Andrea Appiani, an Italian painter, born at Bosisio, near Milan, in 1754, died in 1817 or 1818. His best works are frescoes in the palace at Milan and the cupola of Santa Maria di San Celso. " Apollo and the Muses " in the Villa Bonaparte is also an admirable specimen of his style. Napoleon and most of the members of the imperial family sat to him for their portraits. An attack of apoplexy in 1813 rendered him so helpless that he was obliged to sell his drawings and other valuables, and he died in poverty.