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 Baring. Engraved by Marri, Longhi, Calamatta, Larmessin, Poilly.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 350; Müntz, 519; Passavant, ii. 151; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, ii. Pl. 93; Filhol, iii. Pl. 187; Cab. Crozat, i. Pl. 28; Musée français, I.; Landon, Musée, ii. Pl. 21; Malvasia, i. 44; Perkins, 174.

By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; oval, on ceiling of upper room. Heavy and dead in colour, but in some measure worthy of the master, in the wild and horrible energy with which the skeletons are leaping up about the prophet.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 347.

EZQUERRA, Don JERONIMO ANTONIO DE, flourished at beginning of 18th century. Spanish school; landscape and history painter, pupil of Antonio Palomino. Works: Neptune with Tritons and Nereids, Museum, Madrid; Series of Saints, San Felipe Neri, ib.

FABARIUS, WILHELM, born at Mühlheim, on the Ruhr, Jan. 25, 1815. Landscape and marine painter, pupil at Düsseldorf of A. von Wille, and studied after the works of Andreas Achenbach, then in Holland and Belgium from nature and after the old Dutch masters. Works: Dutch Herring Fishers; Stranded Three-Master on Dutch Coast; Launching of Life-Boat; Fisherman's Bark wrecked on Norwegian Coast; Storm in the Shears on Swedish Coast.—Müller, 165.

FABER, JOHANN, born in Hamburg, April 12, 1778, died there Aug. 2, 1846. Landscape painter; after treating biblical subjects went to Italy, and, under the influence of Koch and Reinhart, turned to landscape painting. Works: Suffer Little Children to come unto Me, St. Catharine's, Hamburg; Capuchin Monastery near Naples (1830), National Gallery, Berlin.—Cat. Berlin Nat. Gal.

FABER DU FAUR, OTTO VON, born at Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart, June 3, 1828. Battle painter, pupil in Munich of Kotzebue, in Paris of Yvon, and studied also Vernet's battlepieces at Versailles; served in the army until 1867. Studio in Munich. Works: Lützow's Riflemen; Napoleon's Retreat from Russia; Hungarian Horse Pasture; Battle of Champigny; Delivery of French Cavalry Horses after Sedan (1872); Death of Ophelia, Departure of Frederic of the Palatinate from Prague (1874); Attack of Chasseurs d'Afrique; Equestrian Portrait of German Crown Prince (1879); Camping Arabs; Joseph sold by his Brethren; Würtemberg Regiment, "Queen Olga," at Champigny (1883); Ambulance by a Barricade (1884); Fantasia à la Rencontre de deux Tribus (1885).—Müller, 165.

FABIUS, CAIUS PICTOR, of the noble Roman house of the Fabii, lived about 300 One of the few Roman painters known to us. He decorated the Temple of Salus (dedicated 302 ) with a mural painting representing a battle won by the Dictator C. Junius Brutus Bubulcus over the Samnites (Valer. Maximus, viii. 14, 6). This is the earliest recorded Roman painting. Fabius's style was marked by simplicity and absence of mannerism. An excellent draughtsman, he combined in his work the clear outlines of the Old Attic with the rich colouring of the Theban Attic school. On account of his eminence in his art his surname, Pictor (Painter), was given to a family of the Fabia gens, and borne by his descendants.—Pliny, xxxv. 19.

FABRE, FRANÇOIS XAVIER, Baron, born at Montpellier, April 1, 1766, died there March 16, 1837. History painter, pupil of J. Coustou and of David, won grand prix de Rome in 1787; was at Rome in 1793, and afterwards in Naples and Florence, where he became a professor in the Academy and is said to have secretly married the Countess of Albany, after the death of Alfieri. He returned in 1826 to Montpellier, and founded there the École des Beaux Arts, of which he became director. Medal, 1808; L. of Honour, 1827; officer, 1829; created baron, 1830. At his death he be