- lery of New British Institution, 37 Old
Bond Street, London, and not since heard of. Original sketch in grisaille (H. 1 ft. 11 in. × 1 ft. 3 in.), Viscount Clifden, Dover House; engraved by Graves. Replica of Wynn-Ellis picture, Earl Spencer, Althorp Park; engraved in mezzo. by unknown. There is also a mezzo. of the Wynn-Ellis picture, engraved about 1773. A similar pictture (H. 5 ft. 2 in. × 3 ft. 10 in.), claimed to be a Gainesborough, owned by Mr. John Foster, who brought it from Australia, was exhibited at Byron Gallery, London, in 1877.—Brock-Arnold, 41, 55; Leslie & Taylor, ii. 215; Gower, Hist. Gals. of England; Notes and Queries (1876), 416; London Times, May 8, 27, 1876, July 30, 1877; London Illus. News, May 20, 1876.
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Duchess of Devonshire, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Althorp Park.
DEVONSHIRE, DUCHESS OF, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Earl Spencer, Althorp Park; canvas. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, full-length, descending a flight of steps. Exhibited in 1776. Another portrait (H. 3 ft. 8 in. × 4 ft. 8 in.), at Chatsworth, representing the Duchess with her infant daughter Georgiana in her lap, was exhibited 1786; a good copy, by Etty, painted for George IV., at Windsor Castle.—Leslie & Taylor, ii. 155, 485; Art Journal (1855), 6.
DEW (La Rosée), Jules Joseph Lefebvre,
Wm. Astor, New York; canvas. Female figure,
nude, reposing on a bank of clouds, floating
over a lake covered with water-plants; one
foot, hanging downward, touches the water;
the head reclines upon one hand, the other
points languidly to the sky.—Art. Treas. of
Amer., ii. 69.
DEWEY, CHARLES MELVILLE, born
in Lowville, N. Y., in 1851. Landscape
painter, self-taught. Exhibited first at the
National Academy in 1875. Member Society
of American Artists. Studio in New York.
Works: Along the Shore—September, November
Day, After the Rain, Water Lily, T.
B. Clarke, New York; Idyl (1879); Sunshine
and Shadow (1880); Ebb Tide, Trees and
Grasses (1881); Many Things—Study by
the Sea, Summer Morning (1882); Lowery
Weather (1883); Ebb of the Tide, Fall
(1884).
DEWING, THOMAS W., born in Boston,
Mass., May 4, 1851. Figure painter;
in 1876-79 pupil of Lefebvre and Boulanger
in Paris. Studio in New York. Works:
Young Sorcerer (1877); South Wind, A Musician
(1878); Fortune-Teller (1879); Morning
(1880); A Concert (1881); Portrait of
Mrs. Dewing (1882); Prelude (1883); A
Garden (1884); Slave, T. B. Clarke, New
York.
DEWING, MRS. THOMAS W. (Miss
Oakey), born in New York. Figure and
portrait painter; pupil of the National
Academy, of John La Farge, and in Paris of
Couture. Visited France and Italy in 1876,
and again in 1883. Studio in New York.
Ideal works: Woman Serving (1876); In a
Balcony (1877); Violets (1878); Votive Panel
to Paul Veronese (1879); Mother and Child
