at Padua in 1652. Venetian school; history painter, pupil of Guido
Reni; lived and taught in Padua, among his pupils being Minorello
and Cirello. Works: Pietà, S. Antonio, Padua; The Plague (1630), The
Dominicans, Padua; Magdalen, Death of Cleopatra, Tomyris with the
Head of Cyrus, Estense Gallery, Modena; Painting crowned by Fame,
Bordeaux Museum.--Lanzi (Roscoe), ii. 267, 363.
FERRETTI, GIOVANNI DOMENICO, called da Imola, born at Florence in
1692. Florentine school; history painter, pupil of Giovanni Gioseffo
del Sole; painted mostly for the churches and palaces of Florence,
Pisa, Leghorn, Siena, Pistoja, and Imola. Among his best works are a
Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew in S. Bartolommeo, Pisa, and the cupola
painting in S. Filippo Neri, Pistoja.
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FERRI, CIRO, born in Rome in 1634, died there, Sept. 13, 1689. Roman
school; history painter, pupil of Pietro da Cortona, whose style he
imitated so closely that it is difficult to distinguish his work from
that of his master. He finished Cortona’s frescos in the Palazzo
Pitti, Florence, and other uncompleted works in Rome. His best
original works are the ceiling of the Annunziata, baroque style, and
the cupola of S. Agnese in the Piazza Navona, Rome, which he left
unfinished at his death. Works: Repose in Egypt, Madonna with St.
Martina, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Christ appearing to Magdalen, Vienna
Museum; Marriage of the Virgin, Amsterdam Museum; Rape of Helen,
Darmstadt Museum; St. Theresa, Oldenburg Gallery; David and Saul,
Copenhagen Gallery; Christ on the Cross, Alexander reading Homer,
Artist’s portrait, Uffizi, Florence; Coriolanus and his Family, Roman
Warrior, Estense Gallery, Modena; Vision of St. Catherine of Siena,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Triumph of Bacchus, Hampton Court.--Lanzi,
i. 498; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 149, 768.
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FERRIER, (JOSEPH MARIE AUGUSTIN) GABRIEL, born at Nîmes, Sept. 29,
1847. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Lecoq de
Boisbaudran; won grand prix de Rome in 1872. Medals: 2d class, 1876;
1st class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1884. Works: Greek Improviser, B.C.
30 (1872); Abduction of Ganymede (1875); David Conqueror of Goliath,
Nîmes Museum; David and Bathsheba (1876), Martyrdom of St. Agnes
(1878), Judith, Rouen Museum; Inquisition in Spain (1879); Salammbô
(1880); Springtime (1881); “Hail King of the Jews” (1882); Guardian
Angel (1885).--Müller, 172.
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FESELEN, MELCHIOR, born at Passau, died in Ingolstadt, April 10,
1538. German school; history painter, evidently influenced in his
later pictures by Albrecht Altdorfer, his contemporary. Works:
Crucifixion, Darmstadt Museum; Porsenna besieging Rome (1529), Cæsar
besieging Alesia (1533), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Adoration of the
Magi (1531), Nuremberg Museum; Mary of Egypt (1523), Historical
Society, Ratisbon; Crucifixion, Beheading of St. Barbara, Church of
Our Lady, Ingolstadt.--Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 723; W. & W., ii. 418.
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FETI, DOMENICO, born in Rome in 1589, died in Venice in 1624. Roman
school; pupil of Cigoli in Florence; afterwards went to Mantua,
studied works of Giulio Romano, and was made court-painter there
by Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, whence sometimes called Il Mantovano.
Painted many small pictures, chiefly Bible subjects, vigorous in
colour and good in execution. Works: David with Head of Goliath,
Martyrdom of St. Agnes, Return of the Prodigal, Good Samaritan,
and 7 others, Dresden Gallery; Ecce Homo, Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Market-Place, Flight into Egypt, Leander, Moses and the Burning
Bush, Marriage of St. Catherine, Triumph of Galatea, St. Margaret,
Vienna Museum; David and Goliath, Dædalus and Icarus, Adoration of
Shepherds, Tobias healing his Father, Conception, Hermitage, St.
