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after the restoration settled in Brussels. Officer and Commander of L. of Honour. Works: Combat of Minerva against Mars and Venus (1771), Academic Figure (1779), Oath of the Horatii (1784), Belisarius asking Alms (1784), Paris and Helen (1788), Brutus (1789), Sabine Women (1799), Leonidas at Thermopylæ (1814), portrait of himself in youth, portraits of M. Pécoul (1783), Mme. Pécoul (1783), Pius VII. (1805), Mme. Récamier, Bailly, Louvre, Paris; Napoleon crossing the Alps (1805), Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine (1808), distributing Eagles at the Champ de Mars (1810), portrait of Barère (1790, unfinished), do. of Pius VII. (replica of Louvre picture), Versailles Museum; Belisarius asking Alms (1780, original of Louvre picture), Lille Museum; Philoctetes in Island of Lemnos, Cherbourg Museum; Death of Joseph Barra, Avignon Museum; portrait of Comtesse Dillon, Amiens Museum; portrait of Alphonse Leroy, do. of M. de Joubert, and 3 studies, Montpellier Museum; Death of Cleonice (sketch), Nantes Museum; Ugolino, Valence Museum; portrait of Mme. Vigée Le Brun, Rouen Museum; portrait of Mlle. Joly, Comédie Française; Courtship of Antiochus and Stratonice (1774), École des B. Arts; St. Roch interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken (1779), Marseilles Hospital; Grief of Andromache over Death of Hector (1783, presentation picture to Academy); Death of Socrates (1787), M. de Trudaine; Louis XVI. entering Hall of Constituent Assembly (1790); Death of Michel Lepelletier; portrait of Mlle. Lepelletier; Death of Marat, belongs to David's grandson; Sappho and a Faun, in Russia; portrait of Napoleon I., Warwick Castle; Death of Milo, National Gallery, Dublin; Rape of Lucrece (last work).—J. L. David, Le Peintre Louis David (Paris, 1880); Ch. Blanc, École française; Dohme, 3; Chesneau, Peinture française (1883); Hamerton, French Painters; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), i. 132; (1860), vii. 301; (1880), xxi. 572; Living Age, lv. 708; xc. 728; Meyer, Gesch., 53.


DAVIS, HENRY WILLIAM BANKS, born at Finchley, Aug. 26, 1833. Landscape painter, pupil of Royal Academy, where he exhibited his Rough Pasturage in 1861. Has lived at Boulogne and made many sketches on the French coast. Elected an A.R.A. in 1873, and R.A. in 1877. Several of his works have been engraved. Works: Strayed Herd (1865); Spring Ploughing (1866); Dewy Eve (1870); Moonrise, Prætorium at Neufchâtel (1871); A Panic (1872); Summer Afternoon (1874); In Picardy (1876); Rustling Leaves, After Sundown (1877); The Lowing Herd winds slowly o'er the Lea, Midday Shelter (1878); Midsummer Night, Wanderers, Picardy Sheep (1879); Family Affection, Returning to the Fold (1880); Mother and Son, Evening Star, Noon (1881); In Rossshire, Sea and Land Waves, Showers in June (1882); Ben Eay, Gathering the Flock, Kinlochewe (1883); Done Work (1885).


DAWANT, ALBERT PIERRE, born in Paris; contemporary. History painter, pupil of J. P. Laurens. Medals: 3d class, 1880; 2d class, 1885. Works: St. Thomas à Becket (1879); Henry IV., of Germany, before Pope Gregory VII., Merwing at St. Martin's Tomb (1880); Last Moments of Charles II. of Spain (1881); Burial of an Invalide (1882); Salute to the Invalides (1883); Saint Vincent (1884); The Bark of St. Julian the Hospitaller (1885).


DAWE, GEORGE, born in London, Feb. 8, 1781, died there, October 15, 1829. Son