there, Oct. 22, 1674. Dutch school; portrait and history painter.
Son of a goldsmith and after 1635 pupil of Rembrandt, whose manner
he adopted. Works: Christ blessing Little Children, National
Gallery, London (bought as a Rembrandt from Suermondt Collection);
Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery, Adoration of Magi, Warrior
in Repose, National Museum, Amsterdam; Dedication of Samuel,
Louvre; Male portrait (1640, Copy of Rembrandt’s Doreur), Solomon
sacrificing to the Idols (1654), Mother and Child (1659), Sophonisbe
receiving the poisoned Cup (1664), Tobias healing his Father, Female
portrait, Brunswick Museum; Music Lesson (1655), Copenhagen Gallery;
Circumcision, Jacob’s Dream (1669), Cassel Gallery; Christ and the
Doctors (1662), Abraham casting off Hagar, Isaac blessing Jacob,
Old Pinakothek, Munich; David and Abigail, Schleissheim Gallery;
Presentation in the Temple, Mercury killing Argus (1666), Raising of
Jairus’ Daughter, Berlin Museum; Triumph of Mordeçai, Guard House,
Lord Bute, London; Portrait of the Historian Dapper (1669), Städel
Institute, Frankfort.--Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Allgem. d.
Biogr., v. 653; Immerzeel, i. 216; Kramm, ii. 415; Riegel, Beiträge,
ii. 273.
EECKHOUT, JACOB JOSEPH VAN DEN, born in Antwerp, Feb. 6, 1793, died
in Paris in 1861. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of
Antwerp Academy; then practised sculpture, in which he obtained
a prize in 1821; took up painting without a master, and in 1823
obtained the first prize in Ghent, and soon after a medal at Douai.
In 1831 settled at The Hague, where in 1839 he became director of
the Academy; moved to Mechlin in 1844, then to Brussels, and in 1859
to Paris. Member of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and Rotterdam
Academies. Works: St. Nicholas Festival, Checkmate (1823); Peasant
ploughing in a Storm (1829); Battle of Bautersum, Conquest of
Tirlemont (1831); Doctor’s Visit, Savoyard with Dog and Monkey,
Nuptials of Jacqueline of Bavaria with Duke Jan of Brabant (1839),
National Museum, Amsterdam; Abdication of Jacqueline of Bavaria,
Peter the Great at Zaandam (1840); Death of William the Silent,
Death of Van Spuyk (together with Wappers), Hambroek on Isle of
Formosa (1841); Orphans coming from Church, Departure of Scheveningen
Recruits, Domestic Scene at Scheveningen, Paternal Admonition, Old
Woman reading aloud, The Poor Blind, Rabbit on the Wall, Pay-Day,
Return from the Chase, Return from Fishing; Collection of portraits
of modern artists born in the Netherlands (1822).--Immerzeel, i. 217;
Kramm, ii. 414.
EERTVELT. See _Artvelt_.
EFFIE DEANS, Sir John Everett _Millais_, Robert Loder, Esq., M.P.;
canvas, H. 4 ft. 9 in. × 3 ft. 6 in. Scene from Sir Walter Scott’s
“Heart of Midlothian;” one of the clandestine meetings between
Effie Deans and Geordie Staunton or Robertson. The outlaw, in a
slate-coloured coat with the deep cuffs of the period and wearing a
Lowland broad bonnet, is on the further side of a wall in a wood;
Effie, on the side toward the spectator, attired in a loose pink
costume and holding her blue snood in her hand, turns her eyes upward
with a hopeless expression as she listens to her betrayer’s words; at
her feet sits a faithful collie, looking wistfully up into her face.
Painted in 1877; Arbuthnot sale (1882), £892.
EGG, AUGUSTUS LEOPOLD, born in London, May 2, 1816, died in Algiers,
March 25, 1863. History and genre painter, pupil in drawing of Henry
Sass, and student at Royal Academy in 1836; became an A.R.A. in
1848, and R.A. in 1860. Won a well-deserved reputation as a painter
of social history subjects. Works: Spanish Girl (1838); Laugh when
you Can (1839); Scene from Henry IV. (1840); Scene from Le Diable
Boiteux (1844), National Gallery; Buckingham Rebuffed (1846);
Wooing of Katherine, Lucentio and Bianca (1847); Peter the Great
and Catherine (1850); Pepys’s Introduction to Nell Gwynne (1851);
Life of Buckingham, Death of Buckingham (1855); Knighting of Esmond
(1857); Night before Naseby, Madame de Maintenon and Scarron (1859);
Katherine and Petruchio (1860), his last picture.--Cat. Nat. Gal.;
Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Redgrave; Sandby, ii. 310.
