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ALBRECHT

and Madonna with Saints (1510?), Florence Academy. In 1512, the two painters again separated and divided the profits of their common workshop. The Adam and Eve and the Sacrifice of Abraham at Castle Howard were painted by Albertinelli, after this year, during which he for a short time gave up painting and kept a tavern near the Porta San Gallo, Florence. Other works of his late period are the Annunciation (1513?), Munich Gallery, and a triptych, Poldi Collection, Milan, which has been attributed both to Raphael and to Fra Bartolommeo. Albertinelli's last work was the Marriage of St. Catharine at Viterbo, begun by the Frate for the church of S. Silvestro.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 484; Meyer, Künst. Lex., 218; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 217; Lermolieff, 87, 227; Marchesi, ii. 12; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mai., ii. 171.

ALBRECHT, BALTHASAR AUGUSTIN, born in Berg on Lake Starnberg, Bavaria, in 1687, died in Munich, Aug. 1, 1765. History and allegory painter, German school; pupil of N. G. Stuber, studied in Venice and Rome, returned to Munich in 1719, and became court painter. His groups of children in the Schleissheim Gallery are very attractive. Many of his religious pictures are to be found in Bavarian churches. Works: Children playing, Vintage, Allegory of Painting, do. of Sculpture, portrait of Sculptor Straub, portrait of himself painting the Muses on Parnassus, Schleissheim Gallery.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 234.

ALBRIER, JOSEPH, born in Paris, Oct. 4, 1791, died there hi March, 1863. History painter, pupil and follower of Regnault. Imitated Greuze's pictures so closely as to deceive many amateurs. Works: Narcissus, Cyparissus changed into a Cypress, Amyntas delivering Sylvia (1822), Daphnis and Chloë, Louis XIV. and De la Vallière (1828), Two Scenes from Life of Frederic the Great, Meeting of the Chapter of the Golden Fleece, Versailles Gallery.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 236; Lejeune, i. 286, iii. 5.

ALCIMACHUS, Greek painter, probably about time of Alexander the Great. Painted portrait of Dioxyppus the athlete, after he had received a prize at Olympia.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [139].

ALCOTT, MAY (Mme. Ernest Nierker), born in Concord, Mass., in 1840, died in 1879. Genre painter, studied in School of Design, Boston, in Krug's studio, Paris, and under Müller. Professional life spent in Boston, London, and Paris. Her copies in oil and water-colour of Turner's pictures are given to the pupils of the South Kensington school, to work from. She also painted still-life subjects, and flower panels.

ALDEGREVER, HEINRICH, born at Soest or Paderborn in 1502, died probably in 1558. German school; chiefly known as an engraver, and one of the most accomplished of the so-called "Little Masters." His rare oil paintings are hard and dry, the flesh of a leathery brown hue. Works: Christ crowned with Thorns (1529), Prague Gallery; Philip von Waldeck (1535), Breslau Gallery; Magdalen Wittig (1541), Brunswick Museum; Male portrait (1551), Berlin Museum; do. (1544), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Anabaptist David Joris, Basle Museum.—Scott, Little Masters, 88; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 239; Brockhaus, i. 363; Keane, Early Masters, 181; Allgem. d. Biog., i. 325.

ALDENRATH, HEINRICH JACOB, born in Lübeck, Feb. 17, 1775, died in Hamburg, Feb. 25, 1844. Portrait and miniature painter, German school; pupil of Joh. Jak. Tischbein, and at Lübeck of Friedrich Karl