no issue. His portrait has been engraved by Scriven, from a painting by Jackson. เ His works are: 1. Thoughts, chiefly on serious subjects,' Exeter (privately printed), 1821, 8vo, second edition, with additions, including remarks on 'Lacon,' by Caleb Colton, 2 vols. Exeter, 1822, 8vo. 2. Ideas and Realities, or thoughts on various subjects,' Exeter, 1827, 8vo. 3. 'Extracts from and observations on Cicero's dialogues De Senectute and De Amicitia, and a translation of his Somnium Scipionis, with notes,' Exeter, 1829, 8vo, London, 1832, 8vo. 4. Thoughts on various subjects,' London, 1831, 8vo. 5. Travelling Thoughts,' Exeter, 1831, 8vo. 6. 'Poems,' Edinburgh, 1831, 8vo. 7. Extracts from Young's Night Thoughts, with observations upon them,' Lond. 1832, 8vo. [Martin's Privately Printed Books, 2nd edit. 274; Evans's Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, No. 14869; Gent. Mag. new ser. i. 440; Cat. of Printed Books in Brit. Mus.] T. C. Paphian Bower,' an extravaganza; 'Telemachus,' an extravaganza; 'Pleasant Dreams,' a farce; 'The Country Squire,' a comedy; Toquet with the Tuft,' a burletta; 'Puss in Boots,' a burletta; 'Sons and Systems,' a burletta; The Burlington Arcade,' a burletta; 'Izaak Walton,' a drama; 'The Beulah Spa,' a burletta; The Dustman's Belle,' a comic drama; 'A Match in the Dark,' a comedietta; and 'The Water Party,' a farce. During his later years Dance was a well-known figure at the Garrick Club. Dance was twice married, and survived both his wives. He lived in Mornington Road, not far from Regent's Park, and died at Lowestoft, whither he had returned for his health, 5 Jan. 1863. His illness was heart disease. [Times, 7 Jan. 1863; Gent. Mag. 3rd ser. xiv. 259; Athenæum, 10 Jan. 1863; Era, 11 Jan. 1863; Era Almanack.] J. K. DANCE, GEORGE, the elder (17001768), architect, was surveyor to the corporaDANCE, CHARLES (1794-1863), dra- tion of London, and designed the Mansion matist, was the son of Charles Dance, archi- House and many of the churches and public tect [q. v.] During thirty years he was in buildings of the city during the earlier half the office of the late insolvent debtors' court, of the eighteenth century. Of the first named, in which he was successively registrar, taxing begun in 1739, the story is told that an oriofficer, and chief clerk, retiring ultimately ginal design of Palladio's was submitted to upon a superannuation allowance. Alone or the common council by Lord Burlington, a in collaboration with J. R. Planché or others zealous patron of art, but was rejected by the he wrote many pieces, chiefly of the lightest civic authorities in favour of Dance's design, description, which were produced at the on the ground of Palladio being a papist, and Olympic or other theatres. So great was his not a freeman of the city! Dance is said to success in supplying Madame Vestris with have been originally a shipwright, and is extravaganzas that he was spoken of as a thought by the satirical author of the Crifounder of a new order of burlesque. His tical Review,' &c., never to have lost sight of pieces, which are mostly printed in Lacy's his original calling. But the Mansion House Acting Edition of Plays,' Duncombe's 'Bri- has served its purpose as well probably as if tish Theatre,' Webster's Acting National Palladio had been its architect, and may still Drama,' and Miller's 'Modern Acting Drama,' be admired for its stately monumental effect, cover a period of nearly a quarter of a cen- whatever may be thought of the clumsiness of tury. Some of his comediettas or farces, detail which it exhibits in common with other as The Bengal Tiger,' 'Delicate Ground,' buildings of the time. As Telford says of it, 'A Morning Call,'Who speaks first,' and 'it is grand and impressive as a whole, and 'Naval Engagements,' are still occasionally reflects credit upon its architect.' Among revived, and one of his pieces was translated Dance's other works may be mentioned the into German. Among his extravaganzas the churches of St. Botolph's, Aldgate, built in best known is 'Olympic Revels,' with which, 1741-4; St. Luke's, Old Street; St. Leonard's, 3 Jan. 1831, Madame Vestris-the first femi- Shoreditch; and the old excise office, Broad nine lessee of a theatre, according