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 at Paris. In 1719 he began to design during his leisure hours under the direction of J. B. van Loo, and studied painting with J. P. de Troy. His progress was so rapid, that lie obtained, in 1725, the second prize at the Royal Academy. He went afterwards to Rome, and after being there six years he returned to France, through Venice, where he stayed six montlis. He painted the Pnlais-de- Justice, the Hotel -de - Ville (which perished in 1792), and the church of St. Jerome, at Aix. He went to Paris, where he displayed his talents, not only as a painter and etcher, but also as a poet and writer. In 1735 he became a member of the Academy ; in 1752 professor ; afterwards secre- tary ; and finally teacher of historical painting. He was also the founder of the Academie des Beaux-Arts at Marseilles. Andre designed with great facility, and was a perfect master in repre- senting the nude. He died at Paris in 1785. The following are his best works :

Aix. Museum. The Emperor Augustus ordering the puuishment of the robbers of the State money. (Signed Dandre- BaBDON AOUISEXTIENSIS PINXIT liOMM MT/lT. SVM 29 ANNO 1729.) „ PalaiS'de-Jnsiiee. Allegorical Figures of the Virtues. Marseilles. Mus. Christ on the Cross. Montpellier. Mus. Tiillia driving over the dead body of SerWus TiUUus.

The work which he executed of ' Jason plough- ing,' intended for the tapestry manufactory at Beauvais, has disappeared. The following are his most important etchings :

The Dead Body of Christ. Two Dead Children at the entrance of a vault. The Burial of the Dead. Johannes Snellinks ; after Van Dtjck.

ANDKEANI, Andrea, a p.ainter, and very cele- brated engraver, was born at Mantua, according to some biographers, about the year 1540, others say 1546 ; but Brulliot says his birth did not take place until 1560, which seems the more likely, for his earliest work bears date 1584. His works as a painter are little known, as he appears to have devoted himself to engraving at an early period of his life, when he settled at Rome, some time after the art of chiaroscuro on wood had been first practised in Italy by Ugo da Carpi. His works are confined to woodcuts, which are printed in chiaroscuro, and he carried that branch of engrav- ing to a much higher degree of perfection than it had reached before. His drawing is correct, his execution is strong and spirited, and in a very masterly style. The number of prints attributed to this master is very considerable, as he is reported to have procured the blocks executed by other artists, and after retouching them, to have published them as his own. He died in 1623. His works have frequently been confounded with those of Albrecht Altdorfer, from his 7m having used a similar cipher. '^ The following is a list of his known works, all copies from his contemporaries or painters then lately deceased :

The pavement at Siena, two immense prints ; after the design of Domenico Beccafumi ; very scarce ; dated 1587. The Deluge, large print, in four sheets ; after Titian, with his cipher. Pharaoli's Host destroyed in the Red Sea, large print, in four sheets ; after the same, 1585, with his cipher. The Adoration of the Magi; after Farmigiano, 1585, with his cipher. The Piirificition; after Sahiati, with his cipher. 1608. 38 The Virgin and Child, with a bisliop kneeling ; after A. Casolani, with his cipher. 1591. The Virgin and Child, with St. John presenting a bird, and a female saint holding a lily ; after Giac. Ligozzi, with his name. Christ curing the Leper; after Farmigiano, with his cipher. Christ curing the Paralytic ; after Franc, de Xauto da Sabaudia. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes ; after Raphael, 1609, with his cipher. Christ departing from Pilate, who is washing his hands ; after a basso-rilievo of Jean Boulogne, with the name of the engraver ; in two sheets. This is one of his most finished prints. Clirist bearing His Cross ; after A. Casolani, with his cipher. 1591. The Entombment of Ciirist ; after G. Scolari, with his cipher. Another Entombment, half figures ; after Raffaello Motta, with the name of the engraver. St. Peter preaching ; marked with the name Folidoro, and his cipher. 1608. St. Sebastian ; marked Frid>rieus Barolius Urbinas, with his cipher. 1608. The lower part of the picture of St. Nicholas, by Titian, with the cipher of Andrea7ii. The Triumph of the Church ; Christi Triumphus, large frieze, in eight sheets; after Titian, dedicated to the Duke of Mantua in 1599, and published by Cahsto Ferrante at Rome in 1608. An emblematical print, of a Christian after life received into Heaven, and crowned by Jesus Christ ; marked B. F. for Baptista Franco, and the cipher of the engraver. An. m.dc.x. Mantoua. The Picture of Human Life, represented by a woman at the foot of a rock, assailed by the passions ; marked Jac. Ligotitts, inc. et Andreani, 1585. Firenze. Three prints, after a marble group by Gio. da Bologna, seen on three sides, representing the Rape of the Sabines ; inscribed Rapt a SabinU7n a Jo.Bolog.marm S;C. M.D.LXXXIIII. Another Rape of the Sabines ; after Jean Boulogne, in three sheets; inscribed Andreas Andreanus Mantua' nits aeri incidit, ^c, m.d.lxxxv. FlorentitB. Clelia on horseback, with one of her attendants, going to cross the Tiber ; marked with the name of Matu- rino, and his cipher. 1608. Mucius Sc3evola holding his hand over a brazier ; marked with the name of Bald. Feruzzi, and his cipher. 1608. The Triumph of Julius Cissar, with the title ; a series of 10 prints ; very fine ; after And. Mantegna. M.D.xcvm. Venus and Cupid, with nymphs bathing ; after Panni- giano, with the cipher of Andreani. 1605. Circe giving drink to the companions of Ulysses ; oval print ; after Farmigiano, with his name. 1602. A Woman warming herself before the fire ; marked Bernard Malpitius, inv., with his cipher. The scene of a comedy represented before the Grand Duke Cosmo I. ; after a design of Bart. Neroni, large piece. 1579. The Triumph of Death, a Sopnlohral Monument, repre- senting a kind of rock, on which are the three Fates ; after Fortuna Fortunio, with the cipher of the en- graver Christian Virtues, six pieces ; also Force, Truth, and Virtue ; all after Farmifjiano. W. B. S.

ANDREASI, IrroLiTO, who was born at Man- tua in 1548, was an imitator of Giulio Romano : he painted pictures of merit for the churches of his native town, where he died in 1608. The Louvre possesses a ' Holy Family ' by him.

ANDRES, Fray Leon de, a Spanish painter of the 16th century, is celebrated for the miniatures he executed in 15G8 for choir-books — especially that of 'El Capitulario' — now in the Escorial. He died in 1580.

ANDREWS, George Henry, was born at Lambeth in 1816. Though an engineer by pro-