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Baring. Engraved by Marri, Longhi, Calamatta, Larmessin, Poilly.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 350; Müntz, 519; Passavant, ii. 151; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, ii. Pl. 93; Filhol, iii. Pl. 187; Cab. Crozat, i. Pl. 28; Musée français, I.; Landon, Musée, ii. Pl. 21; Malvasia, i. 44; Perkins, 174.
By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice; oval, on ceiling of upper room. Heavy and dead in colour, but in some measure worthy of the master, in the wild and horrible energy with which the skeletons are leaping up about the prophet.—Ruskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 347.
EZQUERRA, Don JERONIMO ANTONIO
DE, flourished at beginning of 18th
century. Spanish school; landscape and
history painter, pupil of Antonio Palomino.
Works: Neptune with Tritons and Nereids,
Museum, Madrid; Series of Saints, San Felipe
Neri, ib.
FABARIUS, WILHELM, born at Mühlheim,
on the Ruhr, Jan. 25, 1815.
Landscape and marine painter, pupil
at Düsseldorf of A. von Wille, and studied
after the works of Andreas Achenbach, then
in Holland and Belgium from nature and
after the old Dutch masters. Works: Dutch
Herring Fishers; Stranded Three-Master
on Dutch Coast; Launching of Life-Boat;
Fisherman's Bark wrecked on Norwegian
Coast; Storm in the Shears on Swedish
Coast.—Müller, 165.
FABER, JOHANN, born in Hamburg,
April 12, 1778, died there Aug. 2, 1846.
Landscape painter; after treating biblical
subjects went to Italy, and, under the influence
of Koch and Reinhart, turned to landscape
painting. Works: Suffer Little Children
to come unto Me, St. Catharine's,
Hamburg; Capuchin Monastery near Naples
(1830), National Gallery, Berlin.—Cat.
Berlin Nat. Gal.
FABER DU FAUR, OTTO VON, born at
Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart, June 3, 1828.
Battle painter, pupil in Munich of Kotzebue,
in Paris of Yvon, and studied also Vernet's
battlepieces at Versailles; served in
the army until 1867. Studio in Munich.
Works: Lützow's Riflemen; Napoleon's Retreat
from Russia; Hungarian Horse Pasture;
Battle of Champigny; Delivery of
French Cavalry Horses after Sedan (1872);
Death of Ophelia, Departure of Frederic of
the Palatinate from Prague (1874); Attack
of Chasseurs d'Afrique; Equestrian Portrait
of German Crown Prince (1879); Camping
Arabs; Joseph sold by his Brethren; Würtemberg
Regiment, "Queen Olga," at Champigny
(1883); Ambulance by a Barricade
(1884); Fantasia à la Rencontre de deux
Tribus (1885).—Müller, 165.
FABIUS, CAIUS PICTOR, of the noble
Roman house of the Fabii, lived about
300 B.C. One of the few Roman painters
known to us. He decorated the Temple of
Salus (dedicated 302 B.C.) with a mural
painting representing a battle won by the
Dictator C. Junius Brutus Bubulcus over
the Samnites (Valer. Maximus, viii. 14, 6).
This is the earliest recorded Roman painting.
Fabius's style was marked by simplicity
and absence of mannerism. An excellent
draughtsman, he combined in his work
the clear outlines of the Old Attic with the
rich colouring of the Theban Attic school.
On account of his eminence in his art his
surname, Pictor (Painter), was given to a
family of the Fabia gens, and borne by his
descendants.—Pliny, xxxv. 19.
FABRE, FRANÇOIS XAVIER, Baron,
born at Montpellier, April 1, 1766, died
there March 16, 1837. History painter,
pupil of J. Coustou and of David, won grand
prix de Rome in 1787; was at Rome in 1793,
and afterwards in Naples and Florence, where
he became a professor in the Academy and
is said to have secretly married the Countess
of Albany, after the death of Alfieri.
He returned in 1826 to Montpellier, and
founded there the École des Beaux Arts,
of which he became director. Medal, 1808;
L. of Honour, 1827; officer, 1829; created
baron, 1830. At his death he be-