Petersburg; Visitation, Flight into Egypt, Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Expulsion of Hagar, Return of Prodigal, Brunswick Museum; Elijah in
Wilderness, Berlin Museum; Magdalen Penitent, Oldenburg Gallery;
Sleeping Girl, Buda-Pesth Gallery; Meditation, Venice Academy;
Artemisia, Uffizi, Florence; Lost Coin, Labourers in the Vineyard,
Palazzo Pitti, ib.; Christ in Garden, Christ and Pilate, Crowning
with Thorns, Entombment, Palazzo Corsini, ib.; Nero, Rural Life,
Melancholy, Guardian Angel, Louvre, Paris; Beheading of John Baptist,
National Gallery, Edinburgh; David with Head of Goliath, Hampton
Court.--Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 793, 800; Seguier, 68.
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FEUERBACH, ANSELM, born at Speyer, Sept. 12, 1829, died in Venice,
Jan. 4, 1880. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under
Schadow, then in Munich under Rahl and Genelli; having frequented
the Antwerp Academy in 1850, he studied in Paris under Couture in
1851–52, went to Carlsruhe in 1853, to Venice in 1854, and to Rome
in 1856; was appointed professor at the Vienna Academy in 1873;
decorated the ceiling of the Museum of Casts with a fresco of the
Titans. Works: Death of Pietro Aretino (1853); Silenus with Young
Bacchus and two Satyrs, Poetry (1854), Dante with the Ladies of
Ravenna (1857), Carlsruhe Gallery; Iphigenia (1861); Francesca da
Rimini and Paolo (1861), Pietà (1862), Ariosto with Ladies in Ferrara
(1863), Petrarch seeing Laura in Church (1864), Singing Boy and Girl
overheard by Nymph, Madonna with Angels, Group of Bathing Children
(1865), Hafiz at the Fountain, Idyl from Tivoli, Roman Family Scene,
Portrait of Nanna, Schack Gallery, Munich; Medea preparing for Flight
(1870), New Pinakothek, ib.; Medea brooding over Infanticide (1871);
Boys and Dryad (1865), Medea mourning over the Urn (1873); Banquet
of Plato (1867); Orpheus and Eurydice (1870); Iphigenia (1871),
Stuttgart Gallery; Gypsies dancing in the Woods, Judgment of Paris
(1870), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Battle of Amazons (1872); Romeo and
Juliet; Melancholy; Prometheus; Banquet of Plato (1873); Concert
of Venetian Girls (1879).--Brockhaus, vi. 751; Graph. K., iii. 1;
Kunst-Chronik, xv. 238; xvii. 393, 429, 459; Illustr. Zeitg. (1880),
i. 88; ii. 564; N. illustr. Zeitg. (1880), i. 250; Schack, Meine
Gemäldesammlung, 95; Zeitschr. f. b. K., viii. 161.
FEYEN, EUGÈNE, born at Bey-sur-Seille (Meurthe), Nov. 13, 1815. Genre
painter, pupil of P. Delaroche; paints fishermen in a very attractive
way. Medals: 1866; 2d class, 1880; L. of Honour, 1881. Works: Street
Musicians, Promenade in the Park (1866); Souvenirs, Idyl on a Wall
(1868); Gleaners of the Sea (1872), Luxembourg Museum; Oyster-Fishing
at Cancale, Bull-Head Fish, On the Shore (1874); Rescued Child,
Fisherman’s Return (1879); Cancale Fishwives returning in a Boat,
Nurse Asleep (1880); Fishing on Foot for Oysters, Fishermen’s
Departure (1881); Harvesters Resting, Low Tide (1882); Fishing,
Repairing the Nets (1883); Departure for Fishing, Fisherman’s Wife
(1884); Before the Storm, Bay of Cancale (1885).
