Jate Robert Foulis, to be mafter of his Academy of Design at Glasgow. But this Dictionary is not a book to fatisfy curiofity. If our conjecture as to the perfon be right, Aveline quitted that ftation, and came afterwards to refide in London. He had very confiderable abilities in his way. He drew very cor rectly, and with a freedom and rapidity that was aftonishing. We have never feen any artist that could in any degree approach him in that power. He was idle, and loved company too much, but had no vicious habits. If it be the fame, he was a long time engaged in engraving from the picture of the late Archibald Duke of Argyle, by Ramfey, in the town-hall of Glafgow. Whether it was that he difliked engraving portrait, or that the picture was not of merit enough to pleafe him, we know not; but certain it is, that the work hung on for an immenfe time, and we fufpect the plate never was finished or published. Our author here, as indeed through the whole book, has his phrafes cut and dry for the occafion; for example: "His drawing of the human figure was rather manner'd than correct, and "his extremities appear to be much neg"lected." Such is the unmeaning naufeous cant perpetually uttered by the mob of connoiffeurs.

GEORGE BARRETT. Of this eminent landscape painter all we are told is, that he died, and was member of the Royal Academy. He did not even flouib. We think it is the only article to which that word is not annexed. Barrett was born in Dublin; was the fon of a manufacturing clothier; came to London about 18 or 20 years ago, and never, we believe, vifited his native country afterwards.

THOMAS BEARD. He is afferted to have been of Ireland. We cannot, from the ftrictest enquiries, find any evidence of that fact. His prints, all that we have seen, were published in London.

BOUTTATS. There was a painter of this name here fome years ago. He was employed in repairing the painted walls and cielings at Greenwich.. His name is not mentioned, though we have heard he published fome etchings. However, of this we are not certain.

BOTHS. John Both is here faid to have been drowned in Venice; but, according to Bafan, it was Andrew Both. We have not obferved the cypher. AB. on the etchings attributed to this mafter;

blications.

neither is it to be found in Mr. Chrift's Monograms. The etchings of the Five Senfes have "A. Both f." on the first plate, but in the remainder of the fet he is only ftiled inventor. Thefe etchings are excellent in the low dirty style.

JOHN BROOKS, not JOHN VAN BROOKS. This artift, or rather dealer, was a native of Dublin, and kept a print-fhop there for many years. It is pofitively faid, he never wrought on a plate himfelf, but had the merit of bringing up Mac Ardell, Houston, and Spooner; and all the prints published under his name were certainly the works of one or other of thefe artists, who were then his apprentices. Brooks, however, was a man of fome taste and ingenuity, and always engaging in projects. Failing in Dublin, he was obliged to go to England, and carried along with him his three refpectable apprentices, and that was the origin and occa fion of their vifiting England. Brooks was for fome time at Birmingham, or Stafford, and is faid to have been the inventor of the method of fixing print impreffions on the Flint-ware, practifed ever fince. The print of Hugh Boulter, Primate, Brooks fecit, the figure fitting, half-length, Mac Ardell did the head from a picture by Bindon; the remainder he and his mafter borrowed from a print of the Bishop of Peterborough *.

HENRY BRYER. No particulars, though they might have fo cafily been procured.

BURKE. An artist of greatest merit, and his name is totally omitted. He is a native of Ireland.- -Captain BAILLIE and Mr. BUNBURY, though both fo excellent, are omitted alfo. The former is a native of Ireland, and a credit to the country. It does not seem to be contrary to the plan of the writer to mention living artifts.-His conjecture, that the fet of prints of Cupid ana Pfyche were not by Marc. Antonis, but by B. Beham, fhews fome cleverness and fagacity; but he does not account for the letters A. V. on one or two of the plates. There are two publications of thefe prints. The fecond one feems in part the original plates, and in others, where probably fome plates had been loft, copies of the original, for the prints

The whole-length of Primate Hoadly, with the beggars at his feet, though Breaks fecit, was indubitably the entire work of Mac Ardell. Many, yet living, faw him at the plate during the whole operation.

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are reverfed. We are poffeffed of this fecond fet, picked up, many years ago, amongst the rubbish of an old collection at Venice. Beham's print of the Landfcape and Phoenix Neft is bound with them, which we never could account for before, poffibly to fhew that he was the engraver of the fecond publication. Thefe prints are in the fevere fimple ftyle of the early mafters; the figures are rather fhort, and the limbs clumfy, yet not deftitute of grace, and they may furnish useful hints to painters.

CANAL, CANALETTO, CANALE. Of these artists nothing; and we doubt he confounds them.

C. CORBUTT. This artift, we are well affured, changed his name; on what account, we are not informed. It originally was R. Purcell, or Purcille. He was a native of Ireland, and employed many years by Michael Hanbury, a print-feller in Dublin, and who alfo did a few etchings. The Jewish Bride, after Rembrandt, is a good print. A female head, title " Jenny Cameron, "Purcell fecit," is in reality taken from a portrait of Mrs. Woffington, by Latham. King William at the fiege of Namur, after Wyck, by Mr. Purcell, was done for William Wilkinson, another printfeller in Dublin. It is a copy from a print by Faber, in 1743.-Quære bene was another fignature uied by this artift to fome of his prints.

Under the letter D, DICKSON, a very excellent artift is omitted. He was born in Dublin.

EXSHAW. He is faid to be a native of Holland. The fact is, he was a native of Ireland. His name was Charles Exfhaw, and he was pupil to Francis Bindon, painter. The prefent Alderman Exfhaw, of Dublin, is nephew to Charles Exfhaw. This artift lived fome time in Amfterdam, and published fome of his etchings there, which perhaps gave rife to the fuppofition of his, being a Dutchman.

