THOMPSON, Cephas artist, born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, 1 July, 1775; died there, 6 November, 1856. His profession was that of a portrait-painter, and he made yearly tours in the south, painting in all the cities from Philadelphia to New Orleans. When about fifty years of age, he settled in his home in Middleborough. Among his portraits were those of John Marshall, Stephen Decatur, David Ramsay of South Carolina, John Howard Payne, and George Washington Parke Custis, who was his pupil.--His son, Cephas Giovanni, artist, born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, 3 August, 1809; died in New York city. 5 January, 1888, had some instruction from his father but was comparatively self-taught. At the age of nineteen he began to paint portraits in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and two years later he was working in Boston. During 1837-'47 he was in New York, and in 1852 he went to Europe, where he spent seven years in Rome. During this period he painted numerous Italian subjects, and executed some admirable copies of the old masters, notably one of "Beatrice Cenci." While in Italy he was intimate with Nathaniel Hawthorne, who complimented him in the "Marble Faun." In 1860 he settled in New York, and he was elected an associate of the National academy the following year. Before going abroad he painted the portraits of Henry W. Longfellow, Charles Fenno Hoffman (owned by the New York historical society), William Cullen Bryant, and other well-known authors. His portrait of Hawthorne has been engraved. Other works by him are " The Guardian Angels," "Prospero and Miranda," "St. Peter delivered from Prison," and '" Spring and Autumn."--His two sons, who died before him, were HUBERT OGDEN, commissioner of public works, New York city, and EDMUND FRANCIS, captain in the United States army.--Another son of Cephas, Jerome, born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, 30 January, 1814; died in Glen Gardner, New Jersey, 1 May, 1886, had also little or no regular instruction in art. He displayed artistic tastes at an early age, painted portraits for several years at Cape Cod, and at the age of seventeen went to New York, where he afterward lived and always had his studio. In 1852 he went to Europe, where he remained two years. He painted both landscapes and figures with success, his best-known works being "Reminiscences of Mount Mansfield," "The Old Oaken Bucket," " Home, Sweet Home," " Woodman, spare that Tree," " Hiawatha's Homeward Journey with Minnehaha," "The Home of My Childhood," "Com-in' thro' the Rye," " The Land of Beulah," and "The Voice of the Great Spirit." Most of his works were never exhibited by him, but several of them have become well known to the public through engravings and chromos. Some of the finest of his latest works are in Paris, and others are in England.