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in 1857; member of Copenhagen Academy in 1877. Works: Ingeborg and Fritjof (1837); Peasant pursued by Wolves (1838); Deer in Forest-Valley; Palnatoke shooting King Harold Blaatand (Blue-tooth), King Svavelame forcing the Dwarfs Dyrin and Dvalin to forge the Sword Tyrving (1840); Cupid and the Watersprite (1845), Leipsic Museum; Return from Harvest Field (1852); Waldemar Sejr as Founder of Jutland Law, Frederic IV. receiving Homage of Schleswig (1854-57), Court of Appeals, Flensburg; Family of a Wood-God, Copenhagen Gallery.—Sigurd Müller, 116; Weilbach, 190.


FRÖHLICHER (Frölicher), OTTO, born at Soleure, Switzerland, in 1840. Landscape painter, pupil in Munich of J. G. Steffan, then (1864-65) of Düsseldorf Academy; studied especially the hills of Bavaria and the Swiss Alps. Works: Group of Trees in Jura Mountains (1866); View in Bernese Alps (1869); Mountain-Brook in Uri, View in Inn Valley (1868); Landscape in Upper Bavaria, View in Bernese Oberland, Berne Museum; Village in Nether Bavaria, Saint Gall Museum; Woodland in Upper Bavaria, Zürich Gallery; Moonlight Scene (1884).—Müller, 188.


FROMENT (Froment-Delormel), JACQUES VICTOR EUGÈNE, born in Paris, June 17, 1820. History, genre, and landscape painter, pupil of Jollivet, Lecomte, and Amaury-Duval. L. of Honour, 1863. Works: Indians surprising Camp of Hostile Tribe (1849); Pawnee Children on the Platte River (1853); Love Disarmed, Egg Dance (1859); The Graces (1867); Love Captive (1870); The Dance, The Seasons, Spring (1875).—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 594.


FROMENT, NICOLAS, born at Avignon, flourished 1461-76. French school. This master, whose name has only recently been found in the archives of Marseilles, flourished at the court of King René of Anjou. In the Flemish character of his works he approaches the style of Rogier van der Weyden. Works: Triptych, with Burning Bush and Madonna in centre, Saints on the Wings, Aix Cathedral; Triptych with Raising of Lazarus (1461), Uffizi, Florence.—W. & W., ii. 76; Burckhardt, 619.



FROMENTIN, EUGÈNE, born at La Rochelle (Charante-Inférieure), Oct. 24, 1820, died at St. Maurice, near La Rochelle, Aug. 27, 1876. Genre painter, pupil of Rémond and Cabat; visited Algiers in 1846-48 and in 1852-53, and brought home many sketches, from which he painted his characteristic pictures of Oriental life. He was the author of a successful romance, "Dominique" (1863), and of admirable works on art an traveld. Medals: 2d class, 1849, 1857; 1st class, 1859; L. of Honour, 1859; Officer, 1869. Works: Farm near La Rochelle, Mosque near Algiers, View in Gorges of the Chiffa (1847); five Algerine Pictures (1849); 11 Pictures on Voyage to Biskra (1850); Moorish Burial (1853); Arab Falconers, Halt of Merchants before Aghouat, and five others (1857); Negro Jugglers, Street in Aghouat, Border of Oasis during Sirocco, Souvenir of Algiers, Audience with a Chalif (1859); Couriers of Ouled-Nayls (1861); Squall in Plains of Alfa (1864); Heron Chase (1865); Nomad Tribe on Journey (1866); Women of Ouled-Nayls (1867); Centaurs (1868); Fantasia (1869); Canal Grande and Molo in Venice (1872); Algerian Falconer, or The Quarry (1873), Arab Encampment (last work, unfinished), Luxembourg Museum; Ravine (1874); The Nile, Souvenir of Esneh (1876). Works in United States: Algerian Falconer (1863), Albert Spencer, New York; Arabs crossing a Ford, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Halt, A. Belmont, ib.; Arab Falconer, J. H. Warren, Hoosic Falls, N. Y.; Arab Falconer, B. Wall, Providence;