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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
- BUCKLER, John Chesel, topogra-
phical draftsman. Born at Culbourne,
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,
