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Orvieto (1321-1329), and afterward at Assisi. A series of small panels in tempera, originally parts of one picture, in the Ranghiasci Brancaleone collection, Gubbio, Lave been assigned to him. These have all the character of the Urbinese school at the close of the fourteenth century. The figures are long and slender, but the heads are oblong and the features small. The colour of the flesh is rosy, and the general tone gay and pleasing.—C. & C., Italy, ii. 192; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 59; Cibo, 41.

ANGIOLILLO DA ROCCADIRAME, flourished about 1450, died about 1460 (?). Neapolitan school; pupil of Antonio Solario, and his assistant in many of his works. Painted altarpieces for churches in Naples.—Lanzi, ii. 12; Ch. Blanc, École napolitaine.

ANGUISCIOLA, SOFONISBA, born in Cremona about 1535, died in Genoa in 1622 (?). Lombard school; scholar of Bernardino Campi and of Bernardino Gatti; attracted attention at Rome about 1554 by her portraits, one of the earliest of which is perhaps her own likeness of that year in the Vienna Museum. She frequently represented herself in different situations,—with brush and palette, Uffizi, Florence; seated at the clavichord, Althorp, England; at her easel, Keir, Scotland; playing chess with two of her sisters, Raczynski Gallery, Berlin. In Spain, where she resided for several years and was raised to the rank of first lady in waiting to the Infanta Clara Eugenia, she painted portraits no longer extant of members of the royal family, and stood high in favor with Philip II., who made her splendid presents and assigned her a considerable pension on the occasion of her marriage and return to Italy. Until the death of her husband she lived at Palermo, where she painted some religious pictures of merit inferior to her portraits, and later, having remarried, she settled at Genoa, where she was admired and followed for her talents and accomplishments. Her five sisters, Elena, Lucia, Minerva, Europa, and Anna Maria were all painters.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 64; Vasari, ed. Mil., vi. 498; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde; Wessely.

ANIEMOLO (Ainemolo), VINCENZO, born in Palermo, towards end of fifteenth century, died there in 1540. Neapolitan school; the most noted artist in Sicily in the sixteenth century, holding some rank as Andrea da Salerno on the mainland. Probably visited Naples and studied Perugino and later went to Rome, where he studied Raphael's masterpieces and learned to imitate them in arrangement and expression. His works are chiefly in Palermo; the best, a Madonna between four saints, in S. Pietro Martire.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 117; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 71; De Marzo, Belle Arti in Sicilia, iii. 207.

ANKER, ALBERT, born at Anet, near Neufchâtel, Switzerland, April 1, 1831. Genre painter; pupil in Paris of Charles Gleyre and of the École des Beaux Arts. His historic and domestic genre pictures are spirited and excellent in drawing, but somewhat dull in colouring. Medal, Paris, 1866; L. of Honour, 1878. Works: Evening Prayer (1861), Neufchâtel, City Museum; Village School in the Black Forest, (1859); Luther at Erfurt (1861); Burial of a Child (1864); Children Bathing (1865); Writing Lesson (1866); Marionettes (1869); Soldiers nursed by Peasants (1872); The Snow-Bear (1873); Little Musician; Engineer, Good Little Girl (1885). Other pictures at Berne, Bayonne, Auran, and Lille.—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 72; Müller, 14.

ANNA, BALDASSARE D', end of sixteenth and beginning of seventeenth century; of Flemish descent, but probably