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 French from Italy. Studies in Louvre and at Oxford. Engraved by Volpato; S. Bernard; P. Anderloni; F. Colignon.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv., 347; Müntz, 366; Passavant, i. 146; Springer, 204; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 435; Gruyer, Fresques, 215; Perkins, 135.

AUBERT, AUGUSTIN RAYMOND, born in Marseilles, Jan. 23, 1781, died there, Nov. 5, 1857. History, portrait, and landscape painter; pupil of Guenin at Marseilles, and of Peyron in Paris. In 1804 returned to Marseilles, and in 1810, was made director of the school of drawing and of the Museum; in 1845 he retired to his country seat near Marseilles, where he died. Exercised much influence upon art in his native city and educated a number of able pupils. Works: Noah's Sacrifice (1817), Marseilles Museum; Visit of the Virgin to S. Elizabeth (1822), Glorification of Christ (1838), Annunciation (1827), Martyrdom of St. Paul (1836), Church of St. Paul, Beauvais.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 371.

AUBERT, ERNEST JEAN, born in Paris, in 1824. Genre painter, pupil of Paul Delaroche and in engraving of Martinet. Won the prix de Rome for engraving in 1844, and lived five years in Italy. Devoted himself chiefly to engraving until 1853, when he turned his attention to lithography and afterward to painting. Medals for painting: 3d class, 1861; 2d class, 1878. Works: Confidence (1861); Martyrs under Diocletian (1863); Youth (1865); Early Breakfast (1867); Broken Thread (1872); At the Fountain (1875); Coming Love (1877); Le barde Hyvarnion et Ravanone (1883); Menu de l'Amour (1884); Aurora Cools the Wings of Love (1885).

AUBLET, ALBERT, born in Paris; contemporary. History and portrait painter; pupil of Jacquand and of Gérôme. Medals: 3d class, 1880; 2d class, Munich, 1883. Works: The Siesta, Interior of a Stable, Interior of a Courtyard, Farm at Tréport (1874); Men of the Reserve in a Barrack at Cherbourg (1879); Selene (1879); Meeting of Henri III. and the Duc de Guise (1880); Inhaling Room at Mont-Doré (1881);	Dancing Dervishes at Scutari (1882); On the Beach, Tréport (1883); Nero Poisoning Slaves (1876), St. Étienne Museum; Esqui-Djamlidja—Broussa (1884); Bathing Time at Tréport (1885).

AUBRY, ÉTIENNE, born in Versailles, Jan. 10, 1745, died in Paris, July 21, 1781. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of J. G. Silvestre and Joseph Vien. Member of the Academy in 1775. His genre paintings of 1779 show an inclination to imitate Greuze. Bore the title of painter to the king. Portrait of the Artist, Louvre.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 378; Wurzbach, Fr. Maler d. xviii. J., 40.

AUDEN-AERD (Audenaerde, Oude-*naerde), ROBERT VAN, born in Ghent, Sept. 20, 1663, died there, June 3, 1743. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Frans van Mierop and of Jan van Cleef, then of Carlo Maratti in Rome, where for many years he was employed by his patron, Cardinal Barbarigo; returned to Ghent in 1723, after an absence of thirty-eight years. Works: Abbot and his Canons in Chapter, Assumption (1725), Museum, Ghent; Assumption, St. Nicholas', ib.; Martyrdom of St. Catherine, St. James', ib.; Christ among the Doctors, Petit-Béguinage, ib.—Biog. nat. Belgique, i. 535; Meyer, Künst, Lex., ii. 383.

AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES, born in Louisiana, May 4, 1780, died in New York, Jan. 27, 1851. Animal painter; studied under David in Paris in 1795 or '96. Made many expeditions down the Ohio and in Florida to sketch birds; visited Europe again in 1826 and 1832; published, in 1828-44 his "Birds of America" and his "Ornithological Biography," the former il