DANIELL. IVittetar DANIELL, ILA., painter and engraver, was born in 1769, and at the age of fourtecu accompanied his uncle, Thomas Daniell, to India. They commenced their journey at Cape Comorin, and explored and sketched almost everything that was beautiful or interesting in the country between that point and &rine. gur in the Himalaya Mountains : this arduous undertaking employed thorn ten years. They took an amazing number of sketches, many of which they afterwards engraved and published in a large form, coin prised in one great work entitled 'Oriental Scenery,' iu 6 lath. folio, completed in 1808. Five of these six volumes were engraved by or under the direction of William ; the remaining volume, containing tho Caves of Ellera ' was executed by Thomas from drawings by James Wales. Beall:tee the above work, William Daniell engraved and published, between 1801 and 1814, the following works Picturesque Voyage to India ; " Zoography,' in conjunction with 3Ir. W. Wood; ' Animated Nature,' 2 vole.; • a series of views entitled Tho Docks;' and ' The Hunchback,' after R. Smirke, ILA. Between 1814 and 1825 ho was chiefly engaged in a work of extraordinary labour, entitled ' Voyage round Great Britain.' In this arduous under taking he spent the summer of every year, collecting drawings and making notes. The difficulties be met with in prosecuting this plan were extreme, and had it not been for the cheering influence of the hospitable reception which lie occasionally experienced from persons to whom he had letters of introduction, the accomplishment of his task would have been impossible : "immense fatigue, exposure to weather of all kinds, wretched fare, and still more wretched accommo dation, were his constant attendants?' Besides those works, Daniell painted many large and iutercsting oil-pictures of remarkable places or scenes in India. In 1832 he
painted, in conjunction with Mr. Paris, a panorama of Madras; and, more recently, two others by himself—' The City of Lucknow,' and 'The Elephant-Hunt ; ' and he was the chief contributor to the ' Oriental Annual.' His style of colouring was rather hard and red, which arose perhaps from the climate of India and the peculiar nature of its scenery. He died in 1837. .
Tuomas DANIELL was likewise a member of the Royal Academy, and a very able landscape-painter and engraver; lie was originally a heraldry painter. Ile published some works on India besides that already meutioned. Ho wain. fellow of the Royal, of the Asiatic, and of the Antiquarian societies. He died in 1840, aged ninety-one.
Another member of this family, SAMUEL DANIELL, also distinguished himself by some similar works. He spent three years at the Cape of Good llope, and published, in 1808, some prints descriptive of the scenery, habitations, costume, and character of the natives, and an account of the animals of Southern Africa. He published also, in 1808, illustrations of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon.