were after the designs of Stothard, and he also engraved a large portion of the 'Canterbury Pilgrims," which Mr. Heath completed. But the works that brought Mr. Engleheart more prominently before the public were from the pictures and drawings of Mr. Richard Cook, the Academician. These were altogether of a higher character, and were more finished than any of his preceding engravings, especially the "Castle," a subject from Scott's "Lady of the Lake," which was justly considered one of the finest bookplates ever produced in England.

His next employer was Mr. Smirke, who was engaged by Cadell and Davis, the booksellers, to furnish designs for works of their publishing. Mr. Engleheart engraved nearly thirty plates for their edition of "Don Quixote." Sir David Wilkie afterwards enlisted his services to engrave his "Duncan Gray," and the "Only Daughter," published by Alderman Moon. His last work was from Hilton's fine picture in the National Gallery, "Serena rescued by Sir Calepine, the Red Cross Knight," the engraving of which must be regarded as his most important production. Among his more pleasing engravings on a small scale may be ranked his contributions to the various annuals which must now be classed with the "bygones."-Art Journal.

MR. ABRAHAM WIVELL. March 29. At Birmingham, in his 63rd year, Mr. Abraham Wivell.

This well-known portrait-painter was born on the 9th of July, 1786, in the parish of Marylebone, London. His father, a tradesman at Launceston in Cornwall, being unfortunate in business, removed with his family to London a year before the birth of his only son, and died shortly afterwards, leaving his widow and four children in penury. Young Wivell, at the age of six years, was hired as a farmer's boy; his time being occupied in feeding cattle, and driving away the crows from the corn. In this place he remained for two years, and then returned home to his mother, who was his sole instructress in reading and writing until she was enabled to send him to the Marylebone School of Industry, where he was employed in heading pins and pointing needles, and afterwards in the more profitable occupation of making boots and shoes. About this time his mother became housekeeper to a Mrs. Smith, whose walls were decorated with engravings of the best masters, the sight of which first created a taste for the Arts in the boy. At the age of nine he entered the service of Mr. Pointing, a housepainter, where he

remained eight months. In 1799 he was apprenticed for seven years to Mr. Osborne, a peruke-maker and hair-dresser, and served the entire time with him. He subsequently commenced on his own account in the same business, to which he added that of a miniature-painter in watercolours, specimens of which were placed in his window interspersed with blocks and wigs. These attempts, rude as they were, gained him the friendship of Nollekens and Northcote, who wished him to devote all his attention to the Arts; "for," said Northcote, "success is sure.' But the young artist, having married in 1810, found that he could not, without injuring his rising family, devote himself exclusively to the Arts; so he still continued his business of peruke-making and hairdressing, although he took every advantage of his intimacy with the above named artists to frequent their studios as often as possible. At the time of the Cato Street Conspiracy, an acquaintance with one of the keepers of Clerkenwell prison obtained him an interview with Thistlewood and the other State prisoners, so notorious at that period; they all sat to him, and their portraits were much in request. Mr. now Alderman Kelly, the publisher, engaged him to take them again when on their trial at the Old Bailey. Whilst thus employed he had the good fortune to meet Mr. John Cordy, who, admiring the spirited likenesses of the Conspirators, called upon him the next day, and ever afterwards materially advanced his interests. Mr. Cordy engaged him to paint a portrait of Miss Stephens, the vocalist, and advanced him for that purpose the sum of 407.; but after several negotiations the lady refused to finish the sittings. In 1820 Mr. Wivell sketched a portrait of Queen Caroline, at the balcony where she appeared to receive the congratulations of the public. This sketch was so admired, that it was shown to the Queen by a gentleman of her household, when she expressed her wish to have her portrait completed, and sat for it accordingly. The Queen's Trial coming on immediately afterwards in the House of Lords, Mr. Kelly engaged our now rising artist to draw portraits of the principal personages on the trial for a work then publishing; but Mr. Wivell had no means of entering the House, which was crowded with the rank and fashion of the day. In this dilemma, and when hovering about the entrance of the House of Lords, he happened to recognise an acquaintance in a barrister's clerk, who could not resist the offer of the artist to paint the portraits of himself and family if he could gain him admission to the House. Next

