FEDE May 20, 1848. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Diisseldorf Academy and of Oswald Achenbach, then of the Weimar art-school ; visited Poland, Russia, and a great portion of Germany, Austria, and Italy. Works: Russian Horse-Herds in the Steppe; Roman Ghettos ; View in llomau Campagna ; Horse-Herd, Breslau Museum ; In a Roman Park (1883), Munich Ex. Muller, 170. FEDE, LA (Faith), Titian, Palazzo Dueale, Venice ; canvas, figures life-size. Doge Grimani, attended liy a page and soldiers, kneeling before Faith, who stands on a La Fede, Titian, Palazzo Ducale, Venice cloud within a glory of angels, supporting the cross with one hand, and bearing a chalice in the other ; to left, St. Mark ; be- neath the cloud in distance the Venetian tleet at anchor and the Ducal Palace and Campanile. Begun in 1555, but did not leave the studio until Titian's death, when it was finished by his pupils. Deserves to rank amongst the most magnificent and ef- fective decorative pieces of Titian's later years (C. & C.). C. & C., Titian, ii. 244; Ridolfi, Maraviglie, i. 209 ; Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 457 ; Landon, Musee, xi. PI. 29. FBI, ALESSANDRO DI VICENZIO, called Alessandro del Barbiere, born at Florence in 1543, died there in 1592. Flor- entine school ; history painter, pupil of Ghirlandajo, of Piero Francia, and of Maso da San Frediano. He had a bold and fer- tile genius, adapted to the large historical frescos he executed, and in which he intro- duced fine architecture and grotesque fig- ures. One of his best works is the Flagel- lation in Santa Croce, Florence. FEID, JOSEF, born in Vienna in 1807. died at Weidling, near Vienna, in 1870, Landscape painter, studied in Vienna, and from nature in the Austrian Alps. Works : Nymphs Bathing (1828), View near the Schneeberg, Wood Landscape (1841), Ap- proaching Storm (1847), Vienna Museum ; Wood Landscape (1853) ; Forest Mill (1855); Attcr Lake ( 185(5); Lake of HaUstadt, Gosau Valley, Grinding Mill, Wood Landscape (1857). Allgem. d.Biogr., vi. 599; Wurzbach, iv. 159. FEISTENBERGER. FEKE, ROBERT, died in Bermuda, latter half of 18th century, aged about forty-four. Probably born on Long Island ; said to have learned to paint in Spain, whither he was taken as a prisoner. Worked in Newport, New York, and Philadelphia (174G). His portraits are in Bowdoin Collection, Bruns- wick, Me., and in the Rhode Island Histor- ical Society, Providence. One of the best is the portrait of Lady Wanton, in the Red- wood Library, Newport, R. I. FELIX OF CANTILICIO, ST., Murillo, Seville, canvas, H. 9 ft. 8 in x G ft. 4 in. The Saint kneeling, with infant Jesus in his arms, beholds a vision of the Virgin, who, on clouds, accompanied by three cherubs, stretches out her arms to receive her Son. Painted about 1G7G for Capuchin Convent, Seville. Curtis, 230. FELIX, EUGEN, born in Vienna, April 27, 1836. Portrait and genre painter, pu-
