ALLONGE The Milkmaid and Wait for Me. In August, 1874, married Wm. Alliugliam, the poet. Associate of Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1875. Works : Young Custom- ers (1875) ; Spring Days (1876) ; The Old Men's Gardens, Chelsea Hospital. She painted many water colour portraits of Car- lyle in his last years. Portfolio (1878), 33 ; Art Journal (1882), 7. ALLONGE, AUGUSTE, born in Paris, March 19, 1833. Landscape painter, pupil of Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1852, and of L. Cogniet. First distinguished himself in 1855 by charcoal drawings of French scenes. His oils are rare, and less remark- able than his charcoals. Works : Solitude, Fountain of Sta. Barbara, Path to the Foun- tain, Brook near Creux, Marsh near Moulin Frou (1876) ; View in the Park of Plombieres (1875) ; Autumn Morning (1873) ; The Sea (1874), Havre Museum ; Valley of Hyeres. His treatise on charcoal drawing, Le paysage au fusain, 54 plates, Goupil & Co., trans- lated by S. D. W. (N. Y., 1876), is justly celebrated. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., i. 494. ALLORI, AGNOLO, or ANGIOLO. See Bronzino. ALLORI, ALESSANDRO di Cristofano di Lorenzo, born in Flor- ence, May 3, 1535, died there, Sept. 22, ICO 7. Florentine school ; ne- phew, pupil, and medi- ocre imita- tor of Ange- lo Bronzino, with whose surname he sometimes signed his pictures. Among his works are : Baptism of Christ (15GO), Marriage at Cana, Joseph and Poti- phar's Wife, Martyrdom of St. Lawrence, St. Peter Walking on the Waters, St. Fran- cis, TJffizi ; Bathsheba in the Bath, Portrait of a young man, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Bouaventura Family, Bianca Capello, Berlin Ada /(ion Museum. Ch. Blanc, Ecole florentine ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., i. 503 ; Vasari, ed. Le Mon., viii. 34, ix. 100, xii. 302. ALLORI, CRISTOFANO, born in Flor- ence, Oct. 17, 1577, died there in 1621. Flo r en tine school ; son and pupil of Alessandro Allori, and af- terward pupil of Santo di Ti- to, both schol- ars of Angelo Bronzino, whose style Cristofano at first followed, but abandoned for the new Florentine eclectic manner based on that of Correggio. He became one of the best ar- tists in Florence of his time, but his habits were irregular and he left but few pictures. He excelled in portrait painting. By far his best work is Judith, Palazzo Pitti, Flor- ence. Other examples : Hospitality of St. Julian, St. John in the Desert, Pitti ; Ador- ation of the Magi, Infant Christ, Magdalen, TJffizi, Florence ; Isabella of Aragon implor- ing Charles VHI. for her Father. Ch. Blanc, Ecole florentine; Meyer, Ktinst. Lex., i. 508; Baldinucci, x. 259. ALLOU, GILLES, born in Paris in 1670, died there, Feb. 2, 1751. French school ; portrait painter ; became member of Acad- emy in 1711. His portraits, which rival those of Rigaud andLargilliere, found much and well-deserved favour. He was em- ployed in the Royal Carpet Factory at Beauvais. Works : portraits of Coypel and
