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Robert Fleury in Paris, whence he went to Italy to study the later Venetian masters. Works: Paolo Veronese in Venice (1856), Catherine de' Medici at the Alchemist's, National Gallery, Berlin.—Jordan (1885), ii. 242.
WICKENBERG, PETER, born at Stockholm
in 1808, died at Pau in 1846. Genre
and landscape painter, pupil of Stockholm
Academy; then went to Paris, where his
genre scenes met with much favour. Afterwards
he painted views in Holland, and
winter landscapes of realistic conception,
but with careful execution of details, clear
and powerful colouring, and beautiful light
effects. Legion of Honour, 1842. Works:
Mother sewing by her Child's Bed (1839),
Fishing in Winter (1839), Fisher Family in
Cottage (1840), Leipsic Museum; Winter
Landscape, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam.
WIDOWER, Luke Fildes, Sydney Museum,
New South Wales; canvas. Royal
Academy, 1876; bought by Thomas Taylor,
of Wigan; Taylor sale (1883), £2,205.
Etched by L. Flameng.
WIEDER, WILHELM, born at Stepnitz,
Pomerania, Feb. 16, 1818, died in Berlin,
Oct. 15, 1884. Genre painter, pupil in
Berlin of J. S. Otto; lived for some time
in England, three years in Russia, four in
Paris, one in Antwerp, and twenty-four in
Italy; returned to Germany in 1873, and
settled in Berlin. Works: Mass at Aracœli
Church in Rome (1856), National Gallery,
Berlin; Confession on Holy Thursday in
St. Peter's, Rome.—Kunst-Chronik, xx. 57.
WIEGMANN, MARIE (née Hancke),
born at Silberberg, Silesia, Nov. 7, 1826.
Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy under Hermann Stilke and
Karl Sohn; married the architect and painter
Rudolf Wiegmann, and visited afterwards
Germany, Holland, England, and Venice.
Gold medal, Berlin. Works: The Elves
(1847); Damajanti (1850); The Two Grandmothers
(1852); Reunion; Undine (1860);
Portrait of Karl Schnaase, National Gallery,
Berlin; do. of Karl Sohn, Heinrich
von Sybel, Countess Hatzfeld.—Müller,
556.
WIEGMANN, RUDOLF, born at Adensen,
Hanover, April 17, 1804, died in Düsseldorf,
April 17, 1865. Architecture painter,
studied in Italy, especially in Rome, in
1828-34; removed in 1835 to Düsseldorf,
where he became professor of architecture
at the Academy in 1839. Wrote a work on
the Düsseldorf Academy. Works: St. Angelo
Castle in Rome (1833), Via Sacra (1834),
Outlook from Vatican (1836), Cloister in
Bonn Cathedral (1842), Interior of St.
Mark's in Venice (1845).—Andresen, ii.
157; Dioskuren, 1865; Wiegmann, 90.
WIERINGEN, CORNELIS CLAESZ
VAN, born in Haarlem between 1570 and
1580, died in 1635. Dutch school; marine
painter. Destined for the navy, he made
several sea voyages before devoting himself
to art, in which he showed a great talent for
representing the sea in its various aspects.
Works: Arrival at Vliessingen of Elector
Palatine Frederic V. in 1613, Taking of
Damietta, Haarlem Museum; Naval Battle,
Madrid Museum.—Van der Willigen, 330.
WIERTZ, ANTOINE JOSEPH, born at
Dinant, Feb. 22, 1806,
died in Brussels, June
18, 1865. History and
portrait painter, pupil
of Antwerp Academy
under Herreyns and
van Brée; then studied
in the Louvre, won
the grand prize at the
Antwerp Academy in
1832, and went via
Paris to Rome, where he took Michelangelo
for his model, as afterwards Rubens became
his ideal, and in 1837 was made member
of the Accademia di S. Luca. After his
return he lived at Liège, and in 1848 established
himself at Brussels, where in 1850
the government built for him, after his own
design, a large studio, now known as the
Musée Wiertz, and containing his collected
great works, from which he never allowed