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1. (See p. xiii.) The painters of the portraits given in this volume are: Sales (E.). ?One of the many French émigrés befriended, at Ratisbon, by the Hügels; Daffinger (Moritz Michel). A Viennese portrait painter, especially famous for his miniatures on ivory. b. Vienna, Jan. 25, 1790, d. Aug. 22, 1849; Raffet (Denis Auguste Marie). A versatile French artist, by predilection a lithographer. His patron, Prince Anatole de Demidoff enabled him to undertake extended journeys through Europe and in Western Asia, where he accumulated the material for a series of valuable lithographic plates. Raffet, after 1849, lived at Florence and at San Donato. b. Paris 1804, d. Genoa 1860; Neugebauer (Joseph). A Viennese painter of historical pictures and still life b. Vienna 1810. Richmond (Thomas). b. London, Sept. 16, 1802, d. Nov. 13, 1874. See Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, London, 1895 ; and Chaplin's Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, New York, 1887. (A. v. H.)

2. (See p. xvi.) I find the following reference to the death of my Aunt Maria in Wilhelm von Humboldt's "Letters to a Friend": "Ratisbon, 10 Sept. 1829. At the inn where I was staying, a sad event occurred. I was informed on my arrival that a Fräulein von Hügel lay dangerously ill in the house, and in the morning when I rose she was dead. She died at six. She was a daughter of the Baron von Hügel who was Envoy to the Reichstag but who had died many years ago. She may have been some thirty years old. I had known her at Vienna. She was beautiful, most loveable, and had a very fine voice combined with a great gift for music. She had been at Carlsbad with her mother, her younger sister, and a brother, who is a Captain in the Austrian service, and she died on her homeward journey. Such a death must have much bitterness." Briefe Wilhelm von Humboldt's an eine Freudin. 4th ed. Leipzig, 1874, page 317. (A. v. H.)