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are the most important of his larger works in his native city. Many other pictures in European galleries. His skill as a miniaturist is shown in an Antiphonary, a Breviary, and a Psaltery in the so-called Library of the Cathedral at Siena.—Vasari, ed. Le Mon., vi. 183; Rio, i. 114; Milanesi, Siena, 170.


ANSCHÜTZ, HERMANN, born in Coblentz, Oct. 12, 1802, died in Munich, Aug. 30, 1880. History painter; pupil of the Dresden Academy, in 1820, under Hartmann and Mathäi, and from 1822 in Düsseldorf of Cornelius, who called him to Munich in 1826, with Eberle and Kaulbach, to paint the ceiling-frescos in the Odeon. In 1830-31 he studied antique wall-painting in Pompeii, executed decorative works in Munich, and then devoted himself to painting religious subjects in oil. In 1874 he was appointed professor at the Munich Academy. Works: Fresco paintings in the Odeon, Munich (1827); Large altarpiece (1857), Coblentz; Resurrection, Assumption (1861).—Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 82; Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 8.


ANSCHÜTZ, THOMAS P., born in Kentucky, in 1851. Subject painter; pupil of Thomas Eakins and of Pennsylvania Academy. At present assistant professor of painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia. Works: Iron-*worker's Noon-time (T. B. Clarke, New York); The Way they Live, Farmer's Wife (1880).


ANSDELL, RICHARD, born in Liverpool in 1815, died in April, 1885. Genre and animal painter; self-taught, exhibited first at Royal Academy in 1840; removed to London in 1847; visited Spain in 1856 and 1857; elected an A. R. A. in 1861 and R. A. in 1870. Pictures of animals painted between 1843 and 1850 show Landseer's influence; in 1850-60 painted chiefly domestic animals in association with Creswick, who added the landscape backgrounds. Medal, Paris, 3d class, 1855. Works: Death of Sir W. Lambton at Marston Moor (1842); The Death (1843); Mary Queen of Scots returning from the Chase (1844); Fight for the Standard (1848); Mules Drinking—Seville, Ploughing—Seville, The Water Carrier (1857); Spanish Shepherd (1858); Sheep-*Washing in Glen Lyon (1859); Lost Shepherd, Buy a Dog Ma'am (1860); Hunted Slave (1861); Going to the Festa at Granada (1863); Highland Spate (1864); Poacher at Bay, Treading out the Corn (1865); Feeding the Goats in the Alhambra (1871); West Highlands (1872); Gathering the Herd, The Tethered Yowe (1873); Anxious Mother (1875); Wandering Minstrel (1876); Home of the Red Deer (1877); Stray Lamb, On Guard (1879); Farm of the Alhambra, Lucky Dogs, Morning Rehearsal (1881); Returning from Fair at Seville, Vega of Granada (1882); Water Carriers of the Alhambra, Hunting the Boar (1883).—Meynell, 218; Art Journal (1860), 233; Sandby, ii. 346; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 82.


ANSELMI, MICHELANGELO, born in Lucca in 1491, died in Parma after 1554. Lombard school; called sometimes Michelangelo "da Lucca," and oftener "da Siena." Pupil in Lucca of Il Sodoma, and afterwards at Parma a disciple and imitator of Correggio. In 1522, when Correggio was engaged to paint the cupola and the tribune of the Cathedral of Parma, Anselmi was selected, with Rondani and Parmigianino, to decorate the chapels, but the work was not begun until 1548. He painted at Parma frescos still extant, in the church and cloister of S. Gio. Evangelista, before 1522. Also two altarpieces in the Duomo, Parma, one dated 1526; March to Calvary and Holy Family in Academy, Parma; Madonna and Saints, Louvre; Coronation of the Virgin (fresco), in Madonna della Steccata, Parma.—Lanzi, ii. 399; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde; Meyer, Künst. Lex., ii. 86.


ANSIAUX, JEAN JOSEPH ELÉONORE ANTOINE, born in Liège, in 1764, died