of cholera he re- solved to take his chance in the city, and was found in his solitary lodgings, unat- tended, unassisted, and dying, by a kind artist friend, whose hurriedly sought help was all too late. He died of that terrible scourge in August 1837. He was original in his art and of much promise.

BURMAN, Thomas, sculptor. Prac- tised in the reign of Charles II. Did not attain any excellence, and is chiefly known as the master of Bushnell. He died March 17, 1673-74, aged 56, and was buried at St. Martin-in-the- Fields.

BURN, William, architect. He was born in Edinburgh, December 20, 1789. He was the son of a builder and surveyor, who sent him to London in 1808, as a pupil of Sir Robert Smirke. Returning to Scotland, his earliest commission of any importance was the Custom House at Greenock. He settled in Edinburgh, and devoting himself to domestic architecture, became reputed for the comfort and con- venience of his designs. After 28 years' practice there, his connections gradually extended to England, and he came to re- side in London in 1844. During a long career he executed a long list of works in various styles of art, in both England and Scotland, including several churches, hos- pitals, and county buildings, the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, and the residence of the Duke of Buccleugh at Whitehall, one of his last works. He died in London, February 15, 1870, and was buried in the Kensal Green Cemetery.

BURNET, John. F.R.S., engraver and painter. He was Dorn near Edinburgh, March 20, 1784; the son of the surveyor- general of excise for Scotland. It has been said that he was descended from a brother of Bishop Burnet, but this is

§ roved to be an error. A passion for rawing led to his apprenticeship to Robert Scott, a landscape engraver, practising in Edinburgh, and he improved nimself as a student in the Trustees' Academy. Here his tastes led him to painting, and incited by the success of his friend and fellow- student Wilkie, he worked early and late during his apprentice years, and gained a knowledge of the figure; and then seeking distinction in a wider field, having com- pleted his term of apprenticeship? he set out in a Leith smack for London m 1806, and arriving with only a few shillings in his j)ocket, he was warmly received by Wilkie. He first found employment as an engraver on the illustrations for Britton ana Braylev's * England and Wales,' Mrs. Inchbald's r British Theatre,' and Cooke's/ ' Novelists.'

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