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 Well near Nehemy, Stettin Museum; Departure from Jerusalem for Jaffa, New York Museum.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 589; Larousse, viii. 817.

FRÈRE, (PIERRE) ÉDOUARD, born in Paris, Jan. 10, 1819. Genre painter, brother of Théodore, pupil of Paul Delaroche and of École des Beaux Arts. He gained his first success in 1843, and has since steadily improved, his best works being some of the least laboured. Medals: 3d class, 1850 and 1855; 2d class, 1852; L. of Honour, 1855. Works: Preparing for Church (1835), Corcoran Gallery, Washington; Little Glutton (1843); Little Mountebank, Hen with the Golden Eggs (1848); Studio (1849); Cook, Laundress (1850), Chartres Museum; Going to School, Helping Herself (1853), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Little Purveyor, Good Friday, Dinner, Reading Lesson, Young Woman Combing (1855); Sunday Toilet, Sweeper (1857); Little Housekeeper (1857), Little Dressmaker, Cold Day (1858), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Lesson on Flute, Little Shiverers (1859); Little School, Dieppe (1861); Return from Woods, Effect of Snow, Grandmother (1863); Women Spinning, Girl Sewing (1864); Palm Sunday, Workshop at Écouen (1866); First Steps, Prayer, Blessing, Library, Little Woodcutters, Interior at Royat, Stove (1867); Women Sewing (1868); Preparing Dinner (1868), Devotion, Prayer, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Girls leaving School, Boys leaving School, Porch of Church of Saint Paul at Antwerp; Exercise (1880), J. J. Astor, New York; Jerusalem from the Valley of Jehoshaphat (1881); Blessed Water (1882); Poor Man's Cider, Before Going In (1883); Pull Up, Storm in a Tub (1884); A Bivouac, Bakehouse (1885).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 590; Larousse; Hamerton, French Painters.

FREUDENBERGER, SIGMUND, born in Berne, June 16, 1745, died there, Aug. 15, 1801. French school; genre painter, pupil of Emmanuel Handmann, but went to Paris at twenty, and there was assisted in his studies by Wille, Boucher, Greuze, and Röslin. Painted portraits and genre pieces in Watteau's style, after his return home, as well as Scripture scenes. Works: Horoscope Realized, Fifteen Scenes from Popular Life in Canton Berne, Berne Museum; Portrait of Haller, City Library, Berne; Lover's Present (1770), Historical Society, New York.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 355; Dohme, 3; Wurzbach, Fr. Maler des xviii. Jahrh., 39.

FREY, JOHANNES (JACOB), born at Basle in 1813, died at Frascati, near Rome, in 1865. Landscape painter, studied principally in Italy; in 1842 he accompanied Professor Lepsius to Egypt, whence, on his return in 1843, he brought many excellent sketches. Works: The Caudine Forks, View near Granada, do. near Rome, do. near Monreal—Sicily, Caravan surprised by Samum, Wood Landscape in Roman Mountains (last work), Basle Museum; The Statues of Memnon near Thebes, the Samum in the Desert, New Pinakothek, Munich; Chamsyn in the Desert (1845), Emperor of Germany; Statues of Memnon, Sphinx Colossus near Memphis (1858), Leipsic Museum.

FREYBERG, Baroness ELEKTRINE VON, born in Strasburg, March 24, 1797, died in Munich, Jan. 1, 1847. History and portrait painter, daughter and pupil of Johann Stuntz, landscape painter. Studied in Munich, and in 1821-22 in Rome, where she was influenced by Overbeck, and was made member of the Academy of St. Luke. Works: Madonna, Zachariah naming St. John, Boy Flute-Player, New Pinakothek, Munich; Holy Family, Birth of St. John (1829); Three Holy Women at the Grave, Madonna,