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Interior of Gothic Church, Gotha Museum; Landscape with Ruins of Aqueduct, Museum, Vienna; Rocky Wood Landscape with Fishermen, Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Antique Buildings, Turin Gallery.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 143; Rooses (Reber), 412; Van den Branden, 1062.
WITTE, PEETER DE, called Candido,
born in Bruges about 1548, died in Munich
in 1628. Flemish school; history painter;
went early to Italy, and in Florence made
the acquaintance of Vasari, who took him to
Rome and employed him as his assistant
there and later in Florence. In 1578 he
entered the service of Duke Albert V., and
after that prince's death that of William V.
of Bavaria. As court painter to the next
duke, Maximilian I., he made most of the
designs for the decoration of his newly
built palace, and painted several ceilings in
it. He exerted considerable influence upon
art in Munich. Works: Holy Family
adored by Angels, Kunsthalle, Hamburg;
Madonna with Saints, Oldenburg Gallery;
Hunt, Falcon Chase, Fishing, Daughter of
Jephtha, two portraits, Schleissheim Gallery;
King David playing the Harp, Baron
Minutoli's Collection, Schloss Fridersdorf,
Silesia; Death of St. Ursula, Holy Family,
do. with St. Stephen, Vienna Museum.—Immerzeel,
iii. 244; Kramm, vi. 1878; Kugler
(Crowe), i. 242; Rée, Peter Candid und
seine Werke (Leipsic, 1885).
WITTKAMP, JOHAN BERNARD, born
at Riesenbeck, Westphalia, Sept. 29, 1820.
History painter, pupil in Rotterdam of Willem
Hendrik Schmidt, then of Antwerp Academy
under De Keyser; visited France, Italy,
Switzerland, and Germany in 1853. Medals
at Brussels (1845), The Hague, Bruges, London.
Honorary Member of Amsterdam and
Philadelphia Academies. Works: The Dutch
passing the Winter on Nova Zembla in
1596 (1845); The Jailer (1850), Ghent Museum;
Arrival of Hugo Grotius at Rostock
(1851); Return of the Dutch from Nova
Zembla (1854); King Lear; Romeo and
Juliet; John Parricida's Flight over the
Alps; The Women of Crèvecœur (1857);
Cruelty of Duke Adolphus of Gueldres to
his Father (1860); Parisina (after Byron,
1876).—D. Kunstbl., 1852, 1853; Müller,
563.
WTTTMER, JOHANN MICHAEL, born
at Murnau, Bavaria, Oct. 15, 1802, died in
Rome, May 9, 1880. History painter, pupil
of the Munich Academy under Langer;
went in 1828 to Rome, whence he visited
Naples in 1831, and accompanied the Crown
Prince Max in 1833 on a tour to Naples,
Sicily, Malta, Corfù, Greece, Constantinople,
and Smyrna. He lived afterwards altogether
in Rome, but visited Germany in 1844
and 1858. Works: Christ Crucified (1826);
Two Altarpieces (1827); Rebekah at the
Well, Burial of St. Catherine (1828); Hagar
(1829); Healing of the Blind (1830); Sweet
Waters in Asia (1835); Æsop telling his
Fables; Antiochus and Stratonice, Homer,
Flight into Egypt, Six Oriental Views, Coffee-House
in Smyrna, Birth of St. John
(1843); Procession of Pius IX. to the Lateran
(1846); Blessing the Children (1848); Madonna
(1849); Coronation of Virgin (1858);
St. Ann with Virgin, St. Joseph, St. Ignatius
(1861); Maria Immaculata (1866); Burial
of St. Catherine (1851), Birth of St. John
(1862), Adoration of the Shepherds, New
Pinakothek, Munich.—Andresen, ii. 288;
Kunst-Chronik, xv. 627; xxi. 218; Cotta's
Kunstbl., 1829-43.
WLEUGHELS, NICOLAS, born in Paris,
baptized Dec. 11, 1668, died in Rome, Dec.
5, 1737. Flemish and French schools; history
and genre painter, son and pupil of
Philippe Wleughels (born at Antwerp about
1622, died in Paris, buried March 23, 1694,
pupil of Cornelis Schut); then studied under
Pierre Mignard, went to Italy in 1694,
and after a sojourn of two years in Rome
and Venice returned to Paris, where he was
received into the Academy in 1716. Appointed
director of the French Academy in
Rome in 1724, and while there made chevalier
of the Order of Saint Michel. He was
very intimate with Watteau, and his works