Joseph Fagnani, an American artist, born in Naples, Italy, Dec. 24, 1819, died in New York, May 22, 1873. He made crayon portraits before completing his 13th year, left the royal academy at 18, and removed to Vienna, where he painted a portrait of the archduke Charles. In 1842 in Paris he met Maria Christina of Spain, who invited him to Madrid. There he secured the friendship of Sir Henry Bulwer, and accompanied* him to Washington in 1849. In 1851 he removed to New York, and married an American lady. From 1858 till 1865 he was in Europe, and executed portraits of Garibaldi, Victor Emanuel, the empress Eugenie, Abdul Aziz, Ali Pasha, Cialdini, Rattazzi, and others. After his return to New York he painted a series of pictures called the "Nine Muses." Among his other works are portraits of Queens Christina and Isabella of Spain, the duchess of Alba, the duke d'Aumale, the countess Guic-cioli, Lord Byron from a miniature, Sir Robert Peel, Alexis de Tocqueville, John Bright, Richard Cobden, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Gen. Taylor, and Gen. Sheridan. He received the only gold medal ever given for a portrait by the royal Bourbonic academy of Naples, and was decorated by a number of European sovereigns.