near Kiel, July 8, 1876. Landscape and animal painter, pupil in
Vienna of Gurlitt (1852), with whom he visited Hungary; then went
with Adolf Schreyer to Düsseldorf, where he acquired reputation as a
painter of animals of the chase. In 1859 he moved to Hamburg, whence
he visited Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Sicily,
returning to Hamburg in 1876. Received a gold medal from the King of
Prussia for his album, called Wood and Game, 1860. Wood with Brook
in Morning Fog (last work), Kunsthalle, Hamburg.--Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvii. 227; Kunst-Chronik, ii. 62; vi. 9; xii. 449; Meyer, Conv. Lex.,
xvii. 513.
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KRÜGER, FRANZ, born at Radegast, Dessau, Sept. 3, 1797, died in
Berlin, Jan. 21, 1857. Portrait and horse painter, self-taught; often
called Pferde (Horse) Krüger, for his skill as a painter of horses.
Visited St. Petersburg in 1844 and 1850. Member of Berlin Academy
in 1825, professor and court-painter. Works: Parade of Regiment of
Cuirassiers in Berlin, with more than 100 portraits (1831, for the
Czar); Parade of the Guards before Frederick William III. (1839),
Homage to Frederick William IV. in 1840, Royal Palace, Berlin; Czar
Nicholas and Suite on Horseback (1834); Frederick William IV. with
Suite (1842); Start for Chase, Return, Horse-Stable, Dead Rabbit,
Sketch to Czar Nicholas and Suite (1834), National Gallery, Berlin;
Portrait of King Frederick William IV., Stable Interior (1855),
Ravené Gallery, ib.; King Ernest August of Hanover, Provinzial
Museum, Hanover; do., and other members of Royal Families of
Hanover and Hohenzollern, Royal Gallery, ib.--Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvii. 227; Jordan (1885), ii. 129; Kunstblatt (1857), 43, 50, 209;
Kunst-Chronik, xxi. 113; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 284;
Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvi. 337.
KRÜGER, KARL (MAXIMILIAN), born at Lübbenau, July 18, 1834, died at
Gohlis, near Dresden, Jan. 30, 1880. Landscape painter, pupil of
Munich Academy under Ott and Richard Zimmermann, then of Weimar Art
School under Michels; travelled in Germany and North Italy, and lived
in Dresden since 1870. Called Spreewald-Krüger from the scene of many
of his landscapes. Works: Spreewald (1866), National Gallery, Berlin;
Mill in Spreewald, Stettin Museum.--Jordan, 187; Kunst-Chronik, xv.
310.
KRUSEMAN, CORNELIS, born in Amsterdam, Sept. 25, 1797, died at Lisse,
North Holland, Nov. 14, 1857. History, genre, and portrait painter,
pupil of Charles H. Hodges (portrait painter, 1764–1837), Ravelli,
and of J. A. Daiwaille; then studied in Paris and Rome, returned to
Amsterdam, became member of the Academy, and afterwards removed to
Lisse. Order of Lion in 1831; Commander of Oak-Crown Order; gold
medal in Brussels in 1851. Called the Italian Kruseman to distinguish
him from his cousin, Jan Adam. Works: Praying Family; Sermon of John
Baptist; Magdalen; Belisarius as a Beggar; Entombment; Ecce Homo;
Scene from Dutch-Belgian War of 1831; Prince of Orange wounded at
Bantersem; Old Woman Reading, Happy Household (1817), Departure of
Philip II. from Scheveningen (1832), Devotion, Of the same Opinion,
Entombment (1830), Amsterdam Museum; Male Portrait (1826), Leyden
Museum.--D. Kunstbl. (1857), 424; Immerzeel, ii. 138; Kramm, iii.
911; Larousse, ix. 1272.
KRUSEMAN, JAN ADAM, born in Haarlem, Feb. 12, 1804, died there,
March 17, 1862. History and portrait painter, cousin and pupil in
Amsterdam of Cornelis, studied then from nature and after the great
masters in Amsterdam Museum, and in Brussels under David; returned
to Amsterdam in 1825, was co-director of the Academy in 1831–35, and
one of the founders of the Society Arti et Amicitiæ. Works: Portrait
of Czar Alexander I. (1832); of Kings William I. and William II.,
Count and Countess van Styrum; Company of Dutch Poets, Portraits
of King William II. (1840) and of Adriaan van der Hoop, Elijah and
the Shunammite Woman (1825), Young Girl Resting (1827), Amsterdam
Museum; Christ and Woman of Samaria; Prodigal Son; Cain and Abel;
Noah’s Curse; Narcissus; Joseph and Benjamin; Abraham and Isaac;
Shunammite Woman; Male Portraits (1822, 1848), Portrait of Himself
(1844), Haarlem Museum; Landscapes (2) (1850), Leipsic Museum; Midday
Nap (1855).--Burger, Musées, ii. 160; Immerzeel, ii. 140; Kramm, iii.
