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background, British ships and boats leaving the shore, and Staten Island in the distance. Painted in 1790 by order of Common Council.—Johnston, Portraits of W.
By John Trumbull, Yale College; canvas, life-size. Washington at Trenton. Full-length, military costume; in background, an attendant with white horse. Painted in 1791 for city of Charleston, but the citizens preferring one in civil costume, Trumbull painted them another and retained this. A bust portrait by Trumbull, painted in 1793, also in Yale College Gallery. Trumbull painted in 1780 a full-length of Washington, in military costume, for M. de Neufville, Amsterdam, Netherlands; supposed to be still in Europe. Cabinet portraits of General and Mrs. Washington, painted by Trumbull in 1794, are in the Patent Office, Washington; and a full-length cabinet, painted in 1790, belongs to Edmund Law Rogers, Baltimore.—Johnston, Portraits of W.; Amer. Art Review, ii. 190.
By Adolph Ulric Wertmüller, Charles A. Davis, New York. Bust, citizen's dress, with lace frill on shirt. Replicas: Mrs. Cornelius Bogart, New York; office of Secretary of Interior, Washington. Painted in 1795.—Johnston, Portraits of W.
WASHINGTON, APOTHEOSIS OF,
Constantino Brumidi, canopy of the rotunda
of the Capitol, Washington. In centre,
Washington seated in majesty, with Goddess
of Liberty on his right and Victory
on his left hand; encircling this group are
thirteen female figures, personifying the
original States; and around the border
are six groups, emblematic of the Fall
of Tyranny, Agriculture, Mechanics, Commerce,
the Marine, and the Arts and Sciences.
WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE,
Emanuel Leutze, Mrs. Marshall O.
Roberts, New York. The general, wrapped
in his military cloak, standing in a theatrical
attitude in the bow of a boat which men
are forcing with oars and boat-hooks through
floating blocks of ice.
WASHINGTON, RESIGNATION OF,
John Trumbull, rotunda of Capitol, Washington;
canvas, H. 12 ft. × 18 ft. Washington
appearing before Congress at Annapolis,
Dec. 23, 1783, to resign his commission
as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental
Army. Among the spectators are Mrs.
Washington and her grandchildren. Painted
in 1827 for $8,000. Original study in
Yale College Gallery.
WATELET, LOUIS ÉTIENNE, born in
Paris, Aug. 25, 1780, died there, June 21,
1866. Landscape painter; studied nature
deeply, and became one of the foremost artists
of his class. After having visited Italy
in 1822, he began, with his Lake of Nemi,
in 1824, a series of exquisite landscapes of
realistic character, which won him fame at
home and abroad. He was the master of
Paul Delaroche, and influenced Troyon,
Huet, Lapito, Corot, Aligny, and others.
Medals: 2d class, 1818; 1st class, 1819;
L. of Honour, 1825. Works: Herdsmen
(1810); Napoleon in Ludwigsburg (1815),
Versailles Museum; Henri IV. in the Forest
of Ailas (1819), Fontainebleau; Romantic
Landscape (1819), Amiens Museum; St. Jerome
in the Desert (1822), Louvre; Lake of
Nemi (1824); Norman Village (1835); Valley
of Gisors (1840); Flight into Egypt
(1842), Palais de Saint-Germain-en-Laye;
Views in Tyrol (1848, 1850, 1857); View of
Lyons, Aix Museum; Landscapes in Museums
of Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nîmes, Neuchatel,
Königsberg (2, 1835, 1845); Raczynski
Gallery, Berlin (1824).—Bellier, ii.
713; Jal, 1296; Journal of the Soc. of Arts
(1866); Meyer, Gesch., 732; Larousse.
WATELIN, LOUIS VICTOR, born in
Paris; contemporary. Landscape painter,
pupil of Diaz. Medal, 3d class, 1876.
Works: Artists' Path in Forest of Fontainebleau
(1870); Views in Oise (1873, 1874);
Mill at Gamaches, Communal Meadow at
Bouvaincourt (1875); Road of Lesnette
(1876); Willows of Bourbel (1877); Port of
Sèvres (1878); Views in Gironde, Somme,
Picardy, and Normandy (1878-86).