DANBY

Francis ( 3 son of James Danby of Common near Wexford, farmer ). b. Common 16 Nov. 1793; landscape painter especially of sunsets; exhibited 48 pictures at R.A., 17 at B.I. and 2 at Suffolk st. gallery 1820–60; A.R.A. 7 Nov. 1825; lived in Paris and on the lake of Geneva 1829–41, at Lewisham, Kent 1841–47, and at Exmouth 1847 to death; his picture ‘The Deluge’ exhibited in London 1840 was chief artistic feature of Dublin Exhibition 1853. d. Shell house, Exmouth 17 Feb. 1861. Sandby’s History of the royal academy ii , 68–71 (1862); Red grave’s Century of painters ii , 437–49 (1866); W. Stokes’s Life of George Petrie (1869) 7–10.