LUND, JOHN (fl. 1785), humorous poet, of Pontefract, is said to have been a barber in that town, whose partial historian declares that his satires ‘would not disgrace the pen of a Churchill’ (Boothroyd, Hist. of Pontefract, p. 495). Lund wrote:
- ‘A Collection of Original Tales in Verse, in the manner of Prior; to which is added a Second Edition of Ducks and Pease, or the Newcastle Rider; together with the above story in a Farce of one act, as it was performed at the Theatre in Pontefract with great applause,’ London, 1777. The story is rudimentary, being that of a rider (i.e. bagman) who, when airing himself as a person of quality, is suddenly confronted by his master; but it proved extremely popular, and passed through numerous editions down to 1838. The poem was reprinted in ‘Richardson's Table Book, 1843; Legendary Division,’ i. 169.
- ‘A Collection of Oddities in Prose and Verse, Serious and Comical, by a very Odd Author,’ Doncaster, 1779. Some of the shorter pieces are amusing. ‘In regard to obscenity,’ says the author, ‘things of that nature in what I published were put in at the desire of some particular friends.’
[Hotten's Handbook of Topography; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. p. 1413; Notes and Queries, 3rd ser. v. 282–3; Baker's Biograph. Britt., 1812, i. 464; Lund's works in Brit. Mus. Lib., including as many as seven different editions of ‘Ducks and Pease.’]
LUNDGREN, EGRON SELLIF (1815–1875), water-colour painter, born at Stockholm in Sweden on 18 Dec. 1815, was educated to be an engineer. Having a taste for art, he studied first in the academy at Stockholm, and afterwards in Paris, where he worked for a time under Léon Cogniet. He then travelled in Switzerland and Italy, devoting himself to painting in water-colours. While on the continent he made the acquaintance of John Phillip, R.A. [q. v.], and from 1849 to 1852 resided at Seville. On his return to England the queen gave him commissions for some ceremonial pictures and other subjects. On the outbreak of the Indian mutiny in 1857 Lundgren was sent, at the expense of Mr. Agnew, to accompany Sir Colin Campbell's relief expedition on the campaign in Oudh. He made a series of about five hundred sketches on the spot, including numerous portraits. These sketches were exhibited on his return, and purchased by Samuel Mendel of Manley Hall, Staffordshire, and after the latter's death were sold by auction at Christie's on 16 April 1875. Lundgren was elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours in 1864, and a full member in 1865. He subsequently made extensive tours abroad, and finally settled in Sweden. The king of Sweden made him a knight of the order of Gustavus Vasa in 1861, and ten years later he paid a short visit to England. He died at Stockholm on 12 Dec. 1875. There are two pictures by him, of ‘San Vitale, Ravenna,’ and ‘The Library, Siena,’ in the National Museum at Stockholm. A picture of ‘The Relief of Lucknow’ was painted by Thomas Jones Barker [q. v.] (engraved by C. G. Lewis), from Lundgren's sketches, and is now in the Corporation Galleries at Glasgow (Cat. of Victorian Exhibition, 1891–2, No. 147). Lundgren published a series of illustrations to ‘Old Swedish Fairy Tales’ in 1875, and in 1870 some extracts from his travelling diaries, including ‘Letters from Spain and Italy’ and ‘Letters from India.’ His drawings were much esteemed for richness of colour.
[Seubert's Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Times, 14 April 1875; information from George Scharf, esq., C.B., F.S.A.]
LUNDIE, JOHN (d. 1652?), poet, was elected a regent in King's College, Aberdeen, in 1626, was humanist in 1629 (Fasti Aberd. lxxxiv.), and was advanced in 1631 to be professor of humanity in the university of Aberdeen. This was, at least, his official style, though Gordon says he was ‘raither maister of the grammar schoole.’ In November 1638 he represented his university at the general assembly at Glasgow (Bailie, Correspondence, Bannatyne Club, i. 135, 169), having already in July secretly subscribed the covenant, but refused the king's covenant of October 1638. He appears to have received small powers from the university, ‘for if,’ says Gordon, ‘they meant him a voice ther, they would have sent a divyne, not a grammarier.’ Getting wind that he was a covenanter, however, the assembly gave him that power which the university of Aberdeen withheld, with the result that he exceeded his powers, and got into trouble on his return with the Aberdeen authorities, to whom he subsequently ‘pleaded guiltie and confessed his error’ ({{sc|Spalding}, Hist.)
According to Charters (Cat. of Scotish Writers) Lundie wrote ‘very many poems and the comedie of the 12 patricians in the Latin tongue.’ Besides the ‘Oratio Eucharistica et encomiastica in benevolos Vniversitatis Aberdonenses benefactores fautores et patrones … habita xxvii. Jul.