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FEYEN-PERRIN, (FRANÇOIS NICOLAS) AUGUSTIN, born at Bey-sur-Seille
in 1829. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of L. Cogniet and Yvon.
Medals: 1865; 1867; 3d class, 1874; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Return
to the Cottage (1855); Charon’s Boat (1857), Nancy Museum; Dante’s
Circle of the Voluptuous (1859); Venetian Festival (1861); The Muse
of Béranger (1863), Dr. Velpeau’s Lesson in Anatomy, On the Beach
(1864); The Elegy, Finding the Body of Charles the Bold after the
Battle of Nancy (1865); Women of Batz Island waiting for the Ferry
(1866); Woman winnowing Grain (1867); Wreck of the Evening Star
(1868); Circle of the Stars (1869); Melancholy (1870); Spring-Time
(1872); Cancale Women at the Spring, Return from Market (1873),
Return of the Oyster-Fishers (1874), Luxembourg Museum; Cancale Women
(1876); Parisian Woman at Cancale (1877); Death of Orpheus (1878);
Women knitting by the Sea (1879); Return from Fishing at Low Tide
(1880); Astarte, Fishing on Foot (1881); Drunkenness, The Corniche
Road (1882); Spring-Time, Dancing by Twilight (1883); Armorica, The
Bath (1884); Remorse, The Bath (1885).--Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 318.
FIACCO (Flacco), ORLANDO, born in Verona, flourished about 1560.
Venetian school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Francesco
Torbido, according to others, of Badile; praised by Vasari especially
for his portraits. Works: Ecce Homo, Crucifixion, S. Nazario,
Verona.--Lanzi (Roscoe), ii. 208; Nagler, iv. 310.
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FIALETTI, ODOARDO, born in Bologna in 1573, died in Venice in 1638.
Venetian school; history painter, pupil of Gio. Battista Cremonini
at Bologna and of Tintoretto in Venice, where most of his paintings
are to be found. Works: Crucifixion, S. Croce, Venice; others in S.
Marco, Venice, and S. Andrea, Murano; Senators of Venice in Senate
House, Hampton Court Palace.--Lanzi (Roscoe), ii. 195; Nagler, iv.
310.
FIALKA, OLGA VON, born in Austria; contemporary. Genre painter and
illustrator, pupil of Matejko and of Eisenmenger. Illustrated the
works of Lessing. Girl Gardener (1880).
FIASELLA, DOMENICO. See _Sarzana_.
FICHEL, (BENJAMIN) EUGÈNE, born in Paris, Aug. 30, 1826. French
school; genre painter, pupil of P. Delaroche; paints small pictures,
carefully and skilfully executed, somewhat in style of Meissonier.
Medals: 3d class, 1857, 1861, 1869; L. of Honour, 1870. Works:
Holy Family (1849); Harvey proving the Circulation of the Blood
(1851), Paris Medical School; Dressing, Levée (1853); Morning
Intimacy (1855); Dramatic Matinée, Game of Chess (1857); Provincial
Restaurant, A Smoker (1859); Camacho’s Wedding, Baptism of Mlle.
