- lustrated and coloured from his own drawings.
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 Philadelphia Exhibition, in 1876.—Mrs. Audubon, Memoir (New York, 1869).
AUERBACH, JOHANN GOTTFRIED,
born at Mülhausen, 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 Eugène, Vienna Museum; do. Salzdalum
Gallery.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 436.
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 Alençon,
Banks of the Bramerie (1876); Dunes of
Montalivet (1883); Summer Day at Grande
Côte (1884).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 438.
AUGUSTIN, JEAN BAPTISTE JACQUES,
born in Saint-Dié, Lorraine, Aug. 15, 1759,
died in Paris, April 13, 1832. As a painter
of portraits, in miniature, of the most eminent
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 XVIII., two female portraits (1815
and 1824), Sir Richard Wallace, London.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., ii. 440.
AUGUSTINE, ST., Murillo, Joseph T.
Mills, Rugby, Warwickshire; canvas, H. 5
ft. 10 in. × 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 Bishop.
"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 Sanchez
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.; Stirling.
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 appears in clouds, with an inscription; on the floor, three books, a mitre, and a crozier. Painted about 1678 for Convent of S. Augustine, Seville; taken to Paris by Marshal Soult, who sold it about 1846 to Mr. Tomline. 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. × 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. × 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 Carmona Gate, Seville, which was suppressed at the beginning of this century.—C. Bermudez, ii. 60; Carta, 96; Ponz, Viage, ix. 135; Curtis, 217.
AUGUSTUS AND THE FRIENDS OF
VIRGIL, Raphael, Camera della Segnatura,