to the proStreet. His works, with the exception of logue, by John Hamilton Reynolds, spoken the Mansion House, exhibit small architecon the occasion-opened the Olympic. Other tural merit. A collection of his drawings is pieces in which Dance had more or less share | in the Soane Museum. He died on 8 Feb. are, 'Alive and Merry,' a farce; 'Lucky 1768, and was buried in St. Luke's, Old Street. Stars,' a burletta; Advice Gratis,' a farce; He was the father of the more famous archi'A Wonderful Woman,' comic drama; 'Blue tect, George Dance [q. v.], who designed Beard,' a musical burletta; 'A Dream of the Newgate prison, of the well-known painter, Future,' a comedy; 'The Victor vanquished,' Nathaniel Dance [q. v.], afterwards Sir N. a comedy; Marriage a Lottery,' a comedy; Dance-Holland, and of the comedian, James 'The Stock Exchange,' a comic drama; 'The [q. v.], who assumed the name of Love. [Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Bryan's Dict. of Artists; Ralph's Critical Review of the Public Buildings, Statues, and Monuments in and around London and Westminster, London, 1783.] G. W. B. DANCE, GEORGE, the younger (17411825), architect, fifth and youngest son of George Dance, architect and surveyor to the city of London, was born in 1740-1, and learnt his profession in his father's office. He spent also some time in France and Italy, and studied in Rome. He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and in 1761 sent to their exhibition a design for Blackfriars Bridge. His father died in 1768, and he succeeded him in his office by right of purchase. His first important work was the rebuilding of Newgate in 1770, in which he displayed considerable skill--the severe, massive features of the exterior being thoroughly characteristic. He was successful also in the construction of the Giltspur Street prison and St. Luke's Hospital, but the front of Guild hall is less creditable to his taste. Dance was elected in 1794 a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and was one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy. He held also the office of professor of architecture at the Royal Academy from 1798 to 1805, but never lectured. In fact he seems to have devoted himself in his later years to art rather than to architecture, and his contributions to the Academy exhibitions in and after 1798 consisted solely of portraits drawn in chalk. These and others (in all seventy-two in number) were subsequently engraved and published, and have the reputation of being lifelike, though 'wanting in drawing and refinement' (REDGRAVE). In 1815 he resigned the office of city surveyor, and after a lingering illness of many years died at Upper Gower Street, London, 14 Jan. 1825, being the last of the original forty Royal Academicians. He was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. Dance was author of A Collection of Por traits sketched from the Life since the year 1793, by Geo. Dance, esq., and engraved in imitation of the original drawings by Will. Daniell, A.R.A.,' folio, 1811 and 1814. [Redgrave's Dict. of Artists of the English School, 1874; Annual Register, lxvii. 219; Burke's Extinct Baronetage, s. v. 'Holland.'] C. J. R. graduating, and, having assumed the name of Love, contrived to attract the favourable notice of Sir Robert Walpole by replying, in a smart poem entitled 'Yes, they are; what then? to a satirical piece,' Are these things so?' directed against the minister and attributed (wrongly) to Pope. Sir Robert, however, does not seem to have done much more for his advocate than feed him with false hopes, and at length, bankrupt and disappointed, Love betook himself to the stage and to the composition of light comedies. About 1740 he wrote and published an heroic poem on Cricket,' which is interesting as throwing light upon the history of that popular game, and his earliest contribution to dramatic literature was a piece entitled 'Pamela,' published in 1742. He performed at the theatres of Dublin and Edinburgh, and resided for some years as manager in the latter city, where (1754) he issued a volume of poems. In 1762 he was invited to Drury with that house during the rest of his life, Lane Theatre, and retained his connection part of which was spent at Richmond, where, with his brother's help, he built a new theatre, involving him in considerable loss. He died early in 1774, and it cannot be said that either as an actor or a writer he secured or deserved much success. Falstaff was his best charac ter; his attempts to improve Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher were wretched. His son was Sir Nathaniel Dance [q. v.] He wrote: 1. 