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 duced the splendid glass paintings for the cathedrals at Ratisbon, Cologne, and Spires, the University church at Cambridge, and St. Paul's Cathedral in London. He died at JIunich in December, 1870. The following are some of his best works :

Berlin, ICat. Gall. : Interior of a room at Hohensalz- burg, 1&13; Cloister, 1S44; Poets' Corutr— Westminster Abbey, 1844; Westminster Abbey — Henry VII.'s Chapel, fee, 1856; Interior of a Byzantine Chiirch, 1857. Munich. Pinakothelc: Choir of Westminster Abbey ; Westminster Abbey — Shrine of Edward the Confessor, &c. ; Cathedral of Rheims.

AIROLA, Angela Veronica, a native of Genoa, instructed in the art by Domenico Fiasella, called Sarzana. She painted some pictures for the churches in that city, and then joined the order of San Bartolommeo dell' Oliveta at Genoa, and painted while in the convent. She died in 1670.

AIV'OZOWSKI, Ivan Constantinovitsch, was bom at Feodosia, Crimea, in 1817. He studied at the St. Petersburg Academy from 1833, becoming a pupil of Philippe Tanneur in 1835. As a painter of marine subjects he first attracted attention in 1837. In 1840 he went to Italy, and painted ai Naples ; and after visiting Holland, England and Spain returned in 1844 to Russia, where he was made a member of tie St. Petersburg Academy, and executed for the Emperor several views of the Gulf of Finland. He died in 1900.

AKEN, Arnout VAN, brother of Jozef van Aken, flourished in England in the beginning of the 18th century. He etched frontispieces to plays and other small works for the publishers.

AKEN, F. VAN, a painter of fruit, flowers, and objects of still-lLfe, flourished in the early part of the 18th century (?). No details are recorded of his life. His works bear his name, F. van Aken, or the initials, F. V. A

AKEN, Jan van — not to be confounded with Johann von Aachen (who was bom in 1552) — was a painter and engraver, and was bom in Holland in 1614. He was a contemporary and friend of Pieter van Laer, called Bamboccio. Van Aken etched four landscapes, or views of the Rhine, — marked //. L. inventor, I. v. Aken, fecit — after Hermann Saftleven, whose style he imitated. We have also by him a series of six subjects of horses in different positions, with very pleasing back- grounds, marked J. v. Aken, fecit. Heineken mentions a print by him, with a horse saddled in the foreground, a man behind lying down, and another seated with his bat on, Na/I t * marked I. van Aken, fee. This l7v>J Vi. print is very scarce.

AKEN, Jozef van, a Flemish artist, who was bom in 1709 at Antwerp, passed a great part of his life in England. He was employed by eminent landscape painters to paint the costumes of the figures in their pictures, in which he was very skilful, and thereby acquired the name of 'Schneider van Aken' (Van Aken the tailor). He also painted on satin and velvet, and produced
 * >ome excellent works. He died in London in 1749.

.KEN, Sebastiaen van, a Flemish historical painter, was born at Mechlin about 1656, and be- came a pupil of Lucas Franchoys, the younger. He afterwards went to Rome, where he studied under Carlo Maratti, and visited Spain and Portugal. A painting by him of St. Norbert is in the village church of DufEel, i.ear Mechlin. He died at Mech- lin in 1722.

AKERBOOM, —, was a Dutch painter of the in- teriors of cities and villages, of whom no details have been recorded. He lived about the middle of the 17th century. The execution of his works is admirable. Houbraken mentions a highly fin- ished miniature picture of the town of Doornick by him.

AKERSLOOT, Willem, a Dutch engraver, was born at Haarlem about the year 1600. Hewas living in 1651. He engraved a few plates of portraits, and other subjects, amongst which are the following :

Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, after A. ran der I'enne ; Amelia, Princess of Orange, with her two Daughters, after the same; Christ taken in the Garden, after Holbein; Christ bound, after P. Moijn; Peter denying Christ, after the same.

AKHEL, Fredrik, was born at Oja, in the pro- vince of Sudermania, in Sweden, in 1748. He was instructed in the art by Akerman at Upsal, where he engraved the views of some buildings in that town, and a tew portraits. In 1771 he visited Stockholm, where he had access to the instruc- tion of the Academy. Two years later he visited Paris, but did not remain there long. He died at Stockholm in 1804. There is a set of ten well- engraved portraits of Swedish personages by him.

I ALABARDl, Giuseppe, called Schioppi, a Vene- tian painter, lived about 1600. He painted in oil and fresco in the DogVs palace, the churches, and other public buildings of Venice.

ALAGNA. See Tanzio.

ALAIS, J., engraved portraits of Edmund Kean as Macbeth and as lago, after George Cruikshank which were published in London in 1814.

ALAMANNI. See Alemani.

ALAMANNUS. See Alemanno.

ALAUX, Jean, called Le Romain, historical painter, was born at Bordeaux in 1786. Early in life he entered the school of M. Vincent, in Paris, where he was a fellow-pupil with Horace Vernet ; subsequently he attended the atelier of P. Gudrin, with Ary Scheffer, Delacroix, and other eminent artists. He obtained the Grand Prix de Rome in 1815; butdid not attract general attention till 1824, when he exhibited ' The Combat of the Centaurs and Lapithse,' and ' Pandora.' He was much patronized by Louis Philippe, and executed several oil paintings and frescoes in the Louvre, the Luxembourg, and the Historical Museum at Ver- sailles. He was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honour in 1841, and made director of the French Academy at Rome five years later. He died at Paris in 1864.

ALAUX, Jean Paul, called Gentil, a French landscape painter and lithographer, was born at Bordeaux in 1788. He became director of the School of Design at Bordeaux, and died there in 1858. A View of Bordeaux painted by him is in the Museum of that city.

ALBA, Macrino d'. See Fava, Giangiahomo.

ALBANESI, Angelo, was an Italian engraver, who flourished in the latter part of the 18th century. By him are some neat, spirited etchings of archi- tectural ruins in and near Rome, some of which bear his name. He executed a series of ein^ravings of nymphs after Angelica Kauffmann, which were published in London in 1784. He a!so epgraved some portraits.

ALBANI, FR.4NCESC0 (or Albano), the son of Agostino Albani, a silk merchant, was born in Bologna in 1578. Although he showed a strong