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WATER CARRIER, Velasquez, Apsley House, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 2 ft. 6 in. A man in tattered brown doublet, with his left hand on a large earthen jar, hands a glass of water to a boy who stands beside a table on which is a smaller jar; another boy drinks from a pot. Earliest recorded picture of Velasquez; painted in Seville about 1620. Carried off by Joseph Bonaparte in his flight from Madrid, but captured in his carriage at Vittoria, and afterwards presented by Ferdinand VII. to the Duke of Wellington. Engraved by B. Amettler; outline, E. Lingée.—Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Klas. der Malerei; Gaz. des B. Arts (1879), xx. 232; Stirling, 1396.
Water Carrier, Velasquez, Apsley House, London.
WATERHOUSE, JOHN WILLIAM, born
in Rome, Italy, of English parents, in 1849.
Went to England in 1854; history painter,
pupil of Royal Academy schools. First exhibited
at the Royal Academy, in 1874, Sleep
and his Brother Death. Revisited Italy in
1883. Elected an A.R.A. in 1885. Works:
Miranda (1875); After the Dance (1876);
Sick Child brought
into the Temple of
Æsculapius (1877);
La Favorita (1879);
Rival Roses, Summer's
Day (1881);
Diogenes (1882); Favourites
of the Emperor
Honorius, Bubbles
(1883); Consulting
the Oracle (1884);
St. Eulalia's Crucifixion, By-way in Old
Rome (1885); Magic Circle, Flower Market
(1886).
WATER MILL, Meyndert Hobbema, formerly
in Hamilton Palace Collection; wood,
H. 2 ft. × 2 ft. 9-1/2 in. On the right, a thick
cluster of trees, the foliage of which partly
conceals the cottages and overshadows the
mill in the centre; in foreground, the mill
stream, fringed with bulrushes and aquatic
plants, and with two pollard willows on the
bank; a man fishing, another looking on,
and a third crossing a rustic bridge. Hamilton
Palace sale (1882), to Sedelmeyer, Paris,
£4,252 10s. Another in Dutuit Collection,
Paris, bought at De Morny sale (1852),
105,000 francs. A third, Pereire sale, Paris
(1872), 30,000 francs. Others in Buckingham
Palace, Bute Collection, Bridgewater
Collection, and National Gallery, London.—Smith,
vi. 156; Larousse, xi. 634.
WATERING PLACE, Thomas Gainsborough,
National Gallery, London; canvas, H.
1 ft. 11 in. × 2 ft. 6 in. Evening; a wooded
landscape, with village church in distance;
at left, a figure sitting under a wall; at
right, a man and dog, with cattle in a pool.
Engraved by W. Miller.—Art Journal
(1853), 184.
By Thomas Gainsborough, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 10 in. × 5 ft. 11 in. Evening; a thickly wooded landscape, with figures to left; in foreground, to right, some cattle and goats standing in a pool. See, also, Brook. Presented in