914; vii. 97.
KRUSEMAN VAN ELTEN, H. D., born at Alkmaar, Nov. 14, 1829. Landscape
painter, pupil in Haarlem of Lieste, and student of nature in
Germany, Switzerland, and Tyrol. Continued his studies in Brussels,
and settled in Amsterdam, whence he moved to New York in 1865.
Member of Rotterdam and Amsterdam Academies, and of Belgian Water
Colour Society; A.N.A in 1871, and N.A. in 1883. Medals: Amsterdam,
1860; Philadelphia, 1876. Studio in New York. Works in oil: Early
Morning in Woods, Queen of Holland; Well on the Heath (1860);
Summer Morning--Esopus Creek (1867); Morning in the Hartz (1871);
Passing Shower near Pittsfield (1875); Windmills--Holland, Hurlbut
Collection, Cleveland; Corn-fields, Clearing Off--Adirondacks, Grove
in the Heath, Russell’s Falls--Adirondacks (1876); Hillside (1879);
Grain Field--Connecticut, Summer in Shepaug Valley (1880); Morning on
River Banks (1881); Near the River, After the Rain (1882); Midday,
Coming Storm (1883). Water-colours: Sunday Morning in Holland (1867);
Meadows near Farmington (1871); Evening on Long Island Sound (1875);
Scene in Holland, Autumn in the White Mountains (1876); Morning near
Gloucester--Mass. (1878); Bright Day in August, Old Settler, Summer
Evening (1884).--Sheldon, 196; Müller, 312.
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KÜCHLER, ALBERT, born in Copenhagen, May 2, 1803. History and genre
painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy under Eckersberg; received
medals in 1822 and 1825, gold medal in 1829; went to Munich in
1830, and then to Rome, where he became a follower of Overbeck.
In 1844 he embraced Catholicism, and under the name of Fra Pietro
became a Franciscan Monk (1851), since which time he has painted
altarpieces only. Member of Copenhagen Academy since 1877. Works:
Young Fruit-Seller in Artist’s Studio (1828), Copenhagen Gallery;
Christ healing the Sick (1829); Christ appearing to the Disciples;
Joseph relating his Dream (1833), Bride dressed by her Mother (1836),
Copenhagen Gallery; Family Scene on Lake of Nemi, Roman buying
Priest’s Hat for his Child, Little Abbé examined by his Sister,
Family of Colonel Paulsen, Thorwaldsen Museum, Copenhagen.--Sigurd
Müller, 198; Weilbach, 386; Land und Meer (1874), i. 366.
KÜGELGEN, GERHARD VON, born at Bacharach on the Rhine, Jan. 6,
1772, murdered near Loschwitz, Dresden, March 27, 1820. History
and portrait painter, pupil of Zick in Coblentz, and of Fesel in
Würzburg; went to Rome in 1791, thence to Munich, Riga (1795), and
St. Petersburg (1799), returning home in 1804; visited Paris, and in
1805 settled in Dresden, where he became professor at the Academy in
1814. Member of Berlin and St. Petersburg Academies. Works: Andromeda
(1810), Ariadne in Naxos (1816), National Gallery, Berlin; Christ
and the two St. Johns; Prodigal Son, Dresden Museum; Moses, Christ,
Mohammed, Leipsic Museum; Portraits of Blücher, Gneisenau, Goethe,
Schiller, Wieland, and Herder. His son Wilhelm (1802–67) studied
at Dresden and Rome, and was court-painter to the last Duke of
Anhalt-Bernburg.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 305; Hasse, Leben G. v.
K.; Kaufmann, Bilder aus dem Rheinland (Cologne, 1884), 3; Kügelgen,
Jugenderinnerungen; N. Necrol. d. D. (1832), 17; Riegel, 171.
KÜGELGEN, KARL FERDINAND, born at Bacharach in 1772, died at Revel,
Russia, Jan. 9, 1832. Landscape painter, twin brother of Gerhard,
whom he followed to Russia in 1796. He became court-painter in St.
