A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
ATTAVANTE {or Vante), a friend of Gherardo,
and an imitator of Bartolommeo della Gatta, was
employed by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary,
for whom he executed a missal, now in the Royal
Library at Brussels. There is another breviary
by him in the National Library at Paris, executed
in the manner of the Ghirlandaj. Other missals
in Florence and Rome are also ascribed to him.
Attavante, who was a miniature painter of great
merit, worlied at Florence towards the close of the
15th century.
ATTIRET, Jean Denis, who was born at Dole in 1702, studied art iirst under his father, an un- known painter ; and then improved liis style by a visit to Rome. On his return lie painted portraits at Lyons and at Dole. When little more than 30 years of age he entered the order of Jesuits, and during his noviciate painted four works for the cathedral of Avignon. In 1737 Attiret went to China, rose to high honour at court, and was ap- pointed painter to the Emperor. He painted numerous portraits, pictures for churches, battle- scenes, landscapes, and fruit and flower pieces. Works by him are in the Royal Palace at Pekin, where he died in 1768.
AUBERT, AuGDSTlN Raymond, who was born at Marseilles in 1781, studied at first under Guenin, and subsequently with Peyron, in Paris, to which city he went in 1802. He soon, how- ever, returned to his native town, and in 1810 was made Director of the School of Design, and in that capacity directed the studies of numerous pupils who afterwards became celebrated. He painted history, landscape, and portrait subjects with much success. The museum and churches of his native town possess several good examples of his art. Some of his chief pictures, taken from sacred history, are of large dimensions. He died on his estate, near Marseilles, in 1847.
AUBERT, Jean, a French engraver, flourished in Paris from about 1720 to 1741, in which year he died. His prints are little more than slight etch- ings, and without much effect. He engraved the Portrait of Gillot; some Academy figures, after Edme Bouchardon ; and a ' Drawing-book,' from Raphael and other masters, after drawings by Bouchardon. He was also an architect.
AUBERT, Michel. Tliis artist was born in Paris about 1704. He engraved portraits and his- torical subjects. His manner is slight and free, and in some of his historical prints he appears to have imitated the style of Gerard Audran, but not with very great success. He died in Paris in 1757. His plates are :
PORTRAITS.
Elizabeth, Queen of England ; 4to. Charles Emmanuel, Duke of Savoy ; after Van Dyck. Victor Amadeus, King of Sardinia ; after Ferrand. James I., King of England. Philip of France, Duke of Orleans ; after Nocret. Marquise de Montespan. Louis XV. on horseback ; after Le Sueur. Louis, Daui>hin of France, on horseback ; after the same. Two portraits — The Dauphin and the Dauphiness ; after La Tour. Portrait of Charles Stuart, oval ; after the same. Sixty-two portraits for D' Argenville's Abreye de la Vie des plus fameux Peintres.
SUBJECTS AFTER DIFFERENT MASTERS.
The Circumcision ; after Ciro Ferri. St. Francis ; after Guido ; arched. 6d Pan instructed by Cupid, half-length figures; after Ann ibale Carracci, St. George kneeling before the Virgin Mary and Infant ; after Parmigiano. Mars and Venus, boimd by Love; after Paolo Vera- ?iese, for the Grozat Collection. Mars disarmed by Venus; after the same, for the same' Vanity, an allegorical subject ; after Bouchardon. Venus reposing with Cupid ; after Boucher. The Death of Adonis ; after the same. Laban seeking for liis Gods ; after Jeaurat. The Keconciliation of Jacob and Esau ; after the same. The Promenade on the Ramparts; after IVatteau. The Rendezvous de Chasse ; after the same.
AUBERT, Pierre Eugene, a French engraver and pupil of Scheuder, was born in Paris in 1789, and died there in 1847. His liest work is a 'View at Samboanga in the island of Mindanao,' after E. Goupil ; lie also engraved ' Ulysses and Nausicaa,' after the picture by Rubens in the Aguado Gallery.
AUBERTIN, FRANgois, who was bom at Metz in 1773, began life as a soldier, but subsequently became an engraver in aquatint, in which pro- cess he made certain technical improvements. He worked at Dresden, Berlin, Paris, and at Ghent, where he died by suicide in 1821. Aubertin engraved plates after Berchem, Paul Potter, C. Vanloo, Dietrich, and others.
AUBIN, AuGUSTiN DE SAINT. See Saint-Ahbin.
AUBRIER, — , was a French engraver of the 18th century (?) by whom we have a portrait of Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois.
AUBRIET, Claude, who was born at Chaiona-sur-Marne about 1665, studied under Jean Joubert, and became famous for his drawings of plants. In 1700 he accompanied the botanist Tournefort to the Levant, and on his return was made, by Louis XIV., painter at the Jardin du Roi. He died in Paris in 1742. The national libraries of Paris and Gottingen possess botanical drawings by his hand.
AUBRY, Abraham, was a native of Oppenheim, and flourished about the year 1650. He studied under his elder brother Peter, and assisted him in his publications in Strasburg. He also carried on a considerable business as a printseller. He resided at Strasburg, Nuremberg, Frankfort - on - Main, and Cologne, and, Fussli tells us, was still living in 1682. He engraved, besides other prints, eleven of the twelve plates representing the 'Twelve Months of the Year' (1653), after Sandrart; the month of May was engraved by F. Brun.
AUBRY, Etienne, who was born at Versailles in 1745, studied under J. A. Silvestre and Joseph Vien, and soon became noted for his portraits and genre subjects. He exhibited several works of great merit at the Salon ; but his life was cut short in its prime in 1781, in which year he had exhibited the 'Parting of Coriolanus from his Wife.'
AUBRY, JoHANN Philipp, an engraver and printseller, who resided at Frankfort about the year 1670, and was a relative of Peter and Abraham Aubry. He engraved a great number of plates for the booksellers, as well as for hi.s own collection. They chiefly consist of portraits, and are executed in a very indifferent style,
AUBRY, Louis Franqois, who was born in Paris in 1770, studied under Vincent and Isabey, and became celebrated as a portrait painter. He exhibited at the Salon of 1810 portraits of
