PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
Way in Summer-time,' while 'Feeding the Calves '
was in part by W. P. Frith, R.A. In the same
j-ear he won a third-class gold medal at Paris with
' The Wolf Slayer ' and ' Turning the Drove ' (R.A.
1851). In 1856 he made his first visit to Spain
with J. Phillip, and at the Royal Academy he
showed ' Going to be Fed,' to which that artist
had contributed. In the two following years
Ansdell's pictures were all from Spanish subjects.
In 1861 he was elected A.R.A., and exhibited his
' Hunted Slaves,' a very efifective and popular piece
of melodrama, which now represents him in the
public collection of his native place, along with
' A MastifiE ' and ' A Shooting Party in the High-
lands — Halting for Lunch.' In the following year
he was at Kensington, although a good deal of his
time was spent at a little lodge built for him
beside Loch Laggan. Ansdell became R.A. in
1870, and towards the end of his life he established
himself at Famborough, where he died in 1885.
It has been stated that during his last quarter of a
century he showed 181 pictures in London, and
received f :)r them an average price of £750 each.
A 'View of St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall,' realized
£1410 10s. at Baron Grant's sale. Mr. J. G. Millais,
a critic peculiarly well qualified, has pronounced
tie 'Combat of Red Stags' the best picture of a
deer by Ansdell — a canvas that might well have
come from the brash of Landseer ; for in it there is a
splendid amount of " go" and action. As a rule,
though Ansdell excelled in the grouping of his
subjects and execution of detail, neither his large
animals (except dogs) nor his birds completely
sutisfy. His deer are too obviously drawn from
dead ones, and with regard to birds, he, like
Reinagle, followed too closely the inaccuracies of
the bird-stuffers.
ANSELIN, Jean Louis, a French line-engraver, who was horn in Paris in 1754, was a pupil of A. de Saint-Aubin. He became engraver to the king, and died at Paris in 1823. Among his best works are the following ;
La Marquise de Pompadour ; after Van Loo. The Siege of Calais ; after Berthilemy. Moliere reading his ' Tartuffe ' at the house of Xiuon de Lenclos ; after Monsiaa, The Sleeping Child ; after Sonata Creti ; for Laurent" s Musee Fran(jais.
ANSELL, Chables, flourished towards the close of the 18th century. His name occurs only twice — 1780 and 1781— in the catalogues of the Royal Academy. He was celebrated for his drawings of the horse, but also drew domestic subjects. His ' Death of a Race-horse ' was engraved in six plates, and published in 1784.
ANSELMI, Giorgio, bom at Verona, in 1723, jvas a pupil of Balestra. His masterpiece is the painting in fresco in the cupola of Sant' Andrea St Mantua. He died in 1797.
ANSELMI, Michelangelo, called 'Michelangelo da Lucca,' was bom at Lucca, in 1491, and was a disciple of Bazzi. He principally resided at Parma, where one of his first performances was a considerable work painted from a design of Giulio Romano, representing the 'Coronation of the Virgin.' He painted several pictures of his own composition for the churches in Parma, some of which bear a resemblance to the style of Correggio. He died in 1554, at Parma.
The following are his best works :
Florence. Pffizi. Xatinty. London. Xorthlirook C'oH. Madouua and Saints. Paris. Louvre. Virgin in Glory. Angers. Cathedral. Arras. Cathedral. Bordeaux. Jfuseunt. Le Mans. Cathedral. Liege. Cathedral. liUe. Hdtel-de-i'ille 3fuseum. Metz. Cathedral. Paris .S. Etienne-da- Pamia. Cathedral. Madonna and Child. ,, Gallery. Christ on the way to Calvary " ^t:^a^] Coronation of the Virgin. Eeggio. . Prospero. Baptism of Christ.
ANSIAUX, Jean Joseph Eleonore Astoixe, a French historical and portrait painter, a scholar of Vincent, was bom at Liege, in 1764. His works, taken from sacred and profane history, and poetical subjects, are numerous, and place him among the best artists of the French school in the 19th century. He also painted portraits of several distinguished persons, ministers, and generals of Napoleon. He died at Paris in 1840.
The following are some of his best works: Raising of the Cross. 1S27. Resurrection. Richelieu presenting Poussin to Louis XIII. 1S17. Adoration of the Kings. Ascension. 1S12. Conversion of St. Paid. 1814. Return of the Prodigal Son. 1819. St. John rebuking Herod. 1822. Finding of Moses. 1822. The Flagellation, .Uont. St. Paul preaching at Athens.
ANSUINO (or Ansovino), of Forli, who flourished about 1455, was one of the pupils of Squarcione, a fellow-worker with Mantegna in the frescoes in the Eremitani Chapel at Padua ; and his work bears traces of the influence of that master. The inscription Opus Ansvini is attached to the representation of ' St. Christopher.'
ANTHONISSEN, H. (? Hendkik) van, a Dutch marine painter who flourished about the middle of the 17th century. He painted in the style of J. van Goyen and Jan Parcellis. He is the author of sea paintings, in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, and the Prague Gallery, which through their signatures have been ascribed to a mythical Hemdrik van Axtem.
ANTHONISZOON, Corselis, (or Antosiszoon), was born at Amsterdam, about the year 1500. He excelled in representing the interior views of towns, which he did with uncommon fidelity. In the H6tel-de-Ville at Amsterdam is a picture by this master, representing that city as it was in 1536. He afterwards painted twelve views of the same city, with its principal public buildings, which he engraved on twelve blocks of wood. These prints are now rare. He was also known as 'Teunissex — the abbreviation of his name. Hence his monogram. In /-- SI -t/ Meyer's 'Kiinstler-Lexikon ' is a hst of ^Hl - his engravings.
ANTHONY, George Wilfred, landscape painter, was born at Manchester, where he studied landscape painting under Ralston, and afterwards under I5arber of Birmingham. After travelling about for some time, he finally settled at Manchester as a drawing-master. He was also an art-critic, and wrote several very able reviews of local exhibitions for the 'Manchester Guardian.' He died at Manchester, in 1859.
ANTHONY, Maric, bom at Manchester in 1817, of Welsh descent. Trained for the medical profession, and at sixteen placed with a doctor, at Cowbridge, Glamorganshire ; who, being an amateur painter of some skill, encouraged the artistic leanings of his assistant. Having some
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