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DAVID DAL BY. 



(Born cin-a lygo.) 



FN AVID DALBY was born about the year 1790, 

 '-^ and was probably a Yorkshireman ; but 

 where he first saw the Hght, who were his parents, 

 how or where he received his education, under 

 what circumstances he adopted the brush as a 

 means of Hvehhood, and where and when he died, 

 cannot be discovered. It is certain that for some 

 years he resided at York, and that he left that 

 city to seek a home in Leeds ; and the fact that 

 this migration took place very shortly after the 

 publication of a sketch he made, caricaturing the 

 Sheriff, appears at once to furnish a motive for 

 his change of residence, and also to indicate that 

 Dalby occasionally employed his talents with more 

 ability than discretion. 



He appears to have had a struggle for his bread 

 after he settled in Leeds, as we are informed that 

 he painted pictures for a dealer there, work which 

 for a time kept him from starvation. However that 

 may be, his gifts in course of time won the recog- 

 nition which is their due, and he found patrons 



