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Arab Horses going to Water, H. P. Kidder, Boston; Street Scene in Algiers, H. Probasco, Cincinnati; Arab Horsemen nearing a City, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia; Cavalcade, A. J. Antelo, Philadelphia; On the Nile, J. C. Runkle, New York; Arabs Marching, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Chase, C. P. Huntington, New York; Donkey at a Ford, R. L. Cutting, New York; Street in Cairo, Halt in Desert, Returning from the Expedition, Wm. Astor, New York; Crossing the Ford, Arabs watering Horses, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York; Halt in the Desert, H. C. Gibson, Philadelphia; The Halt, Borie Collection, Philadelphia; The Halt (1872), At the Well (1875), Encampment in Atlas Mountains, W. T. Walters, Baltimore.—Gonse, Eug. Fromentin (Paris, 1881); L'Art (1877), viii. 11, 25; Galaxy (1866), ii. 533; Gaz. des B. Arts (1878), xvii. 401; xviii. 84; (1879), xix. 240; xx. 281; (1880), xxi. 50, 464; xxii. 139, 216, 319, 404; Meyer, Gesch., 708; Nation (1881), xxxii. 462.

FROMMEL, KARL LUDWIG, born at Birkenfeld, Oldenburg, April 29, 1789, died at Ispringen, near Pforzheim, Feb. 6, 1863. Landscape painter, pupil of Philipp Jakob Becker (1763-1829, Baden court-painter, and director of Carlsruhe Gallery). Studied Claude Lorrain and Poussin in Paris in 1810-12, then went to Rome and Naples, and in 1817 became professor at the Carlsruhe art-school. He founded the Art and Industry Union of Baden; visited England in 1824, and was made director of the Carlsruhe Gallery in 1829. Works: Sorrento; Outbreak of Vesuvius; Blue Grotto of Capri; Scylla in Calabria; Cemetery of Salzburg; Castle Hohenstaufen; Castle Tyrol; View of Rome; St. Goarshausen; Monastery near Sorrento (1840), Castle Heiligenberg on Lake Constance (4, 1853-54), Fürstenberg Gallery, Doanueschingen; Etna, and Taormina; View of Tivoli; Bellaggio on Lake Como; Tasso's House at Sorrento; Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como; Waterfall near Tryberg (2), View of Heidelberg, Rocky Landscape in Murg Valley, Castle Alt-Eberstein, Carlsruhe Gallery; Landscape, Stettin Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., viii. 144; Brockhaus, vii. 374; Zeitschr. f. b. K., viii. 11.

FRONTIER, JEAN CHARLES, born in Paris in 1701, died at Lyons, Sept. 2, 1753. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil of Claude Hallé; won the first prize at the Academy in 1728; received as member in 1744; went to Lyons, where he became director of the art-school. Works: Vulcan attaching Prometheus to the Rock (1744), Louvre, Paris; Moses raising the Brazen Serpent (1743), Sainte Croix, Lyons; Nativity (1745), Museum, ib.—Bellier de la Chavignerie, i. 595; Jal., 623.

FRÖSCHL, KARL, born in Vienna in 1848. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy, then in Munich of Wilhelm Diez. Spent several years in Italy. Works: Italian genre scenes, Portrait of his Wife.—Müller, 189; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xv. 92.

FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD, born at Wandsworth, Sept., 1810, died in London, June 4, 1877. Subject painter, pupil of Sass's Art Academy and of the Royal Academy, where he won the gold medal in 1839 for his Prometheus Bound; began as a portrait painter, but finally devoted himself to painting ideal figures, especially the female nude. Elected an A.R.A. in 1846, and R.A. in 1871. Works: Bacchanalian Dance (1844); Sabrina (1845); Diana and Actæon (1846); Una (1847); Euphrosyne (1848); Naiad, Syrens (1849); Chastity (1854); Sea-Nymph (1855); Narcissus (1857); Zephyr and Aurora (1858); Daughters of Hesperus (1860); Graces and