Clairon (1861); Library Corner, Lively Party, Arrival at the Inn
(1863), bought by State; Party of Smokers, Audience at the Minister’s
(1864); Napoleon I. planning Manœuvres, General Bonaparte returning
his Father’s Sword to Eugéne Beauharnais (1865); Diderot and Rameau’s
Nephew (1866); Amateur at a Painter’s, Open in the King’s Name;
Cabinet of Medals in the Royal Library (1867); Chess Player, Body
Guard (1868); Night of August 24, 1572, Fool selling Wisdom (1869);
Party of Four (1870); Founding of the French Academy in 1635 (1872);
Buffon in his Study, Grand Reception (1873); Lacepède writing his
History of Fishes, Daubenton in his Laboratory (1873), Vienna
Exposition; Louis XVI.’s Forge (1874); Departure of the Coach (1875);
A Foreign Festival (1876); Tavern of Ramponneau (1877); Soldiers and
Grisettes (1878); Curate’s Nephew, Master’s Last Acquisition (1879);
Restaurant, Signing the Contract (1880); At the Tailor’s, The Bill
to Pay (1881); End of the Dinner, Last Throw of Dice (1882); Jaurat
in the Tavern, Card Players (1883); Before the Receipt, After the
Receipt (1884); A Game of Cards (1885).
FICHERELLI, FELICE, born at San Gemignano in 1605, died in 1660.
Florentine school; history painter, pupil of Jacopo da Empoli;
called Felice Riposo from his indolence, but his few pictures are
remarkable for elegance of design and harmony of colour. His copies
of Perugino, Andrea del Sarto, and others have been mistaken for
originals. Works: St. Anthony, S. Maria Nuova; Adam and Eve driven
from Paradise, Palazzo Rinuccini, Florence; Tarquin and Lucretia,
Dresden Gallery.--Lanzi (Roscoe), i. 219; Nagler, iv. 316.
FIEDLER, BERNHARD, born in Berlin, Nov. 23, 1816. Landscape and
architecture painter, pupil of Berlin Academy, then of Gerst and
of Krause. In 1855 he accompanied the present King of the Belgians
to Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, and revisited Egypt in 1865–66.
Member of Venice Academy. Lives in Trieste. Works: Amphitheatre in
Pola (1846), National Gallery, Berlin; Cairo (1864), Vienna Museum;
Tower of Rhodes, Entrance to Mosque in Cairo, Granite Quarries
near Siena, Cologne Museum; Ruins of Baalbec (1872); Jerusalem
(1879).--Brockhaus, vi. 795; Müller, 174.
FIEDLER, JOHANN CHRISTIAN, born at Pirna, Saxony, in 1697, died at
Darmstadt in 1768. French school; history and portrait painter,
pupil in Paris of Rigaud and Largillière; became court-painter at
Darmstadt. Works: Burial of Christ, The Seasons, Artist’s portrait,
and others, Darmstadt Museum.
FIESOLE, FRA ANGELICO DA. See _Angelico_.
FIGINO, AMBROGIO, born in Milan about 1548, died after 1595. Lombard
school, pupil of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; became an excellent
historical and portrait painter, and was a tolerably successful
imitator of Michelangelo’s designs. Works: Madonna with Saints and
Satan, and portrait of the Maréchal Foppa, Brera, Milan; St. Matthew,
St. Paul, S. Rafaello, ib.; Virgin crushing Head of Serpent, S.
Antonio Abate, ib.--Lanzi, ii. 503; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise;
Burckhardt, 709.
FIKENTSCHER, OTTO, born at Aix-la-Chapelle, Feb. 28, 1831, died in
Düsseldorf, Nov. 12, 1880. Battle painter and illustrator, pupil of
Düsseldorf Academy under Theodor Hildebrand; spent several years in
Stuttgart and Munich, then settled in Düsseldorf. Works: Blücher
saved by his Adjutant at Quatrebras; Attack of Cuirassiers at
Mars-la-Tour; French Dragoons Repulsed.--Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 122.
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FILDES, (SAMUEL) LUKE, born in Liverpool, Oct. 14, 1844. Genre
painter, pupil of South Kensington schools and of Royal Academy. Made
many drawings on wood for the London Graphic, Cornhill Magazine, and
other periodicals, and illustrated the last works of Dickens (Edwin
Drood) and of Lever. Exhibited his drawing called Nightfall at Royal
Academy in 1868, and his first oil picture, Fair Quiet and Sweet
Rest, in 1872. This was followed by Simpletons (1873); Applicants
for Admission to a _Casual_ Ward (1874); Betty (1875); The _Widower_
(1876); Marianina, Playmates (1877); Return of a Penitent (1879);
Doubts, Dolly, Venetian Girl (1881); Nina (1882); Village Wedding
(1883); Venetian Life, Venetian Flower Girl (1884); Venetians (1885).
