James Thorne

“ Intending to practise painting as a profession, he, on the completion of his general education at University college in 1833, and after a few months' preparatory training in Sass's art school, proceeded to the continent, and spent six years in the schools and galleries of Munich, Dresden, Rome, and Paris. On his return to England at the end of 1839 he established himself as a portrait painter, but gradually turned from the practice to the literature of art. ”

“ Wornum wrote the memoir and illustrative text to "The Turner Gallery," folio, 1861; has contributed numerous papers on art to the Art-Journal and other serials; edited the Lectures of the Royal Academicians, for Bohn's Scientific Library, 1848; a new edition of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting, 1849; and a Biographical Catalogue of Italian Painters, 1855. He is also the author of the biographies of artists, signed R. N. W., in the present work—notices characterized, like all his writings, by fullness and precision of information.—J. T—e. ”