'Cricket; an heroic poem,' 1770 (published about thirty years ago,' pref. to 2nd edit.) 2. Pamela, comedy, 1742. 3. Poems on several Occasions,' 1754. 4. 'The Witches,' pant. 1762. 5. Rites of Hecate,' 6. The Hermit,' pant. 1766. pant. 1764. 7. The Village Wedding,' 1767. 8. 'Timon of Athens,' altered, 1768. 9. The Ladies' Frolic,' 1770. 'City Madam,' 1771. 11. Rule a Wife and have a Wife,' altered, 1771. 10. [Baker's Biog. Dram. by Reed and Jones, i. 462; Robinson's Reg. of Merchant Taylors' C. J. R. School.] DANCE, NATHANIEL. [See HoLLAND, SIR NATHANIEL, 1734-1811.] 1827), commander in the service of the East DANCE, SIR NATHANIEL (1748India Company, son of James, the elder brother of Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland DANCE, alias LOVE, JAMES (1722-[q.v.], and of George Dance the younger [q.v.], 1774), comedian, eldest son of George Dance [q. v.], city surveyor and architect, was born on 17 March 1721-2. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in 1732, and five years later was admitted a member of St. John's College, Oxford. But he left the university without was born 20 June 1748, entered the East India Company's service in 1759, and, after continuous employment for nearly thirty years, obtained the command of a ship in 1787. In 1804 he was, by virtue of his seniority, commodore of the company's homeward-bound fleet which sailed from Canton on 31 Jan. Off Pulo Aor, on 14 Feb., this fleet, consisting of sixteen Indiamen and eleven country ships, fell in with the French squadron under Admiral Linois. The Indian fleet numbered three more than Linois had been led to expect. He jumped to the conclusion that the three extra ships were men-of-war; and though he had with him a line-of-battle ship, three heavy frigates, and a brig, he did not venture to attack. The bold attitude which Dance assumed confirmed him in his error. Dance, with his fleet ranged in line of battle, stood on under easy sail, lay to for the night, and the next morning again stood on, always under easy sail. Linois then manoeuvred to cut off some of the rearmost ships, on which Dance made the signal to tack towards the enemy and engage. Captain Timmins in the Royal George led, the Ganges and Dance's own ship, the Earl Camden, closely followed. Linois, possessed with the idea that he was engaged with ships of the line, did not observe that neither the number nor weight of the guns agreed with it; and conceiving himself in presence of a very superior force, after a few badly aimed broadsides, hauled his wind and fled. The loss of the English was one man killed and one wounded, both on board the Royal George; the other ships sustained no damage. Dance made the signal for a general chase, and for two hours enjoyed the extraordinary spectacle of a powerful squadron of ships of war flying before a number of merchantmen; then fearing a longer pursuit might carry him too far out of his course, and considering the immense property at stake,' he recalled his ships, and the next morning continued his voyage. In the Straits, on 28 Feb., they met two English ships of the line which convoyed them as far as St. Helena, whence they obtained a further escort to England. Liberal rewards were voted to the several commanders, officers, and ships' companies. Dance was knighted; was presented with 5,000l. by the Bombay Insurance Company, and by the East India Company with a pension of 500l. a year. He seems to have lived for the remainder of his life in retirement; and died at Enfield on 25 March 1827, aged 79 (Gent. Mag. vol. xcvii. pt. i. p. 380). [Markham's Sea Fathers, 211; Gent. Mag. (1804), vol. lxxiv. pt. ii. pp. 963, 967; James's Nav. Hist. (ed. 1860), iii. 249; Nav. Chron. xii. 137, 345 (with a portrait after George Dance), and xiii. 360; Chevalier's Histoire de la Marine française sous le