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 the King and Queeu of Westplialia, which were praised for their colouring. He died about 1850.

AUBRY, Peter. According to Huber, this artist was born at Oppenheira, about the year 1596. He was the elder brotlier of Abraham Aubry, and was also established at Strasburg as a printseller. He is said to have died there in 1666, but a print bearing date 1668 has his name as publisher. He engraved a great number of portraits of eminent persons of different countries, a long list of which is given by Heineken. They are executed with the graver in a very indifferent style. Among others are the following:

Oliver Cromwell. Ferdinand Ernest, Count of Wallenstein. Johannes Schmidt, D.D., Professor of Theology at Strasburg. Michael Virdung, Professor at Altdorf.

AUBRY-LECOMTE, Hyacinthe Lonis Victor- Jean Baptiste, draughtsman on stone, was bora at Nice in 1797. He studied under Girodet-Trio- son, and became a draughtsman of great merit, and did much for the improvement of the art. He died in Paris in 1858. Many of Aubry-Lecomte's engravings are from works by his instructor: he also engraved after Prud'hon, Gdrard, Dejuinne, Vernet, Greuze, and other French painters. He executed a lithograph of the ' Madonna di San Sisto,' from the copy of Raphael's picture which is in Rouen. The subjects of his works are various — historical, both sacred and secular, allegorical, portraits, and of a genre character.

AUBUISSON, JuLiEN HoNOEE Germain, Mar- quis d', who was born in 1786. painted and exhi- bited, from 1812 to 1822, in the Paris Salon, several poetical and historical pictures ; namely, ' Paris taking leave of Helen,' ' Hector forcing Paris to quit Helen,' 'Alexander and Bucephalus,' and the 'Punishment of Hebe.'

AUDEBERT, Jean Baptiste, a French painter and etcher, was born at Rochefort in 1759. He engraved the plates of the ' Histoire Naturelle des Singes,' puWished in 1800, and the ' Histoire des Colibris,' published in 1803. He particulariy ex- celled in drawing and engraving animals, and other objects of natural history. He died in Paris in 1800.

ADDEN-AERD, Robert van, (or Odden-Aerd,) was a reputable painter, and a still more cele- brated engraver. He was born at Ghent in 1663, and was first a scholar of Francis van Mierhop, but he afterwards studied under Hans van Cleef. When he was twenty-two years of age he went to Rome, where he became a disciple of Carlo Maratta. Under this master he became a good painter of historical subjects. He amused himself with the point in his leisure moments, and some of his plates were shown to Carlo Maratta, who recommended him to devote himself entirely to the art of engraving. He, however, painted several pictures for the churches of his native city, to which he returned after an absence, it is said, of thirty-seven years. He died at Ghent in 1743. His best work is tlie altar-piece of the high altar in the church of the Carthusians at Ghent, representing 'St. Peter appearing to a group of Monks of that order.' In the church of St. James is a picture by him of ' St. Catharine refusing to worship the False Gods.' Several other works by this master are in the churches and convents of his native city, all of which are painted in the style of C. Maratta.

The plates which he executed entirely with the graver are not considered equal to those in which he introduced the point. His drawing shows a perfect acquaintance with the human figure, and is very correct. The principal part of his prints are after the pictures of Carlo Maratta. The following is a list of the more important : - portraits. 1695. The Cardinal Sacripante ; after G. B. Oaitlli. The Cardinal Taiu-usi ; after the same. The Cardinal Ottoboni ; after the same. The Cardinal F. Barberini; after C. Maratta. Tiie Cardinal Henri de la Grange d'Arquieu ; after F. Desportes, 1695. The Cardinal Giuseppe Axchinto ; after G. Fasseri. The Cardinal Andrea di Santa Croce ; after the same. The Father Francesco Caraccioli ; after A. Proeaccini.

SUBJECTS AFTER CARLO MARATTI.

Hagar and Ishmael in the desert ; etching. The Sacrifice of Abraham; etching. Rebekah and the servant of Abraham ; etching David with the head of Goliath ; etching. Bathsheba in the bath. The Annunciation. The Adoration of the Magi ; etching. The Flight into Egypt ; same. The Repose in Egypt ; octagon. Our Saviour on the Mount of Olives. The Crucifixion. The dead Saviour in the lap of the Virgin, Vrlth tha Marys and St. John. The Death of the Virgin. The Assumption of the Virgin. The Virgin Mary with the Infant Jesus distributing chaplets to nuns. Mary Magdalene penitent. The Martyrdom of St. Blaise. St. Anthony of Padua kissing the Infant Jesus. St. Philip Neri. Janus, first King of Italy, received amongst the Gods. Romulus and Remus. Apollo and Daplme, in two sheets. The Pope Innocent XII. on his throne, at his feet Heresy subdued, and the Four Quarters of the World prostrate.

SUBJECTS AFTER DIFFERENT ITALIAN MASTERS.

The Triumph of Julius Caesar, a series of ten plates after A. Mantegna. The Nativity ; after Pietro da Cortona. Five etol lings— "Of the life and death of St. Bibiana ; three after Pietro da Cortona, and two after Bernini. Hippomenes and Atalanta, a group ; after Bernini. The Rape of a Sabine woman; after Giovanni da Bologna. St. Facimdo ; after Giac. Brandt. The Birth of the Virgin ; after Ann. Canacci. The Scourging of St. "Andrew ; after Bomenichino. St. Andrew led to crucifixion ; after the same. St. Andrew transported to Heaven ; after the same. St. Luke p.^inting the portrait of the Vu-gm ; after Marc Antonio Franceschini. The Wrath of Achilles ; after G. B. Gaiilli ; m three sheets.

AUDINET, PuiLiP, of a French family which came to this country at the revocarion of the Edict of Nantes, was born in Soho, London, in 1766. He was apprenticed to John Hall, and was first employed to engrave the portraits in Harrison's ' Biographical Magazine,' &c. Among his larger works are port;raits of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse and Sir William Domville, and an excellent engraving of Barry's unfinished portrait of Dr. Johnson. He died in London in 1837.

AUDOUIN, Pierre, an eminent French en-o-ravev, and pupil of Beauvariet, was born m Pans m 1768, and died there in 1822. He engraved for