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HUMPHRY, OZIAS (1742-1810)

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HUMPHRY, OZIAS (1742-1810) , See also:English See also:miniature painter, was See also:born at See also:Honiton and educated at the See also:Grammar School of that See also:town. Attracted by the See also:gallery of casts opened by the See also:duke of See also:Richmond, Humphry came to See also:London and studied at See also:Shipley's school; and later he See also:left for See also:Bath, where he lodged with See also:Linley and became a See also:great friend of his beautiful daughter, afterwards Mrs See also:Sheridan. In 1766 he was in London warmly encouraged by See also:Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds, who was always interested in See also:Devonshire painters. He was a great friend of See also:Romney, with whom in 1773 he went to See also:Italy, staying, on his way to See also:Dover, at Knole, where the duke of See also:Dorset gave him many commissions. In 1785 he went to See also:India, visiting the native courts, See also:painting a large number of miniatures, and making many beautiful sketches. His sight failed him in 1797, and he died in See also:Hampstead in 181o. The bulk of his possessions came into the hands of his natural son, See also:William Upcott, the See also:book See also:collector. From him the See also:British Museum acquired a large number of papers See also:relating to Humphry. He was See also:Opie's first See also:master, and is alluded to in some lines by See also:Hayley. His miniatures are exquisite in detail and delightful in colouring. Many of the finest are in the collection of Mr J. Pierpont See also:Morgan.

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History of Portrait Miniatures, by G. C. See also:Williamson, vol. ii. (London, 1904). (G. C. W.) HUMUS (a Latin word meaning the ground), a product of decomposing organic See also:matter. It is especially See also:present in See also:peat bogs, and also occurs in See also:surface soils, to which it imparts a See also:brown or See also:black See also:colour. It is one of the most important See also:soil-constituents from the agricultural point of view; it is the See also:chief source of nitrogenous See also:food for See also:plants, and modifies the properties of the soil by increasing its See also:water-holding capacity and diminishing its tenacity. Little is known with regard to its chemical See also:composition. By treating with a dilute See also:acid to remove the bases present, and then acting on the See also:residue with See also:ammonia, a See also:solution is obtained from which a See also:mineral acid precipitates humic acid; the residue from the ammonia extraction is termed humin. Both the humic acid and humin are mixtures, and several constituents have been separated; ulmic acid and ulmin,in addition to humic acid and humin, are perhaps the best characterized.

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