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painter, pupil of Ziegler. Medal, 1868. Works: The Pond, The Garden (1861); Young Girl with Fish (1865); Garden Corner (1867); Flowers and Birds (1868); Chrysanthemums (1869), Luxembourg Museum; Autumn Flowers (1870); Spring Flowers (1872); Peaches and Grapes (1872), Dijon Museum; Decorative Panels for the Palais de la Légion d'honneur (1875).—Bellier-Auvray, i. 520.
ESCH, MATHILDE, born at Klattau,
Bohemia, Jan. 18, 1828. Genre, landscape,
and still-life painter, pupil in Vienna of
Waldmüller, and in Munich of Moritz Müller;
studied also in Düsseldorf and Paris, and settled
in Vienna in 1855. Works: Farm House
in Moravia, Market Scene in Moravia, Munich
Girls in the Cemetery, Girl with Dog
(1856); Unexpected Return (1857); Gate and
Sarkander Pulpit in Brünn Cathedral; The
Five Senses; Tancred baptizing Clorinda;
Farewell of the Bride.—Wurzbach, iv. 78.
ESCHKE, (WILHELM BENJAMIN)
HERMANN, born in Berlin, May 6, 1823.
Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Wilhelm
Krause, then in Paris of Le Poittevin;
travelled through Europe before completing
his studies in 1850, and then revisited the
coast of the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees.
Gold medal in 1879. Professor at
the Berlin Academy since 1881. Works:
Montorgueil from the Sea, St. Aubin's Castle
(1860); Light-House near L'Etacq; Western
Coast of Helgoland (1861); Elizabeth
Castle on Jersey, Isle of Neuwerk (1863);
Pond in Twilight; Dutch Landscape; Storm
in open Sea; Blue Grotto at Capri; Isle of
Amrum at Ebb Tide; Bergen on Rügen;
St. Catherine on Isle of Jersey (1868); Baltic
Sea in Winter, Life-Boat to Rescue of
Schooner (1872); Steinbach Valley in the
Hartz; Storm on Coast of Capri; Promontory
of Arkona on Rügen; Whatcombe Bay
on Isle of Wight; Light-House on Isle of
Neuwerk; Eastern Pier at Swinemünde
(1879); Light-House on the Cliff (1879),
National Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, vi.
350; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 340.
ESCOSURA. See Leon y Escosura.
ESCRIBANO, EL. See Primo, El.
ESKILSSON, PETER, born at Billeberga,
Schonen, in 1820, died at Bremö, near
Sigtuna, Jan. 29, 1872. Genre painter;
sub-officer in a Gotha artillery regiment,
and bookseller at Göthenberg, before he
became the pupil of Tidemand (1853) in
Düsseldorf. In 1859 he settled in Stockholm,
and became member of the Academy
in 1866. Works: Mollberg's Bowling Party
at Faggens (1868), Stockholm Museum.
ESOP, Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas,
H. 5 ft. 10 in. × 3 ft. An old man, full
length, standing, with a parchment folio in
his right hand, his left thrust into the
bosom of his grey dress. Probably painted,
with its companion Menippus, for royal
palace, by command of Philip IV. Copy
by Prévost in École des Beaux Arts, Paris.
Engraved by Esquivel; etched by Goya, C.
Alabern; Galvan, and others.—Ford, Handbook,
ii. 689; L'Art (1878); Curtis, 18;
Madrazo, 633.
ESPALTER Y RULL, JOAQUIN, born
in Barcelona; contemporary. History painter,
pupil of Barcelona Art School, then
studied in Rome and in Germany. Works:
Tobias; Death of Moses; Dante's Purgatory;
Discovery of America; The Moor's
Sigh; Melancholia; Portrait of Don Buenaventura
C. Aribau, Barcelona Museum;
frescos in University and other Buildings
at Madrid.—La Ilustracion, 1877.
ESPINAI, JUAN DE, born at Seville,
died there in 1783. Spanish school; history
painter, son and pupil of Gregoria E.,
then pupil of Domingo Martinez, whose
daughter he married; was made director of
the School of Design at Seville. Works:
Scenes from Life of St. Jerome, Seville Museum;
Frescos in Collegiate Church, San
Salvador.
ESPINOS, DON BENITO, born at Valencia,
died about 1817. Spanish school;
flower painter, son of the history painter
and engraver Josef Espinos (1721-1784);
was appointed director of the Valencia Acad-