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WEDDING UNDER THE DIRECTORY, Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer, Jay Gould, New York; canvas. A gay wedding-party in the time of the Directory (1795-99), or government of the first French republic. Salon, 1879. Bought originally by Thomas A. Howell, Brooklyn, who sold it to Mr. Gould.

WEED GATHERERS, Jules Breton, Comte Duchatel, Paris. Sturdy peasants gathering seaweed. Painted in 1861. One of the painter's most characteristic works.

WEEKS, EDWIN LORD, born in Boston in 1849. Landscape and figure painter, pupil in Paris of the École des Beaux Arts, Bonnat, and Gérôme. Sketched and painted in Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, and Tangier, and is particularly noted for pictures of Eastern life. Member of the Boston Art Club. Honourable mention, Paris Salon, 1885. Works: Jerusalem from the Bethany Road; Cup of Coffee; Pilgrimage to the Jordan; Scene in Tangier, T. G. Appleton, New York; Alhambra Windows; They toil not, neither do they spin; Arab Story Teller (1876); Moorish Camel Driver (1878).

WEENIX (Weeninckx), JAN BAPTISTA, born in Amsterdam in 1621, died at Huis ter Mey, near Utrecht, before Oct. 31, 1664. Dutch school; genre, landscape, and animal painter, pupil of Jan Micker, then of Abraham Bloemart in Utrecht, and of Nicolaas Moeyaert, whom he closely imitated; went to Rome in 1643, and was employed by Cardinal Pamfili, afterwards Pope Innocent X. After his return in 1647 he lived in Amsterdam, then at Utrecht, where he appears among the managers of the guild in 1649. He represented equally well historical subjects, genre, landscapes, harbours, architecture, and animals, with a warm and pleasing colouring and a free and ingenious touch. Works: Italian Seaport, Fruit-Piece, New York Museum; Figures among Roman Ruins, Stafford House, London; Repulse of Pirates, Louvre; Dutch Lady at Toilet (attributed), Brussels Museum; Italian Seaport, Antwerp Museum; do., Copenhagen Gallery; Tobias asleep under a Vine (1662), Rotterdam Museum; Musical Party, Roman Ruins with Shepherd, Brunswick Gallery; View of Venice, Carlsruhe Gallery; Dogs by Fallen Horse, Partridge and Duck, Fruit-Piece, Cassel Gallery; Erminia begging for Shelter, Berlin Museum; Tinker (1674), Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Meeting of Jacob and Esau, Hen and Dog, Dresden Gallery; Peasants near Antique Ruins, Still-Life, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Carpet Seller, Huntsman with Game (1665?), Sleeping Girl with Tambourine, Knife Grinder, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Kitchen Interior, do. (1652), Shepherd Life in the Campagna, Merry Company on Seashore, Schwerin Gallery; Shepherd resting by Antique Monuments, Dead Game, Stuttgart Museum; Seaport, Museum, Vienna; Landscapes with Animals, Academy and Czernin Gallery, ib.; Landscapes (2, one dated 1654), Dead Game Birds (2), Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Progress of Abraham, Harrach Gallery, ib.; Italian Landscape with Sheep, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Seaport, Leuchtenberg Gallery, ib.; Milking a Goat, Dead Game, Peterhof.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Bode, Studien, 174; Dohme, 1ii.; Fétis, Cat. Brussels Mus., 495; Immerzeel, iii. 223; Kramm, vi. 1835; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 453; Meyer, Gemälde köngl. Mus., 522; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 379.

WEENIX, JAN, born in Amsterdam, Dec., 1640, died there, Sept. 20, 1719. Dutch school; animal, landscape, still-life, and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jan Baptista, and, like him, painted also seaports, architecture, and figures with equal excellence. In 1702-12 he painted for the Elector John William, in his Castle Bensberg, near Cologne, a series of hunting and animal pieces which belong to his most