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In France. 567 in-law Dugliet became an excellent landscape painter. His subjects were usually taken from picturesque scenes in the neighbourhood of Rome. His works abound in private galleries in England. Six of his paintings are in the National Gallery. Claude Gellee, of Lorraine (1600—1682), called Claude Lorrain, or more generally merely Claude, was born of very poor parents at Chamagne, a little village in the Vosges # When quite a lad he was apprenticed to a baker and pastry- cook, and before he was twenty years of age accompanied some fellow- work men to Rome and became the servant of Agostino Tassi, a landscape painter of eminence. It is said that young Claude prepared his master's dinner and ground his colours; at all events, from Tassi he acquired that love of art which has rendered his name so famous. He received lessons also from Sandrart, who was at Rome at the same time. His pictures and etchings bear dates varying from 1630 to 1670. Although he did not approach Poussin in learning, as he scarcely knew how to read or sign his name, Claude resembled him in his power of application, and his correct- ness of observation. In the Louvre, there are two small pictures, a calm Landscape and a Marine piece, glittering with the rays of the noonday sun, which Claude alone, like the eagle, then dared to face ; an interesting view of the Campo Vaccino at Rome (the ancient forum), now used as a cattle market ; two pendents, also a Marine piece and a Landscape ; then two other larger pendents — Marine pieces — warm and golden in the setting sun. The figures they contain, by the pencil of some of his usual assistants, are intended to show, in one, the Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus, where