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A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF


Angels the keys of the Church.' He died at his birthplace in 1693.

ARNHOLD, JoHANN Samuel, who was born in 1766 at Heinitz, a village near Meissen, studied in the Art School of the Porcelain factory of Meissen, of wliioh he subsequently became pro- fessor. He was also court-painter in Dresden. He painted in oil and water-colours, and on porce- lain and enamel. His pictures sometimes repre- sented landscapes and hunting scenes, but he is chiefly famous for his fruit and flower pieces. He died in 1827.

ARNOLD, George, who was born in 1763, was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1810. He was appointed landscape painter to the Duke of Gloucester. His exliibited works mostly represented English scenery — occasionally views in France. He died in 18-11.

ARNOLD, Harriet, a landscape painter, was born in 1787. Under her maiden name, Gouldsmith, this lady exliibited frequently at the Academy, and at the gallery of the Water Colour Society, of which she was elected a member in 1813. She also occasionally contributed to the Suffolk Street Gallery. She married, rather late in life, Captain Arnold, R.N. The last time Mrs. Arnold contributed to the Royal Academy was in 1854, when she sent a ' Landscape with Woodcutters' Cottages in Kent' She died in January, 1863.

ARNOLD, Heinbich Gotthold, who was born in 1785 at Lamiitz, near Radeberg in Saxony, studied under Schubert, and improved himself by studying the works of Titian, Guido Reni, and other great masters in the Dresden Gallery. He painted with much success portraits and sacred subjects for churches. He was a professor in the Academy of Dresden, where he died in 1854.

ARNOLD, Johann, an engraver of no great merit, was born at Koniggraz in Bohemia, in 1735, and studied under Renz. From 1763 to 1772 he worked in Prague. We have by him, among other things, a small plate of ' Daniel in the Lions' Den,' and a 'Saul and the Witch of Endor,' both after F. X. Palcko. Meyer gives a list of thirty- one of his works.

ARNOLD, Jonas, of Ulm, painter, designer, and engraver. He painted portraits, history, and flower-pieces, and died in 1669. He drew the portraits and figures engraved by Philip Kilian, Sigismond van Bircken, and M. Kusell. Jonas Arnold had two sons, who flourished at Ulm — Joseph, a portrait painter, who died in 1671 ; and Hans Ulrich, an engraver, who died in 1662.

ARNOULLET, Balthazar, a French engraver on wood, who resided at Lyons in the second half of the 16th century. According to Papillon, he executed a large woodcut of the town of Poictiers.

ARNOULT, Nicolas, a French engraver, who resided at Paris in the latter part of the 17th cen- tury, and acquired some reputation by his por- traits of the personages at court. Among these are three of Marie of Bavaria, wife of Louis, Dauphin of France. No less than 257 plates by him are given in Meyer's 'Kiinstler-Lexikon.'

ARNOUX, Michel, a French genre painter, born at Belleville, Paris, in 1833. He studied under Cogniet, E. Frere, and Dansaert, and died in 1877.

Amongst his works are: The Young Mother. 1866. A Future Conipanioa. 1870. The Toilet. 1872. The Elder Sister. 1875. 64 A Village Smith. 1876. The Barber's Wife. 1877.

ARPINO, II Cavaliere d'. See Cesari.

ARRAGONI. See Laurentini.

ARREDONDO, Isidoro, an eminent Spanish painter, was born at Colmenar de Oreja, in 1663. He was first a scholar of Josef Garcia, but he afterwards studied under Francisco Rizi. He painted history with much success, and on the death of Rizi, in 1685, he was appointed painter to Charles II. of Spain. One of his principal works was a_ large picture of the 'Incarnation,' which Palomino mentions as a very grand composition. He painted much in oil and fresco in the churches and palaces, and the ' Legend of Cupid and Psyche,' in the royal palace, is considered one of his best works. He died at Madrid in 1702.

ARREGIO. See Areqio.

ARRIENTI. See Arienti.

ARROYO, Diego de, a miniature painter, who was bom at Toledo in 1498, is supposed to have studied either in Italy or under an Italian master. His delicate miniature portraits gained him much renown, and the appointment of painter to Charles V. He also illuminated choir-books for the cathedral of Toledo. Arroyo died at Madrid in 1551.

ARSENIC, Fra. See Mascagni.

ARTARIA, CLAnDio, an It;ili;in line-engraver, was born at Blevio near Como in 1810. He was a pupil of Longhi and of Anderloni, but in 1842 abandoned the practice of art in order to enter the well-known house of Art.iria in Vienna. He died in that city in 1862. His best works are the following:

The Madonna and Child with St. John ; after Luini. The Redeemer ; after Carlo Dolci. Leonardo da Vinci ; after the portrait hy himself in the Tribune at Florence. Archduke Rainer of Austria ; after Pagani.

ARTAUD, William, the son of a jeweller in Londcn, gained a premium at the Society of Arts in 1776, and exhibited his first picture at the Academy in 1780. In 1786 he won the gold medal of the Academy, and nine years afterwards obtained the travelling studentship. He painted portraits and Biblical subjects, some of which were engraved in JIacklin's Bible. His last picture exhibited at the Academy was in 1822.

ARTEAGA y ALFARO, Francisco, brother of Matias, engraved, besides others, four plates of emblems for La Torre Farfan's book. He worked at Seville, where he died in 1711.

ARTEAGA y ALFARO, Matias, — son of Bartolom6 Arteaga, an engraver of repute at Seville in the reign of Philip IV., — was born in Seville about 1630, and studied painting under his fellow-citizen, Valdés Leal, and became a tolerable artist. His pictures, mostly of the Virgin, with architectural backgrounds, were inferior to his engravings. The best were two altar-pieces in the conventual church of San Pablo. He executed prints from various works of Valdés and the younger Herrera, and one of 'St. Dominick,' from a drawing by Alonso Cano; also a 'St. Ferdinand' by Murillo, for La Torre Farfan's account of the Seville festival in honour of St. Ferdinand; for which he likewise engraved views of the Giralda tower of Seville, and of the interior and exterior of the cathedral. He also executed a series of fifty-eight plates for the 'History of St. Juan de la Cruz,' the first barefooted Carmelite. He en-