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ber, 1874. Portrait painter, son and pupil

of George Watson; studied also in the Trustees' Academy, Edinburgh, in the Royal Academy, London, and under Sir David Wilkie, whom he assisted in the Penny Wedding and other works. He was one of the original members of the Royal Scottish Academy. Work: The Student, National Gallery, Edinburgh.

WATTEAU, ANTOINE, born at Valenciennes, Oct. 10, 1684, died at Nogent-sur-Marne, July 18, 1721. French school; genre painter, first instructed by an obscure painter in Valenciennes; went to Paris in 1702, and entered the studio of Gillot, where he acquired a taste for the humorous subjects for which he was afterwards distinguished. After a further apprenticeship under the decorative painter Claude Audran 3d, he exhibited two pictures for which he was received into the Academy in 1717. Meanwhile he had continued his studies in copying the masterpieces of Rubens and Paolo Veronese. His great reputation rests on a series of pictures of conventional shepherds and shepherdesses, dancers and comedians, painted with unrivalled freshness, grace, and charm. More than 563 plates after his pictures were engraved by Thomassin, Cochin, and Cardon. Works: Embarkation for Cythera (1717), Gilles of the Comédie italienne, L'indifférent, La finette, Assembly in a Park, Juggler, Jupiter and Antiope, three others, Louvre; Fête Champêtre, Angers Museum; Harlequin meeting Pantaloon, Pierrot, and Colombine, Foot Soldier Reconnoitring, Nantes Museum; Monkey Sculptor, Orléans Museum; Country Scene, Landscape, Troyes Museum; Conversation in a Park, Portrait of the Sculptor Antoine Joseph Pater, Valenciennes Museum; Concert Champêtre, Two Lovers Surprised, Buckingham Palace, London; Rendez-vous at the Chase, Village Fête, Sir Richard Wallace, ib.; do., Sir T. Baring, ib.; French Pastoral, Fête Champêtre, Toy Windmill, National Gallery, Edinburgh; Love in French Comedy, do. in Italian Comedy, La Colation, Berlin Museum; Assembly making Merry in a Park (2), Cassel Gallery; Conversation on a Terrace, Company resting on a Lawn, Dresden Museum; Tender Conversation, Königsberg Museum; Young Girl with Sunshade, Schwerin Gallery; The Minuet, The Savoyard, The Serenade, Fatigues of War, Alleviations of War, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Guitar Player, Vienna Museum; Lady and Cavaliers in a Garden, Uffizi, Florence; Marriage Contract and Fête Champétre, Assembly in Park of St. Cloud, Madrid Museum.—ArtJournal, iii. 77; Bellier, ii. 714; Bentley's Mag., lvii. 304; Ch. Blanc, École française, ii.; do., Les peintres des fêtes galantes (Paris, 1853); Cellier, Ant. Watteau (Paris, 1867); Cousin, Tombeau de W. (Paris, 1866); Denaux, Notice sur A. W. (Valenciennes, 1834); Dohme, 3; Dumont, Ant. Wat. (Paris, 1866); Goncourt, Cat. raisonné (Paris, 1875); do., L'art du xviii. siècle, i. 1; Hédouin, Watteau, essai sur la vie, etc. (Paris, 1845); Houssaye, Hist., 161; Larousse, xv. 1287; Lecarpentier, Suite de la galerie des peintres célèbres (Rouen, 1815); Portfolio, iii. 18; Stothert, 110; Wurzbach, Fr. Mal. d. xviii. Jahrh., 21; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xi. 86.

WATTIER, CHARLES ÉMILE, born in Paris, Nov. 17, 1800, died there, Nov. 22, 1868. Genre painter, pupil of Lafond and of Gros; imitated the style of the masters of the 18th century, especially Watteau and Boucher. Works: Prayer at Church; Coming from Church; Ambuscade; Ninon de L'Enclos; Entering the Bath; Dinner in