MICHAEL FORD. This artist was

by no means excellent *. He kept a print-fhop many years in Dublin, in which city he was born. He was ori

*The author of the "Biographical Anec"dotes of Hogarth," p. 434, mentions a portrait of Lord Boyne by Ford, which he

calls "the beft mezzotinto that Ireland has

"hitherto produced;" and adds, that "the "plate afterwards fell into the hands of one "Andrew Miller, who effaced the name of "Ford, and substituted his own.” EDIT.

GENT. MAG. May, 1786.

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ginally bred a painter, and was feveral years abroad, in France and Italy. His beft print feems to be the mezzotinto. of Cromwell and Lambert together, dated 1745.

THOMAS FRYE. It should be added, that he also was a native of Ireland.

REMBRANDT GERRETSZ. It is fingular, that, in the enumeration of his chief works, one of his most capital etchings is omitted-the Descent from the Crofs.

HEN. GOLTZIUS. You are cautioned to take great care not to pur chafe the copies of his fet of prints of the Life of Chrift; but not one mark or circumftance defcribed, by which they might be diftinguifhed, in cafe you should not have the two fets to compare with each other.

Jos. GOUPY.

What a wretched

article is here! and yet how interefting it might eafily have been made by a little pains and enquiry in London.

Thefe articles have been taken up at random; the remainder, throughout the volume, are equally imperfect; but the above are fufficient to fhew that we do not blame without just cause. When this writer attempts to give the character of performances, he never fails in the due terms of art, thus, "defign

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drawing correct but manner'd-extre"mities marked, or not marked-ex"tremities heavy-heads fpirited-in"correct expreffives freedom"chaftnefs of outline," &c.-The cu rious in France, Germany, and Holland, will be miferably difappointed with this Dictionary; and from fuch compilations as these it is, that we are forced to exclaim, From book manufacturers may induftrious criticism deliver us! DILIGENS.

This volume, we may add, is em bellifhed with fix beautiful prints; and the "Effay on the Art of Engraving" is plainly the production of a master.

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THIS publication is accompanied with a preface, fetting forth, that the Book of Common Prayer, as ufed in England, has long been complained of, as containing many things that favoured too much of Popery; and that now the American States were feparated from Great Britain, they had taken the opportunity of publishing a form free from thofe exceptions that fome of the moft eminent Divines of the Church of EngJand had wished to fee fome alteration in.-They then acknowledge their obligation to Mr. Lir df y, and other Divines, whofe plans they have adopted, to form this Book of Common Prayer.

The moft ftriking particulars are, all the Prayers are of the Unitarian ftamp, and Chrift the Saviour of the world is no where mentioned but as the Son of GOD and the Mediator. The Litany is confequently much fhortened,,and adapted to the prefent Reigning Powers and their fate of Government, infead of King and Parliament.-Chriftmasday is termed the "birth-day of Chrift." Ath-Wednesday much fhortened-and curfes and bleffings are left out every where.The office of Matrimony is fhortened, and the word "obey" is left out in the woman's part.. -The Lord's Prayer is like Mr. Lindley's, "Our "Father, who art in Heaven;"-and, in the Belief, all the part about defcending into Hell is left out.-In the ceremony of Baptifm the child is to have three or more fponfors from the parents and relations of the family, but no godfather or godmother, and no figning

with the crofs.-The Gloria Patri is left out, and fome doxologies introduced, to be ufed inftead of it.-In the Pfalms there are particular parts prioted in Italics, which, the Editor lays, may be left out in public worship, as they are rather apt to be mifanderftood, for want of explanation to common readers.-There are fome other alterations, particularly where ever the

Chriftian fyftem of atonement is men. tioned, and the adoration or worship of the fecond perfon in the Trinity.-The Athanafian Creed is left out, and the Abfolution alfo.

It is printed in crown octavo, upon a large letter, and much thinner, and more of a pocket-fize, than the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. The only name to all this new fyftem, or new form of worship, for fuch an extenfive country, that appears, is that of Mr. E, printer in Boston.

66. An Efay towards illuftrating the ancient Hiftory of the Britannic Iles. By C. Vallancey, LL. D. 800.

THE object of this publication, which is intended as a Preface to a Vindication of the Ancient Hiftory of Ireland, is, to efìablifh the authority of the ancient Irish MSS.; and, by exploring the fources of the language, to afcertain the origin of the people. We have heard that the fpecimen of the Punic language, which is preferved in Plautus, bears a near affinity to the ancient Irish: but the truth of this affertion we do not pretend to determine.

The writer feems in every refpe& qualified for the task he has undertaken; but the mode of research which he has adopted has led many into error. We wish him better fuccefs; and that he may pass with fafety through a wildernefs where fo many have been led astray.

67. The Journal of William Dowfing, of Stratford, Parliamentary Vifitor, appointed urder a Warrant from the Earl of Manchefter, for demolibing the fuperftitious Pic tures and Ornaments of Churches, &c. within the County of Suffolk, in the Years 16431644.--Woodbridge: Printed by and for R. Loder. 4to.

IT gives us pleafure to announce this little publication of an ingenious pro. lament the deteftable fanaticifm which vincial printer. However deeply we occafioned the original Journal, it is a melancholy fatisfaction to perufe thefe

records of devaftation.

"The original MS. (fays the modeft Editor) was fold, together with the library of Samuel Dowfing, fon of the Vifitor, to the Strand, London, in 1704. At that time Mr. Hufe, book feller, at Exeter 'Change, in the copy was tranfcribed, with the coufent of Mr. Hufe, from which the prefent publi cation was drawn. The Editors of "The "Suffolk Traveller," 2d ed. p. 39, mention,

that