Consulat et l'Empire, 296. For the account of the action off Pulo Aor, and of the enthusiastic reception of the news in England, see Marryat's Newton Forster.] J. K. L. DANCE, WILLIAM (1755-1840), musician, born in 1755, studied the pianoforte under Aylward, and the violin under Baumgarten, and later under Giardini. He played the violin in an orchestra so early as 1767. He was for four years at Drury Lane under Garrick's management, and from 1775 to 1793 was a member of the King's Theatre orchestra. He led at the Haymarket in the summer seasons from 1784 to 1790, and at the Handel festival in Westminster Abbey in 1790. Dance was a member of the royal band before 1800. He subsequently gave up performing in public, and devoted himself to teaching. On 17 Jan. 1813 a circular proposing the foundation of the Philharmonic Society, signed by Cramer, Corri, and Dance, was issued from the latter's house, 17 Manchester Street, and on the establishment of the society he became a director and treasurer. He continued to hold both these offices down to his death, which took place at Brompton, 5 June 1840. Dance published a small quantity of unimportant pianoforte and vocal music. [Dict. of Musicians (1827); Grove's Dict. of Music, i. 429; Gent. Mag. for 1840; Dance's publications; Brown's Dict. of Musicians.] W. B. S. DANCER, MRS. ANN. [See BARRY, MRS. ANN SPRANGER.] DANCER, DANIEL (1716–1794), miser, was born at Pinner in 1716. His grandfather and father were both noted in their time as misers, and are only less known to fame because their accumulation of wealth was not so great. The elder Dancer died in 1736, and Daniel, as the eldest of his four children, succeeded to his estate, which consisted of eighty acres of rich meadow land and of an adjoining farm called Waldos. Hitherto Dancer had given no manifestation of his miserly instincts, but now, in company with his only sister, who shared his tastes and lived with him as his housekeeper, he commenced a life of the utmost seclusion and most rigid parsimony. His lands were allowed to lie fallow so that the expense of cultivation might be avoided. He took but one meal a day, consisting invariably of a little baked meat and a hard-boiled dumpling. A quantity sufficient to supply the wants of the household through the week was prepared every Saturday night. His clothing consisted mainly of hay bands, which were swathed round his feet for boots and round his body for a coat, but it was his habit to purchase one new shirt every year; and on one occasion he brought, and lost, a lawsuit was a voluminous translator living at the same time. But John Dancer and John Dauncy [q. v.] were clearly two persons. Dancer's two translated plays-the one from Corneille and the other from Quinault-are in rhyming couplets. The original verse at the close of the translation of Tasso's 'Amintas' is writ in imitation of Mr. Cowley's "Mistris" (LANG BAINE). Dancer's works are as follows: 1. 'Aminta, the Famous Pastoral [by Tasso], translated into English verse, with divers Ingenious Poems,' London, 1660. 2. Nicomede, a tragicomedy translated out of the French of Monsieur Corneille, as it was acted at the Theatre Royal, Dublin,' London, 1671. This was published by Francis Kirkman 'in the author's absence,' and dedicated by Kirkman to Thomas, earl of Ossory. To the play Kirkman added a valuable appendix against a tradesman who, as he alleged, had cheated him out of threepence over one of these annual transactions. The only person who could be said to be at all intimately acquainted with the Dancers was a Lady Tempest, the widow of Sir Henry Tempest, a Yorkshire baronet. To this lady Dancer's sister intended to leave her own private property, amounting to some 2,000l., but she died in 1766 before she could sign her will, and there then arose a lawsuit among her three brothers as to the distribution of her money, the result of which was that Daniel was awarded two-thirds of the sum on the ground of his having kept her for thirty years. To fill his sister's place Dancer engaged a servant named Griffiths, a man whose manner of living was as penurious as his own, and to whom he paid eighteenpence a week as wages. The two lived together in Dancer's tumble--'A true, perfect, and