Petersburg, visited the Crimea in 1803 and 1806, by imperial order,
and Finland in 1818. Settled in Revel in 1827. Works: Views in Crimea
and Finland (85), Imperial Collection; Ten Ideal Landscapes.--Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvii. 307; Hasse, Leben G. v. K.
KÜHLING, WILHELM, born in Berlin, Sept. 2, 1823, died in Berlin, Jan.
25, 1886. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Berlin Academy;
visited Switzerland, France, and Italy, painted at first portraits,
and after being employed at the Court of Schwerin in 1844–52 settled
in Berlin. Works: At the Brook; In Autumn; In the Meadow; At the
Ford; Pasture (1874), National Gallery, Berlin.--Müller, 313;
Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 345.
KUHNEN, (PETER) LUDWIG, born at Aix-la-Chapelle, Feb. 14, 1812.
Landscape painter, first instructed in his native city by J. Bastine,
a pupil of Louis David, but mostly self-taught by study of nature;
painted at first portraits, and in 1836 settled at Brussels. Medals:
Brussels, 1841, 1845; Paris, 3d class, 1846; Bruges, 1850; Oporto,
1865; Vienna, Order of Leopold, 1856. Works: Pilgrim in Prayer by
Gothic Ruin (1831); Burning of Feudal Castle; Evening Landscape
(1841), do. (1846), King of Belgium; Souvenir of Banks of the Meuse
(1842); Landscape (1845), Brussels Museum; Wooded Landscape (1847),
Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Pictures in Aremberg Gallery, Brussels, and
other private collections.--Immerzeel, ii. 142; Kramm, iii. 918; D.
Kunstbl. (1852), 389.
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KULMBACH, HANS VON, born at Kulmbach, Franconia, flourished in
Nuremberg, died there previous to Dec. 3, 1522. Real name Hans
Suess, formerly erroneously given as Wagner, then as Fuess. German
school. History painter, pupil of Jacopo dei Barbari, then of
Albrecht Dürer between 1511 and 1513, and also in 1518, and one of
the representative masters of the German school. Works: Adoration
of Magi (1511), Female Portrait, Berlin Museum; Triptych with
Saints, Carlsruhe Gallery; Figures of Saints (6), Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Figures of Saints (5), Finding of the Cross, Germanic
Museum, Nuremberg; Triptych with Coronation of the Virgin (1513),
St. Sebaldus, ib.; Male Portrait, Oldenburg Gallery; The Trinity
and Saints, Nativity, Schleissheim Gallery; Two Portraits (1513),
Consul Weber, Hamburg; Four Scenes in History of SS. Peter and Paul
(? attributed to Schäuffelin), Uffizi, Florence; Series of Scenes
from Legend of St. Catherine, St. Mary’s Church, Cracow. Others in
Gallery.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 363; Förster, ii. 312; Keane,
Early Masters, 135; Kugler (Crowe), i. 176; Quellenschriften, x. 134;
Rep. f. K., iii. 213; W. & W., ii. 403; Zeitschr. f. bild. Kunst.,
vi. 329; ix. 156; xi. 352.
KUMMER, KARL ROBERT, born in Dresden, May 30, 1810. Landscape
painter, self-taught on travels through Tyrol and in Italy, where
he studied in 1831–37; during that period he also visited Dalmatia,
Slavonia, and Croatia, and settled in Dresden in 1843; visited
Scotland in 1851, Portugal in 1859, Egypt in 1867, and frequented
the Alps. Honorary member of Dresden Academy in 1847, professor in
1859. Bavarian Order of Michael, Prussian Order of Red Eagle. Works:
Hungarian Steppe; Cattaro; View from Montenegro into Albania; Lake of
Scutari; Castle Cintra; Lisbon; Storm on Coast of Palermo; Views on
Scotch Coast; View near Arisaig, Scotland, Dresden Gallery; Sunset
in the Hebrides, Swiss Landscape, Leipsic Museum.--Illustr. Zeitg.
(1869), ii. 391; Kaulen, 29; Müller, 313.
KUNST, CORNELIS CORNELISZEN, born in Leyden in 1493, died in Bruges
in 1544. Dutch school. History and portrait painter, son and pupil
of Cornelis Engelbrechtsen; was one of the best artists of his
native city; moved afterwards to Bruges, where his works are highly
esteemed. Had a brother Lucas, surnamed Kok (Cook), who, also a pupil
of his father, went to England. Works: Christ bearing the Cross,
Sorrow of Mary, Descent from the Cross (all in Leyden).--Allgem. d.