EGGERS, JOHANN KARL, born at Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg, in 1790, died
there in 1863. History and portrait painter, pupil in Dresden of
Matthäi. At Rome he aided in the revival of fresco painting, and at
Berlin assisted Cornelius in decorating the portico of the new Museum
with frescos. Works: Mater Dolorosa, Sleeping Venus (1819); Cupid
(1823), Bellevue Castle near Berlin; Christ with Mary and Martha;
Washing the Lord’s Feet; Choir in Naumburg Cathedral. Fresco: Rome
Personified (Vatican).
EGLOFFSTEIN, JULIE VON, Countess, born at Hildesheim, Sept., 1792,
died Jan. 16, 1869. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of
Düsseldorf Academy under Sohn; a beautiful and gifted woman at Court
of Weimar, mentioned by Goethe in his poems. Became canoness of
Hildesheim. Works: Shepherds in the Campagna (1835); Girl braiding
her Hair; Hagar in the Desert; Exposure of Moses; portraits of Queen
Teresa of Bavaria and of Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar.--Allgem. d.
Biogr., v. 683.
EGMOND, JUSTUS (VERUS) VAN, born in Leyden, Sept. 22, 1661, died in
Antwerp, Jan. 8, 1674. Flemish school; history and portrait painter,
pupil of Gaspar van den Hoeck in 1615, and then of Rubens, whom he
assisted especially in the execution of the Marie de Medici pictures
at the Louvre. Later was in the service of Louis XIII. and Louis
XIV., and was among the original members of the French Academy,
founded in 1648. He worked also conjointly with Vouet, and returned
to Antwerp before Nov. 11, 1660. Works: Portrait of Archduke Leopold
William, two portraits of Philip IV. of Spain, Vienna Museum; Maria
de’ Medici, Schleissheim Gallery.--Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 687; Biog.
nat. de Belgique, vi. 512; Jal, 528; Rooses (Reber), 318; Van den
Branden, 766.
EGMONT AND HORN, OBSEQUIES OF, Louis _Gallait_, Tournay Museum;
canvas. The Duke of Alva, who under the forms of justice had executed
his noble Dutch predecessors, Count Lamoral of Egmont and Philip of
Montmorency, Count Horn, visits their bodies when arranged for burial
and contemplates them with savage satisfaction. Painted in 1851;
purchased by city of Tournay. Replica (1859), water-colour (14 × 19
in.), W. T. Walters, Baltimore.--Art Treasures of America, i. 88.
EGOGNI, AMBROGIO. See _Borgognone_, Ambrogio.
EGUSQUIZA, ROGELIO DE, born at Santander, Spain; contemporary.
Works: Don Quixote and the Parson; Bright Lookout; Boudoir Scene,
A. J. Drexel, Philadelphia; She laughs at his Folly, W. B. Bement,
Philadelphia; Disappointed; Return from Walk, C. P. Huntington, New
York; Reading Girl, Borie Collection, Philadelphia; Michelangelo
beside the Body of Vittoria Colonna; Charles V. at San Yuste (1868);
After a Brawl (1869); Infant Don Carlos and Infanta Doña Juana swear
to defend the Catholic Faith (1870); The Betrothed (1883).
EGYPT, FLIGHT INTO. See _Flight_.
EGYPT, REPOSE IN. See _Repose_.
EGYPTIAN FEAST, Edwin _Long_, Fine Art Society, London; canvas, H.
6 ft. 2 in. × 12 ft. 4 in. A feast spread in a vast decorated hall
of Egyptian architecture, with massive columns in background; in
the centre slaves are dragging a mummy upon a bier, to remind the
numerous revellers that they are mortal; in foreground, musicians.
Engraved by E. Girardet.
EHNINGER, JOHN WHETTON, born in New York, July 22, 1827. Landscape
and figure painter; after graduating at Columbia College he went to
Paris (1847), where he studied two years under Couture, and then
at Düsseldorf. He was at one time employed by a London illustrated
journal to furnish designs for wood-cuts. Elected N.A. in 1860.
