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 FEANgOIS fnl as a colourist. He executed frescos in Rome, TJrbino, Venice (1550), and other places, and made many designs for architect- ural decorations. "Was also an engraver, and Bartsch enumerates ninety-three of his etchings. Works : Battle of Montemurlo, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; Baptism of Christ, S. Francesco della Yigna, Veiiiee, Madonna, S. Giobbo, ib. Ch. Blanc, Kcole ombri- enne ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xi. 317 ; Bartsch, xvi. 111. FRANCOIS, PIERRE JOSEPH CELES- TIN, born at Namur, March 1!), 1759, died in 1851. Flemish school ; history painter, pupil of Andreas Lens ; visited Italy in 1778-81 and 1789 92, and France and Ger- many repeatedly. Among his pupils were Nave/, Decuisne, and Madou. Order of Leo- pold in 1845. Works : St. Germain bless- ing St. Gencvu've (Church du Sablon), and Four Evangelists (Church des Minimes), Brussels ; Marius amid the Ruins of Car- thage, National Gallery, ib. ; Sylla Tiburius, Portrait of Mine. Du Barry, Arenberg Gal- lery, ib. ; Assumption, Ghent Academy : Physician consulted by two old Women, Haarlem Museum. Immerzeel, i. 251 ; Krannn, ii. 511. FRANC UCCI. See Iutln. FRANK, JULIUS, born in Munich in 1820. History painter, son of the glass painter, Michael Sigismund Frank (died 1847), pupil of Schraudolph. Works : St. George, Diinkelsbiihl ; The Good Shepherd, The Guardian Angel, Saalfelden ; Mater Dolorosa, St. Sebastian, Cycle of wall paint- ings from sacred and profane history of Ba- varia, National Museum, Munich ; do. from New Testament, Philippine Congregation in Gostyn, Posen. Many easel pictures, chiefly Madonnas. Miiller, 182. FRANQUE, JEAN PIERRE and JO- SEPH, twin brothers, born at Buis (Drome) in 1774. French school ; history painters, pupils of David, enjoyed reputation under the empire, and often worked conjointly. Pierre painted pictures of large dimensions in the style of his master, and was employed at the Louvre and in making copies and restorations in Versailles Museum. Medal, 2cl class, 1812 ; L. of Honour, 1836. Joseph went to Naples in 1813, where be became professor at the Academy. Works by Pierre: Battle of /iirich (1812, with Joseph, gold medal) ; Josabeth saving Joash from Fury of Athaliah (1817), Niraes Museum ; Con- version of St. Paul (1819), Dijon Museum ; Angelica and Medor (1822), Besancon Mu- seum ; Jupiter and Juno on Mount Ida (1822), Montauban Museum ; Crossing the Rhine (1835) ; Siege of Lille (1830), Battle of Lens (1841, with Alaux), Versailles Mu- seum. Works by Joseph : France in Anar- chy appearing to Bonaparte on Banks of Nile (formerly in Luxembourg Museum). Larousse, viii. 787. FRANQUELIN, JEAN AUGUSTIN, born in Paris, Sept. 1, 1798, died there, Jan. 4, 1839. French school ; history and genre painter, pupil of Regnault. Medal, 2d class, 1827. Works : Christ leaving the Temple 1 (1819), Tours Cathedral ; Death of Malvina (1819), Fontainebleau Palace ; Daughter of Jairus (1822), Amiens Museum ; Baptism of Christ (1824), Prefecture de la Seine, Paris ; Conquest of Brisach, 1703, Versailles Mu- seum ; Young Woman with her Child and a Dog, Grenoble Museum ; Mother at Cradle of sick Child, Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Bra- gella, the Sailor's Wife (after Byron), Italian Woman with Sick Child praying before Madonna, Leipsic Museum. Bellier de la Chavignerie, ii. 580. FRARI, IL. See fttawhi, Francesco. FRASER, ALEXANDER, born in Edin- burgh, April 7, 1786, died at Hornsey, Feb. 15, 1805. Genre painter, studied at Trus- tees' Academy, Edinburgh ; went in 1813 to London, where he became assistant to Wil- i kie, and painted the details and still-life in his pictures for twenty years. His own works, mostly relating to Scottish life, show