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FIALKA, OLGA VON, born in Austria; contemporary. Genre painter and illustrator, pupil of Matejko and of Eisenmenger. Illustrated the works of Lessing. Girl Gardener (1880).

FIASELLA, DOMENICO. See Sarzana.

FICHEL, (BENJAMIN) EUGÈNE, born in Paris, Aug. 30, 1826. French school; genre painter, pupil of P. Delaroche; paints small pictures, carefully and skilfully executed, somewhat in style of Meissonier. Medals: 3d class, 1857, 1861, 1869; L. of Honour, 1870. Works: Holy Family (1849); Harvey proving the Circulation of the Blood (1851), Paris Medical School; Dressing, Levée (1853); Morning Intimacy (1855); Dramatic Matinée, Game of Chess (1857); Provincial Restaurant, A Smoker (1859); Camacho's Wedding, Baptism of Mlle. Clairon (1861); Library Corner, Lively Party, Arrival at the Inn (1863), bought by State; Party of Smokers, Audience at the Minister's (1864); Napoleon I. planning Manœuvres, General Bonaparte returning his Father's Sword to Eugéne Beauharnais (1865); Diderot and Rameau's Nephew (1866); Amateur at a Painter's, Open in the King's Name; Cabinet of Medals in the Royal Library (1867); Chess Player, Body Guard (1868); Night of August 24, 1572, Fool selling Wisdom (1869); Party of Four (1870); Founding of the French Academy in 1635 (1872); Buffon in his Study, Grand Reception (1873); Lacepède writing his History of Fishes, Daubenton in his Laboratory (1873), Vienna Exposition; Louis XVI.'s Forge (1874); Departure of the Coach (1875); A Foreign Festival (1876); Tavern of Ramponneau (1877); Soldiers and Grisettes (1878); Curate's Nephew, Master's Last Acquisition (1879); Restaurant, Signing the Contract (1880); At the Tailor's, The Bill to Pay (1881); End of the Dinner, Last Throw of Dice (1882); Jaurat in the Tavern, Card Players (1883); Before the Receipt, After the Receipt (1884); A Game of Cards (1885).

FICHERELLI, FELICE, born at San Gemignano in 1605, died in 1660. Florentine school; history painter, pupil of Jacopo da Empoli; called Felice Riposo from his indolence, but his few pictures are remarkable for elegance of design and harmony of colour. His copies of Perugino, Andrea del Sarto, and others have been mistaken for originals. Works: St. Anthony, S. Maria Nuova; Adam and Eve driven from Paradise, Palazzo Rinuccini, Florence; Tarquin and Lucretia, Dresden Gallery.—Lanzi (Roscoe), i. 219; Nagler, iv. 316.

FIEDLER, BERNHARD, born in Berlin, Nov. 23, 1816. Landscape and architecture painter, pupil of Berlin Academy, then of Gerst and of Krause. In 1855 he accompanied the present King of the Belgians to Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, and revisited Egypt in 1865-66. Member of Venice Academy. Lives in Trieste. Works: Amphitheatre in Pola (1846), National Gallery, Berlin; Cairo (1864), Vienna Museum; Tower of Rhodes, Entrance to Mosque in Cairo, Granite Quarries near Siena, Cologne Museum; Ruins of Baalbec (1872); Jerusalem (1879).—Brockhaus, vi. 795; Müller, 174.

FIEDLER, JOHANN CHRISTIAN, born at Pirna, Saxony, in 1697, died at Darmstadt in 1768. French school; history and portrait painter, pupil in Paris of Rigaud and Largillière; became court-painter at Darmstadt. Works: Burial of Christ, The Seasons, Artist's portrait, and others, Darmstadt Museum.

FIESOLE, FRA ANGELICO DA. See Angelico.

FIGINO, AMBROGIO, born in Milan about 1548, died after 1595. Lombard school, pupil of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; became an excellent historical and portrait painter, and was a tolerably successful imitator of Michelangelo's designs. Works: Madonna with Saints and Satan, and portrait of the Maréchal Foppa, Brera, Milan; St. Matthew, St. Paul, S. Rafaello, ib.; Virgin crushing Head of Serpent, S. Antonio Abate, ib.—Lanzi, ii. 503; Ch. Blanc, École milanaise; Burckhardt, 709.