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(1782); Ulysses and Neoptolemus (1784), Louvre, Paris; Virgil reading the Æneid to Augustus, M. Dufresnoy; Sabinus and Eponina discovered by Soldiers of Vespasian (1787); Cleopatra (1791); Sappho, Nero saves the Wife of Seneca (1793), Nantes Museum; Leander and Hero (1798); Olympias (1799); Andromache (1800); Rhadamistus and Zenobia (1806). He was the author of several works on art.—Bellier, ii. 538.
TAIT, ARTHUR FITZWILLIAM, born
at Livesey Hall, near Liverpool, Aug. 5,
1819. Landscape and animal painter, pupil
of Royal Institution, Manchester, but chiefly
self-taught. Went to New York in 1850,
and was elected N.A. in 1858; visited Europe
in 1874. Studio in New York City.
Works: Duck and her Young (1868); Gordon
Setter, Charles Stewart Smith, New
York; Snowed In, Judge Hilton, ib.; Halt
on the Carry (1871); Racquette Lake (1873);
There's a Good Time Coming (1878);
Thoroughbreds (1879); October Sport, A.
E. Orr; Intruder—Motherly Protection
(1880), G. D. Cochran; Still-Hunting in the
Adirondacks, Anxious Time—Study from
Nature (1881), C. R. Flint; Good Hunting
Ground—Adirondacks (1882); Trespassers
(1883); Ruffed Grouse at Home,
Summer, Little Pets, Happy Family at
Home—Adirondacks, Maternal Affection—Summer
in the Adirondacks (1884);
Our Pets, Pleasant Memories of the
Adirondacks (1885); Woodcock Shooting
(1886).
TAIT, JOHN ROBINSON, born in Cincinnati,
Ohio, Jan. 14, 1834. Landscape
painter; graduated at Bethany College,
Virginia, in 1852, and spent the following
three years in Europe, chiefly in Florence;
visited Europe a second time in 1859, and
studied at Düsseldorf under August Weber
and Andreas Achenbach until 1871; made
a third visit in 1873, and worked several
years in the Bavarian Tyrol and in Munich
under Adolf Lier and Hermann Baisch,
under whom he studied cattle painting.
He spent altogether fourteen years in Germany,
during which his pictures were disposed
of at the cyclical exhibitions. Medals:
1871, 1872, Cincinnati Exhibition. Studio
in Baltimore. Works: Waterfall in Pyrenees,
James Caird, Gourock House, Greenock
on the Clyde; Meyringen, James Staats
Forbes, Wickham Hall, Kent; Waterfall,
Prince Heinrich XVIII. of Reuss; Lake of
Wallenstadt, William Groesbeck, Cincinnati;
Westphalian Landscape (figures by
Ludwig Knaus), C. S. Wolff, Philadelphia;
A Mill (figures by Munkácsy), William H.
Davis, Cincinnati; Evening in Norway,
George R. Vickers, Baltimore; Evening on
the Lake, Tyrolese Idyl, Summer (1876);
Willowy Brook (1879); Cattle Resting,
Watering Place (1880); After the Shower,
Fisher Huts—Sconsett (1882); Summer
Afternoon—Upper Potomac (1883).
TAMAGNO. See Vincenzo da San Gimignano.
TAMAR, Alexander Cabanel, Luxembourg
Museum; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 8 ft. 1 in. Illustration
of episode described in 2 Samuel
xiii. Tamar, daughter of David, having
been outraged by her brother Amnon, goes
to her other brother Absalom and complains
of the crime. Tamar, her hair dishevelled
and her garments in disorder, is seated on
a divan beside Absalom, across whose knees
she has thrown herself in despair; Absalom,
who is dressed in a white tunic embroidered
with gold, and a green and red turban, is
raising his right hand in anger. A negress,
standing with her head against the wall, appears
to partake of her mistress's shame and
grief. Salon, 1875.—Larousse, xv. 43.
TAMING THE SHREW, Charles Robert
Leslie, South Kensington Museum; canvas,
H. 1 ft. 8-1/2 in. × 2 ft. 4 in. Petruchio
thrusts back the gown to the frightened
tailor; Katherine sits at left; Hortensio in
background. One of Leslie's best pictures.
Royal Academy, 1832. Replica, Petworth.
TAMM, FRANZ WERNER, surnamed
Dapper, born in Hamburg in 1658, died in
Vienna in 1724. German school; fruit and