Wilkie's influence. Some of his pictures have been engraved. Works: Deoch-an-dornis (1830); Village Sign-Painter (1837); Sir Walter Scott dining with a Blue-Gown Beggar (1844); The Glass of Ale; Robinson Crusoe reading the Bible to Friday; Last Moments of Mary Queen of Scotts.—Redgrave; Art Journal (1865), 125.
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FRASER, ALEXANDER, born in Linlithgowshire, Scotland; contemporary. Landscape painter, member of R.S.A. Studio in Edinburgh. Paints Scottish scenery attractively. Works: At Barncleuth, National Gallery, Edinburgh; Glen Arnan, Trout Stream in Highlands, Springtime at Dingleton (1878).
FRASER, CHARLES, born in Charleston,
S. C., in 1782, died there in 1860.
After practising law several years, devoted
himself in 1818 to art, and became a successful
painter, especially of miniatures,
though he also painted historical and genre
pictures and landscapes. In 1857 a collection
of his works was exhibited in Charleston,
including 313 miniatures and 139 other
pieces. He numbered among his sitters
many prominent people.
FRAUSTADT, F. A., born at Lauchstädt,
near Halle, April 9, 1821. History painter,
pupil in Dresden of Bendemann, Rietschel,
and Schnorr; has lived since 1857 in Antwerp.
His large compositions glorify the
Nibelung Saga and form a kind of cycle.
Formerly painted many portraits. Works:
Krimhilde's Dream; How Siegfried was betrayed;
Siegfried's Farewell; How Hagen
did not rise before Krimhilde; Tetzel's Indulgence
Sermon; Rope Dancers; Interior
in Time of the Merovingians; Goths in
Rome; Portrait of Composer Grétry (1880).
FREDERICK BARBAROSSA, DEAD,
Karl Wilhelm Kolbe, National Gallery, Berlin;
canvas, H. 7 ft. 4 in. × 10 ft. 5 in.
Upon a high bier, formed of lances and carried
by four knights, the dead king lies in
state, crown on head and sword in hand,
surrounded by banners and escorted by
Crusaders mounted and on foot; preceding
him a bishop with crosier, accompanied by
monks and ministrants with censers; in
background, the battle has begun around
the city of Antioch, from which smoke is
rising. Bought in 1869 from the artist's
bequest.
FREDI, BARTOLO DI. See Bartolommeo
di Manfredi.
FREEMAN, JAMES EDWARD, born in
Nova Scotia in 1808, died in Rome, Nov. 21,
1884. Figure painter, pupil in New York of
the National Academy; studied and painted
many years in Rome, where he resided.
Elected N.A. in 1833. Works: Mother and
(Child 1868); Beggars; Young Italy; Flower
Girl; Savoyard Boy in London; Girl and
Parrot, H. P. Kidder, Boston; Study of a
head for Judith, Lucchese Peasants on the
Sands of the Serchio (1883).
FREER, FREDERICK W., born in Chicago,
Ill., in 1849. Genre painter, pupil of
the Munich Academy. Member of Society
of American Artists. Exhibits at the National
Academy. Studio in New York.
Works in oil: Choosing a Study, T. B. Clark,
New York; Souvenir of Gainsborough
(1881); Waiting (1882); In Ambush (1883);
Adagio, Jeanette—Portrait Study, Behind
the Fan (1884). Water-colours: Arranging
the Bouquet, Veiled Head (1884); Dream-*Life,
The Mirror (1885).
FREESE, HERMANN, born in Pomerania,
May 14, 1819, died at Hasenfelde, July 25,
1871. Animal painter, pupil in Berlin of
Brücke and of Steffeck. Works: Stags
Fighting (1857), Stags attacked by Wolves;
Stags Pursued, Boar Hunt, National Gallery,
Berlin; In the Pasture.—Rosenberg, Berl.
Malersch., 292.
FREGEVIZE, FRIEDRICH, born in Geneva
in 1777, died there, Oct. 9, 1849.
Landscape painter, lived for many years in
Berlin, where he was made member of the
Academy in 1820; returned to Geneva in
1829, and went to Dessau in 1839. Works:
