AUERBACH lustrated and coloured from his own draw- ings. He projected also a work on the "Quadrupeds of America," which was finished by his sons after his death. The New York Historical Society owns many of Audubon's original drawings ; his Covey of Blackcock and Canada Otter were in Phila- delphia Exhibition, in 187G. Mrs. Audubon, Memoir (New York, 1869). AUERBACH, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, bornatMulhausen, Thuringia, Oct. 28, 1697, died in Vienna, Aug. 3, 1753. German school ; portrait painter, from about 1716 in Vienna, where he became court painter in 1735 and member of the Academy in 1750. Works : Portrait of Charles VI. ; Portrait of Prince Eugene, Vienna Museum ; do. Salz- dalum Gallery. Meyer, Ktlnst. Lex., ii. 43(5. AUGUIN, LOUIS AUGUSTIN, born in Rochefort, in 1824. Landscape painter, pupil of Jules Coignet and Corot ; settled in Bordeaux and has exhibited, since 1846, many landscapes of poetic character. Medals at Vienna (1873) ; Paris, 3d class (1880); 2d class (1884). Works: Fields around Saintonge, June Day (1872) ; Evening in the Valley (1873) ; Height of Aleucoh, Banks of the Bramerie (1876) ; Dunes of Montalivet (1883) ; Summer Day at Grande Cote (1884). Meyer, Kflnst. Lex., ii. 438. AUGUSTIN, JEANBAPTISTE JACQUES, born in SainlxDie, Lorraine, Aug. 15, 1759, died in Paris, April 13, 1832. As a painter of portraits, in miniature, of the most emi- nent persons of his time, he attained a European reputation, and educated a great number of meritorious artists. In 1819 was appointed first painter to the king. Exhibited at Paris from 1791 to 1831. Works : Two portraits of Napoleon, Portrait of Louis XVIEL, two female portraits (1815 and 1824), Sir Richard Wallace, London. Meyer, Ktlnst. Lex., ii. 440. AUGUSTINE, ST., Murillo, Joseph T. Mills, Rugby, Warwickshire ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 10 in. x 4 ft 5 in. The Saint, in bishop's robes, with mitre and crook, stands on sea- shore conversing with a child who is trying to fill a hole in sand with water taken from sea in a shell According to the legend, the child said he was going to empty the sea into the hole. "Impossible," said the Bish- op. "No more impossible," replied the child, " than for you to explain the Trinity, on which you are meditating." Louis Philippe sale, 680. Same subject by San- chez Coello in Escorial, Guercino in Madrid Museum, and Garofalo in National Gallery of London ; fresco attributed to Raphael in Vatican. Curtis, 219 ; Cat. Nat Gal. ; Stir- ling. By Murillo, George Tomline, Orwell Park, Suffolk, England ; full-length, life size. The Saint, in a robe lined with red, kneels in ecstasy before a flaming heart which ap- pears in clouds, with an inscription ; on the floor, three books, a mitre, and a cro- zier. Painted about 1678 for Convent of S. Augustine, Seville ; taken to Paris by Marshal Soult, who sold it about 1846 to Mr. Tomliue. Dr. Waagen calls it the finest single figure he knew by the master. Copy in Cadiz Museum. Waagen, Treasures, iii. 441 ; Curtis, 218. By Murillo, Seville Museum ; wood, H. 8 ft 3 in. x 4 ft. 4 in. The Saint, seated behind a table, holding a pen over an open book, beholds a vision of the Trinity, above on his right, in a glory of cherubs and heads. Painted about 1678 for Convent of S. Augustine, Seville ; companion to above. Curtis, 217. By Murillo, Seville Museum ; wood, H. 8 ft 3 in. x 4 ft 4 in. The Saint, in the habit of the Order of St Benedict, kneeling, presents to Infant Jesus, seated on lap of Virgin, a flaming heart which the Child transfixes with a dart ; above, cherubs and heads. Painted about 1678 for Convent of S. Augustine, near the Car- mona Gate, Seville, which was suppressed at the beginning of this century. C. Ber- mudez, ii. 60 ; Carta, 96 ; Ponz, Viage, is. 135 ; Curtis, 217. AUGUSTUS AND THE FRIENDS OF VIRGIL, liaphael, Camera della Segnatura,
