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and Apostles taking Leave of Mary, Jupiter urging Agamemnon to Combat, Würzburg University.—Andresen, i. 37; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1836-47); Raczynski, ii. 459.

WAGNER, MARIA DOROTHEA, born at Weimar in 1728, died at Meissen (?) in 1788. German school; landscape and history painter, sister of Christian Wilhelm Dietrich, whom she took for her model. Works: Valley with Brook and Mill, Dresden Museum; Landscape with Cottages and Figures (2), Gotha Museum. Her son, Johann Georg (1744-66), was also a landscape painter of merit, pupil of his uncle Dietrich, and of Josef Roos. In the Christiania Gallery are by him: The Defile, and Landscape with Hills and Woods.

WAGRAM, BATTLE OF, Horace Vernet, Versailles Museum; canvas. Battle fought on July 6, 1809. Napoleon, in the saddle, watching through a glass the cavalry charge. Close behind him the horse of Bessières, Duke of Istria, is struck down by a cannon-ball. Engraved by J. M. Fontaine.—Gal. de Versailles, iv. No. 905.

WAGREZ, JACQUES CLÉMENT, born in Paris; contemporary. Genre and portrait painter, chiefly in water-colours; pupil of his father, of Farochon, Lenepveu, Pils, and Henri Lehmann. Medal, 3d class, 1879. Works: Francis I. and the Duchesse d'Étampes (1870); Etruscan Poet (1874); Eros, Lion of St. Mark (1876); War and Peace (1877); Education of Achilles, Diana (1878); Perseus, Dreams of the Cup-Bearer, and the Master of the Pantry (1879); Orestes (1880); Hesiod (1881); Cupid's Quadriga (1882); First Meeting (1883, 15th century scene in Florence); St. Clara of Assisi (1884); Wedding in St. Mark's—Venice in 15th Century (1885).

WAHLBERG, ALFRED, born in Stockholm, Aug. 6, 1834. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy, and in Paris of Corot and Daubigny. Member of Stockholm Academy. Medals: Paris, 1870; 2d class, 1872; 1st class, 1878; L. of Honour, 1874; Officer, 1878; Order of Vasa. Works: Winter Landscape (figures by Wallander), View in Kolmården, Stockholm Museum; Moonlight; Sunset on the Coast; Beech Wood near Copenhagen; Harbour of Waxholm at Night; Coming Storm, Moonlight on River Bank, Seney Collection, New York; Near Stockholm—Moonlight, Autumn Sunset—Waxholm, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Coast of Norway, J. J. Astor, ib.; Cascade of Husqvarna—Sweden (1884).—Müller, 543.

WALCH, JAKOB, born in Nuremberg, beginning of 15th century. German school; excellent portrait painter, not to be confounded with Jacob Walch, called Jacopo de' Barbari. Works: Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I., Munich Gallery; do., Museum, Vienna; do., Emperor Frederic III., and Male Portrait, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.

WALDENBURG, ALFRED VON, born in Berlin, Dec. 17, 1847. Landscape painter, pupil in Munich of Franz Adam and of Lier, and in Carlsruhe of Gude; studied nature in Silesia, Bavaria, Tyrol, Switzerland, Italy, and Southern France, and settled in Düsseldorf in 1879. Works: Chapel near Amden, Carlsruhe Gallery; Ziller Valley, Strasburg Gallery; Pegli near Genoa; On Chiem Lake; Varenna on Lake Como; Villa Andréossy, ib.; View near Nice; Road near Villafranca; Oaks near Aisching.—Müller, 544; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 58.

WALDMÜLLER, FERDINAND (GEORG), born in Vienna in 1793, died there, Aug. 23, 1865. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Vienna Academy; went to Presburg to paint portraits, thence as drawing teacher with Count Gyulai to Agram, where he married an actress, with whom he wandered through the provincial towns until she found an engagement in Vienna; there he became professor and the custodian of the Lamberg