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 portrait of the artist with his wife and three sons. His eldest son, Cornelis Jacobzen, painted still life, and his second son, Rochus Jacobzen, portraits.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 257.

DELLI, DELLO (Daniello), Cavaliere, born in Florence about 1404, died after 1464. Florentine school. In 1424, Niccolò Delli's father, having surrendered the fortress of Montecerro in the Tuscan Romagna to the Duke of Milan, was sentenced to death, and fled to Siena, where his son made himself known by casting a brazen figure to strike the hours for the clock-tower of the palace. About 1427 Dello went to Venice, and then to Seville, Spain, where he spent many years, became rich, and was made Cavaliere, a title which was recognized in Florence in 1447. Before returning to Spain in the following year he is said to have painted twenty-four frescos from the book of Genesis in the so-called "green" cloister of S. M. Novella, considerable vestiges of which still remain. These frescos, on the south and west walls, are like those by Paolo Uccello upon the other sides of the cloister, painted in shades of green hatched with white lines. Milanesi recognizes two different painters in the frescos attributed to Dello, and Crowe and Cavalcaselle doubt if they can have been painted by him after his return from Spain in 1446, as they appear to be the work of an unformed hand. He characterizes the conceptions as "petty," and the execution as rude and hasty. The Shem in the fresco of the Drunkenness of Noah by Paolo Uccello is said by Vasari to be the portrait of Dello. The same writer says that Dello painted furniture and marriage-chests like other artists of his time. The glazed terra-cotta bas-relief of the Coronation of the Virgin over the doorway of the church of S. Egidio, Florence, which Vasari attributes to Dello, is by Bicci di Lorenzo.—Vasari, Ed. Le Mon., iii. 46, 51; ed. Mil., ii. 147; C. & C., Italy, ii. 299; Burckhardt, 494; Milanesi, Archivio, Storico Italiano, xii. 183; Dispensa 33, A., 1860.

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DELOBBE, (FRANÇOIS) ALFRED, born in Paris, Oct. 13, 1835. Genre painter, pupil of A. Lucas and of Bouguereau. Medals: 3d class, 1874; 2d class, 1875. Works: Country Music, Return from the Fields of St. Briac, Marie Jeannic (1874); Pyramus and Thisbe, A Daughter of the Fields (1875); Virgin and Child (1876); Springtime (1877); Lobster-Fishing, The Last Arrow (1878); The Big Sister (1879); The Bath, In the Prairie (1880); The Family in the Fields, Gypsy Girl (1881); Romance in a Village, The First Advances (1883); By the Sea, Fisherman (1884); Two Mermaids, Reverie (1885); Italian Girl, John Hoey, New York.

DELORME, (PIERRE CLAUDE) FRANÇOIS, born in Paris, July 28, 1783, died there, Nov. 8, 1859. Genre painter, pupil of Girodet, to whose style he confined himself. Medal, 2d class, 1840; honorary mention, 1845; L. of Honour, 1841. Works: Death of Abel (1810); Hero and Leander (1814); Raising of Jairus's Daughter (1817), St. Roch, Paris; Christ Reappearing (1819); Nôtre Dame, Paris; Cephalus carried off by Aurora (1822), Luxembourg; Sappho reciting an Ode to Phaon (1833); Eve plucking the Forbidden Fruit (1834); Magdalen at the Sepulchre (1835); Adam and Eve after the Fall (1839); Holy Family in Egypt (1850).—Larousse; Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iv. 254.

DELORT, CHARLES ÉDOUARD, born at Nîmes, Feb. 4, 1814. Genre painter, pupil of Gleyre and of Gérôme. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1882. Works: Confidence, Starting for the Chase (1873); Marauders (1874); Embarkment of Manon Les-*cant (1875); After Breakfast (1876); Hallali in a Market (1878); A Poacher, Admonition (1880); Capture of the Dutch Fleet in 1794 (1882); Return from the Review (1884), Mr. Knœdler, New York.