Mr. Fildes was elected an A.R.A. in 1879. Mrs. Fildes is also a genre
painter. Among her works are: Cottage Door (1877); Peeling Potatoes
(1878).--Meynell, 103; Portfolio (1878), 65; Century, Feb., 1884;
Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 319.
FILIPEPI, SANDRO. See _Botticelli_.
FILIPPI, SEBASTIANO, called Bastianino, born in Ferrara in 1532,
died there, Aug. 16, 1602. Lombard school. Called also Gratella
(Gridiron), from his custom of covering large pictures with crossed
lines to reduce them to a small scale. Son and pupil of Camillo
Filippi, a painter of some reputation in Ferrara; went when eighteen
years old to Rome, and became a favourite disciple of Michelangelo,
of whom he was a weak imitator. His best work is the fresco of the
Last Judgment in the Cathedral of Ferrara, now greatly damaged by
restoration. Works: Raising of the Cross, Certosa; Madonna with
Saints and Annunciation, Ferrara Gallery.--Lanzi, iii. 205; Ch.
Blanc, École ferraraise; Burckhardt, 761.
FILIPPINO. See _Lippi_, Filippino.
FILIPPO, FRA. See _Lippi_, Filippo.
FILIPPO NAPOLITANO. See _Angeli_, Filippo d’.
[Illustration: March to Finchley, William Hogarth, Foundling
Hospital, London.]
FINCHLEY, MARCH TO, William _Hogarth_, Foundling Hospital, London.
The march of the Guards to Scotland in 1745. While the straggling
vanguard are winding away to the horizon, the foreground is filled
with the confusion incident to departure. The most prominent figure
is a young and handsome Guardsman hopelessly embarrassed by the
rival adieux of two ladies; a drummer is drowning his grief by a
vigorous attack on his drum; an officer kisses a milkmaid, while a
soldier pours her milk into his hat, and another steals the pieman’s
wares while directing his attention to the episode. Painted in 1750;
engraved by L. Sullivan. The picture was dedicated to the King of
Prussia, who made a handsome acknowledgment of the honour.--Dobson,
Hogarth, 70.
FINISTÈRE, EVENING AT, Jules _Breton_, John A. Mitchell, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin; canvas, H. about 3 ft. × 4 ft. A party of white-hooded
Brittany women near a hamlet at sunset. Painted in 1882; Seney sale,
New York, 1885.
FINSONIUS (Finson), LOUIS, born in Bruges about 1580, drowned in
the Rhône near Arles in 1632. Flemish school, history and portrait
painter; passed his youth in Italy and followed the school of
Caravaggio. Went to Naples in 1612, returned to Aix in 1613, and
settled at Arles in 1614. Good colourist, style vehement, scrupulous
observer of material effects. Works: Resurrection (1610), St. John’s
Church; Incredulity of Thomas (1613), Church of the Saviour, Aix;
Female portrait (1624), Museum, ib.; Martyrdom of St. Stephen (1614),
Arles Museum; Magdalen, Marseilles Museum; Annunciation (1612),
Naples Museum.--Biog. nat. de Belgique, vii. 70; Kramm, ii. 487.
FIORE, COLANTONIO DEL. See _Colantonio_ del Fiore.
FIORE (Flore), JACOBELLO DEL, flourished 1400–1439. Venetian
school. Son of Francesco del Fiore, president in 1376 of the guild
of painters in Venice, a position held also by Jacobello 1415–36.