exact Catalogue of down house till the master's death, which took place 30 Sept. 1794. In his last moments he was tended by Lady Tempest, who had shown uniform kindness to the old man, and who was rewarded by being made the sole recipient of the miser's wealth, which amounted to a sum equal to 3,000l. per annum. This, however, she did not live to enjoy, as she died very shortly afterwards of a cold contracted while she watched over the miser's deathbed. Dancer is distinguished from the majority of misers in that, notwithstanding his miserable love of gold, he possessed many praiseworthy qualities. His business transactions were always characterised by the most rigid integrity; he never neglected to give practical proof of his gratitude for service rendered to him; and he even knew how to be generous on occasions. [Biographical Curiosities, or various Pictures of Human Nature, containing original and authentic Memoirs of Daniel Dancer, esq., an extraordinary miser, 1797; Strange and Unaccountable Life of D. Dancer, esq., 1801; Wilson's Wonderful Characters, vol. ii. 1821; Gent. Mag. Ixiv. 964.] A. V. DANCER, JOHN (A. 1675), translator and dramatist, lived for some time in Dublin, where two of his dramatic translations were performed with some success at the Theatre Royal. To the Duke of Ormonde and to the duke's children, Thomas, earl of Ossory, and Lady Mary Cavendish, he dedicated his books, and in 1673 he wrote that he owed to the duke all I have and all I am.' It is probable that he was in Ormonde's service while he was lord-lieutenant of Ireland. Langbaine groundlessly credits him with the alternative name of Dauncy, and identifies him with one John Dauncy, who all the Comedies, Tragedies, Tragicomedies, Pastorals, Masques, and Interludes that were ever yet printed and published till this present year 1671.' 3. Judgment on Alexander and Cæsar, and also on Seneca, Plutarch, and Petronius,' from the French of Renaud Rapin, London 1672. 4. The Comparison of Plato and Aristotle, with the Opinions of the Fathers on their Doctrine, and some Christian Reflections,' from the French, London 1673; dedicated to James, duke of Ormonde. 5. Mercury Gallant, containing many true and pleasant relations of what hath passed at Paris from January 1st 1672 till the king's departure thence,' from the French, London 1673; dedicated to George Bowerman. 6. Agrippa, King of Alba, or the False Tiberinus. As it was several times acted with great applause before the Duke of Ormonde, L.L. of Ireland, at the Theatre Royal in Dublin; from the French of Monsieur Quinault,' London 1675; dedicated to Ormonde's daughter Mary. [Langbaine's Account, 97, with Oldys's notes in Brit. Mus. copy, C. 45 d. 14; Hunter's Chorus Vatum in Addit. MS. 24489, f. 173; Brit. Mus. Cat.] S. L. L. DANCER, THOMAS, M.D. (1755 ?1810), botanist, was in 1780 physician to the expedition which left Jamaica in February of that year for 'Fort San Juan' (? d'Ulloa). On his return to Jamaica he published an account of the capture of the fort, and the subsequent mortality of the troops, consequent upon the utter absence of sanitation. Appointed physician to the Bath waters he brought out in 1784 a small octavo on the virtues of the waters, appending two pages of catalogue of the rarer plants cultivated in the garden there. A full list was issued in 1792, from which we learn that he introduced many plants in the two years previous, some of which he owed to his correspondence with Sir Joseph Banks. In 1804 he printed a small tract, Some Observations respecting the Botanic Garden,' recounting its history and removals, and making suggestions for its better support; but his proposals not being adopted by the House of Assembly, he resigned his position as 'island botanist.' His most important publication was a quarto volume, Medical Assistant, or Jamaica Practice of Physic,' 1801, which was anonymously attacked by an ex-official named Fitzgerald, in a professed reprint in the Royal Jamaica Gazette' of a critique in the Edinburgh Review.' The last literary effort of Dancer was to expose this fiction. He died at Kingston 1 Aug. 1810. [Prefaces, &c., of Dancer's works; Gent. Mag. 1811, lxxxi. pt. ii. 390.] B. D. J. in his life.' Pepys further narrates, under