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the Antwerp Museum is a capital genre scene: The Philosophers.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 379; Van den Branden, 1037.
TASSAERT, (NICOLAS FRANÇOIS)
OCTAVE, born in
Paris, July 26, 1800,
died there, by suicide,
April 22, 1874.
History and portrait
painter, pupil of
Pierre Girard, Guillon
Lethière, and of
the École des Beaux
Arts. Medals: 2d
class, 1838; 1st
class, 1849; 3d class, Exposition universelle,
1855. Works: Death of Correggio (1834);
Vicar of Wakefield (1835); Death of Heloïse
(1838); Diana at the Bath (1842); Christ
in the Garden of Olives (1844); Erigone,
Slave Merchant (1846); Temptation of St.
Anthony (1849); Unhappy Family (1849),
Luxembourg Museum; Gardens of Armida
(1850); Communion of Early Christians
in Catacombs (1852), Bordeaux Museum;
Sleep of Jesus, Son of Louis XVI. in the
Temple (1855); Magdalen, Pygmalion and
Galatea (1857); Funeral of Dagobert in St.
Denis (1838), Louis X., Portrait of Gaspard
de Saulx, do. of Charles le Blanchefort, do.
of Philippe de Comines, Versailles Museum;
Heaven and Hell (1850), Artist's Portrait,
Ariadne, Convalescent Mother, Young
Woman with Glass of Wine, Painter's Studio,
Suicide, Return of Prodigal Son, and others,
Montpellier Museum. Alexandre Dumas
has forty-five of Tassaert's pictures and
sketches, and many others are owned in
Paris.—Claretie, Peintres, etc. (1882), i. 25;
Bellier, ii. 544; Gaz. des B. Arts (1886),
xxxiii. 28.
TASSI, AGOSTINO, born in Perugia in
1566, died in Rome in May, 1644. Roman
school. Real name Buonamici, but adopted
that of the Marquis Tassi, whose page he
had been; pupil of Paul Brill, under whose
care he became an excellent landscape
painter. He was a man of infamous character,
who paid the penalty of his crimes
in the galleys at Leghorn; when the part
of his sentence condemning him to hard
labour had been remitted, he soon made
himself known throughout Italy as a painter
of marine views. After his liberation he
was employed in painting frescos in the
Quirinal and in the Palazzo de' Lancellotti.
Tassi was the master of Claude Lorrain.—Lanzi,
i. 484; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne.
TATKELEFF, VOGISNY, born in Russia,
about 1813. Battle painter, son of a
serf in the Borissov Government; attracted
by his sketches the attention of his master,
who educated him, but was forced by
the successor in the estate into the army,
where he served fifteen years; in 1854 took
part in the Crimean War; drudged for his
livelihood until 1870, when a tourist, who
saw his sketch-book, induced him to paint
some pictures for the Exposition in Moscow
in 1873. These, which represented scenes
in the Crimean War, brought him into prominence,
and they were bought for 60,000
rubles for the Winter Palace of St. Petersburg.
TATTEGRAIN, FRANCIS, born at Péronne
(Somme); contemporary. Genre and
portrait painter, and engraver; pupil of C.
Crauck, Lepic, Jules Lefebvre, and Boulanger.
Medals: 2d class, Paris and Munich,
in 1883. Works: Herring Fishing,
Coup d'épaule (1879); Return from Fishing
(1880); Femme aux épaves, Artist's
Portrait (1881); We are Lost, Landing the
Herrings (1882); The Mourners at Étaples
(1883); Convalescent (1884).
TAUNAY, NICOLAS ANTOINE, born in
Paris, Feb. 10, 1755, died there, March 20,
1830. History and landscape painter, pupil
of Brenet, Casanova, and Lépicié. Won
grand prix de Rome in 1784, and spent
three years there with the help of his
patron, M. Angiviller. Won grand medal,
and became member of Academy in 1796.
Medal, 1803; L. of Honour; Order of
Christ in Portugal. In 1816 he went with