614 



LIVERSEEGE LLANGOLLEN. 



whole town. The parish of Lisburn is partly in ; 

 the county of Antrim, and partly in the county of 

 Down. It contains 13,249 inhabitants, of which 

 5218 are in the town, 5941 in that part of the 

 county which is in Down, and 2090 in that which 

 is in Antrim. 



LIVERSEEGE, HENKY, a very promising 

 young painter in the higher walks of the art, was 

 born at Manchester in the year 1803, and from 

 infancy was afflicted with asthma. His father was 

 connected with the cotton-trade, but he was in- 

 debted to an uncle for his education. The exact 

 period cannot be fixed upon when first he decided 

 on pursuing the arts ; but, it was long ere he dis- 

 covered the true bent of his genius dramatic 

 painting ; for the earlier periods of his youth were 

 spent in portrait-painting. On his first composition 

 in this style being exhibited at Manchester, it im- 

 mediately attracted the notice of many judges of 

 taste ; and from that time his affairs began to 

 assume a more brilliant aspect, and he was enabled 

 to pursue the studies most congenial to his feelings 

 and habits. Every new composition afforded in- 

 dubitable signs of the felicity of his choice, and of 

 his rapid improvement in the art. He possessed ! 

 a vivid perception of the beauties of poetry and ! 

 romance; his compositions are derived chiefly from i 

 works of imagination, and are treated in a manner 

 which clearly attests his aptitude for this particular 

 style. His picture of the " Black Dwarf," taken 

 from Scott's novel, was the first subject he exhi- 

 bited at the royal academy. About 1826, he 

 began to visit London for three or four months at 

 a time, to draw at the British Museum, and copy 

 at the British Institution; and his copies at the 

 latter place were admirably close in resemblance 

 to the originals, especially those from Rubens, 

 Vandyke, and Teniers. To the exhibition of the 

 society of British artists in 1830, he sent his paint- 

 ing called " The Inquiry," representing a country 

 lad, with game, standing before a burly and pom- 

 pous porter at the door of a country mansion. 

 In the exhibition of this society in 1831, he had 

 three paintings; the "Grave-diggers," from Ham- 

 let; "Catharine Seyton,"and "Benedicite, or Holy 

 Daughter." To the royal academy exhibition of 

 1831, he sent two pictures, " Sir Piercie Shafton, 

 and Mysie Happer," from Scott's Monastery, and 

 " Hamlet and his Mother in the closet." In 1830, 

 he exhibited at the British Institution the " Weekly 

 Register," representing a cobbler devouring with 

 straining eyes the contents of Cobbett's last Re- 

 gister. And in the following year he had " Cap- 

 tain Macheath in Prison." To the Manchester 

 Exhibition in August, 1831, he sent four paint- 

 ings: "The Register," "Don Quixote in his 

 Study," " The Fisherman," and another " Don 

 Quixote." The picture of "Don Quixote" was 

 exhibited at the British Institution in 1832, to- 

 gether with one called " The Recruit," an en- 

 listed country bumpkin in an alehouse : an admirable 

 production, a water-colour sketch of which, also, 

 he completed. During his stay in London in the 

 summer of 1831, he finished several pictures, both 

 in oil and in water-colours. One in oil, which he 

 did not live to complete, was " Salvator Rosa 

 among the Banditti :" and another was " Edie 

 Ochiltree," from the Antiquary. Among his 

 sketches in water colours were " Slender and Anne 

 Page" and " Sir John Falstaffand Bardolph." Li- 

 verseege's death took place at London, on the 13th 

 Jan. 1832. In height he was about five feet five, 



of a thin spare body, and rather deformed in the 

 left shoulder ; complexion very pale ; countenance 

 restless and inquiring ; his eyes especially always 

 bespoke continual anxiety, and his mouth great 

 nervousness and irritability. In temper he was 

 irritable ; which, however, did not arise from male- 

 volence of nature, but was the effect of ill-health ; 

 in disposition he was humane and generous; 

 in mind, elevated and refined; in his manners, 

 gentlemanly and courteous. 



LLANDAFF; (i. e. church on the Taff,) a vil- 

 lage in the county of Glamorgan, Wales, situated 

 on the river Taff, 162 miles from London. It 

 claims the title of city from being the see of a 

 bishop. It has a small harbour on the north bank 

 of the Severn, two miles from Cardiff. Popula- 

 tion in 1841, 1276. 



A church was founded here immediately after 

 the introduction of Christianity into Britain ; and 

 about the close of the fifth century, Saints Ger- 

 manus and Lupus, the virtuous opponents of Pala- 

 gianism, consecrated Dubricius to be the first 

 bishop of this see : upon his translation to Caerl- 

 leon, Teliaus succeeded to Llandaff. The names of 

 the bishops of this diocese from its foundation to 

 the close of the ninth century, are all preserved, 

 but the dates of their consecrations and deaths are 

 uncertain. The see comprehends about three- 

 fourths of the county of Glamorgan, and the whole 

 of Monmouthshire, seven parishes excepted. 



The cathedral was erected during the prelacy of 

 bishop Urban, A. D. 1120, and some beautiful spe- 

 cimens of Norman architecture still survive amongst 

 the extensive ruins. Some parts of this venerable 

 edifice were repaired, chiefly at the expense of 

 bishop Watson, but the renovation was in an unhappy 

 style, quite neglectful of the elegant proportions 

 of the great original itself. The altar is placed 

 beneath the portico of a Roman temple, not in har- 

 mony with any other passage in the whole fabric. 

 The ancient chapter-house and muniment room, 

 are well preserved. Here are also a new chapter- 

 room, with a kitchen, and an office for the proctor- 

 general, in the church-yard. Several ancient 

 monuments adorn and give interest to this fine 

 structure. The see of Llandaff can boast of hav- 

 ing possessed, within the last seventy years, the 

 distinguished names of Shipley, Barrington, Wat- 

 son, Marsh, Van Mildert, Sumner, and Cople- 

 ston. 



LLANGOLLEN ; a town in the county of Den- 

 bigh, Wales, situated on the river Dee, the great 

 post road from London to Holyhead passing di- 

 rectly through it. The bridge here over the Dee, 

 erected by the bishop of St Asaph, in 1346, is a 

 great curiosity. About two miles from it is the 

 abbey of Valle Crucis, and not far from it the 

 ruins of one of Owen Glendower's castles. 



The influx of tourists, during the summer, to 

 the romantic vale of Llangollen, contributes greatly 

 to the support of the villagers. Manufactures of 

 flannel and cotton, both upon rather an extensive 

 scale, occupy many hands. The lime-kilns in this 

 parish, and coal-mines in the adjoining, also afford 

 much employment; and the Ellesmere canal, which 

 is conveyed across the Dee, from one side of the 

 vale to the other, by an aqueduct 1007 feet in 

 length, affords commercial facilities of great advan- 

 tage to this parish. The canal is fed by the river 

 Dee, and extends along the vale from the aqueduct 

 to the Oernant slate-quarries. Population of town 

 and parish of Llangollen in 1841, 4906. 