Studio at Saratoga Springs. Works: Peter Stuyvesant (1850); Eight
illustrations of Miles Standish (1858); Autumnal Landscape (1867);
Monk (1871); Vintage in the Valtellina--Italy (1877); Twilight
from the Bridge of Pau--Basses-Pyrenées (1878); Subject for
Thanksgiving (1879); Lady of the Manor (1882); The Old, Old Story
(1884).--Tuckerman, 461.
EHRENBERG, WILLEM VAN (Wilhelm Schubert von Ehrenberg), born at
Antwerp, baptized May 12, 1630 (according to Van den Branden in
Germany in 1637), died there in 1675 or 1676. Flemish school;
architecture painter, master of the guild in 1662. Excellent in
perspective. Works: Interior of Palace (1666, figures by H. van
Minderhout), Antwerp Museum; Architecture in Biset’s William Tell,
Brussels Museum; do. of Art Gallery (1671), Hague Museum; do. (1666),
Old Pinakothek, Munich; Church Interior (1664), Vienna Museum.--Biog.
nat. de Belgique, vi. 515; Cat. du Musée d’Anvers (1874), 464; Van
den Branden, 875.
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EHRHARDT, (KARL LUDWIG) ADOLF, born in Berlin, Nov. 21, 1813. History
painter, pupil in the Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow (1832); after
1838 assisted Bendemann in decorating the Royal Palace at Dresden
with frescos and became professor at the Academy in 1846. Works:
Jephthah’s Daughter (1836); Christ with Mary and Martha (1837); Death
of the Troubadour Rudello; Rinaldo and Armida; Dante’s Dream; Charles
V. in the Monastery; Louis the Bavarian with Frederic the Fair;
Luther as Squire George in Jena (1864), Leipsic Museum; Resurrection;
Portrait of Ludwig Richter.--Müller, 155; Wiegmann, 152.
EHRMANN, FRANÇOIS ÉMILE, born in Strasburg, Sept. 5, 1833. History
painter, pupil of Gleyre and of the École des B. Arts, studied two
years in Italy, and returned to Paris in 1865. Medals: 1865 and 1868;
3d class, 1874; L. of Honour, 1879. Works: Siren Fishing (1865,
burned in Strasburg, 1870); A Conqueror (Luxembourg Museum, copied
at the Gobelins); Ariadne abandoned by Theseus (1873), water-colour,
Luxembourg Museum; Greece, Rome, The Barbarians, The Middle Ages
(1874), M. Girard, Paris; Venus passing before the Sun (1875); The
Muses (1877); Republican France leading the Nations to Peace and
Industry (1879); The Fates; The Fountain of Youth; Wisdom uniting Art
and Industry (1884); The Manuscript (1885).--L’Art (1876), iii. 297;
Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 259.
EIBNER, FRIEDRICH, born at Hilpotstein, Palatinate, Feb. 25, 1825,
died in Munich, Nov. 18, 1877. Architecture and landscape painter,
self-taught, principally by copying after H. Schoenfeld; travelled
through Bavaria (1847), Germany and France (1852), North Italy
(1853–56), and Spain (1860–61), whither he accompanied Prince
Metschersky, in whose possession is a valuable series of sixty-five
great water-colour views from Spain. Among his best works are:
Cathedrals of Burgos, Seville, and Segovia; Palace of Inquisition
at Cordova; Ponte del Paradiso in Venice; St. Anastasia in Verona;
Church of Our Lady at Esslingen.--Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 178.
EICHHORN, ALBERT, born at Freienwalde on the Oder, July 7, 1811, died
at Potsdam, Oct. 19, 1851. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil,
in Berlin, of Tempeltei and Biermann, travelled through Italy and
Greece, settled in Potsdam, and was much employed by King Frederick
William IV. Works: Views in and about Rome (1842); Taygetus, Temple
of Phigalia (1842); St. Peter’s in Rome; Temple of Corinth; Temple of
Zeus, Road of Patras; City Views from Italy; The Campagna.--Allgem.
d. Biogr., v. 728; Kunstblatt (1853), 2570.
EICHLER, HERMANN, born in Vienna in 1842. History painter, pupil of
Christian Ruben, whose studio he entered in 1864. Works: Charles
I. meeting Cromwell after the Sentence; Peter Hele the Inventor of
Watches; Rudolph II.; Count von Helfenstein in the Peasants’ War;
Oberon; In the Shade of the Bormio; Picnic (1879).--Müller, 156; N.
illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 339.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVEN, Jean Louis Ernest _Meissonier_, Mrs.
A. T. Stewart, New York; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 8 ft. At first
called Friedland, but finally named after the date of the battle.
