ALSLOOT, DENIS VAN, born before 1628. Excellent landscape painter, Flemish school; pictures very rare. Court painter to Archduke Albert, Governor of the Netherlands, about 1599. Works: Landscape (with figures by H. de Clerck), Vienna Museum; Masquerade on the Ice, two pictures of Processions of Guilds in Brussels, Madrid Museum; Castle and Park of Mariemont (1620), Brussels Museum; Abbey of La Cambre (1609), Nantes Museum.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 527; Viardot, 107; Michiels, Rubens, 347.
ALT, JAKOB, born in Frankfort-on-the-Main,
Sept. 17, 1789, died in Vienna, Sept.
30, 1872. Landscape painter, studied at
Frankfort and, after 1811, in Vienna.
Painted scenes in the Austrian Alps, on
the Danube, in Upper Italy, which he visited
in 1828 and 1833, and Rome. Works:
Isle of S. Giorgio Maggiore (1834), Vienna
Museum; Grave Yard at Hallstadt; Gargnano
on Lake Garda.—Meyer, Künst.
Lex., i. 532; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 26, xi.
345; Allgem. d. Biogr., i. 355.
ALT, RUDOLF, born in Vienna, Aug. 28,
1812. Landscape and architecture painter,
chiefly in water colours; son and pupil of
Jakob Alt and student at Vienna Academy.
Has travelled extensively in Austria, Germany,
Italy, Switzerland, and the Crimea.
Is a member of the Vienna Academy. His
few oil paintings are inferior to his water
colours, which command high prices in
Vienna. Works in oil: St. Stephen's
Church (1832), Giardini pubblici in Venice
(1834), Vienna Museum; Gate of Prague,
Venice, Well in Nuremberg. Water colours:
Cloister Yard of Monreale, Harbour
of Palermo, Arch of Titus in Rome, Castle
Hollenegg, Well in Nuremberg, Bird's-Eye
View of Danube, Old and New Vienna,
Orvieto Cathedral, Milan Cathedral, Campo
Vaccino, S. Marco in Venice, Coast near
Naples, Dürrenstein, Temple of Vesta.
His brother Franz (born 1821) went through
same course of study and paints similar subjects.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., i. 533; Müller,
11; Wurzbach, i. 15.
ALT, THEODOR, born at Döhlau, Bavaria,
June 23, 1846. Genre painter, pupil of
Kreling in Nuremberg, and of the Munich
Academy. His pictures of subjects from
modern life show great talent for composition,
feeling for nature, and harmonious
colour.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., i. 535.
ALTAMURA, SAVERIO, born at Foggia,
Italy, in 1824. History painter, pupil of
the Naples Academy, and one of the most
distinguished Italian masters of modern
times; has painted since 1850 mostly in
Florence; in 1862 visited France and England.
Favourite subjects, historical genre.
Studio in Naples. Works: Origin of the
Guelphs and Ghibellines in Florence; Marius
Conqueror of the Cimbri (1861), Senate
Chamber, Florence; Old Hatred and New
Love; Madonna Enthroned; Tasso in Sorrento;
Salvator Rosa among the Robbers;
Doubt and Faith.—Meyer, Künst. Lex.,
i. 535.
ALTARPIECE OF BRESCIA. See Brescia.
ALTDORFER, ALBRECHT, born before
1480, died at Ratisbon, Feb. 12 or
14, 1538. History and landscape painter,
strongly influenced by Dürer, possibly his
pupil; came from Amberg to Ratisbon, was
admitted to burgher rights in 1505, and
afterwards elected alderman and city architect.
One of the most remarkable masters
of the Old German school. Works: Birth
of Mary, Altarpiece with Christ on the Cross
(1517), Augsburg Gallery; Pietà, Madonna
in Glory, Susanna at the Bath (1526), Landscape
with St. George (1510), Battle of Arbela
(1529), Pinakothek, Munich; Altarpiece
with SS. Narcissus and Matthew, University,
ib.; Christ on the Cross (1506), Burg,
Nuremberg; St. Stephen before the Judge,
Martyrdom of St. Stephen, St. Quirinus
lifted out of the Water, St. Jerome in
Prayer, Maurice Chapel, ib.; SS. Francis
and Jerome (1507), Landscape with Satyr
Family (1507), Repose in Egypt (1510),
Landscape with Illustration of Proverb
(1531), Berlin Museum; Madonna (1515),
