returned to Water Colour Society in 1861. In 1859, he visited Switzerland and Italy. Works: Savoyard Boy, First Sup (1839); Singing for a Wife (1840); Vicar of Wakefield in Prison (1842); Paul and Virginia (1843); Judgment of Midas, Captain Macheath Betrayed (1844); Threading the Needle (1846); Plenty (1849); First Night in a Convent (1853); The Baptism (1856); Boulogne (1858); Tête-à-Tête (1860); Mdlle. de Sombreuil (1861); Courtship of Gainsborough (1863); The Beacon (1876); Returning from Church, Bringing in the Maypole (1883).—Art Journal (1862), 201; Ottley; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 34.
ACCORDÉE DE VILLAGE. See Village Bride.
ACHAED, JEAN ALEXIS, born at Voreppe, Isère, France, June 8, 1807, died in Grenoble, Oct., 1884. Landscape painter, self-taught; went to Paris in 1835, and exhibited first at the Salon in 1839; has travelled in Egypt. Medals: 3d class, 1844; 2d class, 1845, 1848; 3d class, 1855. Works: Valley of the Isère (1844); Grande Chartreuse (1845); Mill of Crémieux (1848); Autumn Landscape (1853); Sea Coast near Honfleur (1861); Waterfall (1863); Cascade of Cernay-la-Ville (1866), Luxembourg; View near Cernay (1870). Others in Museums at Grenoble and Avignon.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 38.
ACHELOUS. See Hercules and Achelous.
ACHEN, JOHANN or HANS VON, born in Cologne in 1562, died in Prague, Jan. 6, 1615. History and portrait painter, German school; pupil of C. Jerrigh in Cologne and of Kaspar Rems in Venice; studied Michelangelo and Tintoretto in Italy, and returned home in 1588. In 1590 he was called to Munich by Duke William V., became painter to the Emperor Rudolph II., resided at Prague after 1601, and in 1612 was appointed court painter to Matthias I. He was a mannerist like Goltzius and Spranger, and very much overrated by his contemporaries. Works: Crucifixion (1588), Protestant church, Cologne; Entombment (1589), Bonn Cathedral; Pietà, Martyrdom of St. Sebastian, do. of Magdalen, Jesuit church, Munich; Altarpiece with Christ crucified, Kreuzkapelle, ib.; nine biblical, mythological, and genre scenes, Vienna Museum; Raising of Lazarus, Nativity, St. Mary and Carthusian Monk, Portrait of Burgomaster Broelman (1588), all in Cologne Museum; Ave Maria, Christ raising the Widow's Son, Truth victorious under Protection of Justice, twelve portraits of Bavarian princes and princesses, all at Schleissheim Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., i. 29; Campori, Artisti italiani e stranieri, 245; Kugler (Crowe), i. 271; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 39; Organ f. christl. K., xv. 155.
ACHENBACH, ANDREAS, born in Cassel, Sept. 29, 1815. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Dûsseldorf Academy (1827-1835) under Schirmer, and one of the most distinguished painters of the school. His early views of the Rhine country are fresh and individual. Later, he widened his range by visiting Holland (1832-33), Norway (1835), the Bavarian Tyrol (1836), and Italy (1843). After his return to Düsseldorf in 1846, he painted a great number of German and Norwegian landscapes, treating mountain, forest, and sea with like ability and power. Achenbach is a member of the Berlin, Amsterdam, and Antwerp Academies, and has received many orders and medals. Paris Salon: medal 3d class, 1839; 1st class, 1855; 3d class, 1867; L. of Honour, 1864. Works in galleries of Berlin, Munich, Frankfort, Darmstadt, Carlsruhe, Düsseldorf, and in many private collections in Europe; in the United States, in collections of Miss C.
