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 worked at Florence for the Grand Duke, who presented him with a golden chain and medal, and on his return home in 1656 settled at Amsterdam. Sometimes signed his name in Italian "Guglielmo." Works: Dead partridges, etc., Munich Gallery; marble table with dead birds (1653), do. with costly vessels and fruit (1659), Berlin Museum; three similar subjects, Dresden Gallery; four in the Pal. Pitti, Florence; Flowers (1663), and Still Life (1671, formerly at Compiègne), Hague Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 520; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 100; De Stuers, 3; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise.

ÆNEAS AND ANCHISES, Lionello Spada, Louvre; canvas, H. 6 ft. 3 in. × 4 ft. 3 in. Æneas, accompanied by young Ascanius, bears on his shoulders his father Anchises, who received from Creusa, Æneas's wife, the penates saved from Troy. Taken to France in 1634 by the Maréchal de Créqui; bought after his death (1638) by Cardinal Richelieu, who bequeathed it to Louis XIII., as a work of Lodovico Carracci. Afterward ascribed to Domenichino. Engraved by Outkine; G. Audran.—Villot, Catalogue Louvre; Musée français; Filhol, ii. Pl. 85.

ÆNEAS AND DIDO, Pierre Guérin, Louvre; canvas, H. 9 ft. 8 in. × 12 ft. 9 in.; signed, dated 1813. Dido, reclining upon a coach, listens with interest to Æneas, who, seated at the left, recounts the story of the war of Troy; Cupid, under the form of Ascanius, holding one of the arms of the Queen, draws off her wedding ring; at right, Anna, sister of Dido, standing, looks at the false Ascanius. Salon, 1817; acquired in 1818 for 24,000 fr. Engraved by Forster.—Réveil, vii. 461.

ÆNEAS, LANDING OF, Claude Lorrain, formerly at Leigh Court; canvas, H. 5 ft. 4 in. × 7 ft. 4 in.; signed, dated 1675. Æneas and his companions landing in Latium. Companion piece to Temple of Apollo; formed with it at time of French Revolution, chief ornament of the Palazzo Altieri, whence bought by Fagan for 9,000 scudi; sold to Mr. Beckford, with four Italian cabinet pictures for £10,000; the two Claudes passed to R. H. Davies and thence to Sir Philip Miles, Leigh Court, for £12,000; Leigh Court sale (1884), to Agnew for 5,800 and 3,800 guineas respectively.—Waagen, Treasures, iii. 181; Pattison, Claude Lorrain.

AERTSZEN, PIETER, called Lange-Pier, born in Amsterdam in 1507, died there, buried Sept. 21, 1573. History and genre painter, Dutch school, pupil of Alaert Claessen; joined the Antwerp Guild in 1535. Most of his large altarpieces were destroyed by the Iconoclasts in 1566. Works: Crucifixion, Antwerp Museum; do. (1546), Antwerp Hospital; Egg Dance (1557), Amsterdam Museum; Christ bearing the Cross, Berlin Museum; Market Scene, Vienna Museum; Cook with Vegetables and Fruits, Cassel Museum.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 248; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 104.

AERTTINGER, KARL AUGUST, born in Munich, April 17, 1803. Military genre, portrait, and landscape painter. First studied in Augsburg under Clemens Zimmermann, then from his 20th to his 25th year in the Munich Academy, and in Paris in 1830-31. At Vienna (1846-48), he painted equestrian portraits of the Imperial family, and of Archduke Charles with the Austrian generals of 1809. In 1849 he joined the Russian army in Hungary, and after the campaign worked five years in Poland for Prince Paskievich. Since his return to Germany in 1854 he has painted chiefly genre and landscape.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 107.

ÆSCULAPIUS, ancient picture. See Aristarete; Nicophanes.