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 Wilkie's influence. Some of his pictures have been engraved. Works: Deoch-an-dornis (1830); Village Sign-Painter (1837); Sir Walter Scott dining with a Blue-Gown Beggar (1844); The Glass of Ale; Robinson Crusoe reading the Bible to Friday; Last Moments of Mary Queen of Scotts.—Redgrave; Art Journal (1865), 125.

FRASER, ALEXANDER, born in Linlithgowshire, Scotland; contemporary. Landscape painter, member of R.S.A. Studio in Edinburgh. Paints Scottish scenery attractively. Works: At Barncleuth, National Gallery, Edinburgh; Glen Arnan, Trout Stream in Highlands, Springtime at Dingleton (1878).

FRASER, CHARLES, born in Charleston, S. C., in 1782, died there in 1860. After practising law several years, devoted himself in 1818 to art, and became a successful painter, especially of miniatures, though he also painted historical and genre pictures and landscapes. In 1857 a collection of his works was exhibited in Charleston, including 313 miniatures and 139 other pieces. He numbered among his sitters many prominent people.

FRAUSTADT, F. A., born at Lauchstädt, near Halle, April 9, 1821. History painter, pupil in Dresden of Bendemann, Rietschel, and Schnorr; has lived since 1857 in Antwerp. His large compositions glorify the Nibelung Saga and form a kind of cycle. Formerly painted many portraits. Works: Krimhilde's Dream; How Siegfried was betrayed; Siegfried's Farewell; How Hagen did not rise before Krimhilde; Tetzel's Indulgence Sermon; Rope Dancers; Interior in Time of the Merovingians; Goths in Rome; Portrait of Composer Grétry (1880).

FREDERICK BARBAROSSA, DEAD, Karl Wilhelm Kolbe, National Gallery, Berlin; canvas, H. 7 ft. 4 in. × 10 ft. 5 in. Upon a high bier, formed of lances and carried by four knights, the dead king lies in state, crown on head and sword in hand, surrounded by banners and escorted by Crusaders mounted and on foot; preceding him a bishop with crosier, accompanied by monks and ministrants with censers; in background, the battle has begun around the city of Antioch, from which smoke is rising. Bought in 1869 from the artist's bequest.

FREDI, BARTOLO DI. See Bartolommeo di Manfredi.

FREEMAN, JAMES EDWARD, born in Nova Scotia in 1808, died in Rome, Nov. 21, 1884. Figure painter, pupil in New York of the National Academy; studied and painted many years in Rome, where he resided. Elected N.A. in 1833. Works: Mother and (Child 1868); Beggars; Young Italy; Flower Girl; Savoyard Boy in London; Girl and Parrot, H. P. Kidder, Boston; Study of a head for Judith, Lucchese Peasants on the Sands of the Serchio (1883).

FREER, FREDERICK W., born in Chicago, Ill., in 1849. Genre painter, pupil of the Munich Academy. Member of Society of American Artists. Exhibits at the National Academy. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Choosing a Study, T. B. Clark, New York; Souvenir of Gainsborough (1881); Waiting (1882); In Ambush (1883); Adagio, Jeanette—Portrait Study, Behind the Fan (1884). Water-colours: Arranging the Bouquet, Veiled Head (1884); Dream-*Life, The Mirror (1885).

FREESE, HERMANN, born in Pomerania, May 14, 1819, died at Hasenfelde, July 25, 1871. Animal painter, pupil in Berlin of Brücke and of Steffeck. Works: Stags Fighting (1857), Stags attacked by Wolves; Stags Pursued, Boar Hunt, National Gallery, Berlin; In the Pasture.—Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 292.

FREGEVIZE, FRIEDRICH, born in Geneva in 1777, died there, Oct. 9, 1849. Landscape painter, lived for many years in Berlin, where he was made member of the Academy in 1820; returned to Geneva in 1829, and went to Dessau in 1839. Works: