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FLORENTINE POET, Alexandre Cabanel, J. H. Warren, Hoosic Falls, N. Y. A young poet reading one of his compositions to youthful listeners, seated on a marble bench in a garden. Salon, 1861. Engraved by A. Huot. Replica, Israel Corse, New York.

FLORIGERIO, SEBASTIANO, of Udine, born about beginning of 16th century, died after 1543. Venetian school; pupil and son-in-law of Pellegrino. In 1525 he painted an altarpiece for S. M. di Villanuova near San Daniele, and later the Conception, now in Venice Academy. The St. George and the Dragon in S. Giorgio of Udine was ordered in 1529. He afterwards painted in Padua until 1533. In 1539 he killed a man in a quarrel at Udine and fled to Cividale, where he remained until 1543, when he returned to Udine.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 300; Vasari, ix. 30; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 603.

FLORIS, FRANS (Frans de Vriendt), born in Antwerp about 1517-18, died there, Oct. 1, 1570. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Cornelis de V., a stone-cutter, then at Liège pupil of Lambert Lombard; also studied in Italy under influence of Michelangelo. In 1540 admitted into the guild at Antwerp, where he opened a school, frequented by many scholars, among whom were several afterwards great masters. Led a very wild life, which prevented his attaining the fame and fortune that his great talent and the patronage of his friends offered him. His sons, Jean Baptiste and Frans, were both painters. Works: Fall of the Angels (1554), Adoration of the Shepherds, St. Luke painting the Virgin, Antwerp Museum; Nine Muses, Christ and Little Children, Water-Wedding at Middelburg, Amsterdam Museum; Last Judgment (1566), Adoration of the Magi (finished 1571 by Hieronymus Francken), Brussels Museum; Falcon Hunter (1558), Mars and Venus surprised by Vulcan, Venus and Cupid, Brunswick Museum; Taking of Christ, Cassel Gallery; Cain and Abel, Copenhagen Gallery; Venus and Mars (1547), Lot and his Daughters, Berlin Museum; Figure of a Woman, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Adam and Eve under the Tree, Adam and Eve driven from Paradise, Holy Family, Vienna Museum; Deluge, portraits (2), Madrid Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Biog. nat. de Belgique, vii. 120; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 139; Dohme, 1ii.; Fétis, Cat. du Mus. royal, 317; Michiels, v. 292; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 17; Rooses (Reber), 93; Van den Branden, 173.

FLORIZEL AND PERDITA, Charles R. Leslie, South Kensington Museum; canvas, H. 1 ft. 9 in. × 2 ft. 5 in. Scene from Winter's Tale, Act IV., Scene 3. Perdita, standing, presenting flowers to Polyxenes and Camillo, seated at right in shepherd's cottage; behind her is Florizel, and at her side, at left, Dorcas, a true shepherdess. Royal Academy, 1837. Engraved by L. Stocks.—Art Journal (1867), 4.

FLOWER GIRL, Murillo, Dulwich Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 11 in. × 3 ft. 2 in.; has been enlarged, original size 3 ft. 5-5/8 × 2 ft. 9-5/8. In white turban, yellow robe, white sleeves, seated on a stone bench, holding with both hands the end of a brown embroidered scarf which falls from her left shoulder, and smilingly offering to the spectator the four roses it contains; on left a pilaster; at right a landscape with cloudy sky. Countess de Verrue sale, 1737; Blondel de Gagny sale, Paris (1776), 12,000 liv.; Calonne sale, London (1795), £672, to Mr. Desenfans, whose heir, Sir Francis Bourgeois, bequeathed it to Dulwich College. Old copy in Akademie der Bildenden Kunst,