Biogr., xvii. 388; Immerzeel, ii. 143; Kramm, iii. 921; Van Mander,
1. 99.
KUNTZ, GUSTAV, born at Wildenfels, Saxony, Feb. 17, 1843, died in
Rome, April 2, 1879. Genre painter, pupil in Vienna of Angeli, who
in 1871 met him in Rome, where Kuntz worked as a sculptor; lived
in Weimar in 1871–72, then visited England, France, Holland, and
Belgium; lived from 1873 in Vienna, and in 1877 settled in Rome.
Medal in Philadelphia in 1876. Works: Nun in Contemplation (1876),
Roman Pilgrim (1878), do. Praying, Dresden Museum; Document Thief;
Denied Absolution; The Widow’s Mite; Italian Pilgrims (1877),
National Gallery, Berlin.--Jordan (1885), ii. 132; Kunst-Chronik,
xiv. 525; Leixner, Mod. K., ii. 66.
KUNTZ, KARL, born in Mannheim, July 28, 1770, died in Carlsruhe,
Sept. 8, 1830. Landscape and animal painter, pupil of Mannheim
Academy under Rönger and Quaglio; went in 1790 to Switzerland and
Milan, and in 1805 became court-painter, and in 1829 director of
the Gallery in Carlsruhe. Works: Pasture (1824), National Gallery,
Berlin; Landscape, Cattle Pieces (2), Cattle Market, Carlsruhe
Gallery; Landscapes with Cattle (3, 1802, 1815), Peasants Embarking
on Lake, New Pinakothek, Munich; others in Mannheim Gallery, and in
Paris and St. Petersburg. His sons and pupils, Rudolf (1798–1848,
Baden court-painter in 1830) and Ludwig (born in 1810), were both
able artists in the same line. By Rudolf there are in the Carlsruhe
Gallery: View of Stutensee Hunting Lodge, Animal Piece, Horses
Watering, Horse Race near Iffezheim.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 397;
Brockhaus, x. 674; Cotta’s Kunstbl. (1830), 340.
KUPELWIESER, LEOPOLD, born at Piesting, Nether Austria, Oct. 17,
1796, died in Vienna, Nov. 17, 1862. History painter, pupil of the
Vienna Academy; studied at Dresden in 1816–18, and after having
established his reputation by a life-size portrait of the Emperor
Francis, visited Italy in 1824–25. Especially attracted by the
works of Fra Angelico, he devoted himself entirely to religious
art, and after his return home executed numerous altarpieces for
churches in Austria, Bohemia, and Hungary, besides fresco paintings
in Viennese churches and official buildings. He co-operated with
Führich in promoting religious art tendencies. From 1830 corrector,
and from 1837 professor, at the Academy; member of most of the
European Academies, and received many decorations and honours. Works:
Crucifixion; Ascension; Austria surrounded by Symbolical Figures;
Assumption; Birth of Mary; Moses praying for Victory (1836), Vienna
Museum; Prophecy to the Three Youths Adalbero, Altmann, and Gebhard
(1856), New Pinakothek, Munich; Annunciation; frescos in Lerchenfeld
Church, Vienna.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 405; Dioskuren (1862), 384;
Kunstbl. (1854), 464; (1856), 174; (1857), 199; Wurzbach, xiii. 392;
Raczynski, ii. 553.
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KUPETZKY (Kópecky), JOHANN, born at Poesing, Upper Hungary, in
1667, died in Nuremberg, June 4, 1740. German school. History and
portrait painter, pupil of the Swiss painter Klaus in Vienna, whence
he went to Venice and Rome to study Correggio, Guido, and Titian.
After living in Italy twenty-two years, he went upon invitation of
Prince Adam von Liechtenstein to Vienna, where he won the favour of
Joseph I., Charles VI., and of Prince Eugene of Savoy, and became
popular as a portrait painter. Later he went to Nuremberg. He was a
capital draughtsman, and a powerful though often heavy colourist.
