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- —Ch. Blanc, École anglaise; Law, Hist.
Cat. Hampton Court, 102; Réveil, xiv. 992.
Death of Wolfe, Benjamin West, Grosvenor House, London.
WOLFFORDT, ARTUS, born at Antwerp
in 1581, died there in 1641. Flemish
school; history painter; entered in 1603
the guild at Dordrecht, whither he had
been taken when three months old; in
1616 was received into the guild at Antwerp.
Enjoyed great reputation in his
time, and Van Dyck painted his portrait.
Works: Flight into Egypt, Repose in
Egypt, Madrid Museum. His son, Jan Baptist
(born at Antwerp in November, 1625),
was a good landscape painter; he went early
to Italy, and afterwards settled in Holland.
By him is a Mountainous Landscape
with Animals, in the Rotterdam Museum.—Rooses
(Reber), 379; Van den Branden,
632.
WÖLFL, ADALBERT, born at Frankenstein,
Silesia, May 9, 1827. Architecture
and landscape painter, pupil in Breslau of
Ernst Resch, but principally self-taught during
travels on the Rhine and Moselle (1858-69),
in Tyrol and North Italy (1858, 1860,
1867), in Austria and Hungary, and the art
centres of Germany. Works: Barbara Corner
in Breslau (1857), Breslau City Hall
(1859), City Gallery, Breslau; Linnen House
at Breslau (1861), City Hall, ib.; St. Mary
Magdalen's (1867), and Interior of St. Vincent's,
(1869), National Museum, ib.
WOLFVOET, VICTOR, the younger,
born in Antwerp, baptized May 4, 1612,
died there, Oct. 23, 1652. Flemish school;
history painter, son and pupil of Victor
Wolfvoet, the elder, then pupil of Rubens.
Master of Antwerp guild in 1644. Works:
Visitation (1639), St. James', Antwerp; Head
of Medusa, Dresden Gallery.—Kramm, vi.
1883; Rooses (Reber), 318; Van den Branden,
798.
WOLGEMUTH (Wohlgemuth, Wolgemut),
MICHAEL, born in Nuremberg in
1434, died there, Nov. 30, 1519. German
school; history and portrait painter. After
receiving instruction in art, probably from
his father, he, like other apprentices, spent