morning he was admitted accordingly, with a bag and papers, in the guise of his friend; and, seating himself at the table appropriated to members of the bar, began to sketch away with a rapidity equal to the exigency of the case, not knowing how soon a summary ejectment might follow his unwarrantable assumption of the cha racter of even a small limb of the law, which, in his mind, was associated with the unendearing names of John Doe and Richard Roe. The surprise of the bar was soon turned into astonishment as the sketches were handed round the table; they presently found their way from the bar to the benches, and from the benches to the woolsack, and so pleased the parties interested that he was permitted to remain in the same place during the continuance of the trial. Most of the noble lords and gentlemen taken gave him a sitting or two to finish their portraits. Amongst these and others, were the Queen; her Majesty's Attorney-Gen. Mr. Brougham; her Solicitor-General, Mr. Denman ; Mr. Copley, now Lord Lyndhurst; his late Lady and their daughter; Count Fosari; Mr. Austin the Queen's protegé; Mr. Alderman Wood; and His Majesty's Counsel and Ministers. He also took the notorious Theodore Majocchi, and all the other witnesses against the Queen at the trial. The artist now advanced rapidly to the zenith of his professional fame. Amongst the distinguished individuals whose portraits he took immediately after the Queen's trial, were-H.R.H. the Duke of York, H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester, William IV. when Duke of Clarence; Prince George of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta, when children; George IV. Lord Suffield, Lord Holland, Captain Scrosby, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Mr. Joseph Hume, Colonel Maceroni, General Pepe aid-de-camp to Murat the ex-king of Naples, Lord Cochrane, the Rt. Hon. Spring Rice, Mr. William Fremantle, Sir Francis Burdett, the Right Hon. George Canning, the Right Hon. William Huskisson, Lord John Russell, Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. his portraits of whom were all engraved. He likewise painted portraits of nearly two hundred members of the House of Commons, for a view of the interior of the House, published by Messrs. Bowyer and Parkes. In 1825 his friend Mr. Cordy prevailed upon him to go to Stratford-on-Avon to take a drawing of the marble bust of Shakspere, placed in the chancel of the church, in the poet's birthplace. This Mr. Wivell executed admirably; it was engraved by J. S. Agar, and is still allowed to be the best published. The success attending this engraving led him to engage on his admirable work, "An Inquiry into

the History, Authenticity, and Characteristics of the Shakespeare Portraits," which was first published in 1827; and, although the work showed great research and admirable execution, and contained twenty-six faithful engravings of all the genuine and spurious portraits and prints of the immortal bard, with engravings of the Stratford Monument, Roubilliac's, and, the Westminster Abbey statues; yet it failed as a publication. Mr. Wivell's

fearless exposure of the various tricks used by picture-dealers and others in manufacturing pictures to suit the taste of the day, drew upon him the attack of a whole nest of hornets about to be deprived of their lawful prey-the public; and the unenvied possessors of the spurious portraits of the poet, for which some of them paid a very high price, swelled the torrent of disaffection raised against the work; so that an undertaking which cost him 700 guineas, besides two years of the best of his life, worth at least 2000 guineas more, realised only 2501. Cart-loads of copies were sent to the cheesemongers, and the engraved plates were disposed of to pay the publishers.* Time has since signally avenged him for the wrong done to his assiduity, for he lived to see eight guineas offered for a single copy of the work; but time has not made up the pecuniary loss, which reduced him from affluence to comparative poverty.