Painted in the method of the earlier Venetians; work marked by
incorrectness of drawing, harshness of colour, and tawdriness of
ornament and of drapery. His Lion of St. Mark (1415) in the Ducal
Palace, Venice, his Madonna (1436) in the Venice Academy, and a large
picture in the Sacristy of the Duomo at Ceneda, are fair specimens of
his manner.--C. & C., N. Italy, i. 2; Burckhardt, 588; Lermolieff,
395.
FIORENZO DI LORENZO, born at Perugia about 1440–50, died after 1521.
Umbrian school, probably a pupil of Benedetto Bonfigli. In 1472
he contracted to paint an Assumption of the Virgin, the principal
parts of which are now in the Perugia Academy. Though the figures
are of common type and the action is broken and exaggerated, the
drawing is good and the execution careful. The influence of Perugino
upon Fiorenzo shows itself in a fresco (1475) of the Eternal in a
circular glory between Saints, in S. Francesco of Diruta, one of the
most important wall-paintings recovered in our day. There are other
pictures by him in the Perugia Academy; a Madonna on a gold ground,
dated 1481, Berlin Museum; Madonna, S. Giacomo, Assisi; Altarpiece
(1485), S. Francesco, Terni; Head of Christ and Saints, Madrid
Museum.--C. & C., Italy, iii. 151; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., vi. 30, 56;
Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Cibo, Niccolò Alunno e La Scuola Umbra,
113; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., i. 424.
FIORI DA URBINO. See _Barocci_, Federigo.
FIORINI, GIAMBATTISTA. See _Aretusi_, Cesare.
FISCHBACH, JOHANN, born in Castle Grafenegg, Nether Austria, April
5, 1797, died in Munich, June 15, 1871. Landscape and genre painter,
pupil of Vienna Academy under Potter and Krafft. Extensively known
by his charcoal drawings. In 1840 he moved from Vienna to Salzburg,
lived there until 1851, then in the country, and from 1860 in
Munich; was made member of the Vienna Academy in 1843. Works:
Poachers, Rosenlauig Glacier in Switzerland (1838); Peasant Boy
quarrelling with Girl about a Bird (1830), Widow in Graveyard (1838),
Museum, Vienna; Ideal Landscape (1830), Huntsmen Resting (1845),
Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Anxious Expectation (1844), Children
Found (1845), View near Salzburg (1858), New Pinakothek, Munich;
Salzach Valley and Watzmann (1851).--Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 47;
Andresen, v. 78; Wurzbach, iv. 236.
FISCHER, GOTTLOB, born in Stuttgart, June 27, 1829. History and
portrait painter, studied sculpture in Holland, and painting
(1853–55) in Paris under Ary Scheffer; returned to Holland, and
in 1857 settled in Stuttgart. Works: Bacchante (1856); Protestant
Service in a Barn (1859); Rembrandt in his Studio (1865); Spinoza and
the Spiders (1866); King Lear and Cordelia (1873); Tasso in Prison
(1876); Portraits of King and Queen of Würtemberg (1875), of Prince
Frederic, Baron von Thumb, Baron von Cotta, Count Taube.--Müller, 175.
FISCHER, (JOHANN CHRISTIAN) RICHARD, born in Dantzic in 1826.
Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn,
Theodor Hildebrandt, and Schirmer. From 1854 to 1862 he lived
alternately in Berlin and Dantzic, and then settled in the latter
place. Works: Sultry Noontide, Early Morning, Noon in the Valley,
Dantzic Museum; Evening in the Woods, Under the Oak Trees, Solitude
in Eifel Mountains, Vienna Museum; Wood-border in Tyrol, Hamburg
Gallery; Hessian Landscape, Darmstadt Gallery; On the Heights
in Eifel Mountains; Heath at Sunset (1866); Evening on Baltic
Sea.--Müller, 175.
