A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
Four — Of the Parable of the good Samaritan. 1554.
Five — Of the Kicb Blan and Lazarus. 1554.
The Four Evangelists. 1539.
The Adoration of the Shepherds. 1553.
The Virgin and Infant, reposing under a tree. 1527.
The Virgin carrying the Infant Jesus, with a standard.
1552.
Medea and Jason. 1529.
Komulus and Eemus talcen from their mother, Rhea
Sylvia.
Tarquin and Lucretia. 1539.
Sophoni,sha taliing the Poisou. 1553.
Marcus Ourtius about to leap into the Gulf. 1532.
Mutius Scievola before Porsena. 1530.
Titus Manhus ordering his Son to be decapitated. 1553.
It is curious to observe that in this print, as well as in one of the same subject by Georg Pencz, the instrument of execution resembles the giiillotine used in France during the Revolution. The Count d'Archambaud destroying his Son before his Death ; inscribed Pater ne post suam mortem, ifC. 1553. Hector in Combat ; small frieze. 1532. The Battle of Hannibal and Scipio. 1538. Seven— The Divinities that preside over the Planets. 1553. Thirteen — The Labours of Hercules; fine, and scarce. 1550. Orpheus and Eurydice ; the only etching by this master ; very scarce. 1528. Fourteen small plates of different allegorical subjects. 1549 and 1550. Seven— Of the Virtues 1552. Seven — Of the Vices. 1552. Eight— Of the Empire of Death over Humanity. 1541. Twelve — Of the Procession of a Westphalian Wedding. 1538. Eight — Of a similar subject. 1551. Six — Of Death dragging away persons of both sexes. 1562. A Woman holding an hour-glass, with a skull and a globe, on which is inscribed Respice Jinem, 1529. A AVoman with wings, standing on a globe, holding the symbols of prudence and temperance. 1555. An Officer carrying a flag. 1540. A Man with a sword, surprising a monk and a nun. Dated 1530. Very rare. Monk and Nun. 1532. The Society of Anabaptists, with a number of figures in a bath. This is engraved by Virgil Soils after Aldegrevcr. Also three sets of wedding processions, one of twelve prints, the others of eight each ; and ninety-nine beautiful vignettes, and other orna- ments. These last connect him with the gold- sraitli'a art. A good collection of his engravings may be seen in the Print Koom at the Britisli iUuseum. W. B. S.
ALDENHATH, Heinrich Jakob, who was born at Liibeck in 1775, was a portrait painter, a miniaturist, and a litliographer. He received in- struction froui Johann Jakob Ti.sclibein and from Friedricli Karl Groger, with whom he conunenced a friendship wiiich was only severed by Groger's death in 1838. Together they visited the Academies of Berlin, Dresden, and Paris ; and after sojourns in Liibeck, Kiel, and Copenhagen, they finally settled at Hamburg in 1814, and became cele- brated as portrait painters. Aldenrath died in Hamburg in 1844. It is said that he painted the portrait of the King of Denmark no less than thirteen times. Among his lithographs may be mentioned the following :
His own Portrait. Portrait of Friedrich Karl Gruger. Portrait of Klopstock, the poet. Portrait of Count Stolberg, the poet. Portrait of Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge.
ALDEWERELD, H. van, a Dutch painter, who flourished at Amsterdam about the middle of the 17th century, was chiefly engaged in painting portraits, generally of celebrated personages, several of which have been engraved. He occa- sionally painted genre pictures. He is frequently called in error, H. van Aide, because he was accus- tomed to sign his name H. van Aide, with the addition of a sketch of a world, which was over- looked.
ALDIGHIERO d.i ZEVIO. See Altichiebo DA ZevIO.
ALDIVEKTI, Alfonso, the son of a notary, flourislied in the early part of the 17th century at Kovigo. He painted in the church of Santa Maria della Neve, scenes from the Life of Christ. The 'Christ Condemned' is signed and dated 1615. Bartoli says of these woiks, that they are painted in an antique style, and remind one of Diirer's engravings. He also painted a ' St. Charles Bor- romeo,' in San Bartolorameo, in Rovigo.
ALDKOVANDINI, Posipeo, son of Mauro, and cousin and pupil of Tommaso, was born at Bologna in 1677. He was employed much in the churches, palaces, and theatres of Dresden, Prague, and Vienna, and executed many excellent works in oil, in fresco, and in distemper. He died at Rome in 1735.
ALDROVANDINI, Tommaso, the son of Giu- seppe Aldrovandini, an architectural painter, was born at Bologna in 1653. He was instructed in the first principles of design by his uncle Mauro Aldro- vandini, an eminent painter of the same subject. Tommaso's talent lay in painting perspective views and architectural subjects, in which the figures were painted by Marc Antonio Franceschini and Carlo Cignani, to whose pictures he in return painted architectural backgrounds; he also studied figure painting under Cignani. He decorated churches, palaces, and theatres in many of the principal cities of Italy — Forli, Verona, Venice, Parma, Turin, Ferrara, and Genoa, and especially in his native Bologna. His most considerable work was the Council Chamber of the Ducal Palace at Genoa, which he executed in conjunc- tion with Franceschini ; it has since been de- stroyed by fire. He died in 1736.
ALE, GiLLES (or Hallet), of Liege, flourished in the latter half of the 17th century, and was distinguished for the purity of his style, accord- ing to the principles of the Roman school. He painted in conjunction with Morandi, Bonatti, and Romanelli ; and executed an altar-piece in oil, and the ceilings of the chapels in fresco, for the church of Santa Maria dell' Auima in Rome. He died in 1689. Most of the paintings by him in Liege were destroyed when the French bom- barded that town in 1691.
ALEFOUNDER, John-, a student of the Royal Academy Schools, practised for some time in London the art of portraiture, occasionally in miniature. He subsequently went to India, and died in 1795 at Calcutta, from the effects of the climate. In 1784 Bartolozzi engraved the portrait of ' Peter the Wild Boy,' after him, and in the same year Hodges engraved his portrait of J. Edwin the Actor.
ALEKSYEEV, Feodor Jakovlevich, 'the Russian Canaletto,' was born at St. Petersburg in 1757. After he had received an education in the Academy of his native city he went to Venice for the improvement of his art. On his return to
Russia, he rose to great fame as a painter of nrchi-
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