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Church, ib.; Resurrection (1819); Last Supper (1819), SS. Peter and Paul's, Moscow; The Nine Muses (1820); Nymph (1835); Holy Family; Judith (1838); St. John in the Desert; Introduction of Christianity in Pomerania; Finding of the Cross (1843); Bishop Otto in Stettin converting the Wends, Head Studies (2), Stettin Museum.—Jordan, (1885), ii. 234; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 9.
WACHSMUTH, FERDINAND, born at
Mühlhausen, Alsace, March 21, 1802, died at
Versailles, Nov. 11, 1869. History and genre
painter, pupil of Gros. Accompanied the
Orléans princes to Algeria, and was for a
time professor in the School of St. Cyr.
Medal, 2d class, 1833. Works: Capture
of Algiers, View at Staouele (1833, bought
by State); Louis XI. and Francis de Paula,
Politics of the Bar, Bonaparte at Valence,
The Suicide, An Inundation (1833 to 1840);
St. Thomas de Villanueva (bought by State),
Sutler's Wife in Africa, St. Francis Xavier
preaching in India (bought by State), St.
Louis de Gonzague (1840 to 1847); Zurbaran
in his Youth, Giorgione (1848); Capture
of the Tuileries (1849); Salvator Rosa (1850);
Michelangelo in the Medici Garden (1857);
The Green Mamelon the Day after its Capture
(1859); Siege and Capture of Fort St.
Philippe in 1756 (1837), Capture of Fort
l'Empereur in Algiers (1838), Entry of
Charles X. into Colmar, Portrait of Duc de
Luxembourg, and two others, Versailles
Museum; Spanish Market, Avignon Museum.—Bellier,
ii. 707; Larousse; Vapereau.
WÄCHTER, EBERHARD GEORG
FRIEDRICH VON, born at Balingen, Würtemberg,
Feb. 29, 1762, died in Stuttgart,
Aug. 14, 1852. History painter, pupil of
Stuttgart Art School, then in Paris of David,
whose classical style he abandoned, under
the influence of Carstens, in Rome, whither
he went in 1789. Having embraced Roman
Catholicism, he went in 1798 to Vienna,
where he inspired the younger generation of
artists, and in 1809 returned to Stuttgart.
His compositions are distinguished for poetical
conception, great dignity and noble
bearing of the figures, and fine grouping.
Works: Job and his Friends, Choice of
Hercules, Ship of Life, Bacchus Singing,
Combat of Centaurs, The Lion in Florence,
The Muse mourning on Ruins of Athens,
Bacchus tendering the Cup to Cupid, Eros
as Founder of Wedlock, Stuttgart Gallery;
Ulysses resisting the Sirens; Belisarius at
the Gate of Rome; Women at Christ's
Tomb; Finding of Moses; Charon; Anacreon;
Cato the Elder; Cimon in Prison;
Andromache at Hector's Urn; Death of
Socrates; Julius Cæsar in the Plain of Troy;
Hecuba; Mourning Muse on Ruins of
Greece; Pietà.—Haakh, Beiträge, 10, 313;
N. Necrol. d. D. (1852); Wagner, i. 464.
WAEL (Waal), CORNELIS DE, born in
Antwerp, Sept. 7, 1592, died in Genoa in
1662. Flemish school; history and battle
painter, son and pupil of Hans de Wael
(1558-1633); went early in life to Italy, and
settled at Genoa before 1625. Painted
scenes from military life after the manner of
Peter Snayers. Employed by the Duke of
Aerschot and Philip III. of Spain. Works:
Arrival of the Prince Cardinal at Sint Jorispoort,
City Hall, Antwerp; The Trinity,
Vision of St. John, St. Gertrude's Chapel,
St. James's, ib.; Venetian Mountebank, Cassel
Gallery; Passage through the Red Sea,
Vienna Museum; Dentist, Men drinking at
Table, Nantes Museum; Peter's Denial, S.
Ambrogio, Genoa; Cavalry Skirmish,
Palazzo Rosso, ib.—Immerzeel,
iii. 212; Kramm, vi. 1818;
Kugler (Crowe), ii. 340; Rep. f. K., vi. 244;
Rooses (Reber), 409; Van den Branden, 664.
WAGENBAUR, MAX JOSEF, born at Markt-Gräfing, Bavaria, in 1774, died in Munich, May 12, 1829. Animal and landscape painter, pupil in Munich of Dorner and Mannlich, and studied nature in the Bavarian Highlands. Member of Berlin, Munich, and Hanau Academies. Court painter and, in 1815, director of the royal galleries. Works: View in Bavarian Alps, Cows at Pasture, National Gallery, Berlin;