After the failure of the Shakespeare Portraits, his uncle, Abram Wivell, of Camden Town, died and left him the house in which he lived, his household furniture, and an annuity of 1007. per annum for the remainder of his life. Amongst the plates sold to pay the publishers for the Shakespeare loss, were portraits of the leading actors of the day, including Charles Young, Elliston and Kemble, Miss Sheriff, James Wallack and Munden, Miss Ellen Tree, Mr. Sinclair and Miss Somerville, Cooper, Harley, Miss Stephens, Master Betty the Young Roscius and Helen Faucit, Mr. Macready,

* Whilst extracting this otherwise valuable memoir entire from the columns of the Art-Journal, it seems scarcely worth while to alter the present paragraph. The absurdity of supposing that any personal enmity conceived against Mr. Wivell's book would hinder its sale is obvious. If such offence had really been prevalently excited, it would rather have promoted its sale, though the author might have been persecuted by actions for libel. The truth is that artists are seldom fortunate in publishing on their own account, and the error in the present case seems to have consisted in printing too large a number.-Edit.

Mr. Farren, and the elder Matthews, all considered first-rate likenesses; to which may be added Cramer, Mori, Moscheles, and Hertz, the composers.

In 1828 Mr Wivell's attention was first directed to fire escapes, and he invented the Rope Fire Escape, which in the course of time was superseded by his patent one now in use. In 1829 he gave lectures on the subject, illustrated by models and drawings. Shortly afterterwards a meeting was held in Lawson's Rooms, Gower Street, where a chairman, committee, &c. were appointed, being the nucleus of the present "Royal Society for the Protection of Life from Fire," established in 1836. Mr. Wivell was made superintendent of fire escapes to this society, at a salary of 1007. per annum, and continued in that capacity until 1841, when, having a dispute with a newlyelected committee, he threw up his engagement with them, and went to reside at Birmingham in the latter end of that year. He spent a great deal of money and time in perfecting these fire escapes, and so useful have been their advantages to society, that above one hundred lives have been saved by them in London alone. It is seldom that we hear of such practical results arising from the labour of the philanthropist, but our artist was a man of singular energy in carrying out any undertaking which he commenced. In Birmingham he resumed his artistical career with Thomas Atwood, esq. M.P. and the principal gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood. In 1847 he was engaged by Mr. Robertson to take the portraits of the railway celebrities for the "Monthly Railway Record." This was his last public work. It contains the portraits of G. Hudson, esq. M.P., D. Waddington, esq. M.P., Capt. Mark Huish, George Carr Glynn, esq. banker, S. M. Peto, esq. M.P., J. P. Westhead, esq. M.P. W. Chadwick, esq., Richard Creed, esq., H. C. Lacy, esq. M.P. and Charles Russell, esq. chairman of the Great Western Railway Company.

He died of chronic bronchitis, leaving his second wife, to whom he was married in 1821, and a large family of ten children, unprovided for. The sole care of the family devolves upon his eldest son, Abraham Wivell, who, although a very young man, is already a most promising artist.. Art-Journal.

CLERGY DECEASED. May 14. Aged 56, the Rev. James Hooper, Rector of King Weston and of East Lydford, Somersetshire. To the former church he was instituted in 1833.

May 16. In Northumberland Court,

Strand, the Rev. Anthony Egerton Brydges, son of the late Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Bart.

May 20. At Stevenage, Herts, aged 79, the Rev. Richard Townsend Andrews, LL.B. for many years Curate of Packington near Ashby-de-la-Zouche, and afterwards of Dunchurch, Warwickshire. He was of Trinity hall, Camb. LL.B. 1794.

May 24. At Bedfords, near Chelmsford, aged 79, the Rev. George Leapingwell, for more than forty years Vicar of the united parishes of Good and High Easter, and a magistrate for Essex. He was of Christ's college, Cambridge, LL.B. 1794; and was presented to his living in 1816 by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's.

