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Works: Scene at Pont Nien, Shepherdess and her Flock, The Marne, Farmyard at Finistère (1878); Autumn Day—France, Fifine and her Geese (1881). His wife, Mrs. L. Lunt Williams, paints figure and cattle pieces. Work: Mange Donc! (1884).


WILLIAMS, HAYNES, born at Worcester, England, in 1834. Genre painter, pupil of the Art School in Birmingham; went to Spain in 1862, and has since painted many Spanish subjects, exhibiting in the Royal Academy in 1870 his Desesperados y Inesperados. Works: Prayers for One Wounded (1872); Á los Toros (1873); Billeted, El Saludad (1874); Modern Occupants of Ancient Homes, Ars Longa—Vita Brevis (1877); Foundlings in Spain in 1790 (1878); Congratulations (1879); The Stepmother (1880); His First Offence (1881); The Sermon (1882); Gleam of Sunshine (1883); Called to Court, At the Fountain, Going to the Fountain (1884); Benediction, Interruption in the Dance (1885); Cellini awaiting an Interview with François I. (1886).—Meynell, 185.


WILLIAMS, ISAAC L., born in Philadelphia in 1817. Landscape and portrait painter, pupil in Philadelphia of John R. Smith and John Neagle. Visited Europe in 1866-67. Member of the Philadelphia Academy. Work: View near Meriden—Conn., October (1876).


WILLIAMS, PENRY, born at Merthyr Tydvil, Glamorganshire, about 1798, died in Rome, or Wales, February, 1886 (?). Landscape and subject painter; exhibited at Royal Academy first in 1824; went to Italy in 1827, and thenceforth resided in Rome, whence he sent many pictures to England. Works: Procession to the Christening (1832); Ferry on the Nynfa (1835); Madonna del Arco (1837); Il Voto or the Convalescent (1842); The Fountain—Mola di Gaeta (1849); Rustic Toilet (1853); Neapolitan Peasants at Fountain (1859), National Gallery; Mass for the Reapers in the Campagna (1860); Italian Mother and Child (1861).—Art Journal (1864), 101; Portfolio (1886).


WILLIAMSON, JOHN, born in Scotland in 1826, died at Glenwood, N. Y., May 28, 1885. Landscape painter, taken to America when a child. Associate of the National Academy, New York, in 1861. Works: Passing Shower—Connecticut Valley (1869); Hook Mountains (1870); Return of the Hunters (1871); Reminiscence of Berkshire County (1873); After the Storm—Blue Ridge (1877); In the Mohawk Valley, Sugar Loaf Mountain (1878); Palisades—Hudson River (1879); Lovers' Walk—Glen Lea (1880); Trout Fishing—Catskill Mountains (1881); Long Years Saw Mill—Ulster County, N. Y. (1883).


WILLICH, CÄSAR, born at Frankenthal, Bavaria, in 1825. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin Academy under Jacob Schlesinger (1793-1855), then in Munich (1846) of Karl Schorn; lived in Switzerland in 1848-49, went in 1850 to Antwerp, studied there for several years, then for three years in Paris under Couture; visited Italy in 1858, stayed chiefly in Rome until 1861, when he settled in Munich. Works: Tribunal during Time of Witches' Trials, H. Wesendonk, Zürich; Psyche with the Ointment Box; Sleeping Nymph and Faun; Resting Amazon and Deer; Young Gypsy Girl with Lizard; Nymph Fishing; Portrait of Richard Wagner.—Dioskuren (1866-68); Müller, 559.


WILLMANS, MICHAEL, born at Königsberg in 1629, died at a country-seat near Leubus, Silesia, Aug. 26, 1706. German school; history and portrait painter, pupil of his father Peter Willmans; went early to Holland, where he formed himself under Jacob Backer and Rembrandt; after his return he worked at Königsberg, Prague, Breslau, and Berlin, and was made court painter by the Great Elector. Works: Rape of Europa (1679), Schwerin Gallery; Portrait of a Boy, Dresden Museum.—Schlie, 697.


WILLROIDER, JOSEPH, born at Villach, Carinthia, in 1838. Landscape painter, self-taught from 1860 in Munich and