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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