May 30. At the house of his sister Mrs. Martineau, Bracondale near Norwich, aged 75, the Rev. Caleb Elwin, M.A. Rector of Melton Constable, with Burgh Parva, Booton, Bayfield, and Little Ringstead, in the county of Norfolk, and Domestic Chaplain to his relative Lord Hastings, at whose princely mansion he resided during the greater portion of his life. He was the grandson of Peter Elwin, esq. of Booton, and brother of Fountain John Elwin, esq. who married the heiress of the Woodyeares of Crook Hill, near Doncaster, and assumed her name. Mr. Elwin was educated at the Charterhouse and Pembroke college, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. in 1796, and proceeded M.A. 1809. He was presented to Booton in 1804 by his own family, and to Melton Constable in 1811 by Sir Jacob Astley, Bart.; his other two preferments were sinecure rectories of small value. He was the kindest of friends and most agreeable of companions: he was generally well-informed on every subject, but particularly conversant with genealogy and family history, and he had also a remarkable love for the fine arts, and an extensive acquaintance with the productions of all the great masters of painting and sculpture. Long will his memory be cherished by several who have been used from childhood to look forward with delight to the period of his annual visit, He was buried at Melton.

Aged 68, the Rev. Thomas Edmunds Williams, D.D. Vicar of Bucklebury, Berks, to which he was presented in 1832 by the Rev. W. Hartley.

At West Stockwith, Lincolnshire, aged 69, the Rev. W. Adamthwaite, for forty years Incumbent of that chapelry.

June 1. At Beckingham, near Gainsborough, aged 42, the Rev. John Lakeland, M.A. Perpetual Curate of West Burton.

Aged 76, the Rev. William Peckham

Woodward, Rector of West Grinsted, Sussex, and a Prebendary of Chichester. He was of Jesus college, Cambridge, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1803; was presented to the rectory of West Grinsted by the Earl of Egremont in 1807; and to the prebend of Sidlesham in the cathedral church of Chichester in 1819.

June 10. Aged 48, the Rev. Richard Evans, for some years Curate of St. Mary's, Derby.

June 11. At Louth, co. Linc. aged 77, the Rev. John Prescott, M.A. Rector of North Somercotes, Lincolnshire, to which he was presented in 1817 by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was of Catharine hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1795, M.A. 1798.

June 12. The Rev. George Morgan, M.A. Perpetual Curate of Great Torrington, to which he was presented in 1815 by the Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford. He was a member of that college, and proceeded M.A. in 1814.

June 16. In Cumberland-st. Portmansq. aged 82, the Rev. George Atwick.

June 17. Aged 63, the Rev. Charles Richard Pritchett, for 25 years Reader at the Charterhouse, London, and 14 years Rector of Little Hallingbury, Essex, to which he was presented by the Governors of that institution in 1835. He was of Trinity college, Cambridge, B.A. 1808, as 15th Senior Optime, M.A. 1811.

At Llandulas, Denbighshire, aged 55, the Rev. James Foulkes Roberts, Rector of that parish. He was of St. John's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1815, M.A. 1820, and was collated to Llandulas in 1840 by the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.

June 19. At Dublin, the Rev. H. Tyrell, Rector of Kinnetty, King's co. He had come to Dublin to visit his sister, who was sick of the cholera, and both have fallen victims to the disease.

The Rev. Richard Haddy Williams, Rector of Avenbury, Herefordshire, to which he was presented by the Lord Chancellor in 1835. He was of Clare hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1814; and son, we presume, of the Rev. James Haddy Wilson Williams, Rector of Fornham All Saints with Westley, Suffolk, and formerly Fellow of Clare hall, whose death in 1842 is recorded in our vol. XVII. p. 560.

June 20. At Teignmouth, aged 30, the Rev. Thomas D'Oyly Walters, M.A. of Bath Easton.