Scene--a ceremonial review of the exhausted victorious troops after
the nine hours’ fighting which made Napoleon dictator of Europe. The
Twelfth Cuirassiers galloping through the trampled grain are rising
in their stirrups, waving their swords, and shouting in a frenzy of
enthusiasm as the Emperor, on a white horse at left, surrounded by
his État-major and Marshals Bessières, Duroc, and Berthier, salutes
them by raising his cocked hat. Behind, at Napoleon’s left, troops
are waiting to fall into line, and further on are seen the bearskin
caps of the Old Guard. In the foreground, at Napoleon’s right, in
yellow breeches and red dolmans, are the four troopers composing
the avant-garde of the imperial escort. Meissonier’s masterpiece.
Finished in 1876 after fifteen years’ labour. The costumes and
trappings were made by tailors, bootmakers, and saddlers; the horses
were modelled in wax. Vienna Exposition, 1878. Mr. Stewart paid
$60,000 for it.--L’Art (1876), i. 14; Art Treasures of America, i. 27.
EILERSEN, RASMUSSEN, born at Osterby, Fünen, March 1, 1827.
Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy; took part in the
Schleswig-Holstein campaign of 1848–50, and afterwards studied
under J. P. Moller; visited France, Switzerland, and the Pyrenees
in 1858–60, London in 1862, Holland and Belgium in 1871, Vienna and
Salzburg in 1873, and Italy in 1876. Many of his pictures bought in
Germany and England. Member of Copenhagen Academy, 1871; Order of
Danebrog, 1876. Works: Mill near Heden; Landscape in Southern Fünen
(1855); View of Himmelbjaerget (1857); Gloomy Weather in the Landes,
Two Views in the Pyrenees (1861); Morning at Sorrento, October
Afternoon at Amalfi (1881); View in Frysenborg Deer-Park (1864),
Copenhagen Gallery.--Sigurd Müller, 87; Weilbach, 152.
EINSLE, ANTON, born in Vienna in 1801, died there March 10, 1871.
Portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; appointed court-painter
in 1867, and decorated with the Order of Franz Josef. Works: Count
Zichy, The Letter (1842); Sculptor Klieber (1844); Negro Slave
(1846); Count Chotek, Countess Wickenburg (1846); Emperor Francis
Joseph, Empress Elizabeth, Field-Marshal Count Radetzky.--Wurzbach,
iv. 15.
EIRENE, painter. See _Irene_.
EISENMENGER, AUGUST, born in Vienna, Feb. 11, 1830. Decorative
painter, pupil of Leopold Schultz, of the Vienna Academy, in 1842–48,
and in 1856 of Rahl, whose indispensable assistant he soon became.
Professor at Vienna Academy since 1872. Works: Apollo and the Muses
(1869), Musikverein, Vienna; Ceiling Paintings, Grand Hotel, ib.;
Twelve Months, Palais Guttmann, ib.; The Graces and Peace, Tietz
Mansion, ib.; Scenes from Lives of Emperor Maximilian I. and Duke
Leopold, Castle Hörnstein; Fresco Paintings in the Museum of Art and
Industry.--Graph. K., vi. 77; Müller, 156.
EISMANN, JOHANN ANTON, born at Salzburg in 1634, died in Venice
in 1698. German school; landscape, marine, and battle painter,
self-taught; went to Venice, where he studied after the old masters,
and soon attained considerable success. His landscapes and seaports
embellished with architecture were especially esteemed. Works:
Landscapes with Ruins (2), Dresden Gallery; Landscape with Cavalry
Skirmish, Vienna Museum.
EISMANN-BRISEGHELLA, CARLO, born in Venice in 1679. Landscape,
marine, and battle painter, adopted son and pupil of preceding,
who at Venice had formed a friendship with his father, Mattia
Briseghella. After Eismann’s death he seems to have settled at
Ferrara. Works: Skirmish under the Walls of a Fortress, Cavalry
Skirmishes (2), A Battlefield, Dresden Gallery.
EKELS, JAN, the younger, born at Amsterdam in 1759, died there
June 4, 1793. Dutch school; genre painter, son and pupil of Jan E.
the elder (1724–81); went to Paris, and in 1783 up the Rhine to
Düsseldorf to visit the gallery. Imitated the old masters, especially
J. Molenaer. Works: Young Man Drawing, Peasant lighting his Pipe,
Städel Gallery, Frankfort.--Immerzeel, i. 220.
