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Jerome (1707), Dresden Museum; Lot and his Daughters (1721), Schwerin Gallery; Venus rising from her Couch, Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna; Children playing with Bird, Uffizi, Florence.—Immerzeel, iii. 229; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 539.
WERNER, ANTON ALEXANDER VON,
born in Frankfort-on-the-Oder,
May 9, 1843. History
and genre painter
and illustrator, pupil of
Berlin Academy in 1859-62,
then in Carlsruhe of
Lessing and Ad. Schrödter;
visited Paris in 1867
and Italy in 1868-69;
settled in Berlin, where
he became director of
the Academy in 1875. Has furnished masterly
illustrations to the works of Josef Victor
von Scheffel, to Herder's "Cid," and to
Schiller's dramas. Member of Venice and
Caraccas (Venezuela) Academies; court
painter; Officer of Order of Italian Crown;
several other orders and many medals.
Works: Intimate Conversation, Quartette,
Convent Life, The Suitor, Don Quixote
with the Shepherds (1864-70); Luther before
Cajetan (1865), Conradin in Prison
(1866), Archbishop Hanno of Cologne kidnapping
Henry IV. (1867), Struggle and
Victory (1871), Symbolic Picture of Battle
of Sedan, Allegory of German Union, Moltke
before Paris, Moltke in his Study, Proclamation
at Versailles (1876), Royal Palace,
Berlin; Count von Moltke (1872), Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; Luther at the Diet of
Worms, Stuttgart Museum; Baptism in
Artist's House, Berlin Congress (1878),
Emperor's Entry into Saarbrücken (1880);
Moltke at Sedan (1883). In fresco: Luther
at Worms, Summons of Volunteers in
1813, Gymnasium, Kiel; Proclamation at
Versailles, Coronation of First King of
Prussia (1884), Arsenal, Berlin.—Allgem.
K. C., ix. 292; Graph. K., i. 65, 68; iv. 23;
Kunst-Chronik, ix. 345; xii. 430; xvi. 481;
xix. 730; Kunst f. Alle, i. 193; Land und
Meer (1875), i. 46; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 64;
Nord u. Süd, xviii. 185; Rosenberg, Berl.
Malersch., 234; D. Rundschau, viii. 432;
ix. 474; xiii. 329; xxi. 146; Zeitschr. f. b.
K., iii. 182; iv. 16; vi. 174; xvi. 142; xx.
36; xxi. 36; xxii. 42; Art Journal (1887), 5.
WERNER, FRITZ, born in Berlin, Dec.
3, 1828. Genre painter,
pupil of Berlin Academy
under Daege, then of
Menzel; studied in 1855-63
in Paris, and again
in 1867 under Meissonier,
whose elegant treatment
of stuffs and accessories
he adopted, while
in conception and colouring
he successfully imitated the style of
Menzel, whose most talented pupil he is.
Member of, and Professor at, Berlin Academy.
Medal, Berlin, 1878. Works: Surprised
Chambermaid (1863); Huntsman arranging
his Traps, Old Gentleman served
with Coffee (1864); Ornithologist, Prussian
Grenadier on Guard, Admonition, Picture
Amateur (1866); Fishmonger in Antwerp
(1867); Amateur of Engravings (1868);
Souvenir of Paris, Market Scene in Antibes,
View of Nice, Old Gentleman feeding Birds,
Street in Antibes, Picture Dealer, After Dinner,
Fortifications in Antibes, Huntsman in
Tavern, At the Zoölogical Museum, Gentleman
Reading, Soldier Smoking, Would-be
Politicians, Gentleman at Table, Interior of
Hunting Castle, Smoker by Tile Stove (all
of 1868-69); Boy with Hare (1870); Man
with Dog and Hare, Trumpeter of Hussars,
Painter in Studio, Picture-Dealing, Man at
Draughts, Standard-Bearer, Peasant Hunting,
Drummer, Child blowing Soap-Bubbles
(all of 1870-73); Smoker and Child, Cavalier
jesting with Girl (1873); Frederick the
Great in his Library; A Conversation; From
the Dresden Gallery (1880); Ridiculous
Story (1881); Sutler Women between Regiments
of Dessau and Baireuth (Jubilee Exhib.,
Berlin, 1886).—Anderson, v. 89; Illustr.
Zeitg. (1882), i. 10; Leixner, Mod. K., ii.