June 21. At Desford, Leicestershire, the Rev. John Fry, B.A. Rector of that place. He was of University college, Oxford, and was presented to his living in 1801 by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Fry was the author of a new translation of the Canticles or Song of Solomon, pub..

lished in 1811, (at which time he was chaplain to Lord Viscount Ranelagh); The Sick Man's Friend, 1814, 8vo. ; Lectures, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans, 1816, 8vo; The Second Advent, 181-; and Observations on the Unfulfilled Prophecies of Scripture, 1835, 8vo.

June 23. At Boulogne sur Mer, aged 38, the Rev. Thomas Thornton Champneys, Curate of Upton cum Chalvey, Bucks; son of the Rev. Charles Champneys, Rector of St. George's, Botolph-lane, and Vicar of Langley cum Wraysbury. He was for seven years resident in the Brazils as chaplain to the English residents at Rio Janeiro.

At Little Shelford rectory, Cambridgeshire, aged 66, the Rev. Henry Finch, Rector of that parish and Vicar of Great Shelford. He was the only surviving son of the late William Finch Finch, esq. of Little Shelford. He was of Christ's college, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1805, M.A. 1808; was instituted to Little Shelford, which was in his own patronage, in 1806, and collated to Great Shelford by the Bishop of Ely in 1812. His eldest son, Charles Wray Finch, esq. formerly of the 17th Foot, was married at Sydney, New South Wales, in 1837, to Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Wilson of that place.

June 24. At Calton, Staff. the Rev. Richard Ward, Rector of Caldon, and Perpetual Curate of Waterfall and Calton. He was presented to his rectory in 1829 by Mrs. J. Willmott, to Waterfall in 1832 by the same patron, and to Calton in the latter year by the inhabitants.

June 27. At the residence of his brother-in-law, James H. F. Lewis, esq. in Essex-street, Strand, aged 60, the Rev. Thomas Cooper Colls, M.A. of Beccles, Suffolk. He was of Christ's college, Cambridge, B.A. 1823, and was appointed curate of Ringsfield, Suffolk, in May 1842.

June 28. The Rev. Thomas Seymour, B.A. Rector of Woodsford, Dorsetshire, to which he was presented in 1802 by Mrs. Mary Sturt.

July 1. Aged 93, the Rev. Joseph Gill, for 57 years Vicar of Scraptoft, and for 37 Rector of Pickwell, both in co. Leicester. He was of Clare hall, Cambridge, B.A. 1788, M.A. 1790; was presented to Scraptoft in 1792 by Edward Hartopp Wigley, esq. and to Pick well in 1812 by Sir Gerard Noel, Bart.

July 7. Aged 65, the Rev. Charles Spencer, M.A. Vicar of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. He was of Queen's college, Oxford, M.A. 1809; and was presented to his living in 1817 by the Precentor of St. Paul's cathedral.

At Yarmouth, in his 56th year, the

Rev. James Betts, Rector of Great and Little Thornham, Suffolk. He was the 3rd surviving son of the Rev. George Betts, of Wortham, in Suffolk, Rector of Overstrand, in Norfolk, 1794, and Prebendary of Lichfield, who died 12 April, 1822, aged 71. He was born 5th June, 1794, at Wortham, and married Streatham, 7 Dec. 1837, Sophia, youngest daughter of Richardson Borradaile, esq. of Bedford Hill, Surrey. On the 26th of May, 1849, he was instituted to the consolidated rectories of Great and Little Thornham, in Suffolk, on the presentation of John Lord Henniker.

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July 11. In Canterbury-place, Lambeth, in his 92d year, the Rev. Stephen Swabey, for many years Curate of St. Mary's, Lambeth. He was younger brother to Maurice Swabey, LL.D. of Langley, co. Bucks, and was born on the 20th July, 1757. He was of Pembroke college, Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. in 1800. He married in 1814 Charlotte, dau. of William Ward, of Lambeth, by whom he had no issue: she survives him.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

May 31. In Lower Belgrave-place, Catharine, relict of William Hare, esq.

June 2. In Tavistock-square, aged 73, William Perry, esq.

