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New York; Departing for the Promenade, Miss C. L. Wolfe, ib.; Plucking the Rose, Israel Corse, ib.; Betrothal Ring, Mrs. Paran Stevens, ib.; Female Figure, T. A. Havemeyer, ib.; Waiting Maid, Robert Hoe, ib.; Mirror, John Hoey, ib.; At the Window, C. P. Huntington, ib.; Revery, R. L. Stuart Collection, ib.; La Bague, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn; Important Response, Health of the King, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Reading, J. W. Garrett, ib.; Morning Walk, H. O. Gibson, Philadelphia; The Letter, W. Mason, Taunton, Mass.; Love Letter, Charles Crocker, San Francisco; Music Lesson, Morgan sale, New York (1886), $1,255.—Dioskuren, 1863-66; D. Kunstbl., 1853-57; Immerzeel, iii.
WILLERS, ERNST, born at Oldenburg
in 1804, died in Munich, May 1, 1880.
Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy under Schirmer; went afterwards
to Rome, where he was long allied with
Josef Anton Koch; thence he visited Sicily
and twice Greece; finally settled at Munich.
His works, recalling the heroic landscapes
of Koch and the ideal style of Karl Markó,
are of grand conception and poetical colouring.
Among the best are: The Acropolis at
Athens, Temple of Jupiter, ib.; View of the
Piræus and Isles, Acrocorinth, View near
Palermo, Grand Duke of Oldenburg; Valley
of Egeria near Rome, Grand Duchess of
Weimar; The Acropolis at Athens, Schack
Gallery, Munich; Outlook towards the Sea
from Chigi Park near Ariccia.—Meyer,
Conv. Lex., xvii. 1011; Schack, Meine
Gemäldesammlung, 213.
WILLIAM, ST., TAKING THE MONASTIC
HABIT, Guercino, Bologna Gallery;
canvas, H. 10 ft. 6 in. × 6 ft. 10 . William,
Duke of Aquitaine, having determined to
renounce the world, presents himself, at the
head of his warriors, before St. Felix, and
puts on the monastic habit; above, in
clouds, the Virgin and child sustained by an
angel, and at left, SS. Peter and Paul.
Painted about 1620 for S. Gregorio, Bologna;
carried to Paris in 1796; returned
in 1815. A masterpiece of Guercino's first
period. Engraved by G. Trabalesi; G. Mitelli;
G. Tomba.—Landon; Musée, xii. Pl.
54; Pinac. di Bologna, Pl. 48; Meyer,
Künst. Lex., iii. 2; Lavice, 3.
St. William taking the Monastic Habit, Guercino, Bologna Gallery.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD, born in Lambeth,
London, in 1782, died at Barnes, June
24, 1855. Son of Edward Williams, engraver,
and pupil in painting of his maternal uncle
James Ward; then apprenticed to Mr. Hillier,
carver and gilder, but finally devoted
himself to miniature and landscape painting.
For many years his favourite subjects were
moonlight scenes, and later the scenery of
the Thames. His six sons were all painters.
Work: Landscape with Figures by Moonlight,
National Gallery, London.—Redgrave;
F. de Conches, 347.
WILLIAMS, FREDERICK DWIGHT,
born in Boston; contemporary. Landscape
and figure painter. Studio in Paris.