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contemporary. Landscape and architecture painter, younger brother of Henry Farrer; lived several years in New York, where he was one of the early members of the American Society of Painters in Water-Colours. Studio now in London. Works: Twilight on the Hudson (1867); Beach at Hastings, English Farm (1871); Caernarvon Castle, Interior of St. Mark's—Venice, Rochester Castle (1872); Early Spring (1874); Sunset (1875); The Brook (1877); Yorkshire Trout Stream, Coming through the Lock (1878); Autumn Evening (1879); Evening Mists (1880); October Evening, Full Moon (1881); Land of Windmills, Evening in Holland (1882); Il Traghetto—Venice, Venetian Fishing Boats waiting for Wind, Solitude (1883); Towers amid the Moonlight, Music and Moonlight—Venice (1884); "Soon as the Evening Shades prevail the Moon takes up the wondrous Tale," Morning on the Northern Coast (1885).


FARUFFINI, FEDERICO, born at Sesto San Giovanni in 1833, died in Milan in 1870. History painter. Works: Architects presenting to Cardinal Sforza a Model of the Duomo of Pavia; Dante in Youth; Evening on the Ticino; Titian and his Daughters in a Gondola; Sala del Cambio; Macchiavelli and Cæsar Borgia (1866, gold medal, Paris), which he also engraved.


FASOLO, GIANANTONIO, born at Vicenza in 1528, died in 1572. Venetian school; history painter, pupil of B. Zelotti and of Paolo Veronese, whose manner he followed. Works: Pool of Bethesda, S. Rocco, Vicenza; Mutius Scævola before Porsenna, Horatius defending the Bridge, Marcus Curtius leaping into the Gulf, Prefect's Residence, Vicenza.—Nagler, iv. 251.


FASOLO, LORENZO, called Lorenzo da Pavia and Fasolo da Pavia, born at Pavia (?), died at Genoa before 1520. Lombard school, master unknown; employed by Lodovico Sforza in 1490 in the decoration of the Porta Giovia Palace at Milan. Works: Deposition from Cross (1508), Church of S. Chiara, Chiavari; Family of the Virgin (1513), Louvre. By his son and pupil, Bernardino Fasolo, also called Fasola da Pavia, are pictures in the Berlin and Dresden Galleries and in the Louvre.


FASSETT, C. ADÈLE, born at Owasco, N. Y., in 1831. Portrait painter, pupil of J. B. Wandesforde, English painter in New York, and of Castiglione, La Tour, and Matthieu in Paris. Studied in Paris and Rome two years, has since lived and painted in Chicago and Washington. Member of the Chicago Academy, and of the Washington Art Club. She has painted the portraits of many distinguished people. Among them are: Chief Justice Waite; the sculptor Vela, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Mrs. Lamb (1878); and Clara Barton the Philanthropist. Her historical painting of The Electoral Commission in Open Session contains two hundred portraits.


FATA MORGANA, George Frederick Watts, London. Subject from Boiardo's "Orlando Inamorato." Nude female figure, representing Opportunity, flitting through the woodland, preceded by the figure of a boy, is caught by her floating hair by a helmeted and gauntleted knight, seen in background. Royal Academy, 1870.—Art Journal (1884), 2.



FATTORE, IL, born in Florence 1488 (?), died in Naples 1528 (?). Umbrian school. Real name Giovanni Francesco Penni, but commonly called as above because he was Raphael's journeyman (fattore). Next to Giulio Romano he was Raphael's favourite pupil, and they were joint heirs and executors of his art property.