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After his return to Venice he painted some of his best landscapes, but having become known and admired in England by engravings from his works, he went again to London in 1752, and was largely patronized by the royal family and aristocracy, in whose collections many of his works may still be found. He was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and in 1768 one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy; returned to Florence in 1773, and having invested his savings in the security of a monastery, which soon after was suppressed, he was left indigent, and compelled to resume his art. Many of his works are in Venice (21 in the Palazzo Reale). Works: Landscape with Italian Buildings, do. with Ruins and Waterfall, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Waterfall with Fishermen, Basle Museum; do. with Sheep and Girl on Mule, Bamberg Gallery; two Landscapes, Gotha Museum; Landscape with Horsemen, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Landscape, Stuttgart Museum; do. with Herds, do. with Fishermen, Museum, Vienna; do. with Busy Groups of Peasants, Abraham's Departure for the Promised Land, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Woodland Scenes (4), Bergamo Gallery; Woodland with St. John Preaching, Brera, Milan; Landscape with Horsemen, Fondazione Poldi Pezzoli, ib.; do. with Holy Family (2), two others, Venice Academy.—Lanzi (Roscoe), i. 262; ii. 316; Nagler, xxii. 323; Redgrave, 497.

ZUCCHERO (Zuccaro) FEDERIGO, born in S. Agnolo in Vado, Urbino, in 1543, died at Ancona in 1609. Roman school. Brother of Taddeo Zucchero, in whose studio he laboured many years as pupil and assistant. Taddeo, although his brother was very useful to him, aided him to get commissions of his own. Among other works, Federigo painted the Grimani Chapel, in S. Francesco della Vigna, Venice, which Battista Franco had left unfinished. Soon after his return to Rome his brother died, and Federigo finished his works and executed others in S. Caterina de' Funari, SS. Apostoli, S. M. dell' Orto, and other churches. In 1572 he went to France, and soon after to Flanders, Holland, and England. He painted several portraits of Queen Elizabeth and other distinguished personages (21 were exhibited in 1866). In 1574 Federigo painted the cupola of the Duomo, Florence, which had been left unfinished by Vasari. In 1582 he painted, in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Barbarossa at the Feet of Pope Alexander III. After working a while in Rome, he went in 1585 to Madrid, at the invitation of Philip II., and painted several pictures in the Escorial. But his style did not please the Spaniards, and he returned to Rome. He founded the Academy of St. Luke, was its first president, and left all his property to it. He was the author of a treatise on painting, sculpture, and architecture. Among his easel pictures are: Deposition from the Cross, Palazzo Borghese, Rome; Calumny, Hampton Court; Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, Kensington Gallery; The Golden Age, The Silver Age, Mythological Allegory, Uffizi, Florence; Descent of Christ into Limbo (1585), Brera, Milan.—Vasari, ed. Le Mon., xii. 109, 133; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne; Burckhardt, 185, 235, 754; Siret, 1030.

ZUCCHERO, TADDEO, born in S. Agnolo in Vado, Urbino, Sept. 1, 1529, died in Rome, Sept. 2, 1566. Roman school; son and pupil of Ottaviano Zucchero, a poor painter, and elder brother of Federigo Zucchero. Went to Rome when very young, and after