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merit under the Commonwealth. He painted the Protector and many of his principal officers, and is known as "Cromwell's portrait painter." One of his portraits of Cromwell is engraved by Lombart, Godfrey, and Picart; another is in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg; a third at Warwick Castle. Portraits of himself at Hampton Court and at Oxford; of Cromwell, Lambert, Ireton, and Faithorne, National Portrait Gallery, South Kensington; Lord Brooke, Warwick Castle; Admiral Blake, Wadham College; Sir Thomas Browne, Bodleian Library, Oxford.—Redgrave; F. de Conches, 45; Bürger, Trésors d'Art, 358.
WALLANDER, JOSEF WILHELM, born
in Stockholm, May 15, 1821. Genre painter,
pupil of Stockholm Academy; went in 1851
to Düsseldorf, whither he returned, after
having visited France and Italy, until 1856;
became professor at Stockholm Academy in
1867. Works: Market at Vingaker (1852);
Wedding at Osteracker; Sunday Morning in
Silja, Dalecarlia; Rendezvous at the Gate;
Spinning Company at Delsbo; The Bride is
Coming; Moritz in a Strait, Mollberg with
the Bottle, Ulla at Toilet.—Müller, 544.
WALLER, FRANK, born in New York
in 1842. Landscape and genre painter, pupil
of J. G. Chapman in Rome in 1870;
sketched in Egypt in 1872; student of the
Art League, New York, in 1874; former
treasurer, and now president, of the League.
First exhibited in National Academy in
1866. Works: Tombs of the Caliphs near
Cairo; Sta. Maria del Sasso—Lago Maggiore,
Parke Godwin, New York; Ruins near
Cairo; On the Desert; Harmony, Record
of the Past (1880); Slave of the Shadoof
(1881); Dream at Rye Beach—N. H.
(1882); Eventide—Venice (1883); On the
Mediterranean near Alexandria—Egypt,
Hop Picking at Cooperstown—N. Y., At
Coney Island (1884); Hop Pickers, Testing
the Toledo, Lake Otsego (1885).
WALLER, SAMUEL EDMUND, born in
Gloucester in 1850. Animal and figure
painter; educated at Cheltenham College;
pupil in Gloucester School of Art, and student
of his father in architecture; pupil of
the Royal Academy, London, in 1868. Mr.
Waller has illustrated many books, and
has for several years been attached to the
staff of the Graphic. Works: Illustrious
Stranger, Winter's Tale (1870); Jealous
(1875); Way of the World (1876); Home
(1877); King's Banner (1878); Empty Saddle
(1879); Suspense (1879); Where there's
a Will there's a Way (1880); King's Highway
(1880); Success (1881); Sweethearts and
Wives (1882); Day of Reckoning
(1883); The Orphans (1884); Outward
Bound (1885). His wife, Mrs. Mary L.
Waller, paints portraits.—Art Journal
(1881), 117.
WALSCAPELE (Walskapel, Wals-Kappel),
JACOB, flourished about 1670-80.
Dutch school; flower and fruit painter, pupil
of Cornelis Kick; lived in Amsterdam
before 1667, and until 1717-18; formed his
style after Jan D. de Heem, whom he so nearly
approaches in arrangement, harmony, and
truth of detail, that most of his pictures
were attributed to that master. Works:
Flowers, Insects, and Strawberries, National
Gallery, London; Festoon of Fruits and
Flowers, Berlin Museum; Bouquet in Vase
(1677), Fruit-Piece, Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
two pictures, Schwerin Gallery;
Flower-Piece in Glass Vessel, Dresden Gallery
(ascribed to J. D. de Heem).—Kramm,
vi. 1825; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 519.
WALTHARD, FRIEDRICH, born at Berne in 1818, died in 1870. Genre painter, pupil of Barthélemy Menn (born 1815) in Geneva, and of Gleyre in Paris. Works: Scene from Goethe's Faust (1846), Wounded Rifleman of Berne bringing News of Defeat at Grauholz—1798 (1854), Last Day of the old Republic of Berne (1867), Berne Museum; Bernese Soldier of 1798, Neuchatel Museum.