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 of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1838-50, limner to the Queen in Scotland in 1841, and in 1842 he was knighted. In the following year Sir William exhibited the Battle of Waterloo, now at Apsley House. In 1844 he again went to St. Petersburg, to paint Peter the Great at Saardam, now in the Winter Palace. He was engaged at the time of his death upon a picture of the battle of Bannockburn. His best portrait is that of Sir Walter Scott (1832), now in the National Portrait Gallery.—Sandby, ii. 152; Catalogue National Gallery; Art Journal (1849), 109; (1850), 100.

ALLEGRAIN, ÉTIENNE, born in Paris in March, 1644, died there, April 1, 1736. French school; was a good landscape painter in the style of Poussin and Francisque Millet; became court painter to Louis XIV., and associate of the Academy in 1677. Also an engraver. Works: two landscapes in the Louvre; seven landscapes at Versailles; Moses in the Bulrushes, Hermitage; pictures in the museums of Dijon, Alençon, Tours, and Versailles.—Villot, Catalogue Louvre; Lejeune, i. 354; iii. 291; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 332.

ALLEGRETTO NUCCI, or DI NUZIO, born in Fabriano in 1306, died in 1385. Umbro-Florentine school; appears on register of guild of St. Luke, Florence, in 1346. Earliest picture bearing his name is the Madonna with Saints, dated 1365, in the Museo Cristiano of the Vatican. In 1368 he finished the Madonna with Saints in the Sacristy of Macerata Cathedral, and in 1372 the Madonna enthroned, collection of Signor Fornari, Fabriano. Other works: Madonna, and Crucifixion, Berlin Museum. His drawing is precise, his colouring clear and rosy, his figures slender, with pretty faces; indeed, his style lacks the simplicity and dignity characteristic of Giotto and his followers.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 193; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 334; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., iv. 161; ed. Mil., iii. 16, 22; Burckhardt, 555; Cibo, Scuola Umbra (Rome, 1872), 50.

ALLEGRI, ANTONIO. See Correggio.

ALLEGRI, POMPONIO, born in Correggio, Sept. 3, 1521, died in Parma about 1593. Lombard school; son of Antonio Allegri, called Correggio, who died when Pomponio was twelve years old; education completed by his grandfather; but some think he was taught later by Rondani. Established himself in Parma and won a fair reputation. Decorated the Cappella del Popolo in the Duomo, Parma, in 1560-62, with frescos, some of which still exist. Several pictures by him in the Parma Academy.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 122; Lanzi, ii. 396; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 481; Burckhardt, 701.

ALLEMAND, LOUIS HECTOR FRANÇOIS, born in Lyons, Aug. 5, 1809. Landscape painter; brought up a merchant, he first turned his attention to art when thirty years old; studied nature around Lyons and in Dauphiné, and afterwards Ruisdael, Hobbema, and Claude Lorrain in the galleries of France, England, and Holland. Belongs to the new realistic school of landscape painting in France. Works: Wood-Border, Road near Pond, Sunset, Morning on the Rhone, Waterfall of the Gier, two landscapes, Lyons Museum; do., Nimes Museum.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 484.

ALLEMAND, FRITZ and SIGMUND L'. See L'Allemand.

ALLEN, THOMAS, born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1849. Pupil of Prof. Ducker in Düsseldorf, later studied three years in France. Exhibited first at National Academy in 1876; also exhibits in Paris. Elected A. N. A. in 1884. Studio in Boston. Works: Maplehurst at Noon (T. B. Clarke, N. Y.).

ALLINGHAM, HELEN PATERSON, born near Burton-on-Trent, England, in 1848. Genre painter, water colours; pupil of School of Design, Birmingham, and of Royal Academy, London, in 1867. In 1868 sketched in Italy two months, and on return to England drew on wood for illustrated periodicals. Exhibited at Royal Academy in 1874, under name of Helen Paterson,