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100; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 279; D. Rundschau, ix. 475; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. 174; xvi. 147, 272; xxii. 42.
WERNER, JOSEF, born at Berne in
1637, died there in 1710. German school;
history and portrait painter, pupil of his
father and in Frankfort of Matthias Merian;
then studied in Rome under Pietro da
Cortona and Andrea Sacchi; devoted him-*self
for a time to miniature painting in imitation
of Carlo Maratti, was called to France
by Louis XIV., for whom he painted many
portraits and allegories, as he did also for
the Elector of Bavaria, having gone to Augsburg
in 1667; moved to Berne in 1682, and
was director of the Berlin Academy in 1696-1707.
Works: Union of Justice and Wisdom,
City Hall, Berne; Experience, Republic
of Berne, Justice, Golden Age, Cavalry
Skirmish in 17th Century (attributed),
Museum, ib.; Temptation of St. Anthony,
Augsburg Gallery; Allegory on Avarice,
Old Pinakothek, Munich; Tobias burying
his Countrymen, Vienna Museum.—Descamps
(Marseilles ed., 1842), ii. 230.
WERNER, KARL, born in Weimar, Oct.
4, 1808. Genre and
architecture painter,
pupil of Leipsic Academy
under Veit Hans
Schnorr; went in 1829
to Munich and in 1833
to Italy, where he remained
twenty years;
visited England in
1851, Spain in 1856,
the East in 1862-64,
and Greece in 1875, making many sketches.
Ranks among the first painters in water-*colours.
Professor at the Leipsic Academy
since 1881. Member of Venice Academy,
of Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours,
Saxon Order of Albrecht. Weimar
gold medal for Art and Science. Works:
Market Square of Piperno; Venice in Prosperity;
do. in Decline; Return of Andrea
Contarini; Scene from Shylock; Study
from Pompeii; Lion Court of Alhambra;
View of Beirout; Isle of Philæ; Mosque at
Damascus; Bazaar in Cairo; Arabian Palace,
ib.; Jewellery Shop, ib.; Column of
Memnon; The Jordan near Jericho; Temple
of Isis at Thebes; Antiquary by Temple
at Karnak; Castle Lahneck; Interior
of Church at Frankfort; Gate of Justice at
Cairo; Church Interior (1833), Interior of
Cefalù Cathedral (1838), Palace Interior at
Palermo (1852), National Gallery, Berlin;
Palace of Diocletian, Leipsic Museum;
Abandoned Church in Pontine Swamps,
Schack Gallery, Munich.—Illustr. Zeitg.
(1874), ii. 31; Jordan (1885), ii. 240; Zeitschr.
f. b. K., iii. 104.
WERTHEIMER, GUSTAV, born in Vienna;
contemporary. History and genre
painter. Works: Shipwreck of Agrippina;
Venus Anadyomene; Peeping; Fisherman's
Dream (1880); Coast Watchman; The Wave's
Kiss; Flowers' Revenge; Fisherman's Dream,
The King's Breakfast (1884).—Allgem. K. C.,
viii. 619; Illustr. Zeitg. (1883), i. 375; ii.
160; (1884), i. 554; (1885), ii. 229.
WERTMÜLLER, ADOLF ULRICH,
born in Stockholm in 1751, died at Wilmington,
Del., in 1811. History and genre
painter, supposed pupil of Pilo (1713-94);
went early to France, where he became
member of the Academy in 1782. Swedish
court painter in 1787; returned to Sweden
about 1789; came to America in 1794 and
painted several portraits of Washington;
went home in 1797, but came back, married,
and became a citizen. Works: Ariadne
Forsaken, Marie Antoinette and her
Children (1785), Stockholm Museum; Portraits
of Gustavus III. and his Queen, of
Gustavus IV., of Bachelier and Caffieri.—Gaz.
des B. Arts (1874), x. 223; Revue univ.
des Arts, iv.
WEST, BENJAMIN, born at Springfield,
Penn., Oct. 10, 1738, died in London, March
11, 1820. Began to draw when seven years
old, and took his first lessons in preparing
colours from Cherokee Indians. After a little
instruction from a painter named Williams,
he set up, when eighteen years old, in