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Francis Joseph (1866).—Wurzbach, xliv. 261; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 114; vi. 213; ix. (Mittheilungen, ii. 11).
THORNDYKE, GEORGE QUINCY, born
in Boston in 1825. Landscape and marine
painter; studied in Paris in 1847. Professional
life spent in Newport. An associate
of the National Academy, but rarely
exhibits. Works: Lily Pond; Swans in
Central Park; The Dumplings—Newport;
Wayside Inn; View near Stockbridge—Mass.;
Longwood Marshes (1885).
THORNHILL, Sir JAMES, born at Melcombe
Regis in 1676, died at Thornhill,
near Weymouth, May 13, 1734. Pupil in
London of Thomas Highmore; was patronized
by Queen Anne, who made him her
sergeant painter. When foreign painters,
such as the Riccis, Laguerre, and La Fosse,
were patronized, and native talent decried,
he decorated walls and ceilings of public
and private buildings with mythological
and historical compositions, for which he
was but poorly remunerated at so much per
square yard. Of these the most important
are eight compartments of the cupola at St.
Paul's, the great hall at Blenheim, the ceiling
and walls of the hall at Greenwich
Hospital, and a saloon and hall at Moor
Park, Herts. His Finding of the Law, an
easel picture, is at All Souls' College, Oxford.
His portrait of Sir Isaac Newton in
his Old Age belongs to Lord Portsmouth.
In 1720 he was knighted by George I., the
first native painter, it is said, to receive that
distinction. In 1724 he endeavoured to
found a Royal Academy of Art, and failing,
opened a drawing academy in his own
house.—Taylor, Fine Arts in Great Britain
(London, 1841); Redgrave; Sandby, i. 13;
Portfolio (1872), 66.
THREE AGES, Lorenzo Lotto, Palazzo
Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 2 ft. × 2 ft. 6 in.
Three figures, half-length, the middle one
a youth in a black cap, with a sheet of music
in his hand; to right, a middle-aged bearded
man; to left, a bald-headed, gray-bearded
man. Look like portraits; handled with
Giorgionesque skill.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii.
502; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, i. Pl. 47.
By Titian, Bridgewater House, London; canvas, figures less than life-size. A shepherd lover beneath a tree is taught by a maiden crowned with flowers to place his fingers on the stops of the reed-pipe; in the middle ground Cupid stepping over the forms of two sleeping children; in the distance an old man dreaming over a pair of skulls on the ground. Painted about 1518 for Giovanni di Castelli, a gentleman of Faenza; passed through the hands of the Cardinal of Augsburg into the collection of Queen Christina of Sweden; thence into the Orleans Collection, from which purchased by the Duke of Bridgewater. Copies in Palazzo Doria and Palazzo Borghese, Rome; another belonging to Earl Dudley. Engraved by Ravenet.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 435; C. & C., Titian, i. 204; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 31; Cab. Crozat, ii. Pl. 145.
THREE VIRTUES, Raphael. See Prudence,
Fortitude, and Temperance.
THUILLIER, PIERRE, born at Amiens,
June 17, 1799, died there, Nov. 19, 1858.
Landscape painter, pupil of Watelet and
of Gudin, and a close student of nature.
Medals: 3d class, 1835; 2d class, 1837; 1st
class, 1839; L. of Honour, 1843. Works:
Valley of the Drac, Ruins of Castle of
Champ (1835), Amiens Museum; Entrance
to a Forest in the Ardennes (1836), Lyons
Museum; Rocks of Freilly (1836), Amiens
Museum; Timber near Château Rénard,
Boulogne-sur-Mer Museum; Ancient Abbey
of Doue (1837), Duc d'Aumale; Castle and
Bridge of Voute-sur-Loire (1838), Puy Museum;
Ancient Tiburtine Road near Tivoli
(1843); The Puyen-Velay (1844); River
Duralle near Thiers (1845), Lyons Museum;
Elbiar near Algiers, Spring in the Mountains
of the Var (1848); Pasture in the
Mountains of Dauphiny (1853), bought by
Napoleon III.; Lake of Annecy (1854),
Geneva Museum; Valley of Thuily in Dauphiny.
His daughter Louise (Mme. Mornard),
born at Amiens in 1829, is also a