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WALTHER, WILHELM, born at Neuhäusen, Saxony, in 1826. History painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Julius Hübner. Works: Christ appearing to the Magdalen (1848), Flight into Egypt, Dresden Art Union. Sgraffito frieze: Festive Procession of Saxon Princes (1876), Royal Palace, ib.—Kaulen, 209.
WALTON, FRANK; contemporary.
Landscape painter in water-colours. Studio
in London. Works: From Unharboured
Heaths (1877); Evening at Dorking; Near
the Thames; Regatta at Bournemouth; Autumn,
Copse on Furzefield Brow, Brick-*makers
(1881); Noontide's Hush, Happy
Valley (1882); Gentle Autumn (1883);
Among Whispering Woods, World of Meadows,
Kynance Cove (1884); Surrey's Pleasant
Hills (1885); Summer Tide of Blossoming
(1886).
WANING HONEYMOON, George H.
Boughton, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; canvas,
H. 1 ft. 8 in. × 2 ft. 6 in.; dated 1878.
A young pair are seated under a tree in late
autumn, the ground strewn with leaves; he
is reading a book and carelessly caressing
his dog, while she is pouting prettily, but
thinking no pretty things of him.—Royal
Academy, 1878.
WAPPERS, GUSTAAF, Baron, born in
Antwerp, Aug. 23,
1803, died in Paris,
Dec. 6, 1874. History
and genre painter,
pupil at Antwerp
Academy of I. J. van
Regemorter (1785-1873),
then of Van
Bree and of Herreyns;
studied after Rubens,
Van Dyck, and Jordaens;
then in Amsterdam and The Hague
the old Dutch, and in Paris the Venetian
masters; returned to Antwerp in 1830, became
professor at the Academy in 1832, and
was its director in 1840-53; made court
painter and baron in 1845; settled in Paris
in 1853. Meeting with great success at his
first appearance, he influenced modern Belgian
art as the chief representative of romanticism,
and formed many pupils; his works
are meritorious in composition, poetical
treatment, and colouring. Member of several
Academies. Many medals: L. of Honour,
1842; Officer, 1855; Order of Red
Eagle, 1847; Officer Order of Leopold,
1855. Works: Van Dyck in Love with his
Model (1827), View of Citadel of Antwerp
(1830), Amsterdam Museum; Self-Devotion
of Burgomasters of Leyden (1830), Hague
Museum; Christ at the Sepulchre (1833),
St. Michael's, Louvain; The Populace of
Brussels tearing down the Proclamation of
Prince Frederick (1835); Charles I. taking
leave of his Children (1836); Charles IX. on
St. Bartholomew's Night; Temptation of St.
Anthony; Héloise and Abelard; Charles
VII. and Agnes Sorel; Execution of Anne
Boleyn; Peter the Great at Saardam; Camoens
(1842); Geneviève of Brabant (1843),
Windsor Castle, Defence of Rhodes by
Knights of St. John (1848), Versailles Gallery;
Death of Columbus; The Ommeganck
at Antwerp; Louis XI. at Plessis les Tours;
Boccaccio and Joan of Naples; Louis XVII.
in the Temple Prison; Charles I. on his way
to the Scaffold, Episode of September Days
of 1830, Brussels Museum; Mother's Joy,
Museum, Antwerp; Invocation of the Virgin,
St. Charles Borromeo's, ib.; Neuvaines of
the Family of Egmont (1866), Mr. Probasco,
Cincinnati.—Art Journal (1856), 124;
(1860), 142; (1865), 268; (1873), 241;
(1875), 76; Dioskuren (1875), 4; Immerzeel,
iii. 217; Kramm, vi. (1826); Rooses
(Reber), 466; Van den Branden, 1390.
WAR, Sir Edwin Landseer, National Gallery,
London; H. 2 ft. 10 in. × 4 ft. 4 in.
A dying and a dead horse, with their fallen
riders, lying among the burning ruins of a
cottage. Companion to Peace. Royal Academy,
1846. Engraved by T. L. Atkinson;
Lumb Stocks.—Art Journal (1854), 144.
WAR, HORRORS OF, Rubens, Palazzo
Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 6 ft. 5 in. × 9 ft.
3 in. Mars, in armour and with sword and