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YKENS, PEETER, born at Antwerp, baptized Jan. 30, 1648, died there shortly after July, 1695. Flemish school; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jan Ykens (1613-79, sculptor and painter); master of the guild in 1673, dean in 1689. Works: St. Catharine disputing with the Philosophers (1684), Two Portraits (1690, 1693), Museum, Antwerp; Last Supper (1687), St. Andrew's, ib.; Portrait of Canon Emanuel van Horenbeeck, St. James's, ib.; Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter (1690), Church at Wommelghem; Christ appearing to the Husband of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Two Episodes in Life of St. Francis Xavier, St. Mary's Hospital, Mechlin; Christ appearing to St. Theresa, Lille Museum. His sister, Catharine (born in February, 1659), was a flower and fruit painter, pupil of her father, and master of the guild in 1688. In the Madrid Museum are by her a Festoon of Flowers and Fruits, and a Garland, both around small landscapes. His son, Jan Peeter (born in 1673), was also a good painter.—Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 548; Rooses (Reber), 431; Van den Branden, 951, 1146.
YON, EDMOND CHARLES, born at
Montmartre, Paris,
Feb. 2, 1836. Landscape
painter, pupil
of Lequien. At first
practised wood engraving,
but since
1875 has painted
many charming
views from the environs
of Paris.
Medals: 3d class, 1875; 2d class, 1879;
L. of Honour, 1886. Works: Two Views
near Montereau (1875); Branch of the
Marne, Seine near Gravon (1876); Before
the Rain (1878); Banks of the Marne (1879);
Canal of La Villette, Isle-les-Villenoy on the
Marne (1880); Villerville, Marsh of Cricque-*bœuf
(1881); River Eure (1882), Luxembourg
Museum; San Marco (1882); The
Squall (1883); The Dune, Mouth of the
Dive (1884); The Meuse at Dordrecht
(1885); Frog Fishers, The Carp Hole (1886).—Bellier,
ii. 728.
YORICK AND THE GRISETTE, Gilbert
Stuart Newton, National Gallery, London;
canvas, H. 2 ft. 5-1/2 in. × 1 ft. 10-1/2 in.
Interior of a hosier's shop. Yorick purchasing
gloves, the beautiful grisette measuring
them one by one across his hand
(Sterne's "Sentimental Journey"). Royal
Academy, 1830. Vernon Collection. Engraved
by W. Watt; H. Bourne.
YOSEMITE VALLEY, Albert Bierstadt,
Lenox Library, New York. Painted in
1866. Bierstadt painted also Looking down
the Yosemite (1865), W. H. Crosby, New
York; and Domes of the Yosemite, an almost
panoramic picture, formerly owned by
Le Grand Lockwood.
By Thomas Hill, Charles Crocker, San Francisco. Painted in 1871; Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876.
YOUNG BULL, Paul Potter, Hague Museum;
canvas, H. 8 ft. × 12 ft.; signed,
dated 1647. The young bull, brownish-red
with patches of white, standing on rising
ground under a tree, beside which a cow
and a ewe and her lamb are lying down, and
a ram is standing; behind a fence is a
herdsman, with one hand on the tree, looking
at the bull; background, a Dutch dairy
farm, with cattle. A masterpiece; the animals,
of life-size, appear to live and breathe.
Sold in Fabricius Collection, Haarlem, in
1749, for 630 florins; carried to Paris; returned
in 1816. Engraved by Le Bas;
Couché; Battard; etched by Denon.—Smith,
v. 118; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise;
Réveil, xi. 789.
YOUNG, EDUARD, born in Prague in
1823. Genre and landscape painter, pupil
in Munich of Piloty in 1864, having first
studied at Linz, Upper Austria, and in Vienna,
then (1855) in Munich, and been instructor
in drawing of King Frederick VII.
in Copenhagen, where he received the great