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Bavarian Highlands, Tyrol, and Switzerland. Works: Oaks (1860); View of Bösig (1868); View in the Ramsau; do. near Ruhpolding; Evening on the Lake, etc. Many in private collections in Prague and other cities of Bohemia.—Wurzbach, xlix. 1.
ULMANN, BENJAMIN, born at Blotzheim,
Alsace, May 24, 1829, died in Paris,
Feb. 25, 1884. History, genre, and portrait
painter, pupil of Drölling and Picot. Won
the grand prix de Rome in 1859. Medals:
3d class, 1859; medal, 1866; 2d class,
1872; L. of Honour, 1872. Works: Dante
in Hades (1855); Junius Brutus (1859),
Melun Museum; Sylla and Marius (1861);
Patroclus and Amphidamas, Le Mans Museum;
Samson and Delilah (1863); A Defeat
(1864); Ora del Pianto á Piperno
(1867), Marseilles Museum; Ariadne (1869);
Return of Charles V. to Paris (1870); The
Bell-Ringers of Nuremberg (1872), Luxembourg
Museum; El Ochavito del Jueves á
Burgos, Education (1873); Gitanos of the
Albaycin of Granada (1874); Cain's Remorse
(1875); Lorelei on the Rhine, The
Great Rattle of Nuremberg during the Absence
of the Bells on Holy Thursday (1878);
Sylla and Marius (1878), Luxembourg Museum;
Cato dragged from the Senate
(1879); Marguerite in Prison (1881); three
decorative paintings for the Palais de Justice,
and one for the Palais Royal.—Bellier,
ii. 604; Revue des Deux Mondes (1859);
Claretie, Peintres, 213, 335, 386; Meyer,
Gesch., 604; Kunst-Chronik, xix. 349, 397.
ULRICH, lay brother in the monastery
at Maulbronn, early part of the 15th century.
German school; executed in 1424 two
large wall paintings in the church at Maulbronn,
in which the life-size figures are well
modelled and the expression of the Virgin
and Child is pleasing.—Schnaase, vi. 467.
ULRICH, CHARLES FREDERICK, born
in New York, Oct. 8, 1858. Figure painter,
student of the National Academy; later,
pupil of Löfftz and Lindenschmidt in Munich.
Studied abroad in 1873-81. Elected
an A.N.A. in 1883. Member of Society of
American Artists. Studio in New York.
Works: The Engraver, Spinner (1882);
Glass Blowers, Amateur Etcher (T. B.
Clarke, New York), Carpenter at Work
(1883); In the Land of Promise—Castle
Garden (William T. Evans), Symphony
(1884); Relics of Bygone Days, Waifs
(1885).
ULRICH, HANS JACOB, born at Andelfingen,
Canton Zürich, about 1798, died at
Zürich in 1878. Marine, landscape, and
animal painter; was at first a merchant, but
took up art in Paris, and thence went to
Italy in 1828; having won reputation and
success at Naples, where he was made honorary
professor at the Academy, he returned
to Paris in 1831, visited England and the
Netherlands, and subsequently became professor
at the Polytechnic Institute in Zürich.
His pictures are distinguished for beautiful
light effects, and supplied with well-drawn
and characteristic figures. Works: View
of Rotterdam Harbour at Evening (1844),
Berne Museum; Morning on Sea Shore, St.
Gall Museum; Coast at Trouville, Forest
Brook, Garda Lake, Marine (last work),
Zürich Gallery; Burning Steamship on
Stormy Sea, Lake of Lucerne (1845), Leipsic
Museum.
ULYSSES, ancient pictures. See Athenion,
Euphranor, Nicomachus, Pamphilus,
Parrhasius, Polygnotus, Timanthes.
ULYSSES AND NAUSICAA, Claude Lorrain,
M. H. Arnot, Elmira, N. Y.; canvas,
H. 2 ft. 5 in. × 3 ft. 3 in.; signed, dated
Rome, 1658. A seaport; on right, trees,
and beyond, part of a city with a fleet at
anchor; in foreground, centre, Nausicaä,
her attention arrested by Ulysses, who is
issuing cautiously from behind a tree
(Homer, Od., vi.). Painted for Francesco
Alberici; passed to M. Farnese, Humphrey
Morris, Earl of Ashburnham, and Duke of
Hamilton; Hamilton sale (1882), £840.
Engraved by F. Vivarès. Liber Veritatis,
No. 139. Picture called also Bacchus and
Ariadne.—Hamilton Cat., 149; Pattison,
Claude Lorrain, 78, 218.