Loves, Sea-Nymphs (1863); Death of Adonis (1865); Hylas and Nymphs (1867); Puck (1869); Haunt of Diana, Cupid Disarmed (1870); Musidora (1871); Nymph and Cupid (1872); Bacchante (1874).—Art Journal (1849), 184; (1857), 5; (1877), 280; Sandby, ii. 219; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 362; Kunst-Chronik, xii. 658.
FRUWIRTH, KARL, born in Vienna in
1809, died there, Jan. 17, 1878. Still-life
and genre painter, studied in Vienna; was
also a skilful restorer of old paintings.
Works: Venetian Fishermen in approaching
Storm (1846); Little Nell in the Curiosity
Shop (1847); Still Life (1850), Vienna
Museum; Wine, Woman, and Song (1850);
Dinner on Fishing Bark (1853); Armoury
(1857).—Wurzbach, iv. 388.
FUECHSELL, HERMANN, born at
Brunswick, Germany, Aug. 8, 1833. Land-*cape
painter, pupil of Lessing in Düsseldorf
in 1855. Prize for life-drawing, Brunswick
College, 1852. Studio in New York since
1858. Works: Scene on Staten Island
(1869); On the Saco—North Conway, N.H.
(1879); On the Hills near Bolton—Lake
George (1880); View from Crow's-Nest—North
River (1881); Break-Neck Hills on
the Hudson (1882); Camping Scene—Adirondacks,
View on Lake George (1884).
FUES, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH, born
in Tübingen in 1772, died in Nuremberg,
Sept., 1836. German school; history, genre,
and portrait painter, pupil of the Stuttgart
art-school, under Hetsch and Harper; lived
for some time in Brunswick, then in Nuremberg,
where he became professor at the art-school.
Works: Minnesinger (1821); Family
of Old Knight (1827); Politicians at Coffee-House,
Girl Resting, Würtemberg Costumes
(1830); Village Fair (1827); Kirmess
(1833); Laughing Peasant, Suabian Girl
braiding her Hair (1834); Summer and Winter
(1835); nine portraits of distinguished
Nurembergers, City Hall, Nuremberg.—Andresen,
iv. 280.
FUESSLI, WILHELM, born at Zürich
in 1830. Portrait painter, pupil of Städel
Institute, Frankfort, then in Munich of Berdellé
and in Paris of Couture; also studied
in Rome. Copied several pictures by old
masters for the Schack Gallery in Munich,
where he lives. Gold medal, Munich, 1869.—Müller,
189.
FÜGER, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH, born
in Heilbronn, Würtemberg, Dec. 8, 1751, died
in Vienna, Nov. 5, 1818. German school;
history and portrait painter, pupil in Stuttgart
of Guibal and in Leipsic of Oeser. In
1774 he went to Vienna and in 1776 to Rome,
where he studied the Carracci and Domenichino,
as well as Raphael Mengs and Battoni.
In 1782 he was patronized by Count Lamberg,
the Austrian ambassador at Naples, and
executed paintings for the King. The next
year he was appointed vice-director of the
Vienna Academy, and in 1795 director,
which post he held until 1806, when he became
director of the Belvedere Gallery.
Works: Death of Cæsar; Farewell of Coriolanus,
Czernin Gallery, Vienna; Death of
Germanicus (1789), Vienna Academy; Prometheus,
Count Zinzendorf, Vienna; Ariadne
at Naxos, Joseph II. as Ally of Catherine
of Russia, Field-Marshal Laudon as
Conqueror of Belgrade, Mrs. de Witt in
Greek Costume, Philip at Bed of Alexander,
Erasistratus at Bed of Antiochus (1788-90);
portraits of Joseph II. (1787), of Artist's
Father (1788), of Elector of Mentz, of
Marchese Gallo, Princess of France (six
times); Socrates before the Judges; Orpheus
in Hades; Judgment of Brutus; Dido
on the Funeral Pyre; Adam and Eve mourning
Abel's Death (1799), John the Baptist
(1811), Magdalen (1816), Allegory on Peace
of Vienna, Vienna Museum; Semiramis
hearing of Revolt of Babylon, Death of
Virginia (1801); St. John in the Desert
(1804); Christ Crucified (1813); Bathsheba,
National Gallery, Pesth; Magdalen,
Graces and Cupid, Schleissheim Gallery;
Alcestis consecrating herself to the Gods,
Minerva and Saturn defending Art and
Science, Mentz Museum; Zeus appearing
to Phidias, Achilles by the Body of Pa-
