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De Quincey says that there seemed a tone of sincerity and native sensibility about Wainewright's judgments upon Da Vinci, Titian, and others of the great masters, 'as in one who spoke for himself and was not merely a copier from books.' De Quincey was interested in him for this reason, and hence also came a claim upon the attention of Lamb. Such a description is a testimony to his insinuating manner. John Scott (1783-1821), the editor, knew something of Wainewright, and secured his services from the outset: and he wrote with a fluency that is often fulsome on such topics as 'Sentimentalities on the Fine Arts' and 'Dogmas for Dilettantes.' His connection with the periodical brought him into contact with Hood, Allan Cunningham, Hazlitt, De Quincey, and Charles Lamb, who spoke of 'kind, light-hearted Wainewright as the magazine's best stay. Under the pseudonyms of Egomet Bonmot and Janus Weathercock he was a fairly frequent contributor to the ' London Magazine' from 1820 to 1823. A severe illness, accompanied by hypochondria and neurotic symptoms, may have contributed to this change of plan. Finding his apprenticeship irksome, he is said to have entered first the guards and then a yeomanry regiment but after a brief experience of the army, in the course of which he imbibed a taste for whisky punch, he sold his commission and turned to art-journalism as a more congenial profession. 455 Allahabad Morning Post 26 March 1892). It seems probable that he worked for some months during 1814 in the studio of Thomas Phillips, and there is a tradition that while the academician was engaged upon the well-known portrait of Byron, Wainewright executed a less flattering likeness of the poet on his own account (see Notes and Queries, 8th ser. On leaving school his position at Linden House served him as an introduction to literary and artistic circles he met Fuseli and Flaxman, and he adopted the affected tone of a youthful dilettante.
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The latter went to school at the well-known academy of Charles Burney, where he evinced remarkable skill as a draughtsman. Griffiths had not altogether approved of his daughter's marriage in 1793, and on his death in September 1803 he was careful to deduct the amount of his daughter Ann's portion from the sum in the new four per cent, annuities which he bequeathed in trust to his grandson, Thomas Griffiths. 466 the house was pulled down in 1878, see Phillimore's Chiswick, pp. Having lost both his parents in infancy, Wainewright was adopted by his grandfather, and brought up at Linden House, Turnham Green (cf. Ralph Griffiths, publisher of the ' Monthly Review,' to whom he owed his second name.
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WAINEWRIGHT, THOMAS GRIFFITHS (1794–1862), poisoner and art critic, son of Thomas Wainewright of Chelsea, by his wife Ann (1773-1794), was born at Chiswick in October 1794.