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- hagen and Dresden Academies—at the latter
under Dahl; afterwards travelled in Germany, Denmark, France, Switzerland, and North Italy. Saxon court painter in 1860. Works: Fallow Deer (1847), National Gallery, Berlin; Prairie Fire in America (1846), Stags crossing Water (1855), Dresden Gallery; Principal Christian Feasts at Seasons.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 991.
WEGMANN, BERTHA, born at Soglio,
Switzerland, Dec. 16, 1847. Genre and portrait
painter, pupil in Copenhagen of Frederik
Helsted and Frederik Christian Lund;
went in 1867 to Munich, and there studied
under Lindenschmit and Kurzbauer, having
meanwhile spent a year in Florence; then
visited Paris. Mention honourable, 1880;
3d class medal, 1882; Thorvaldsen medal,
Copenhagen. Works: Sick Child (1873);
Widow with her Child (1877); Portrait of
her Sister (1882); Artist's Studio, Young
Mother with her Child in a Garden (1883);
Portrait of herself (1885).—Sig. Müller, 369.
WEGUELIN, J. R., born in England;
contemporary. Genre painter, exhibits at
Royal Academy and at Grosvenor Gallery.
Works: Tired Dancer (1879); The Vintage
(1880); The Fishers, Roman Acrobat (1881);
Evoë Bacche, Habet! Feast of Flora (1882);
Maidens' Race, Libation to the Nymph, A
Secret (1883); Herodias and her Daughter,
The Bath (1884); Swing Feast, An Egyptian
Difficulty in Time of Augustus (1885); Obsequies
of an Egyptian Cat, Summer Afternoon,
The Fair Girl (1886).
WEIER, JACOB, born in Hamburg (?),
died there, May 8, 1670. German school;
history and genre painter, mentioned as
master of the Maleramt at Hamburg in
1648. His works are extremely rare.
Works: Crucifixion, Falcon Chase, Schwerin
Gallery; Crucifixion, Provinzial Museum,
Münster; Capture of a Standard, Kyburg
Gallery, Switzerland.—Schlie, 687.
WEIGAND, KONRAD, born at Nuremberg,
Dec. 12, 1842. History painter, pupil
of Munich Academy. Medal, Munich.
Works: Religious Conversation between
Ulrich von Hutten, Franz von Sickingen,
and Martin Bucer; Luther's Entry into
Worms (1879); Robber Knight brought
captive into Nuremberg in 1472 (1885). In
fresco: Marriage of Albrecht Dürer and
Agnes Frey.—Müller, 550; D. Rundschau,
xx. 460; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxii. 14.
WEIR, JOHN FERGUSON, born at West
Point, N.Y., Aug. 28,
1841. Subject and
portrait painter, son
and pupil of Robert
Walter Weir. Visited
Europe in 1868;
in 1869 became director
of the Yale
School of Fine Arts.
Elected N.A. in
1866. Studio in
New Haven. Works: Culprit Fay; Christmas
Bell, D. O. Mills, New York; Gun
Foundry (1867); Forging the Shaft (1868);
West Point, R. L. Stuart, New York; The
Confessional (1876); Venice; Tapping the
Furnace; An Artist's Studio; Morning
(1881); Theological Faculty of Yale College
(1882); Portrait of S. Wells Williams, Professor
of Chinese Language and Literature
at Yale College (1883); A Shimmering
Landscape, Pompilia (1886).—Sheldon, 175.
WEIR, JULIAN ALDEN, born at West
Point, N. Y., Aug.
30, 1852. Portrait
painter, son and
pupil of Robert
Walter Weir, and
pupil of Gérôme in
Paris in 1872-76.
Sketched and painted
in Spain and Holland.
One of the
founders of the Society
of American Artists; exhibits at Paris
Salon and National Academy, New York.
Honourable mention, Paris Salon. Studio
in New York. Elected A.N.A. in 1885, N.A.
in 1886. Ideal works: Scene in the Park
(1878); Good Samaritan (1879); Flower-