Works: Portrait of Peter the Great, Artist and his Son, Himself
at the Easel, King Augustus of Poland, A Hungarian Magnate, Two
Female Portraits, Male Portrait, Two Head Studies, Brunswick Museum;
Portrait of Himself, Darmstadt and Dresden Museums; do., and Portrait
of Rákoczy, Gotha Museum; Male Portrait (of himself?), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; Old Woman with Letter, Leipsic Museum; Lady’s Portrait, Old
Pinakothek, Munich; Artist’s Portrait, Milan Academy; do. (2), and
Portrait of Rákoczy, A Boy, and Male Portraits (4), Germanic Museum,
Nuremberg; Dutch Genre Pieces (2), Artist and his Son, Artist’s
Wife, Count Zinzendorf, Man in Armour, Town-hall, ib.; Bishop Baron
von Hutten, Artist and his Son, Schleissheim Gallery; St. Peter,
Artist’s Portrait, Schwerin Gallery; Portraits of himself and of his
wife, Stuttgart Museum; A Lady with her Boy, Artist before Easel
(1706), Museum, Vienna; Mythological Subjects, Saints, and Portraits,
Liechtenstein Gallery and in other private galleries, ib.; Portraits
(10–12), National Museum, Pesth; Prince Eugene of Savoy, Versailles
Museum.--Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 408; Dlabacz, ii. 160; Füssli,
Leben des Geo. Phil. Rugendas u. des Joh. Kupeczky (Zürich, 1758);
Kugler (Crowe), ii. 552; Lipowsky, i. 167, 193; Wurzbach, xiii. 396.
KUPPELMAYER, RUDOLF, born at Kaufbeuren in 1843. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil of Munich Academy, where he took Kaulbach for his
model; studied then for two years in Nuremberg under Kreling, lived
in Italy, especially at Venice, in 1869–72, and settled in Munich.
Medals in Vienna (1873) and London (1874); Order of Michael (1876).
Works: Portrait (1872); Italian Concert (1873); Drunken Soldiers in
Thirty Years’ War; After the Bath (1876); Farewell of Duke Albrecht
IV. (1879).--Müller, 314.
KURELLA, LUDOVIK VON, born in Warsaw, Aug. 13, 1836. History painter,
pupil of Warsaw Academy, studied then in Dresden under Schnorr and
in Munich under Kaulbach; went to Rome and visited Paris, Brussels,
Antwerp, and Berlin, where he was influenced by Cornelius; returned
to Munich, and studied at the Academy under Ramberg. Most of his
works are bought in England. Works: Death of Moses; Ferry in Poland;
Goldfish; Switezianka; Polish Market (1875).--Müller, 314.
KURTZ, KARL, born in Stuttgart in 1817. Portrait and genre painter,
pupil of Stuttgart Art School and of Vienna Academy under Danhauser;
visited Hungary, Rome, Venice, Milan, and Florence (1842–44), also
France and Belgium; lived in Munich in 1844–45, in Dresden and Berlin
in 1846, then visited England and Holland, afterwards repeatedly
France and Italy, and in 1848 became professor at the Polytechnic in
Stuttgart. Gold medal, 1853; medal, 1859; Order of Frederic. Work:
Portrait of King William I. (1853).--Müller, 314.
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KURZBAUER, EDUARD, born in Vienna, May 2, 1840, died in Munich, Jan.
13, 1879. Genre painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy in 1857–61, and
in Munich of Piloty in 1868–70. His pictures show unusual powers
of invention and characterization, with fine qualities of colour.
Works: The Story-Teller (1867); Fugitives Overtaken (1868), Vienna
Museum; Rejected Suitor (1871); Old Mother; Rural Feast (1873), New
Pinakothek, Munich; First Picture-Book, Stuttgart Museum; A Stormy
Betrothal-Day, Tasting Wine, Groundless Jealousy (1874); Sunday
Sportsman, Before Election, Christmas Tree, Fortune-Teller (1875);
The First Step (1877); The Dispute (1877), W. T. Walters, Baltimore;
Spinning Room in Black Forest, Dresden Gallery; Calumny (1878); Small
Washing; Wreath Binders; Before the Funeral, Vienna Museum.--Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvii. 431; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), i. 156; N. ill. Zeitg.
(1881), i. 46, 110; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 466; xiv. 302; Zeitschr. f.
b. K., ix. 32; ix. 556; (Mittheilungen, ii. 41); do., x. (iii. 1).
KÜRZINGER, MARIANNE, born in Munich in 1770, died in 1809. History
and genre painter, daughter and pupil of Franz Kürzinger (history
painter, 1730–90), then studied under Jakob Dorner with such success
that she was called the Angelica Kauffman of Bavaria. She married the
actor and singer, Johann Kunz, in Munich. Works: Circassian Woman
introduced to the Sultan; Circassian Woman Dressing; Death of French
Grenadier Latour d’Auvergne; Christ on Mount of Olives.--Lipowsky.
