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Journal (1863), 177; Portfolio (1870), 49; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 263.


ARMSTRONG, THOMAS, born in Manchester, England, in 1835. Figure painter; pupil in Paris of Ary Scheffer. In later years he has sought to combine modern French style with Pre-Raphaelite simplicity and agreeable colour. Works: Josephine, Morning, Peach Gathering, The Lesson, exhibited at Royal Academy since 1865.—Portfolio (1871), 65.


ARNDT, FRANZ, born at Lobsenz, near Posen, Aug. 20, 1842. Landscape and genre painter; pupil at Weimar Art School under Alex. Michaelis, and Theod. Hagen; visited Italy in 1872 and 1877, was appointed professor at the Art School in 1876, and secretary in 1879. His landscapes show close study of tree forms; his genre pieces are generally humorous in design. Works: Elegy, Scherzo (1872), Children's Jokes (1873), Summer Morning, North German Church.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 270; Müller, 18.


ARNOLD, HERMANN, born in Munich, May 7, 1846. History and genre painter; pupil at Munich Academy under Hiltensperger, Anschütz, Alex. Wagner, Schraudolph, and Piloty. Works: Altarpiece, Inundation Scene, Schützenkönig, Neighbour's Children, Christ; Dream of Roses (1883).—Müller, 18.


ARNOLD, KARL JOHANN, born in Berlin, Aug. 30, 1829. Portrait, animal, and genre painter; pupil of the Cassel Academy, of the Antwerp Academy, and after his return to Berlin of Adolf Menzel, who led him through a thorough study of nature in all her aspects. Works: Siesta, Fanny and her Admirers, Where is Fanny? Welcome in the Green, Hessian Peasant Girl, Wicliff Persecuted, the North German Parliament, the Great Headquarters at Paris, Boar Hunt, Altarpiece; portraits of Louis Spohr, Bettina von Arnim, two of King William, German Imperial Family; Dinner in honour of the Congress.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 277; Müller, 18.


ARNZ, ALBERT, born in Düsseldorf, Jan. 24, 1832. Landscape painter, pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy, under his brother-in-law, Oswald Achenbach, with whom he visited Italy and Switzerland. Most of his subjects are taken from Rome and Naples, though he has also painted views in Westphalia and the Nether Rhine countries. Works: The Regenstein in the Hartz Mountains, Swiss Landscape, Wood Landscape with Sheep, Summer Landscape, On the Ruins of Rome (1869); The Colosseum, Coast near Naples (1871).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 297; Müller, 19.


ARPINO, CAVALIERE D'. See Cesari, Giuseppe.


ARRIVABENE, GIULIO CESARE, born in Mantua in 1806. History and figure painter; pupil of the Milan Academy, from which he received a prize in 1833. Afterwards spent several years in Rome, where he painted historical pictures, some allegories in fresco for a palace, and in Mantua and its neighbourhood madonnas and saints for churches. Since 1853 he has been settled in Florence, and has painted mostly scenes from sacred history. Works: Ruth, Duke of Sutherland's Collection; Macbeth, Mr. Waring's Collection, London.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 303.


ARSENIUS, JOHANN GEORG, born at Klemmestorp, Westergöthland, Feb. 4, 1818. Painter of horses; pupil of Wahlbom in 1849-50, and of the portrait painter Staaf in 1843. In 1852 he went to Düsseldorf and thence to Paris, where he studied under Horace Vernet; in 1865 became a member of the Stockholm Academy. He is a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Swedish cavalry. Works: Race (1864); Halt, Fire in a Stable (1866); Horses Frightened by Locomotive, Quarry near Lugnaas, Norwegian Sledge-Trotter, Grey Span, Discarded Cavalry Horse, Rigolboche, Jane, Lisa Blenda, Stallion Aurico.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 305.


ARSENNE, LOUIS CHARLES, born in Paris, Dec. 23, 1780, died there, Aug. 3,