WILLIAM YOUNG, a critic and collector of paintings and engravings, was born in 1772. The unwearied enthusiasm for the fine arts by which he was distinguished through life soon began to appear. About his twentieth year he proceeded to Italy, and devoted both his time and means to the study of the great painters. Famous pictures were copied, fine engravings were collected, and numerous works of the early masters were purchased. Nor did his industry flag when he had returned to England, at the end of ten years, to turn his collections to some account. Among other splendid and costly works, he published The Italian School of Design, in 3 parts, 1808–12–23; and A Series of Plates engraved after the Paintings of the most Eminent Masters of the Early Florentine School, fol., 1826. As keeper of the prints in the British Museum he also laboured hard to arrange and classify the engravings in that institution. His death took place in 1836.