Hoppin ,.I. Augustus, an American artist, born in Providence, R. I., July 13, 1828. He graduated at Brown university in 1848, and was subsequently admitted to the bar of Rhode Island; but his love of art proved too strong to admit of a legal career, and he went to Europe to study the works of the great masters. Of late years he has devoted himself exclusively to drawing upon wood. He has illustrated Butler's poem of " Nothing to Wear," " The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "The Poti-phar Papers," "The Arabian Days' Entertainments," "Mrs. Partington," and a variety of other publications. Some of his elaborate pen and ink drawings are full of character and noted for graceful execution. II. Thomas F., brother of the preceding, born in Providence in August, 1816. He studied painting with Paul Delaroche in 1837-'8, and subsequently designed the figures on the great window of Trinity church in New York. He has produced a spirited model of a dog, which has been cast in bronze, and numerous etchings in outline and designs on wood.