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1827 by Lord Farnborough. Engraved by W. Miller; and in Jones's National Gallery; etched by R. S. Chattock in Portfolio.—Cat. Nat. Gal.; Portfolio (1875), 49.

Watering Place, Philips Wouwerman, Munich Gallery.

By Philips Wouwerman, Munich Gallery; wood, H. 1 ft. × 1 ft. 2 in. Men watering horses at the side of a river, which is seen to a great distance at right; cattle are being ferried across. At left, an old wall, and a gateway from which a muleteer is issuing. Lithographed by F. Hohe.—Réveil, xiii. 898.


WATERLOO, ANTHONIE, born at Lille about 1618 (?), died at Amsterdam after 1673. Dutch school; landscape painter, whose works are distinguished for facile treatment and faithful representation of nature. His aërial perspective is always good; trees and plants are correct in colour and of great variety. Landscapes in Museums and Galleries of Amsterdam, Dresden, Gotha, (2), Hanover, Stuttgart, Munich, Wiesbaden, and Florence.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Dioskuren (1860), 177, 185, 195, 202; Havard, A. & A. hol., ii. 189.


WATERLOW, ERNEST A., London; contemporary. Landscape and genre painter. Works: Last of the Shower (1877); Close of Midsummer's Day (1879); Outward Bound, Bluebells (1881); Home Again, Sheep-Washing, Woodland Gleanings (1882); Beltein—Midsummer Eve in Cornwall, Fisherman's Garden (1883); Sand Digging, Breezy Tintagel, Shepherd's Return (1884); Scant Fuel, From the Ferry (1885); Sunny Hours, Waiting. Rough Sea (1886).


WATERMAN, MARCUS, born in Providence, R. I.; died in 1883. Genre painter. Worked in New York and Boston before he went to Europe in 1878. Was an A.N.A. Work: Gulliver in Lilliput (1876).


WATSON, GEORGE, born at Overmains, Berwickshire, in 1767, died at Edinburgh, Aug. 24, 1837. Portrait painter, pupil of Alexander Nasmyth and of Sir Joshua Reynolds. He settled in Edinburgh, where he was long the rival of Sir Henry Raeburn. From 1808 to 1812 he presided over the Society of Associated Artists of Scotland, and on the foundation of the Royal Scottish Academy, in 1826, he was elected president, and held that office until his death. Portraits of Benjamin West, Archibald Skirving, and of himself, National Gallery, Edinburgh.


WATSON, JOHN, born in Scotland in 1685, died in New Jersey, Aug. 22, 1768. Portrait painter, pupil of the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh. He emigrated in 1715 to New Jersey, where he is said to have amassed a property by the practice of his profession.


WATSON, WILLIAM SMELLIE, born in Edinburgh in 1796, died there, Novem-