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 graved a neat plate of the arms of the family of Arze for a book dedicated to a member of the house, in 1695. His works are usually signed with his name at full length, or in a contracted form. He died at Seville in 1704.

ARTEMON, a Greek painter, who is recorded by Pliny to have painted a picture of Queen Strato- nice, from which it is presumed that he lived about B.C. 300. He also painted ' Hercules and Deian- ira ; ' but liis most celebrated works were the pictures which were carried to Rome, and placed in the Octavian Portico, representing ' Hercules received amongst the Gods ; ' and the ' History of Laomedon with ApoUo and Neptune.'

ARTHOIS. See Artois.

ARTIGA, Francisco de, a celebrated Spanish landscape and historical painter, was bom at Huesca, about 1650. He painted several ' Sibyls,' ' Conceptions,' and perspective views, remarkable for their invention, design, and colouring. He was also an engraver, an architect, a mathematician, and an author of reputation. He died in 1711 at Huesca.

ARTLETT, Richard Austin, engraver, was bom in 1807. He was a pupil of Robert Cooper, and afterwards studied under James Thompson. He engraved a number of portraits, among which are those of Lord Ashburton, after Lawrence, Lord Lyndhurst, after Chalon, and Mrs. Gladstone, after Say, as well as many plates of sculpture for the ' Art Journal,' one of the latest being ' The Siren and the drowned Leander,' in 1873. He died in that year.

ARTOIS, Jacobus van, (or Artots, or Jacques d'Arthois,) a very eminent landscape painter, was bom at Brussels in 1613. He studied under Jan Mertens, an otherwise unknown painter, and from nature in the forests round his native city. The landscapes of Artois are faithful representations of the scenery of his country; the fields and forests in the neighbourhood of Brussels were the subjects of his pictures, which are touched with a light and free pencil. His skies and distances are extremely well represented, and his trees of grand form, with a foliage that appears to be in motion. They are very frequently decorated with admirable figures by David Teniers, Zegers, Grayer, and with animals by Snyders, which very iriaterialiy enhance their value, although the merit of his iandscapea is con- siderable. His pictures are in most of t!ie public galleries on the Continent. The Brussels Gallery has five ; the Darmstadt four; the Dresden three ; the Copenhagen two; the Vienna four; and Madrid nine. His works are occasionally seen in England ; and there are several in French Museums. He died after 1684. His brother Nicolas, and his son Jean Baptiste, were also painters.

ARTVELT, Andries van, was bom at Antwerp in 1590. He excelled in painting sea-pieces and storms, which he represented with great force and effect. He resided for some time at Genoa. In 1632 Van Dijck painted a portrait of this artist, which is now in the Gallery at Augsburg. Works by him are rarely met with. The Belvedere at Vierma has a large sea-piece. Artvelt died in 1652.

ARUNDALE, Francis, an architectural draughtsman, was born in London in 1807. He studied under Augustus Pugin, and accompanied him to Normandy , making drawings for a description which Pugin published of the tour. In 1831 Arundale visited Egypt with Mr. Hay, and in 1833 he joined Mr. Catherwood and Mr. Bonomi on their tour to the Holy Land, filling many portfolios with drawings of the interesting monuments and ruins of Pales- tine. He subsequently visited France and Italy, and spent several winters in Rome. He made drawings of objects of interest in the cities o£ Italy, in Greece, Sicily, and Asia Minor. He died at Brighton in 1853. Arundale executed a few oil- paintings from his Eastern sketches. Of his pub- lished works of his own drawings we may notice : The Edifices of Palladio. 1832.

Illustrations of Jerusalem and Mouot Sinai. 1837. The Early History of Egypt (executed in conjunction with Mx. Bonomi). 1857.

ARZERE, Stefano dall'. See Dall' Arzeke.

ASAM, Cosmas Damian, who was born at Benediktbeuem, in Bavaria, in 1686, was the son of Hans Georg Asam, a painter. He studied for some time in Rome, but subsequently took up his residence in Munich, and devoted himself to the decoration of the churches of Bavaria and Switzerland. As examples of his art mention may be made of his works in Munich, Friedberg, Schleissheim, Innsbruck, and Ratisbon. In Weltenburg he built a chapel, and decorated it with paintings. He died in 1742. There are some prints by this master from his own designs, among which are:

A Franciscan Monk kneeling, with the Virgin Mary in the clouds, surrounded by angels. St. Joseph presenting a book to a bishop. He had two sons, both of whom were paicters: Franz Erasmus, who was born at Munich in 1720, and died in the Cistercian monastery of Schonthal in Wiirtemberg in 1795 ; and Enqelbrecht, who was a monk in the monastery of PUrstenfeld near Munich.

ASCANI, Pelleqrino, was an admirable flower painter, of the Modenese school. He flourished at Carpi from the middle of the 17th century till about 1714. His brother Simone was also a painter.

ASCANIUS. See Wijnen.

ASCII, PiETER Janszoon VAN, was bom at Delft in 1603. His talent lay in painting landscapes of a small size, and, according to Houbraken, he was one of the most admired artists of his time. His works are executed in the style of Wijnants and the Ruisdaels. Among the best of them are, a 'Landscape, with the town of Delft in the background,' painted in 16'j'.t, in the Town Hall at Delft ; a ' Landscape ' in the Gallery at Amsterdam ; and one in the gallery of Copenhagen. The date of Van Asch's K death is not recorded, but he lived to a great W.) age.

ASCIANO, Giovanni d', a pupil of Barna of Siena, is said to have completed the frescoes left unfinished by that master at San Gimignano. At Asciano, his birthplace, there is a work by Giovanni, similar in style to the works of Barna. This painter flourished about 1380.

ASCLEPIODORUS, an Athenian painter, who flourished about the 112th Olympiad, was a con- temporary of Apelles, who admired his works for the exact symmetry of their proportions, and caused them to be purchased at very large prices. Pliny reports that he painted twelve pictures of the Gods for Mnason, the tyrant of Elatea, for which he was paid five talents (£1180) each.

ASENSIO, —, a Spanish painter, who lived at Saragossa about the end of the 17th century, distinguished himself in portraiture.

ASHER, Louis (Julius Ludwiq), was born at