June 3. At Edmonton, aged 77, Frances, widow of Charles Campbell, esq.

June 4. At Greenwich, aged 74, Wm. Dalrymple Dowson, esq.

June 5. At Walworth, aged 76, Elizabeth, relict of the Rev. Thos. Russell, M.A. June 9. At St. Mary-at-hill, aged 74, Mr. John Banyon, for twenty years the clerk of the Watermen's Company.

At Deptford, aged 41, Wm. Arundel Burridge, esq. eldest son of the Rev. William Burridge, of Bradford, Somerset.

June 10. At Bayswater, aged 31, Colin, second son of the late Kennett Macaulay, esq. member of the Medical Board, Madras.

J. P. Carpenter, esq. Larkhall-lane, Clapham.

In Montagu-sq. aged 67, Mrs. Frances Madryll Cheere, widow of Charles Madryll Cheere, esq. of Papworth hall, Camb.

June 11. Aged 62, William Orchard, esq. of Hornsey.

În Thayer-st. Manchester-sq. Jane, relict of the Rev. Edward Scott, D.D. of Worton Hall, Isleworth.

June 12. In Westbourne-terr. aged 56, James Samuel, esq.

At Greenwich, aged 49, Eliza, relict of Capt. Thomas Thompson, of the Indemnity Office.

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June 13. Eliza-Louisa, eldest dau. of the late Henry de Bruyn, esq. of Hyde Park-sq.

In Queen-st. May Fair, of disease in the heart, Richard Berens, esq. D.C.L. many years Fellow and Bursar of All Souls' College, Oxford. He graduated B.C.L. 1807, D.C.L. 1813. His portrait has been this year exhibited at the Royal Academy. June 14. At Great Queen-st. aged 59, Edward Mount, esq. late of Hungerford. June 15. In Bedford-row, aged 92, William Laforest, esq.

June 16. Aged 54, Lucy, the relict of Capt. Thomas Moody, of the 4th Regt. Aged 31, John Adam Townsend, surgeon, of Finsbury-circus.

June 18. In Onslow-sq. Brompton, the wife of Major-Gen. Sir Charles Felix Smith. She was the dau. of Thomas Bell, esq. of Bristol, and married in 1841.

Aged 53, Charles Harding, of Camerasq. Chelsea, artist.

At the rectory, St. John's, Clerkenwell, the residence of her son-in-law, the Rev. Dr. Hughes, at an advanced age, Elizabeth, relict of John Crawford, esq.

June 19. At Eastbourne-terr. aged 34, Mary, wife of John P. Bolding, esq.

June 20. At the house of the Rev. Henry Christmas, Sion College, aged 39, Edwin Leaf, esq.

In Cadogan-place, Sarah-Maria, eldest dau. of the late Lieut.-Col. Brooke, of H.M. 48th Regt.

June 21. At Kensington New Town, aged 72, Sarah, relict of James Evans, esq. late of the Admiralty.

Mary-Frances, wife of Henry Latham, esq. of the Chancery Registrar's Office.

In New Bond-street, Thomas Fiske, esq. second son of the late Rev. Thomas Fiske, Rector of Shrimpling and Kettlebaston, Suffolk.

At Upper Holloway, aged 48, Charles Scott Hadow, esq. (formerly of Calcutta), of the firm of D. Mackey Hadow, and Company.

June 22. At Lower Tulse-hill, Sarah, widow of William Coward, esq. of Brixton Lodge, Surrey.

In John-st. St. James's-sq. in his 50th year, Edward Howard Howard-Gibbon, esq. Norroy King-of-Arms, and Secretary to the Earl-Marshal of England, to which latter office he was nominated in March 1842, and made Mowbray-Herald-Extraordinary 25th April following; and in August in the same year was appointed York Herald, and promoted to the office of Norroy in June 1848. He married Amelia, second dau. of Stephen Cooper Dendy, esq. and has left three sons and three daughters. His remains were in2 F