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Race at Chantilly; Capture of Constantine; Review of Chasseurs; Ball at the Opera (1846); Battle of the Alma (1855, bought by State); Fête at Versailles on Visit of Queen Victoria (1855); Via Novissima in Genoa (1855); Supper in Salle de Spectacle at Versailles (1857), Church Interior, Luxembourg Museum; Abdication of Mary Stuart (1867); Last Auto da-Fé in Madrid in 1670 (1873); Knox preaching before Mary Queen of Scots (1877); Four pictures from History of Charles IX. (1878); Seven water-colours, Hertford House, London, Sir Richard Wallace.—Bellier, i. 891; Bitard, 763; Müller, 317.


LAMME, ARIE JOHANNES, born at Dordrecht, Sept. 27, 1812. Genre painter, son and pupil of Arnoldus (died, Rotterdam, 1856); then studied in Paris under his cousins, Ary and Henry Scheffer. Gold medals: Rotterdam, 1836; Paris, 1845. Works: Family Scene from 16th Century (1836); Jacob Simonsz de Ryck returning from Spanish Captivity; Patriotism of Adriaan van der Werff; Guard-Room in 17th Century; Dangerous Post; Old Dutch Interior (1845); Surprise of Spanish Post; The Water-Gueux at Dordrecht on June 25, 1572; Prince Willem proclaimed Stadtholder; Maximilian van Egmont taking Leave of his Family; Ruwaard de Wit compelled to annul Edict (1853); Mme. de Montigny begging Ann of Austria for her Husband's Life (1854); Interior of Ary Scheffer's Studio, C. C. Perkins, Boston.—Immerzeel, ii. 154; Kramm, iii. 939.


LAMORINIÈRE, FRANÇOIS, born in Antwerp, April 28, 1828. Landscape painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy; studied much from nature. Medals in Brussels (1857), Vienna (1873), Paris (1878); Order of Leopold (1860); Officer (1869); Commander Order of Francis Joseph of Austria. Honorary member of Rotterdam (1864) and Prague (1877) Academies. Studio in Antwerp, and professor at the Academy since 1885. Works: View near Spaa, View near Edeghem, Brussels Museum; Rocky Landscape (1853), Ghent Museum; Interior of Burnham Forest; English Snow Landscape; Summer Landscape near Antwerp; Swamp; Morning in the Ardennes; First Autumn Days (1878); Isle of Walcheren (1878), Antwerp Museum; Solitude (1878); Wartburg near Eisenach; Four Seasons.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 526; Müller, 318.


LAMPI, JOHANN BAPTIST, Ritter von, the elder, born at Romeno, Tyrol, Dec. 31, 1751, died in Vienna, Feb. 11, 1830. Portrait painter, first instructed by his father, a village painter, then from 1768 pupil of Unterberger in Salzburg, and from 1771 of Lorenzi in Verona, where he became a member of the Academy. After his return home settled in Trent, became renowned for his portraits, was called to Vienna in 1783, and was made professor and councillor of the Academy in 1786. The following year he painted in Warsaw the royal family of Poland, and in 1791 in St. Petersburg Catherine II. and the whole imperial family. He returned to Vienna in 1798 and was knighted. During the French invasion in 1805 he did much towards the preservation of paintings and other objects of art. Honorary member of the St. Petersburg and Stockholm Academies. Works: Young Lady Artist, Darmstadt Museum; Little Girl feeding Bird, Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; Artist's and another Male Portrait, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Artist's Portrait, Vienna Museum; Portraits of Archduchesses Elizabeth and Maria Anna, of Counts Enzenberg and Auersperg, of Joseph II. (1784), Vienna Academy; Emperor Francis I.; King of Sweden; Canova; Prince Kaunitz; Baron von Sperger; Lucretia and Tarquin; Flight of the Vestal Virgins from Rome. His two sons, Johann Baptist (1775-1837) and Franz (1783-1852), also attained to considerable reputation, the former as a portrait painter, the latter as marine and landscape painter. Portraits by the former, of Canova and Field-Marshal Prince Johann Liechtenstein, are in the Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 580; Wurzbach, xiv. 57.