in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum in London. According to Edward Edwards in his Anecdotes of Painting (1808) "these works did not answer the expectations of those for whom they were painted." Durno died of fever in Rome on 13 September 1795. The Gentleman's Magazine reported that He was buried according to the usual custom of interring Protestants in that country. All his brother artists (we mean British artists) attended; and Prince Augustus honoured his funeral by carrying a torch, as did his two gentlemen, and Lord Wycombe, Mr. Amherst, and Mr. Disney Fitch. One painting, Achilles after the Death of Patroclus is in the collection of the Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras: References Sources (page 442) External links 1745 births 1795 deaths 18th-century British painters British male painters