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 TAIT (1782) ; Ulysses and Neoptolemus (1784), Louvre, Paris ; Virgil reading the J3neid to Augustus, M. Dufresnoy ; Sabinus and Epo- nina discovered by Soldiers of Vespasian (1787); Cleopatra (1791); Sappho, Nero saves the Wife of Seneca (1793), Nantes Museum ; Leander and Hero (1798) ; Olym- pias (1799) ; Andromache (1800) ; Rhada- mistus and Zenobia (180G). He was the author of several works on art. Bellier, ii. 538. TAIT, ARTHUR FITZWILLIAM, born at Livesey Hall, near Liverpool, Aug. 5, 1819. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Royal Institution, Manchester, but chiefly self-taught. Went to New York in 1850, and was elected N.A. in 1858 ; visited Eu- rope in 1874. Studio in New York City. Works : Duck and her Young (1868) ; Gor- don Setter, Charles Stewart Smith, New York ; Snowed In, Judge Hilton, ib. ; Halt on the Carry (1871) ; Racquette Lake (1873); There's a Good Time Coming (1878) ; Thoroughbreds (1879) ; October Sport, A. E. Orr ; Intruder Motherly Protection (1880), G. D. Cochran ; Still-Hunting in the Adirondacks, Anxious Time Study from Nature (1881), C. R. Flint ; Good Hunt- ing Ground Adirondacks (1882); Tres- passers (1883) ; Ruffed Grouse at Home, Summer, Little Pets, Happy Family at Home Adirondacks, Maternal Affection Summer in the Adirondacks (1884) ; Our Pets, Pleasant Memories of the Adirondacks (1885) ; Woodcock Shooting (188G). TAIT, JOHN ROBINSON, born in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1834. Landscape painter ; graduated at Bethany College, Virginia, in 1852, and spent the following three years in Europe, chiefly in Florence ; visited Europe a second time in 1859, and studied at Dtisseldorf under August Weber and Andreas Achenbach until 1871 ; made a third visit in 1873, and worked several years in the Bavarian Tyrol and in Munich under Adolf Lier and Hermann Baisch, under whom he studied cattle painting. He spent altogether fourteen years in Ger- many, during which his pictures were dis- posed of at the cyclical exhibitions. Medals : 1871, 1872, Cincinnati Exhibition. Studio in Baltimore. Works : Waterfall in Pyre- nees, James Caird, Gourock House, Green- ock on the Clyde ; Meyringen, James Staats Forbes, Wickham Hall, Kent ; Waterfall, Prince Heinrich XVHI. of Reuss ; Lake of Wallenstadt, William Groesbeck, Cincin- nati ; Westphalian Landscape (figures by Ludwig Kuans), C. S. Volff, Philadelphia ; A Mill (figures by Munkacsy), William H. Davis, Cincinnati ; Evening in Norway, George R. Vickers, Baltimore ; Evening on the Lake, Tyrolese Idyl, Summer (1876) ; Willowy Brook (1879); Cattle Resting, Watering Place (1880) ; After the Shower, Fisher Huts Sconsett (1882) ; Summer Afternoon Upper Potomac (1883). TAMAGNO. See Vincenzo da San Gimi- gnano. TAMAR, Alexander Cabanel, Luxembourg Museum ; canvas, H. 6 ft. X 8 ft. 1 in. Il- lustration of episode described in 2 Sam- uel xiii. Tamar, daughter of David, having been outraged by her brother Amnon, goes to her other brother Absalom and complains of the crime. Tamar, her hair dishevelled and her garments in disorder, is seated on a divan beside Absalom, across whose knees she has thrown herself in despair ; Absalom, who is dressed in a white tunic embroidered with gold, and a green and red turban, is raising his right hand in anger. A negress, standing with her head against the wall, ap- pears to partake of her mistress's shame and grief. Salon, 1875. Larousse, xv. 43. TAMING THE SHREW, Charles Rob- ert Leslie, South Kensington Museum ; can- vas, H. 1 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 4 in. Petruchio thrusts back the gown to the frightened tailor ; Katherine sits at left ; Hortensio in background. One of Leslie's best pictures. Royal Academy, 1832. Replica, Petworth. TAMM, FRANZ WERNER, surnamed Dapper, born in Hamburg in 1658, died in Vienna in 1724. German school ; fruit and 858