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1880. Painter of landscapes and city views, pupil of Salomon, Leonardus Verveer; travelled in Holland and Belgium. Member of Amsterdam Academy, 1846; of Société belge des Aquarellistes, 1858; of Société des Artistes belges, and of Rotterdam Academy, 1862. Medals: Rotterdam, 1844; The Hague, 1857; Brussels, 1859. Officer of Order of Oaken Crown, 1861. Works: Market Square at The Hague, Stuttgart Art School; St. Mary's in Utrecht, Societas Artis et Amicitiæ, Rotterdam; View of Leerdam, another City View, Amsterdam Museum; View in Amsterdam, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Courtyard in Old Town; Copper Gate at Amersfoort; Views of Waudrichem, Boxtel, Kuilenborg, etc.—Kramm, vi. 1838; Müller, 551.

WEISZ, ADOLPHE, born at Budapest; contemporary, naturalized Frenchman. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Jalabert. Medals: 3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1885. Works: Mendicant Nun, Alsatian Fiancée (1875); Young Mother watching her Sleeping Child, The First Tooth (1876); Jealousy, Moravian Fiancée (1877); Alsatian Centenarian, In 1815 (1878); Asking for Publication of Bans, Fiancée (1880); Hercules and Omphale (1881); René and Bob (1882); Namouna (1884); Enamoured Lion (1885); Nymph Discovering the Head of Orpheus (1886).

WEITSCH, FRIEDRICH GEORG, born in Brunswick, Aug. 8, 1758, died in Berlin, May 30, 1828. History painter, son of the landscape painter Johann Friedrich Weitsch (1723-1803), pupil in Cassel of Wilhelm Tischbein; visited Holland and Italy, returned to Brunswick in 1781, went as court painter to Berlin in 1787, and became director of the Academy in 1797. In 1808 called to Stettin to paint Marshal Soult. Works: Abbot Jerusalem, Alexander von Humboldt as a Young Man (1806), National Gallery, Berlin; Portrait of his Father (1797), Brunswick Gallery; do. of the Archæologist Hirt (1785), Fürstenberg Gallery, Donaueschingen; do. of the Poet Tiedge (1817), Kunsthalle, Hamburg. There are four landscapes (1763-93) by his father in Brunswick Gallery.—Jordan (1885), ii. 240; Nagler, xxi. 268; N. Necrol. der D. (1828), i. 439.

WELL-BRED SITTERS, Sir Edwin Landseer, private gallery, England. A large black dog, with a badger-hair brush in his mouth, sits, as if before an artist, a model of dignity and self-possession; by his side a fawn-coloured dog is posed with great elegance; in the foreground, several dead doves, a pheasant, and a purple-velvet cigar-case. British Institution (1864). Coleman sale (1881), £5,250.—Stephens, Sir E. L., 106.

WELLER, THEODOR LEOPOLD, born at Mannheim, May 29, 1802, died there, Dec. 10, 1880. Genre painter, pupil of Mannheim Art School, then of Munich Academy under Langer; lived in Rome in 1825-33, and is now director of the Mannheim Gallery. Works: Peasant Woman at her Boy's Sick-Bed, Visit to Prisoner (1835), National Gallery, Berlin; Italian Woman with Jug, Fortune Teller, Carlsruhe Gallery; Italian Field Labourers passing through Old Gate (1831), New Pinakothek, Munich; Old Peasant at Olevano; Public Scribe.—Jordan (1885), ii. 240.

WELLS, HENRY TANWORTH, born in London in 1828. Portrait and landscape painter; an eminent miniature painter, but since 1860 has contributed many large portraits and some ideal canvases to the Royal Academy. Elected an A.R.A. in 1866, and R.A. in 1870. Works: Old Stone-*breaker and Child, The Laurel Walk (1879); Picnic, Victoria Regina (1880); Ethel (1882);