FISCHER, JOHANN GEORG, born at Augsburg in 1580, died in Munich in
1643. German school; history painter, studied in Prague and Italy,
imitated Albrecht Dürer. Works: Taking of Christ, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Twelve Apostles, 11 Battle Scenes, Schleissheim Gallery; Ecce
Homo, Moritz Chapel, Nuremberg; Trinity (after Dürer), Pommersfelden
Gallery.--Nagler, iv. 354.
FISCHER, JOSEF, born in Vienna, Jan. 30, 1769, died there, Sept. 5,
1822. German school; landscape painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy,
of which he became a member in 1815. In 1802 he was made director of
the Eszterhazy Gallery, Vienna. Works: View of Vienna and the Danube,
Vienna Museum; Landscape, Vienna Academy; Storm Landscape, Prague
Gallery; others in National Gallery, Pesth.--Allgem. d. Biogr., vii.
76; Wurzbach, iv. 240.
FISCHER, JOSEF ANTON, born at Obersdorf, Allgäu, Feb. 28, 1814,
died in Munich, March 20, 1859. History painter, pupil of the
Munich Academy under Schlotthauer. Visited Italy with Förster and
Schraudolph in 1832, and studied under Heinrich Hess in 1834–40. In
1843 he revisited Italy, studied Fra Angelico, and was influenced
by Overbeck. Works: Flight to Egypt (1841), Adoration of the Magi
(1844), Visitation (1845), Entombment (1848), New Pinakothek,
Munich; Assumption; Descent from the Cross; Nativity; Birth of Mary;
Adoration of the Magi.--Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 77; Regnet, 133.
FISCHER, THEODOR, born in Schwerin in 1816, died there, March 30,
1873. History and portrait painter, pupil in Schwerin of Schumacher,
then in Dresden of Bendemann and Richter. Pictures in Schwerin
Gallery and Grand Ducal Palace, in Rostock University, and in many
churches and chapels of Mecklenburg.--Kunst-Chronik, viii. 431.
FISCHER, VINCENZ, born at Schmidham, Bavaria, April 2, 1729, died in
Vienna, Oct. 26, 1810. History, architecture, and landscape painter,
first apprenticed with an obscure painter at Passau, then pupil of
Vienna Academy; went to Italy in 1753 to study under Tiepolo and
Cignaroli, and after his return in 1760 became member of the Vienna
Academy, and professor in 1764, as which he enjoyed considerable
reputation. Works: Moses and Pharaoh’s Crown (1760), Academy, Vienna;
Roman Colonnade with Procession (1762), Similar Subject (1769),
Museum, ib.; in fresco: Agamemnon shooting Diana’s Sacred Doe, Castle
Laxenburg, near Vienna; others in Royal Palace at Buda-Pesth, Royal
Chapel at Pressburg.--Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 82; Wurzbach, iv. 247.
FISEN, ENGELBERT, born at Liège in 1655, died there, April 15, 1733.
Flemish school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Flemael,
then in Rome (from 1671) of Carlo Maratti, whose style he followed
closely; returned to Liège in 1679. Of the 653 pictures and portraits
he painted, only a few have survived. Works: Martyrdom of St.
Bartholomew, Christ on the Cross, St. Bartholomew’s, Liège; Descent
from the Cross, Chapelle des Femmes incurables, ib.--Biog. nat. de
Belgique, vii. 78; Michiels, x. 171.
FISH-GIRL, _Murillo_, Lady Cranstoun, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4
in. × 2 ft. 8 in. Peasant girl, seated, full-length, looking front,
holding up with left hand the end of the scarf which covers her neck;
right hand on handle of basket of fruit, beside which, on ground, is
a dish of fish; background, landscape. Probably Aguado sale (1843),
6,900 fr.; bought about 1864 from Mr. Burley. Engraved by Blanchard,
in Gallery Aguado.--Curtis, 283; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Art
Union, 1846; Art Journal, Sept., 1864; Scott, Murillo.
[Illustration: Kitty Fisher, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Crewe.]