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 which he displayed considerable talent : and Lanzi eays, that if liis colouring had been a little more brilliant, his pictures would be equal to those of the Flemish school of the same kind. Two of his works have been engraved by William Walker.

AMORT, Kaspar, who was bom in 1612 in the valley of the Jachenau, went to Munich in 1631, and studied art under Johann Donauer. He then paid a visit to Italy, where the works of Cara- vaggio produced much effect on his style. On his return to Munich he was made court painter, and executed numerous works for the decoration of cloisters and churches. He died at Munich in 1675.

AMSLER, S.^MUEL, an eminent engraver, was born in 1791, in Schinznach, in Switzerland, and became a pupil of Hess, at Munich. In 1816 he arrived in Rome, and formed friendships with Overbeck, Cornelius, Thorwaldsen, and other hends of the new school, of which he became a member. Accuracy and character in outline, and simplicity in execution, after the classical examples of Marc- Antonio and Albrecht Diirer, were the principles he followed in contradistinction to the picturesque, but in form and expression negligent, engrav- ings of the modem Italian, French, and English schools. In this manner, in conjunction with his friend Barth, he engraved the great frontispiece of the ' Nibelungen ' of Cornelius, and the ' Triumph of Alexander ' of Thorwaldsen. In 1829 Amsler became professor of engraving in the Royal Aca- demy in Mimicli, where Cornelius, Schnorr, Hess, and other of his friends were already actively engaged. Besides different small works which he executed in Munich, he engraved Raphael's ' En- tombment of Christ,' in the Borghese Gallery of Rome ; ' The Holy Family,' and 'The Madonna di Casa "Tempi,' by the same master, both in the Pinakothek. His last work was an engraving of the great painting of Overbeck, in Frankfort, ' The Union between Religion and the Fine Arts,' the completion of which coincides nearly with that of his life. He died on the 14th of May, 1849. He was not only an excellent artist, and an estimable man, kind, modest, and very good-natured, but also an admirable instructor of his art, who taught a number of pupils, now celebrated engravers ; as Merz, who engraved ' The Last Judgment,' of Cor- nelius,and' The Destructionof Jerusalem, 'of Kaul- bach ; Gonzenbach, the author of different engravings after Kaulbach, Schleich, &c. /

In Meyer' s ' Kiinstler-Lexikon ' is a full list YmY of Anisler's works.

AMSTEL, CoRNELis PLOOS van. See Ploos.

AMSTEL, Jan van, an artist who is said to have excelled in landscapes, which he enriched with numerous figures in the style of Van Eyck ; but when or where he painted is not recorded. Guarienti, in his edition of Orlandi, states that there was a picture by this artist at Genoa, in the possession of an Englishman, representing the Crucifixion, and containing upwards of 200 figures admirably painted. It is, however, conjectured that some better known painter is disguised under this name.

AMULIDS (or Fabullds), a Roman painter, flourished in the reign of Nero. He was employed in the embellishment of the golden house of that emperor, who is said by Suetonius to have himself studied the art of painting. The palace became a prey to the flames. Pliny represents him as a painter of common-place subjects, " humilis rei pictor ; " yet he mentions a picture of ' Minerva,' which cannot be considered to have been a trivial work.

ANCINELLI. See Torre.

ANCONA, Andrea d'. See Lilio.

ANCONITONA, L'. See Bonini.

ANDERLINI, Domenico, a landscape painter, born at Pesaro, flourished about 1720 : he was an artist of merit.

ANDERLONI, Faustino, an engraver, bom at St. Eufemia, near Brescia, in 1766, received in- struction from two artists comparatively unknown — Carloni and Benezzi. He subsequently went to Pavia to assist Professor Scarpa in illustrating Iiis great work on the Anatomy of the Eye. In 1795 he went to Jlilan, but in 1801 he was apprinted professor of drawing at the University of Pavia. He died in 1847. He engraved the illustrations of several scientific works, and the portraits of the celebrated Herder, Alfieri, Boerhave, and Schiller. At a later date he executed a small but charming engraving of the ' Magdalene Sleeping in the Wilderness,' after Correggio ; the ' Repose in Egypt,' after N. Poussin ; a ' Mater amabilis,' after Sassoferrato, and with Garavaglia the ' As- cension of the Virgin,' after the painting by Guido Reni in the church of Sant' Ambrogio in Genoa ; which he did not complete until his seventy-sixth year.

ANDERLONI, Pietro, brother of Faustino, was bom in 1784, at St. Eufemia, near Brescia, and showed an early predilection for art. He studied the fundamental principles under P. Palazzi, and next received instruction from his brother Faus- tino, who, observing that he vacillated between painting and engraving, persuaded him to adopt the latter art. After greatly profiting by his brother's tuition, he entered, at the age of twenty, the school of Longhi, where he remained for nine years. Under that eminent master he assisted in the production of many excellent works, among which was ' Ezekiel's Vision,' after R;iphael ; and to some of these the master allowed the pupil to place his name, in acknowledgment of the share he had in the execution. In 1824 he went to Rome for the second time, to make drawings of tiie 'Eeliodorus' and ' Attila ' of Rapliael ; and in 1831 succeeded his master Longhi as president of the Academy of Engravers in Milan. Pietro Anderloni was a member of several Academies, and held a very distinguished rank among his skilful contemporaries in the art. He died at his estate of Cabiate, near Milan, in 1849. He is generally very happy in embodying the character- istics of the master whose picture he transfers ; his fault is sometimes a near approximation to the modem French manner of working too far and producing glossiness. The following are among Ills principal works :

Moses defending the daughters of Jethro ; after N. Poussin. The Adoration of the Shepherds; after Titian. A Holy Family, the Judgment of Solomon, the Helio- dorus, and the Meeting of Attila and Pope Leo III. ; after Raphael. St. John ; after Litini. Portraits of Canova, Longhi, Appiani, Jenner, &c.

ANDERSON, Alexander, who was born at New York in 1775, was the son of a Scotchman, and the earliest engraver on wood in America. He first studied medicine— obtaining in 1796 the degree of Doctor — but abandoned that profession