and pupil of Philip Dawe, engraver (died about 1780), student in 1794 at Royal Academy, of which elected A.R.A. in 1809, and R.A. in 1814. Painted at first historical subjects, but most noted for his portraits. He painted for the Duke of Kent officers distinguished in the Battle of Waterloo. In 1819 went to Russia at invitation of the Emperor, to paint officers prominent in wars of Napoleon, and in nine years made 400 portraits, now in the Hermitage. Princess Charlotte, Dr. Samuel Parr, National Portrait Gallery.—Redgrave; Arnold, Library of Fine Arts (1831); Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Sandby, i. 345.
DAWSON, HENRY, born at Hull in 1811,
died at Chiswick, Dec. 13, 1878. His father
removed during his infancy to Nottingham,
where the lad worked in a lace factory until
twenty-four years old, when he devoted himself
to landscape painting. In 1849 he removed
to London, but laboured many years
before his genius won recognition. He
earned as much during the last six years of
his life as in all his previous career. In
1875 his Wooden Walls sold for nearly
£1,500, and in 1876 his Pool from London
Bridge for £1,400. Other works: Sherwood
Oaks, Nottingham from Wilford Hill, Durham
Cathedral (1876); London at Sunset,
Rainbow at Sea.—Art Journal (1879), 48;
Portfolio (1883), 127.
DEATH, BAY OF. See Starvation Cove.
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Death on the Pale Horse, Benjamin West, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia.
DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE, Benjamin West, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia; canvas, H. 14 ft. 10 in. × 25 ft. 2 in. Scene from Revelation vi. In centre, Death, armed with irresistible darts, rides the pale horse which, unbridled, rushes onward, trampling down all ages and conditions, followed closely by the monstrous progeny of hell; on the right, the rider on the white horse armed with the bow, the rider on the red horse with the sword, and behind them the rider on the black horse with the balances; on the left, the conflict of men with the beasts of the forest. Painted in 1817; bought, at the sale of the painter's pictures (1829), and taken to America. Engraved in outline by Normand.—Réveil (Hamilton), iv. 286.
DEATH, TRIUMPH OF, fresco, Campo
Santo, Pisa, formerly attributed to Andrea
Orcagna, now assigned by C. & C. to a painter
of the Sienese school, perhaps Pietro Lorenzetti;
and by Milanesi to Bernardo Daddi.
Foreground, in three groups. To left, the
warning: Three kings on horseback, with
attendants, check their horses before three
open coffins containing the mouldering re-
