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 AGRICOLA, EDUARD, born in Stuttgart, in 1800. Landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy; studied afterwards in Italy, where, at different times he spent eighteen years. Finally settled in Carlsruhe. Works: Waterfalls of Tivoli, Sicilian Landscapes, Amalfi, Castel di Portici.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 141.

AGRICOLA, FILIPPO, born at Urbino in 1776, died in Rome in 1857. Subject painter, pupil of Academy S. Luca, Rome, of which he was director in 1843. His Marius contemplating Ruins of Carthage, for which he was awarded the first prize in 1812, is in the Academy S. Luca, where is also his last work, Assumption, a commission from Gregory XVI. Other works: Holy Family (1819), Dante and Beatrice, Petrarch and Laura, Tasso and Eleonora, Herodias, Pygmalion, Madonna, Venus and Cupid, portraits of Crown Princess of Denmark (1822), of Countess Perticari, of the Poet Monti and his Daughter.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 139; Kunstblatt (1823), 87; (1843) 140.

AGRICOLA, KARL (Joseph Aloys), born at Seckingen, Baden, Oct. 18, 1779, died in Vienna in 1852. Miniature painter, made his first studies in Carlsruhe, then from about 1798 at the Vienna Academy under Füger, in whose mannered style he painted to the last. His water colour miniatures, which are more generally known than his oil paintings, found great favour in Vienna. Works: Madonna, Vienna Museum; Cupid and Psyche, The Hours, Vienna Academy; St. Catharine, Cupid Hunting Butterflies, Cupid Asleep.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 139; Andresen, iv. 1.

AGRIPPINA, LANDING OF, Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 11 in. × 3 ft. 11 in. Agrippina, mother of Caligula and widow of Germanicus, brought home in an urn the ashes of her husband, who had died of poison at Antioch. She landed at Brundusium (Tac. An. iii. 1), but the picture represents Rome, with the Triumphal Bridge and Palace of the Cæsars in the background. Royal Academy, 1839; Turner Collection. Engraved by A. Willmore. Etched by A. Brunet-Debaines in Portfolio, 1878.—Hamerton, Life; Catalogue National Gallery.

AGUADOR DE SEVILLA. See Water Carrier.

AHLBORN, AUGUST WILHELM JULIUS, born in Hanover, Oct. 11, 1796, died in Rome, Aug. 24, 1857. Landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy, and of Wach; after 1827 resided in Italy and painted Italian views in the classic style, though he occasionally treated scenery in the Tyrol and Northern Germany, as well as religious subjects and portraits. Works: View of Tiber, St. Peter's seen from the Vatican, Grotta Ferrata on the Alban Hill, portraits of Prince Leopold of Dessau and of Blücher, Castle at Potsdam; Villa Mondragone, Bellevue Castle, near Berlin; others in the Castle of Charlottenburg; View of Amalfi, Royal Palace, Berlin.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 148; Rosenberg, Berlin Malersch., 56.

AIGEN, KARL, born in Olmütz, Moravia, in 1684, died in Vienna, Oct. 22, 1762. Painter of altarpieces, genre, and landscapes; studied probably in Vienna under P. von Strudl; member of Academy in 1754, and superintended school of painting in 1750-59. Works: Fair outside a City Gate, Kirmess, Vienna Museum; two winter landscapes, Harrach Gallery, Vienna.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 150.

AIGNER, JOSEF MATTHÄUS, born in Vienna, Jan. 18, 1818. Portrait painter, pupil of Amerling, and early acquired reputation. Being concerned in the revolutionary movement of 1848, and sentenced to death, he was pardoned at the intercession of influential persons. His portraits of Lenau, Grillparzer, F. Halm, Feuchtersleben, Betty Paoli, Rubinstein, Emperor Francis Joseph, and Empress Elizabeth, are characteristic, broadly treated and good in colour.—Brockhaus, i. 274; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 151; Müller, 7.