PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
We have also the following plates as specimens of his work in this line :
The Nativity, or Adoration of the Shepherds; after Parmigiano, The Virgin, with the Infant Christ and St. John; B. A. del Moro, fee. The Holy Family, with St. Elisabeth and St. John; after Raphael. Another Holy Family ; after the same. The Martyrdom of St. Catherine; after Bernardim Campi. The Baptism of Christ by St. John ; after the same.
ANGOLO DEL MORO, Giulio, (commonly called Angeli), the brother of Battista, was a sculptor, architect, and painter. He was a native of Verona, but laboured chiefly at Venice, and in the churches and the Doge's Palace of that city he has left several pictures. He flourished in the 16th cen- tury and the beginning of the 17th. There is no record of him later than 1618. There was a third brother, GiBOLAMO, who was also a painter, but of no great merit.
ANGOLO DEL MORO, Marco, (commonly called Angeli), the son and pupil and assistant of Bat- tista, flourished in the latter half of the 16th century at Venice and Verona. He assisted his father in his wall decorations at Murano. He also practised the art of engraving with considerable success.
ANGUISCIOLA, Sofonisba, (or Angosciola, also written Angdisola, ANGnssoLA, and Anguscinola). This celebrated painter, the eldest of six sisters, was born of an ancient family at Cremona, about 1535. She received her first instruction in the art from Bernardino Campi, to whom she went in 1546, but afterwards became a scholar of Bernardo Gatti, called Sojaro. After leaving those masters, her first effort in art was an effusion of filial affection, expressed in a portrait of her father and two of his children. This performance was uni- versally admired, and she was soon considered as one of the most eminent portrait painters of her time. She did not, however, confine herself to portraits, but painted some historical subjects of a small size, that were highly esteemed, and established her reputation. The fame of this painter induced Philip II. of Spain, the great encourager of art in his time, to invite her to Madrid, where she arrived about the year 1560, attended by three of her sisters. One of her first works in Spain was a portrait of the Queen Isa- bella, which was presented by the king to Pope Pius IV., to whom she was nearly related, accom- panied by a letter addressed to his Holiness by Sofonisba, to which that pontiff replied in an epistle, highly extolling her performance, and assuring her that he had placed it amongst his most select pictures. She was married twice : first to Don Fabricio di Moncada, a Sicilian nobleman, after whose death she returned to her own country by way of Genoa. There she married as her second husband Orazio Lomellini, the captain of the ga'ley in which she made the voyage. Her portrait at the age of ninety-six, together with a long account of her, is to be seen in the Van Dyck Sketchbook at Chatsworth, and is reproduced in the facsimile of this Sketchbook issued in 1901 by George Bell and Sons, London, Plate XXXVIIL It was drawn by Van Dyck on July 12, 1624, when the artist was at Palermo, and he states in the iu- Bcription that when " I was making her portrait she gave me many hints, such as not to take the light from too high, lest the shadows in the wrinkles of old age should become too strong, and many other good sayings by which I knew that she was a painter by nature and wonderful, and the greatest trouble she had was that from lack of sight she could paint no longer, though her hand was firm without tremor of any sort." She died in Palermo soon after the visit of Van Dyck, in 1626. A drawing has been discovered lately at Palermo which closely resembles the sketch at Chatsworth, and is attributed to Van Dyck with some definite assurance. The following may be noted among the most important of her paintings ; Portrait of herself, seated at a clavecin (signed). In a private collection in Bologna. Portrait of herself (similar to the Bologna picture) In the possession of Lord Spencer at Althorpe. Portrait of herself. At Xunehani Park. Portrait of herself painting a picture (signed). In tlit Uffizi, Florence. Portrait of herself holding a book (signed and dated 1554). In the Gallery, Vienna. Three of her sisters playing chess (formerly in the- collection ofLucien Buonapjrte; one of her best works). In the possession of Count Raczynski at Berlin. Portrait of a nun (signed). In the possession of the Earl of Yarborough. Portrait of a man. At Burleigh House. Portrait of a Venetian Ambassador (signed). In the Briynoli Gallery at Brescia. Madonna and child (dated 1559). In the Breseinni Collection at Cremona.
ANGUISCIOLA. All the five sisters of Sofonisba painted with more or less success. Elena, the next in age to Sofonisba, after having studied with her under Campi and Gatti, entered the con- vent of San Vincenzo, at Mantua, where she was still living in 1584. L0CIA, the third in age, who died in 1565, distinguished herself both in painting and music ; a portrait of the physician ' Pietro Maria of Cremona ' by her, signed ' Lucia Anguisola, Amilcaris filia, adolescens, fecit,' ia in the Madrid Gallery. Minerva died young. Edropa and Anna Maria painted subjects from sacred history for churches.
ANGUS, William, an English designer and engraver of landscapes and buildings, was born in 1752. He was a pupil of William Walker. He engraved and published a great number of views of gentlemen's seats in England and Wales, which were executed by him in a delicate and pleasing manner. He was also employed on many other topographical publications of the period. He did not confine his graver to his own drawings, but exercised it on those of Stothard, Paul Sandby, Edward Dayes, George Samuel, and others of high repute. He died in 1821.
ANICHINI, Pietro, a Florentine engraver, of whose life we have no particulars. He is said by Basan to have been born in 1610 ; he died in 1645. Among other plates engraved by him, we have the following :
A Holy Family ; small plate, lengthways ; dated 1644. The Good Samaritan ; small, lengthways. Cosmo Prince of Etruria.
Evangehsta TorricelU, the mathematician.
ANIELLO. See Portio.
ANIEMOLO, Vincenzo, (or Ainemolo;, called Vincenzo Romano, was born at Palermo towards the end of the 15th century. After having studied for some time in his native town the works of Perugino and other masters, he went to
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