M. di Castello, Savona, dated 1489. Other examples are: Adoration of the Magi, National Gallery, London, ascribed to Bartolommeo Suardi, and frescos in the Carmine, Brescia, also St. Jerome, Crucifixion, Bergamo Gallery.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 2; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iii. 285; vi. 84; Siret, 323; Calvi, Notizie, etc., 55; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Burckhardt, 607; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 487.
FÒPPA, VINCENZO, the younger, of
Brescia, 16th century. Lombard school;
probably son and pupil of above, in his frescos
in S. Giulia, S. Salvatore, and S. M.
in Solario, Brescia. In his later works, in
S. M. delle Grazie and S. Nazzaro e Celso,
Brescia, he shows himself a follower of Moretto
and Romanino.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii.
432; Burckhardt, 610.
FORABOSCO. See Ferabosco.
FORBES, EDWIN, born in New York in
1839. Landscape and genre painter, pupil
of A. F. Tait in 1859. During the American
civil war he acted as special artist for Frank
Leslie's illustrated paper, and subsequently
painted his Lull in the Fight. His Life
Studies of the Great Army, etchings on copper,
were presented to the United States
Government by General Sherman, and are
preserved in the War Office at Washington.
In 1877 he was elected an honorary member
of the London Etching Club. Studio in
Brooklyn. Works: Early Morning in an
Orange County Pasture (1879); On the Skirmish
Line, Stormy March, Roughing, On
the Meadows (1880); Evening in the Sheep
Pasture (1881).
FORBIN, LOUIS NICOLAS PHILIPPE
AUGUSTE, Comte de, born at Château de
la Roque d'Anthéron (Bouches-du-Rhône),
Aug. 19, 1777, died in Paris, Feb. 23, 1841.
Landscape and interior painter, pupil in
Lyons of Boissieu and in Paris of David;
took part in the several campaigns between
1795 and 1809, when he resigned, and in
Rome devoted himself to art; returned to
Paris in 1814, and after the restoration was
made member of the Institute and director
of the royal museums. He reorganized the
Louvre, and founded the Luxembourg Museum.
In 1817-18 he visited Syria, Greece,
and Egypt, and in 1819 published a splendid
work, "Voyage dans le Levant." The figures
in his pictures were supplied by Granet.
Chamberlain; L. of Honour, 1809; Officer,
1817; Commander, 1822; Order of St. Michael;
member of many Academies. Works:
Interior of Ancient Monument (1800); Death
of Pliny at Eruption of Vesuvius (1806);
Nun in Prison of Inquisition (1817); Death
of King Andrew of Hungary, Inez de Castro
(1819); Interior of Monastery (1824); Procession
of the League (1831); Vestibule of
Monastery (1830), Chapel in Coliseum (1834),
with Granet, Louvre; Moor accused of aiding
Flight of a Nun.—Larousse, viii. 586;
Villot, Cat. Louvre; Meyer, Gesch., 148.
FOREST, JEAN BAPTISTE, born in
Paris in 1636,
died there,
March 17, 1712.
French school;
landscape painter,
son and pupil
of Pierre Forest,
then in Rome
pupil of Pietro
Francesco Mola;
having also
formed himself after Titian and Giorgione,
he returned from Italy after a sojourn of
seven years, and was received into the Academy
in 1674. Visited Italy a second time,
commissioned by M. de Seignelay, Minister
of State, to buy pictures by old masters, of
which he was a great connoisseur. Some of
his works are in the Museum at Tours, but
most of his pictures have become blackened
from his use of perishable pigments.—Ch.
Blanc, École française, i.; D'Argenville, v.
185.
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FORESTIER, HENRI JOSEPH, born in Santo Domingo in 1787, died in Paris, Dec. 23, 1874. History and genre painter, pupil of Vincent and David, then of École des Beaux Arts; won grand prix de Rome in 1813 and
