and Madonna with Saints (1510?), Florence Academy. In 1512, the two painters again separated and divided the profits of their common workshop. The Adam and Eve and the Sacrifice of Abraham at Castle Howard were painted by Albertinelli, after this year, during which he for a short time gave up painting and kept a tavern near the Porta San Gallo, Florence. Other works of his late period are the Annunciation (1513?), Munich Gallery, and a triptych, Poldi Collection, Milan, which has been attributed both to Raphael and to Fra Bartolommeo. Albertinelli's last work was the Marriage of St. Catharine at Viterbo, begun by the Frate for the church of S. Silvestro.—C. & C., Italy, iii. 484; Meyer, Künst. Lex., 218; Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 217; Lermolieff, 87, 227; Marchesi, ii. 12; Lübke, Gesch. ital. Mal., ii. 171.
ALBRECHT, BALTHASAR AUGUSTIN,
born in Berg on Lake Starnberg, Bavaria, in
1687, died in Munich, Aug. 1, 1765. History
and allegory painter, German school; pupil
of N. G. Stuber, studied in Venice and Rome,
returned to Munich in 1719, and became
court painter. His groups of children in
the Schleissheim Gallery are very attractive.
Many of his religious pictures are to be found
in Bavarian churches. Works: Children
playing, Vintage, Allegory of Painting, do.
of Sculpture, portrait of Sculptor Straub,
portrait of himself painting the Muses on
Parnassus, Schleissheim Gallery.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., i. 234.
ALBRIER, JOSEPH, born in Paris, Oct.
4, 1791, died there in March, 1863. History
painter, pupil and follower of Regnault.
Imitated Greuze's pictures so closely
as to deceive many amateurs. Works: Narcissus,
Cyparissus changed into a Cypress,
Amyntas delivering Sylvia (1822), Daphnis
and Chloë, Louis XIV. and De la Vallière
(1828), Two Scenes from Life of Frederic
the Great, Meeting of the Chapter of the
Golden Fleece, Versailles Gallery.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., i. 236; Lejeune, i. 286,
iii. 5.
ALCIMACHUS, Greek painter, probably
about time of Alexander the Great. Painted
portrait of Dioxyppus the athlete, after he had
received a prize at Olympia.—Pliny, xxxv. 40
[139].
ALCOTT, MAY (Mme. Ernest Nierker),
born in Concord, Mass., in 1840, died in
1879. Genre painter, studied in School of
Design, Boston, in Krug's studio, Paris, and
under Müller. Professional life spent in
Boston, London, and Paris. Her copies in
oil and water-colour of Turner's pictures are
given to the pupils of the South Kensington
school, to work from. She also painted still-life
subjects, and flower panels.
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ALDEGREVER, HEINRICH, born at
Soest or Paderborn
in
1502, died
probably in
1558. German
school;
chiefly known
as an engraver,
and one
of the most
accomplished
of the so-called
"Little
Masters." His
rare oil paintings are hard and dry, the flesh
of a leathery brown hue. Works: Christ
crowned with Thorns (1529), Prague Gallery,
Philip von Waldeck (1535), Breslau Gallery;
Magdalen Wittig (1541), Brunswick Museum;
Male portrait (1551), Berlin Museum; do.
(1544), Liechtenstein Gallery,
Vienna; Anabaptist
David Joris, Basle Museum.—Scott,
Little Masters,
88; Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 239; Brockhaus,
i. 363; Keane, Early Masters, 181; Allgem.
d. Biog., i. 325.
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ALDENRATH, HEINRICH JACOB, born in Lübeck, Feb. 17, 1775, died in Hamburg, Feb. 25, 1844. Portrait and miniature painter, German school; pupil of Joh. Jak. Tischbein, and at Lübeck of Friedrich Karl