date of 22 Jan. 1669, that Danckerts 'took measure of my panels in my dining-room, where in the four I intend to have the four houses of the king, White Hall, Hampton Court, Greenwich, and Windsor.' Greenwich was finished to my very great content, though this manner of distemper do make the figures not so pleasing as in oyle,' but with regard to the other pictures ordered Pepys says, later on, 'I did choose a view of Rome instead of Hampton Court.' There was in the collection of Horace Walpole, at Strawberry Hill, a picture said to be by Danckerts, representing Rose, the royal gardener, presenting to Charles II the first pineapple grown in England, apparently at Dorney Court, near Eton, the residence of the Duchess of Cleveland. It has been engraved by Robert Graves, A.R.A. Being a Roman catholic, the popish plot caused Danckerts to leave England about 1679 and to settle at Amsterdam, where he died soon after, but in what year is not known. His works as an engraver are a portrait of Charles II, after Adriaan Hanneman, one of his best plates, and those of Cornelis Staefvenisse, pensionary of Zeeland, after D. N. van Limborch; Ewaldus Schrevelius, after David Bailly; Christiaan Rompf, physician to the Prince of Orange; the Princess Augusta Maria, Margravine of Baden-Durlach, in the character of Diana; and Sir Edmund Fortescue. Besides these he engraved a 'Concert,' after Titian, a very large print in three sheets with fifty figures, a 'View of Amsterdam and the Y,' also in three sheets, a series of the royal palaces and the sea-ports of England and Wales, and some free subjects after Titian. DANCKERTS, HENRY (1630?-1680?), landscape-painter and line-engraver, belonged to a Dutch family, resident chiefly at Amsterdam, which included several artists among its members. Some writers state that he and John Danckerts were the sons of Justus Danckerts, while others assert that their father was Pieter Danckerts de Ry. Both these statements are negatived by the evidence of dates, for Justus Danckerts was living at Amsterdam in 1686, and Pieter Danckerts de Ry was born in 1605, and died at Stockholm in 1659. Henry Danckerts was born at the Hague about 1630. He was brought up as an engraver, and in 1647 executed thirteen plates of antiquities which were published in a folio volume under the title "Affbeeldinge vande ouer Oude Rarie- JOHN DANCKERTS, his elder brother, was teyten aende strandt ontrent Domburch in- born about 1610, and entered in 1631 the den Eylandt van Walcheren gevonden.' He guild of St. Luke at the Hague, of which was admitted into the guild of St. Luke at he was dean from 1650 to 1652. He painted the Hague in 1651 as an engraver, but he historical subjects and portraits, and made appears to have been induced by his brother some of the designs for the plates which John to turn his attention to landscape- Hollar engraved for Sir Robert Stapylton's painting. After studying for a time in Italy edition of Juvenal,' published in 1660. Holhe came to England about 1667 or 1668, lar engraved also after him a head of John and met with much encouragement from Price, the biblical critic. He likewise etched Charles II, who engaged him to paint views a few plates, including Venus reclining,' of the royal palaces and many of the seaports after Titian, and an 'Embarkation of Merof England and Wales. No less than twenty-chandise.' There appears to be no evidence eight of these, one of them being a sliding- to support the statement that he visited Engpiece before a picture of Nell Gwyn, are land. He was living at Amsterdam in 1660, mentioned in the catalogue of the royal col- but the date of his death is not recorded. lection as it existed in the days of James II, and three of them are still at Hampton Court. Pepys, in his 'Diary,' records that Danckerts painted for the Earl of Sandwich a view of Tangier, which my Lord Sandwich admires as being the truest picture that ever he saw 6 num, 1849, ii. 458-9; Nagler's Neues allge[Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, ed. Wormeines Künstler-Lexikon, 1835-52, iii. 261; Kramm's Levens en Werken der Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Kunstschilders, 1857-64, i. 320–1; Van der Aa's Biographisch Woordenboek der |