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- roe, Denmark, in May, 1683. Dutch school;
history and portrait painter; called to Denmark in 1638 by Christian IV., and went there, probably in company with his brother-in-law, Karel van Mander, the younger; was court painter for twenty-five years, then retired to Soroe. Works: Prince Waldemar Christian of Denmark, Male Portrait, Copenhagen Gallery; Female Portrait, Christiania Gallery; Portrait of a Jeweller (1644), Darmstadt Museum (?); Continence of Scipio, Königsberg Museum (?); Christian IV. of Denmark, Vienna Museum.—Kramm, vi. 1883; Nagler, xxii. 122; Weilbach, 760.
WUEST, ALEXANDER, born in America;
contemporary. Landscape painter in
Brussels; paints mountain views from Scandinavia
and North America, with good colouring.
Medals: Brussels and The Hague,
1866; Vienna, 1873. Works: Mountain
Torrent in Norway, New York Museum;
The Catskills, New Haven Gallery; Norwegian
Waterfall; Huntsmen on Sogne
Fjord; Life in Canadian Woods.
WULFFAERT, ADRIANUS, born at Ter
Goes, Zealand, in September, 1804. History
and genre painter, pupil of Ducq and of
Bruges Academy, then studied in Paris
(1829-32), and after his return won the first
prize at Ghent. Works: Corps-de-Garde of
Bruges (1831), Child leaving the Bath,
Bruges Academy; Venus at Grave of Adonis
(1832); Foster Brothers (1838), Ghent Museum;
Kirmess, Brussels Museum; Death
of Admiral Ruyter; Waking and Sleeping;
Christ at Gethsemane; Maria Consolatrix.
His wife Clara, née Rooman, is a good
genre painter; medal, Ghent, 1835, for
Maternal Lesson.—Immerzeel, iii. 251.
WÜNNENBERG, KARL, born in Düsseldorf,
Nov. 10, 1850. Genre painter, pupil
of Düsseldorf Academy under Deger and
Eduard von Gebhardt; went in 1876 to
Rome, and became professor at the Cassel
Academy in 1882. Works: Praying Woman
in Choir of Church; In the Confessional;
In the Park; Lady with Kittens (1878);
Centaur; Old Italian Idyl.—Müller, 567.
WURMSER, NICOLAUS, of Strassburg,
14th century. German school; history
painter, who came to Bohemia in 1348, entered
the service of Charles IV. in 1359,
and in the year following was appointed
court painter. His figures are hard in
tone, and weak in the extremities, but despite
these defects his pictures are notable
for independent thought, ideality, and powerful
colour. Works: Scenes from the Apocalypse,
Chapel of Burg Karlstein, near
Prague; Christ on the Cross, Vienna Museum.—Kugler
(Crowe), i. 38; do., Kl.
Schriften, ii. 498; Schnaase, vi. 439; W. &
W., i. 394; Gaz. des B. Arts (1873), vii.
148; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 366.
WURZINGER, KARL, born in Vienna
in 1817, died at Döbling, near Vienna,
March 16, 1883. History painter, pupil of
Vienna Academy; won the grand prize in
1845, and went to Rome in 1847, where he
remained ten years; afterwards became professor
at Vienna Academy. Medals: Berlin,
1866; Paris, 3d class, 1867. Orders of
Francis Joseph and of St. Michael. Works:
Joseph explaining the Dream; Death of
King Ottokar (1847); Emperor Ferdinand
II. refusing his Signature to the Protestant
Delegation (1856), Vienna Museum; Saul
and David; Count Starhemberg wounded
at Siege of Vienna.—Müller, 567; Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 431.
WÜST, (JOHANN) HEINRICH, born at
Zürich, May 14, 1741, died there in 1821.
Landscape painter; for six years apprenticed
to a house painter, then went to Holland,
destitute of means, and at Amsterdam
was befriended by the portrait painter Jacob
Maurer, of Schaffhausen, and the art
patron Ploos van Amstel, who procured for
him commissions there and in Rotterdam.
After five years in Holland he spent two in
Paris, and returned home in 1769, when his
landscapes found immediately great favour.
Works: Forest Idyl, Berne Museum; Evening
Landscape, two others, Zürich Gallery;
Moonlight, Huts and Oaks by a Brook,
Aschaffenburg Gallery; Waterfall (1797),