KUWASSEG, KARL, born in Trieste, March 16, 1802, died in Paris,
Jan., 1877. Landscape painter, pupil of Gratz Academy under Stark;
painted in water-colours in Vienna, and after travelling with Count
Schomburg in Southern Europe and in America went to Paris, where
he became a naturalized Frenchman. About 1835 Louis Philippe and
Baron Rothschild bought some of his pictures and opened the road to
success. Medals: 3d class, 1841, 1861, 1863; L. of Honour. Works:
Landscape (1835); View of Rio de Janeiro (1837); Chamois-Hunting
(1840); View of Villeneuve Saint-George (1841); View of Machemont
(1842); River Yères (1844); Views of Ermenonville (1845); Souvenir
of South America (1846); View of Guayaquil (1847); View of Tréport
(1848); Environs of Grenoble (1852); View in Carinthia (1857);
Valley of Angus (1859); Cliffs of Flamborough Head (1861); Cliffs
of Scotch Coast (1863); Return from Hunting (1864); Moro Castle
(1865); Cordilleras near Santiago (1866); Cliffs on the Mediterranean
(1867); Souvenirs of Switzerland (1868); The Estrelle after a
Storm, View in the Cordilleras (1869); Environs of Valauris (1870);
View in the Tyrol (1872); Hohenberg (1873); Huts of South American
Indians, Sea View (1874); Rocks of Stocksfelsen-Tyrol, Glacier
of Friolay (1876); View in the Canton of Grisons (1877). His son
and pupil, Charles Euphraise, born at Draveil (Seine-et-Oise),
pupil also of Durand-Brager, paints landscapes, city views, and
sea-ports.--Bellier, i. 858; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), xi. 191;
(1866), xxi. 52; Larousse; Wurzbach, xiii. 436.
KUYCK, (JEAN) LOUIS VAN, born in Antwerp in 1821, died there in 1875.
Animal painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Van Bree and Wappers;
painted at first genre scenes. Gold medal in Brussels in 1866.
Works: Flemish Inn Yard; Horse Stable (1859), Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
do. (1852), New Pinakothek, Munich; Departure for the Fields (1870),
Antwerp Museum.--Art Journal (1866), 335.
KUYP. See _Cuyp_.
KUYTENBROUWER, MARTINUS ANTONIUS, born at Amersfoort, Holland, Nov.
21, 1821. Landscape and animal painter, first instructed by his
father, a skilful dilettante; completed his studies during travels in
Belgium and France, and settled in Brussels. Court-painter and member
of Amsterdam Academy. Officer of Order of Oak Crown. Works: Stags
after Fight; Great Wood-Landscape (1855); Stag-Hunt (1856), Brussels
Museum; Maternal Love, Little Crab-Catchers (1862); Stags Fighting;
St. Bernard Dog and Badger Dog; The Dragonnades under Louis XIV.;
Sunset Landscape with a Train of Cavaliers; Huguenots taking Refuge
in the Woods; View in Forest of Fontainebleau, Rotterdam Museum;
Cuirassiers on their Way to Fontainebleau; Two Hunting Pieces in
Costumes of 16th Century; Stag-Hunt in 16th Century; Chase in Forest
near Ghent (1856); Stag and Hind in Moonlight (1870); Herd of Stags
(1873); Fox Terrier (1880).--Kramm, iii. 923; vii. 97; Müller, 314;
Nagler, Mon., iv. 504.
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KYHN, (PETER) VILHELM (KARL), born in Copenhagen, March 30, 1819.
Landscape painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy; member in 1870;
visited France and Italy in 1850. Works: Coast on Isle of Bornholm
(1843), Aarhus Museum; Coast at Sunset after Rain, Ruins of
Hammershus Castle (1844); Frederiksborg Castle, Woods in the Spring
(1845); View near Jaegerspris (1848), Winter Evening in the Woods
(1853), Coast View near Taarbeck (1855), View near Horsens (1858),
Summer Evening (1863), Summer Day (1869), Late Summer Evening in
Jutland (1874), Copenhagen Gallery; Winter Afternoon on the Sound;
Moonlight Landscape (1876).--Sigurd Müller, 204; Weilbach, 389.
END OF VOLUME II.
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included in the original book. The bust of Kyhn is not included in
the List of Portraits. The monograms of Fialetti and Hobbema are not
included in the List of Signatures.
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this_. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, reversed order,
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