of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1838-50, limner to the Queen in Scotland in 1841, and in 1842 he was knighted. In the following year Sir William exhibited the Battle of Waterloo, now at Apsley House. In 1844 he again went to St. Petersburg, to paint Peter the Great at Saardam, now in the Winter Palace. He was engaged at the time of his death upon a picture of the battle of Bannockburn. His best portrait is that of Sir Walter Scott (1832), now in the National Portrait Gallery.—Sandby, ii. 152; Catalogue National Gallery; Art Journal (1849), 109; (1850), 100.
ALLEGRAIN, ÉTIENNE, born in Paris
in March, 1644, died there, April 1, 1736.
French school; was a good landscape painter
in the style of Poussin and Francisque
Millet; became court painter to Louis XIV.,
and associate of the Academy in 1677. Also
an engraver. Works: two landscapes in
the Louvre; seven landscapes at Versailles;
Moses in the Bulrushes, Hermitage; pictures
in the museums of Dijon, Alençon,
Tours, and Versailles.—Villot, Catalogue
Louvre; Lejeune, i. 354; iii. 291; Meyer,
Künst. Lex., i. 332.
ALLEGRETTO NUCCI, or DI NUZIO,
born in Fabriano in 1306, died in 1385.
Umbro-Florentine school; appears on register
of guild of St. Luke, Florence, in 1346.
Earliest picture bearing his name is the
Madonna with Saints, dated 1365, in the
Museo Cristiano of the Vatican. In 1368
he finished the Madonna with Saints in the
Sacristy of Macerata Cathedral, and in 1372
the Madonna enthroned, collection of Signor
Fornari, Fabriano. Other works: Madonna,
and Crucifixion, Berlin Museum. His drawing
is precise, his colouring clear and rosy,
his figures slender, with pretty faces; indeed,
his style lacks the simplicity and dignity
characteristic of Giotto and his followers.—C.
& C., Italy, ii. 193; Meyer, Künst.
Lex., i. 334; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 161;
ed. Mil., iii. 16, 22; Burckhardt, 555; Cibo,
Scuola Umbra (Rome, 1872), 50.
ALLEGRI, ANTONIO. See Correggio.
ALLEGRI, POMPONIO, born in Correggio,
Sept. 3, 1521, died in Parma about
1593. Lombard school; son of Antonio
Allegri, called Correggio, who died when
Pomponio was twelve years old; education
completed by his grandfather; but some
think he was taught later by Rondani. Established
himself in Parma and won a fair
reputation. Decorated the Cappella del
Popolo in the Duomo, Parma, in 1560-62,
with frescos, some of which still exist.
Several pictures by him in the Parma Academy.—Vasari,
ed. Mil., iv. 122; Lanzi, ii.
396; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 481; Burckhardt,
701.
ALLEMAND, LOUIS HECTOR FRANÇOIS,
born in Lyons, Aug. 5, 1809. Landscape
painter; brought up a merchant,
he first turned his attention to art when
thirty years old; studied nature around
Lyons and in Dauphiné, and afterwards
Ruisdael, Hobbema, and Claude Lorrain in
the galleries of France, England, and Holland.
Belongs to the new realistic school
of landscape painting in France. Works:
Wood-Border, Road near Pond, Sunset,
Morning on the Rhone, Waterfall of the
Gier, two landscapes, Lyons Museum; do.,
Nimes Museum.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i.
484.
ALLEMAND, FRITZ and SIGMUND L'.
See L'Allemand.
ALLEN, THOMAS, born in St. Louis,
Missouri, in 1849. Pupil of Prof. Ducker
in Düsseldorf, later studied three years in
France. Exhibited first at National Academy
in 1876; also exhibits in Paris. Elected
A. N. A. in 1884. Studio in Boston. Works:
Maplehurst at Noon (T. B. Clarke, N. Y.).
ALLINGHAM, HELEN PATERSON,
born near Burton-on-Trent, England, in
1848. Genre painter, water colours; pupil
of School of Design, Birmingham, and of
Royal Academy, London, in 1867. In 1868
sketched in Italy two months, and on return
to England drew on wood for illustrated
periodicals. Exhibited at Royal Academy
in 1874, under name of Helen Paterson,
