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 Shepherds of Arcadia, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre, Paris.

pupil of Thomas Duncan in the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh; exhibited in 1849 first picture, Last Supper, at Royal Scottish Academy; elected an A.R.S.A. in 1850, and R.S.A. in 1858. Removed in 1862 to London, where he still resides. Visited the United States in 1884. Works: Time of War (1857); Hidden Sorrow (1858); Fair Rosamond and Queen Eleanor (1859); Playing at Queen (1861); Puritan Suitor (1865); Times of Charles I. (1867); Against Cromwell (1869); Sir Patrick Spens (1870); Henry Irving as Mathias in "The Bells" (1872); Irving as Charles I. (1873); Springtide (1875); Little Bo-Peep (1876); Rose (1877); Trysting Tree (1878); Sacrifice to Dionysus (1879); Betrothal of Burns and Highland Mary (1881); Peter the Hermit preaching the First Crusade (1883); St. Agnes, in the Second Century (1884); portraits of James G. Blaine, Andrew Carnegie (1884).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 248.

ARCHERS OF ANTWERP, David Teniers, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; canvas, H. 4 ft. 5 in. × 7 ft. 9 in. Represents a meeting of the company of cross-bow men, on some public occasion; capital picture, many figures. Formerly in Hesse-Cassel Collection; then at Malmaison, whence passed to Hermitage.—Smith, iii. 265.

ARCHERY PRIZES, AWARD OF. See Syndics of the Arquebusiers.

ARCHIGALLUS, picture. See Parrhasius.

ARCO, ALONSO DEL, born in Madrid in 1624, died there in 1700. Spanish school; born deaf and dumb; pupil of Pereda, whence commonly called el Sordillo (the dumb) de Pereda. Was a good portrait painter. Works in churches of S. Juan de Dios, S. Andres, S. Felipe, S. Bernardo, and S. Sebastiano, Madrid; Child Jesus sleeping under the Cross, Academia S. Fernando; several pictures in Museo Nacional, Madrid.—Stirling, iii. 1006; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 221.

ARDICES, painter, Corinth, early period. Mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. 5 [15]), in connection with Telephanes of Sicyon, as first to use shading lines within outline drawings.