EKWALL, KNUT, born at Säby, Småland, April 3, 1843. Genre painter
and illustrator, pupil of Stockholm Academy; devoted himself to
illustration in 1870, and was engaged in it at Munich and Leipsic
until 1875, when he studied genre painting under Knaus in Berlin, and
settled there. Works: Ten Minutes for Refreshments; Family Scene in
Dalecarlia; After Midnight; Sailor’s Return; After the Bath; Berlin
Fire Department; Sub Rosa (1880); Honeymoon (1882); He is Coming
(1883); Morning after Wedding, Jolly Morning Hour (1884).
ELAINE, Toby _Rosenthal_, Mrs. R. C. Johnson, San Francisco.
Illustration of Tennyson’s “Lancelot and Elaine,” where the “lily
maid of Astolat,” stretched upon her bier on the funeral galley,
“Oar’d by the dumb, went upward with the flood.” Painted in 1874.
ELASIPPUS, Greek painter, date unknown. One of many reputed inventors
of encaustic painting.--Pliny, xxxv. 39 [122].
ELECTION, _Hogarth_, Soane Museum, London; four pictures, canvas,
H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 4 ft. 4 in. 1. The Election Entertainment; 2.
Canvassing for Votes; 3. Polling at the Hustings; 4. The Chairing
of the Successful Candidate. These pictures formerly belonged to
Garrick; bought of his widow in 1823 for £1,732 10s.--Jameson’s
Handbook, ii. 572.
[Illustration: Elevation of Cross, Rubens, Antwerp Cathedral.]
ELEVATION OF CROSS, _Rubens_, Antwerp Cathedral; H. 14 ft. × 15 ft.
In three parts: centre, the Saviour on the Cross, which nine powerful
men are elevating; left wing, the Virgin, the Holy Women, and St.
John, the latter standing by the Virgin; right wing, mounted Roman
soldiers superintending the crucifixion of the two thieves. The
groups on the wings are painted on the inside of the covers of the
middle part. On the exterior of the covers are: St. Catherine on one
side, and St. Eloi on the other. Painted in 1610 for S. Walburge,
Antwerp; retouched in 1627 by Rubens, who then introduced the
Newfoundland dog in the corner. Carried to Paris in 1796; returned
in 1815. Engraved by C. L. Masquelier; in three parts by Witdouc.
St. Catherine engraved by Bolswert, Mariette.--Smith, ii. 1; Jameson,
Hist. Our Lord, ii. 135; Réveil, x. 687; Landon, Musée, x. 33.
By Anton van _Dyck_, Notre Dame, Courtray, Belgium; canvas. The
Saviour on the Cross, which four men are raising into position;
at left, an assistant, with a spade in his hand, and two mounted
soldiers, one of whom is giving orders; in foreground, right, a
basket with implements, and a spaniel dog. Painted by order of Canon
Roger Braye in 1632; carried to Paris, returned in 1815. Etched by A.
Boulard. Sketch in Collection of M. de Reuck, at Wareghem; engraved
by Bolswert, J. Audran.--Guiffrey, 136; Smith, iii. 11.
ELIJAH, Washington _Allston_, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.;
canvas. Elijah in the desert fed by ravens. Begun in England,
finished in Boston; bought by Hon. Mr. Labouchere, afterwards Lord
Taunton, and taken to England; purchased (1870) after his death by
Mrs. Samuel Hooper, of Boston, and presented to Museum.--Memorial
Hist. Boston, iv. 395.
ELIZABETH, DEATH OF QUEEN, Paul _Delaroche_, Louvre, Paris; canvas,
H. 13 ft. 9 in. × 11 ft. 2 in.; signed, dated 1828. The Queen, lying
upon cushions, assisted by her women, is surrounded by the grand
dignitaries of her court. Cecil, Secretary of State, is kneeling
beside her. Salon, 1827, although dated as above. Formerly in
Luxembourg. Engraved by Jazet.--Annales des B. Arts, Salon de 1827,
Pl. 66.
[Illustration: St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Murillo, Academia S.
Fernando, Madrid.]
ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY, ST., or EL TIÑOSO (The Scald-Head), _Murillo_,
Academia S. Fernando, Madrid; canvas, H. 13 ft. 9 in. × 10 ft. 6 in.
