A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
history, and landscapes. His productions are gener-
ally large, and exhibit much artistic talent.
APPELMAN, Babend, was born at the Hague in 1640, and in his youth visited Italy. His land- scapes are taken from the views in the vicinity of Rome. In 11376 he entered the Painters' Guild at the Hague. He was at one time employed by the Prince of Orange, and decorated a saloon in the palace at Soestdijk with very pleasing landscapes painted in a good style, and well coloured. He also painted portraits, and put in the landscape backgrounds of many of the portraits of Jan de Baan and others. He died in 1686.
APPELMANS, G., was a native of Holland, and flourished at Leyden about the year 1670. He was chiefly employed in engraving portraits and other book-plates for the publishers. He also engraved the portrait of Thomas Bartholinus, and the plates for the 'Aiiatomia Barlholiniana,' pub- lished in 1674 They are neatly executed, but in a stiff, formal style.
APPERT, Eugene, who was bom at Angers in 1814, went to Paris in 1837, and became a disciple of Ingres. He painted numerous pictures of merit, among which are a portrait of ' Pope Alexander III. as a Beggar,' which is now in the Luxembourg ; ' Nero before the dead body of Agrippina,' in the Museum of Montauban, and several pictures of religious subjects in the hospital of Angers. Ap- pert painted genre and historical subjects, and also still-life. He was a Clievalier of the Legion of Honour. He died at Cannes in 1867.
APPIANI, Andrea, 'the elder,' who was born at Milan in 1754 (or 1761 ?), excelled both in fresco and oil painting. In his style there is unicli origin- ality, and a gracefulness which approaches that of Correggio. His best performances in fresco are to be seen in the palace at Milan ; they have been en- graved by Rosaspiua and others. Of his works in oil, ' Rinaldo in the garden of Armida,' ' Olympus,' and ' Venus and Cupid,' are specimens of great beauty. Napoleon sat to him for his portrait, and appointed him his painter. A portrait of ' Napoleon enthroned between Victory and Peace ' is in the Leuchtenberg Gallery, at St. Petersburg, a ' Boaz and Ruth' is in the Belvedere, at Vienna. At the restoration of the Bourbons he lost his pension, and an attack of apoplexy, which he had suffered in 1813, having rendered it impossible for him to paint, he was reduced to the extremity of selling all his drawings and other valuables to procure subsistence. He lived in this condition until 1817, when another attack of apoplexy caused his death at Milan. He was a member of the Legion of Honour, and a knight of the AtV Iron Crown. IIW.
The following works are also by him:
Milan. Gallery. Portrait of Himself. „ „ Jupiter crowned by the Hours. „ „ Portrait of Boiiifazio Asioli, musi- cian. „ „ Portrait of General Charles-Antoine Desaix. „ „ Portrait of Napoleon Buonaparte. „ ,, Apollo and the dying Hyacinthus {fresco). „ „ Daphne pursued by Apollo (fresco). „ „ St. John the Evangelist (fresco). „ „ Apollo's Chariot.
APPIANI, Andrea, 'the younger,' who was the great-nephew of the painter of the same name, was born in 1817. He studied at Rome under Minardi and Frans Hayez, and became a good historical painter. He was employed by the King of Italy, the Emperor of Austria, and other personages of celebrity. Of his works may be mentioned ' Petrarch and Laura' (1862); ' Laban and Jacob,' and 'La povera Maria' (1859). He died in 1865.
APPIANI, Francesco, was born at Ancona in 1704, and was a scholar of Domenico Simonetti, called II Magatta. He af tenvards studied at Rome, in the time of S. Conca and Mancini — with whom lie lived in habits of intimacy — and acquired a pleasing and harmonious style. Of this he has given proof in his picture of ' The Death of St. Domenick,' which was painted by order of Bene- dict XIII. for the church of San Sisto Vecchio in Rome, and procured him the honour of a gold medal and chain. He resided the greater part of his life at Perugia, where he decorated the clioir of the cathedral, and many of the churches. He died in 1792.
APPIANI, Niccol6, (or ArpiANo), a Milanese painter, who flourished about the year 1510. It is said that he was a scholar of Leonardo da Vinci, and Cesariani compares him with the greatest masters of the age. Two works in the Brera, the ' Baptism of Christ,' and the ' Adoration of the Magi,' are ascribed to Appiani.
APPIER, Jean, called Hanzelet, an engraver and etcher, flourished in Lorraine in the first half of the 17th century. His works, which are executed ill Callot's early manner, bear dates from 1610 to 1G30, and are signed with the initials 7. A. H. (Jean Appier Hanzelet), or/. A. (Jean Appier), or in full. Besides the following, he executed various engravings of pyrotechnic instruments used in war and for amusement. Portrait of Elis^e de Haraneourt, Governor of Nancy. Faict a Nancy par Jean Appier^ 1610 (an etching finished icith the graver).
Ornamental Title-page and small Views of a Journal of a Travel in the Levant. Title-page. An Allegory. /. A. Hanzelet, fecit, 1611. Missale Komanum, 1621.
APSCH, Jebom Andreas, a German engraver on wood, bom at Nuremberg about the year 1490. He assisted Hans Burgkmair in executing the woodcuts for a book published at Vienna, entitled Der Weyss Kunig, or ' The Wise King,' contain- ing the principal events of the life and reign of the Emperor Maximilian I. He died in 1556.
APSHOVEN. Concerning a family of artists of this name much uncertainty has been expressed. The two brothers, Thomas (miscalled Theodor), and Ferdinand, have been, by some, considered to be the same man. As regards the spelling of the surname, it is sometimes found Apslioven, and sometimes Abshoven or Abtshoven, but the first seems to be the most correct form.
The following are the members of the Apslioven family who practised art at Antwerp in the 16th and 17th centuries. Some are too unimportant for separate notices.
Ferdinand L ( -ab. I6I81. I Ferdinand II. 1 1576—1054-6). I Tbnniaa (1622—1604-6). Ferdinand IV. (I64»- Ferdinand XII. (1630—1694). I ). Waiem (1664— |.
Waagen mentions a Michael van Apshoven, but he is not recorded by any other author. The information given below is taken, in a great measure, from Meyer's ' Kiinstler-Lexikon.'
APSHOVEN, Ferdinand van, 'the elder,' is recorded to have been baptized at Antwerp, on the
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