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Quarry on the Hill, Leaving the Common (1883); Friends, Loading at a Quarry, An Old Crone (1884); Quarry Men of Purbeck (1885). Mrs. H. T. Wells (Johanna Mary Boyce 1831-61) was a genre painter of considerable skill.
WELTER, MICHAEL, born in Cologne
in 1806. History painter; studied in Berlin
and in Paris, and devoted himself to decorative
and monumental painting. Works:
Frescos in the Temple House, Cologne;
Choir of St. Kunibert's, ib. (encaustic,
1856-59); religious pictures in the Chapel
and life-size portraits of the old landgraves
in the Rittersaal of the Wartburg, near
Eisenach (1859-61); Life of St. Godehard
(1861-63), Godehardi Church, Hildesheim.—Müller,
551.
WENCKER, JOSEPH, born at Strasbourg,
Nov. 3, 1848.
Genre painter, pupil
of Gérôme and of the
École des Beaux Arts.
Won grand prix de
Rome in 1876. Medal:
2d class, 1877.
Works: Intimacy
(1873); Under the
Leaves (1874); Girls
putting on Flowers
(1875); Stoning of St. Stephen (1876);
Priam asking Achilles for Hector's Body
(1876); St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1879);
Saul consulting the Pythoness (1880); St.
John Chrysostom Preaching (1882); Woman
Bathing (1883).—Larousse.
WÉNÉTZIANOFF, ALEXEI GAVRILOVICH,
born at Nejine (Nezheen) in 1780,
died in the government of Tver, Dec. 5,
1846. Genre and portrait painter, pupil
and afterwards member of St. Petersburg
Academy. Works: Young Russian Peasant,
Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Peasant Girl at
Communion, Prianishnikof Collection, ib.;
Interior of a Barn.
WENGLEIN, JOSEF, born in Munich,
Oct. 5, 1845. Landscape painter, pupil of
Munich Academy, of Steffan, and of Adolf
Lier; paints well-conceived views in the high
plains of Upper Bavaria, treating with especial
predilection old giant trees on the
steep banks of the Isar. Royal Professor
in Munich. Numerous medals. Works:
Mountain Ridge with Ruin (1875); Simsee
in Upper Bavaria (1877); Spring Song, Lake
Chiem, Autumn Landscape with Hunting
Party, Winter Landscape on the Isar, Moor
in Upper Bavaria (1880); Temple of Poseidon
at Pæstum (1882); Limestone Gatherers
in the Isar Bed (1883), New Pinakothek,
Munich; Isar Valley near Baierbrunn (1883);
do. near Tölz (1884), Cologne Museum;
Autumn Landscape, In the Moss (1884).—Müller,
552; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 580; xx.
347; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 159; xx. 72.
WERESCHAGIN. See Vereschagin.
WERFF, ADRIAAN VAN DER, born at
Kralinger-Ambacht,
near Rotterdam,
Jan. 21,
1659, died in Rotterdam,
Nov. 12,
1722. Dutch
school; history,
genre, and portrait
painter, pupil
of Cornelis Picolett,
portrait
painter; then for four years of Eglon van der
Neer. At seventeen years of age he painted
his own portrait, and thenceforth worked
independently. In the art cabinets of the
wealthy amateur and collector Flinck, son
of Govaert Flinck, and of the burgomaster
Jan Six, in Amsterdam, 1692, he became acquainted
with many masterpieces of Italian
art which influenced his taste considerably.
In 1696 the Elector Palatine John William
visited his studio in Rotterdam and ordered
his portrait and the Judgment of Solomon,
made him court painter, and in 1703 he
knighted him. Works: Lot and Daughters,
Boy with Guinea-Pig and Girl with Kitten,
Buckingham Palace, London; St. Margaret,
Lord Ashburton, ib.; Magdalen, Incredulity
of Thomas, Lot and Daughters, Mr. Hope,