The Saint, dressed as a nun, with a small coronet on her head, stands
in a portico washing the scald-head of a beggar boy, who bends over a
silver basin on a pedestal; two ladies and a duenna supply lotions;
on left, a second boy, a cripple on crutches, and an old woman
seated; in foreground, a half-naked beggar seated; in background,
the Saint and her ladies are serving poor persons seated at a table
in a gallery. Companion to San _Juan_ de Dios. Painted in 1674,
one of eight large pictures, for Hospital de la Caridad, Seville;
carried to Paris by Marshal Soult, who gave it to Louis XVIII. at
the Restoration; placed in Louvre, but returned to Spain in 1815.
Original study, with changes, John L. O’Sullivan, New York. Engraved
by P. Boutrois, D. Martinez; lithographed by Flor. de Craene,
Lafosse, F. Chevalier, Ch. Vogt, Defrondat, M. Lavigne, Charpentier,
H. Jannin.--Curtis, 229; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Viardot, Illust.
Hist. Painters (London, 1877); Becker, Kunst und Künstler; Harper’s
Mag. (1885), lxxi. 938.
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ELLENRIEDER, MARIE, born at Constance, March 20, 1791, died there,
June 5, 1863. History and portrait painter, pupil of the miniature
painter Einsle, then from 1813 of Langer in the Munich Academy.
Worked in 1816–20 in Constance, in 1822–24 in Rome, where she became
a follower of Overbeck. Appointed court-painter at Baden in 1829 and
revisited Rome in 1838–40. Works: St. Cecilia (1814); Praying Girl,
Madonna (1824); Holy Virgin reading, Madonna in Glory, St. Nicholas,
Resurrection (1825); St. Anatolica (1826); Martyrdom of St. Stephen
(1827), Catholic Church, Carlsruhe; St. Cecilia (1829); Madonna in
the Rose-Hedge (1834), Carlsruhe Gallery; Magnificat (1835); St.
Charles of Borromeo (1838); St. Felicitas with her Sons, Jesus and
the Children, St. Anthony, Angel bearing Prayers to Heaven (1840);
Simeon in the Temple; Raising of Lazarus; Baptism of Livia; St.
Jerome; Gratitude.--Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 49; Andresen, iv. 30.
ELLIGER (Elger), OTTMAR (Ottomar), the elder, born at Gothenburg,
Sept. 18, 1633, died in Berlin in 1679. Flemish school; fruit and
flower painter, pupil in Antwerp of Daniel Seghers, called to Berlin
as court-painter, by the Great Elector, in 1670. Works: Tulip with
Roses and Berries on a Table (1674), Bouquet on a Table with Grapes
and Apricots, Dresden Gallery; others in Brunswick, Frankfort, and
Stockholm Galleries.--Kramm, ii. 422; Michiels, viii. 303.
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ELLIGER, OTTMAR, the younger, born in Hamburg in 1666, died at
Amsterdam in 1732. Dutch school; history painter, son and pupil of
Ottmar Elliger the elder; then pupil in Amsterdam of Michiel van
Musschert and of Gerard de Lairesse; painted, in the style of the
latter, wall and easel pictures in which he loved to introduce grand
architecture. Works: Death of Alexander the Great (1716), Marriage of
Peleus and Thetis (1717), for Elector of Mentz; Banquet of Cleopatra,
Herodias dancing before Herod and his Guests, Cassel Gallery; Woman
with Goblet and Fruits (1714), Vienna Museum; Allegory, Bordeaux
Museum; others in Brunswick Museum.--Immerzeel, i. 221; Kramm, ii.
422.
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ELLIOTT, CHARLES LORING, born at Scipio, N. Y., Dec., 1812, died
in Albany, Aug. 25, 1868. Portrait painter, pupil of Trumbull and
of Quidor in New York, where he spent the greater part of his
professional life. Elected an A.N.A. in 1845 and N.A. in 1846.
His pictures are to be found in the State Library, Albany, the
Mercantile Library, Baltimore, and in the New York City Hall. Among
his portraits are those of: Matthew Vassar (Vassar College); Fletcher
Harper; Fenimore Cooper; Fitz-Greene Halleck; Governors Hunt and
Seymour; Erastus Corning, A. B. Durand, N.A., Corcoran Gallery,
Washington; his own portrait, M. O. Roberts’ Collection, New York.
Ideal works: Falstaff (Vassar); Don Quixote; Andrew van Corlaer the
Trumpeter, W. T. Wales, Baltimore; Head of Skaneateles Lake, F. N. D.
Horton; Falstaff, Leonard Jerome, New York.
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