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WINGHE (Wingen), JODOCUS (Joost) VAN, born in Brussels in 1544, died in Frankfort in 1603 or 1605. Flemish school; history and portrait painter; went early to Rome, where he lived four years at a cardinal's; after his return became painter to the Prince of Parma, and in 1584 went to Frankfort, meeting there and in Hanau with great success. Works: Banquet and Masquerade, Amsterdam Museum; Portrait of Patrician Lady, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Lot and his Daughters, Gotha Museum; Apelles painting Campaspe (2), Vienna Museum.—Immerzeel, iii. 239; Kramm, vi. 1871; Michiels, vi. 465.
WINNE, LIÉVIN DE, born in Ghent in 1821, died in Brussels, May 13, 1880. Portrait painter of great excellence, pupil of Félix Delvigne. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1861; 2d class, 1863; 1st class, 1878; at Brussels, and London, at the principal exhibitions from 1860. L. of Honour, 1865; Officer, 1878. Works: Portrait of King Leopold I., Brussels Museum; Prince of Arenberg; Count of Flanders; Paul Devigne; Félix Delvigne; Émile Breton; Firmin Rogier; Duchess of Arenberg; Minister Frère-Orban, etc.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), iii. 255; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 240.
WINT, PETER DE. See De Wint,
Peter.
WINTER, HEINRICH, born at Frankfort
in 1843. Landscape and animal painter,
pupil of Jacob Becker at the Städel
Institute; was induced in 1868, by Adolf
Schreyer, to visit Hungary, where he studied
the different breeds of horses on the large
plains. After his return he took part in the
campaign of 1870-71 as a volunteer, and in
1874 visited the East. Works: Rendezvous;
Horse Thieves; Transportation of
French Prisoners through Loigny; Prisoners
and Wounded Soldiers on a Waggon in
the Snow.—Kaulen, 191; Müller, 561.
WINTER, LOUIS DE, born at Antwerp,
March 23, 1819. Landscape and marine
painter, pupil at Antwerp Academy of Jacobus
Jacobs and of Jan Baptist de Jonghe.
Travelled in France and Germany. Gold
medal, Brussels, 1854. Order of Leopold,
1861. Works: Fishermen throwing out
their Nets by Moonlight (1853), Ghent Museum;
Coast View by Moonlight (1856),
Ravené Gallery, Berlin; Crossing a Ford;
View in the Ardennes; Sunset; Moonlight
Scenes and Marines.
WINTER, Nicolas Poussin. See Deluge.
WINTERHALTER, FRANZ XAVER,
born at Mengenschwand
in the Black Forest, April
20, 1806, died in Frankfort,
July 8, 1873. Portrait
and genre painter,
pupil of Munich Academy
and of Stieler; went
in 1828 to Carlsruhe,
where he was made court
painter; spent several
years travelling in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and
England, and in 1834 settled in Paris, where
for more than thirty years he was the portrait
painter par excellence of royalty and
of the aristocracy, especially of women. Medals:
Paris, 1836, 1837, 1855; L. of Honour,
1839; Officer, 1857; Order of Red
Eagle, 1861; Würtemberg Crown Order,
Commander Order of Francis Joseph, and
many others. Works: Roman Genre Scene,
Portrait of Grand Duke Leopold of Baden,
Carlsruhe Gallery; do. of Grand Duchess
Sophie (1828); Mlle. Tascher de la Pagerie;
Louis Philippe and his Queen; Princes and
Princesses of Orleans; King Leopold of
Belgium and Queen; Royal Family of England;
Queen Isabella of Spain; Emperor
and Empress of Russia; do. of Austria; do.
of Mexico; King and Queen of Prussia;
do. of Würtemberg; Napoleon III. and Eugénie;
Italians in a Landscape, Kunsthalle,
Hamburg; Maiden of Ariccia (1835); Dolce