Flandrin. I. Jean Hippolyto, a French historical painter, born in Lyons, March 23, 1809, died in Rome, March 21, 1864. He was the son of an obscure miniature painter, and became a pupil of Ingres in 1829. In 1832 his painting of "Theseus recognized by his Father" won the grand prize, entitling him to spend five years in Rome, where he continued to study under Ingres, who had been appointed director of the French academy in that city. Devoting himself principally to historical subjects, he produced, among other compositions, Dante in the Circle of the Envious (1836), which won him a second-class medal, and St. Clair curing the Blind" (1837). He returned to Paris in 1838; and in 1839 his "Christ blessing Little Children obtained a first-class medal. Several remarkable portraits exhibited in 1840-'41, and his first monumental frescoes executed in the church of St. Severin, Paris, now established his reputation; and he was employed by the chief cities of France and the government in decorating their most beautiful edifices.

He was preparing cartoons for what he hoped to be the crowning labor of his life, the frescoing of the minster of Strasburg, when his health broke down in the autumn of 1863. He proceeded to Rome, where he was attacked by the smallpox, and died after an illness of three days. His principal frescoes and works in stained glass are in the chamber of peers and other national buildings, the church of St. Germain-des-Pres, Paris, and in the churches of Dreux, Lyons, Nimes, etc. His talent as a portrait painter was no less remarkable. Cornu has been intrusted with the completing of his frescoes in St. Germain-des-Pres, where a public monument to his memory has been raised by subscription.-See Vicomte Delaborde, Let-tres et pensees d' Hippolyte Flandrin.

II. An-gnste, a French painter, brother of the preceding, born in Lyons in 1804, died there in 1842. He studied under Ingres in Paris and Rome, became a professor in the Lyons school of art, and obtained in 1840 a gold medal for his "Savonarola preaching in San Miniato. Florence." III. Joan Paul, a French landscape painter, brother of the preceding, born in Lyons in 1811. He studied with his brothers under Ingres, obtained second prizes for his landscapes in 1839 and 1848, and a first prize in 1850. He also painted the baptistery of the church of St. S6verin.