JAMES BARRY
413. Contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica, under the signature Z. In the seventh edition of the Encyclopædia the signature was printed DD. In addition to the criticism on Barry here reprinted five further notices are credited to Hazlitt by means of the same signature. They are J. B. Basedaw, J. Beckmann, Xavier Bettinelli, G. B. Bilfinger, and G. A. Burger. These notices are purely compilations of the usual Biographical Dictionary order; they are far removed from the scope of Hazlitt’s work, and they do not bear internal evidence of being by him. It has been thought best therefore not to reprint them as his but to mention the names of the subjects as above.
[416]. Mr. Stuart. James Stuart (1713–1788), painter and architect. His work, The Antiquities of Athens (1762), is largely responsible for the imitations of Greek architecture in London.
[419]. Mr. Hamilton. Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), archæologist and diplomatist. His wife was Emma Hart, the celebrated ‘Nelson’ Lady Hamilton.
[419]. Count de Firmian. Joseph, Count de Firmian (1716–1782), Austrian diplomatist. He was appointed to Lombardy in 1759 and was practically ruler there. He has the reputation of having been a patron of art.
Mr. Valentine Green (1739–1813). Engraver, writer, and keeper of the British Institution from 1805 until his death.
[420]. Whatever the hand had done. Boswell’s Johnson (ed. G. B. Hill, vol. IV. p. 224).
[421]. Dr. Burney swimming in the Thames. See vol. I. The Round Table, p. 35 and note.