(John), a late English artist, born in 1743. According to Mr Strutt, "he was endowed with every requisite to make a great painter; his genius fertile, and his imagination lively." There is an originality in his works which add greatly to their value. No man perhaps touched in the heads and other extremities of his figures with more spirit; and few could draw them more correctly. When he failed, it was from his haste to express his thoughts; so that at times he did not attend with that precision which historical painting requires to the proportion of his figures; and they are sometimes heavy. This defect is, however, well repaid by the lightness of his pencil, and the freedom which appears in his works." He died at his house in Norfolk-Street in 1779, aged 36.—"King John granting the Magna Charta to the barons," and the "Battle of Agincourt," two of his capital pictures, have been engraved. The first was nearly finished by Mr Ryland, and completed by Mr Bartolozzi. The last, intended as a companion to the former, was published by Mrs Mortimer.