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- schläger, Thorwaldsen, and of royal family.—Brockhaus,
v. 728; Weilbach, 140.
ECKERSBERG, JOHAN FREDERIK,
born at Drammen, Norway, in 1822, died at
Sandwik, July 13, 1870. Landscape painter,
pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer.
At the age of eighteen he had been
placed in a mercantile office in Christiania,
but during a previous sojourn of several
years in Holland having imbibed a taste for
art, relinquished his post and entered the
technical drawing school, where he obtained
a government stipend in 1824, and went to
Düsseldorf. Returned to Christiania in
1848, lived and sketched in Madeira in
1852-54, and founded the Academy of
Painting at Christiania in 1859. Works:
View in Saeter Valley, Christiania Gallery;
High Plain in Middle Norway; Peak of
Romsdalshorn; View in Sigdal; Series of
Views in Madeira.
EDDELIEN, MATTHIAS (HEINRICH
ELIAS), born at Greifswalde, Pomerania,
Jan. 22, 1803, died Dec. 24, 1852. History
painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and
studied in Rome in 1839-44. Executed
paintings for Christiansborg Castle in 1831-32,
and after his return from Rome began
to decorate the Chapel of Christian IV. in
Roskilde Cathedral, but was paralyzed in
1852. Medals, 1827, 1831, 1833, 1837.
Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1845.
Works: David playing the Harp before
Saul (1837); Christ blessing the Children
(1840 and 1844); Staerkadder awaiting Angantyr
for Combat; Young Faun (1830),
Copenhagen Gallery.—Weilbach, 149.
EDELFELT, ALBERT, born at Helsingfors,
Finland; contemporary. Genre painter,
pupil of Gérôme. Lives in Paris. Medals:
3d class, 1880; 2d class, 1882. Works:
Blanche de Namur and Prince Hacquin
(1877); Duke Charles IX. of Sweden insulting
the Dead Body of his Enemy Fleming
(1878); Episode in Revolt of Finland
Peasants, 1596, The Cherries (1879); Child's
Funeral in Finland (1880); At the Artist's
(1881); Divine Service on Sea-shore (1882);
Old Finland Peasant Woman (1883); At Sea
(1884); The Little Ship (1885); Under the
Beeches, Charity (Seney Sale, New York, 1885).
EDEMA, GERARD, born in Friesland in
1652, died at Richmond, England, in 1700.
Dutch School. Landscape painter, pupil
of Allart van Everdingen, whom he imitated,
and like whom painted chiefly views
in Norway; went to England in 1670, and
thence visited Norway and Newfoundland.
The figures in his landscapes were generally
supplied by Thomas Wyck. Works: River
Scene, Landscape, Hampton Court Gallery.
EDEN, EXPULSION FROM (Genesis,
iii. 24), Giuseppe Cesari, Louvre; copper,
H. 1 ft. 6 in. × 1 ft. 2 in. Adam and Eve,
nude, fleeing to right; at left, the angel
with a sword. Collections of Prince de
Carignan, of Prince de Conti, and of Louis
XVI. Engraved by Levasseur in Musée
français; Villerey in Filhol.—Landon, vii.
10; Filhol, ii. 134; Réveil, vi. 385.
Expulsion from Eden, Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, Carmine, Florence.
By Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, Carmine, Florence; fresco on left wall. Adam and Eve, their loins covered with fig-*leaves, are fleeing before the Angel with a sword, who appears above.—Kugler (Eastlake), i. 222.
By Tintoretto, Venice Academy; canvas. Adam and Eve driven from Paradise. Companion piece to Death of Abel; both formerly in Scuola di SS. Trinità.—Zanotto, ii. Pl. 69.
EDICT OF WILLIAM THE TESTY,