Louis Leopold Robert

Louis Leopold Robert, a French painter, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, May 13, 1794, died in Venice, March 20, 1835. At first he applied himself to engraving, and subsequently to painting under the instruction of David and Gérard. In 1818 he went to Rome, where he pursued his art with singular enthusiasm. He was a laborious painter, rejecting picture after picture which seemed to him unequal to the subject, and occupying in some instances years upon a single work. His productions are few, but in the delineation of Italian life are unrivalled in modern art. His masterpieces are the "Reapers," the "Neapolitan Improvisatore," the "Madonna dell' Arco," and the "Fishermen of the Adriatic." He conceived a romantic but hopeless passion for a beautiful woman of rank, under the influence of which he committed suicide. - See Léopold Robert, sa vie, ses oeuvres et sa corres-pondance, by Feuillet de Conches (Paris, 1862).

Louis Maimboirg

Louis Maimboirg, a French historian, horn in Nancy about 1620, died in Paris, Aug. 13, 1686. At the age of 16 he entered the society of Jesus, and in 1682 he was expelled for defending the tenets of the Gallican party; but Louis XIV. settled a pension on him. At the time of his death he was writing a history of the English reformation. He published Traitehis-torique sur les prerogatives de l'Eglise de Home (1681; new ed., 1831); Histoire du Wicl\fia-nisme (the Hague, 1(582); Histoire du Luthi-rianisme (1686); and Histoire du Calrmume (Paris, 1686). A uniform edition of his histories appeared in 1686-7 (14 vols. 8vo, Pans).

Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough

Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, an American naval officer, born in "Washington in 1805. He was appointed midshipman in 1812, and made lieutenant in 1825. During the Seminole war he commanded a company of mounted volunteers, and also an armed steamer. He was made commander in 1841; took part in the Mexican war, and was afterward senior naval officer of a joint army and navy commission on the Pacific coast. He became captain in 1855, and from 1853 to 1857 was superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis. In 1861 he was placed in command of the naval part of Burnside's expedition to North Carolina. He was made rear admiral in 1862, commanded the European squadron in 1865-'7, and subsequently the Washington navy yard.

Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot

Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot, a French sculptor, born in Paris, June 23, 1794, died there, June 1, 1862. He studied under his father Pierre Petitot (1751-1840) and in the school of fine arts, where in 1814 he obtained the principal prize, entitling him to go to Rome, whence he returned in 1820. Among his principal works are "Ulysses visiting Alcinous" (1821), "St. John the Baptist" (1822), "A young Sportsman bitten by a Serpent" (1824), and " A Oalabrese Pilgrim and his Son overwhelmed by fatigue imploring the aid of the Virgin" (1847), which was placed in 1874 in the garden of the Luxembourg.