returned to Water Colour Society in 1861. In 1859, he visited Switzerland and Italy. Works: Savoyard Boy, First Sup (1839); Singing for a Wife (1840); Vicar of Wakefield in Prison (1842); Paul and Virginia (1843); Judgment of Midas, Captain Macheath Betrayed (1844); Threading the Needle (1846); Plenty (1849); First Night in a Convent (1853); The Baptism (1856); Boulogne (1858); Tête-à-Tête (1860); Mdlle. de Sombreuil (1861); Courtship of Gainsborough (1863); The Beacon (1876); Returning from Church, Bringing in the Maypole (1883).—Art Journal (1862), 201; Ottley; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 34.
ACCORDÉE DE VILLAGE. See Village
Bride.
ACHARD, JEAN ALEXIS, born at Voreppe,
Isère, France, June 8, 1807, died in
Grenoble, Oct., 1884. Landscape painter,
self-taught; went to Paris in 1835, and
exhibited first at the Salon in 1839; has
travelled in Egypt. Medals: 3d class, 1844;
2d class, 1845, 1848; 3d class, 1855.
Works: Valley of the Isère (1844); Grande
Chartreuse (1845); Mill of Crémieux (1848);
Autumn Landscape (1853); Sea Coast near
Honfleur (1861); Waterfall (1863); Cascade
of Cernay-la-Ville (1866), Luxembourg;
View near Cernay (1870). Others in Museums
at Grenoble and Avignon.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., i. 38.
ACHELOUS. See Hercules and Achelous.
ACHEN, JOHANN or HANS VON, born
in Cologne in 1562, died in Prague, Jan. 6,
1615. History and portrait painter, German
school; pupil of C. Jerrigh in Cologne
and of Kaspar Rems in Venice; studied
Michelangelo and Tintoretto in Italy, and
returned home in 1588. In 1590 he was
called to Munich by Duke William V., became
painter to the Emperor Rudolph II.,
resided at Prague after 1601, and in 1612
was appointed court painter to Matthias I.
He was a mannerist like Goltzius and
Spranger, and very much overrated by his
contemporaries. Works: Crucifixion (1588),
Protestant church, Cologne; Entombment
(1589), Bonn Cathedral; Pietà, Martyrdom
of St. Sebastian, do. of Magdalen, Jesuit
church, Munich; Altarpiece with Christ
crucified, Kreuzkapelle, ib.; nine biblical,
mythological, and genre scenes, Vienna
Museum; Raising of Lazarus, Nativity, St.
Mary and Carthusian Monk, Portrait of
Burgomaster Broelman (1588), all in Cologne
Museum; Ave Maria, Christ raising
the Widow's Son, Truth victorious under
Protection of Justice, twelve
portraits of Bavarian princes
and princesses, all at Schleissheim
Gallery.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., i. 29; Campori, Artisti italiani e
stranieri, 245; Kugler (Crowe), i. 271;
Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 39; Organ f. christl.
K., xv. 155.
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ACHENBACH, ANDREAS, born in Cassel,
Sept. 29,
1815. Landscape
and marine
painter, pupil
of Düsseldorf
Academy (1827-1835)
under
Schirmer, and
one of the most
distinguished
painters of the
school. His
early views of the Rhine country are fresh
and individual. Later, he widened his
range by visiting Holland (1832-33), Norway
(1835), the Bavarian Tyrol (1836), and
Italy (1843). After his return to Düsseldorf
in 1846, he painted a great number of
German and Norwegian landscapes, treating
mountain, forest, and sea with like ability
and power. Achenbach is a member of the
Berlin, Amsterdam, and Antwerp Academies,
and has received many orders and medals.
Paris Salon: medal 3d class, 1839; 1st class,
1855; 3d class, 1867; L. of Honour, 1864.
Works in galleries of Berlin, Munich, Frankfort,
Darmstadt, Carlsruhe, Düsseldorf, and
in many private collections in Europe; in
the United States, in collections of Miss C.
