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Peasants surprised by Thunder-storm; Lady in Drawing-Room, Oriental Costume (Munich Exhibition, 1883); My Poor Maria, Forest God (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).


  • COROT, (JEAN BAPTISTE) CAMILLE.

At the Morgan sale, New York, 1886, were sold the following: Landscape, $9,000; Nymphs Bathing, $4,800; Evening on a River, $4,050; Landscape and Cattle, $4,200; Near Ville d'Avray, $3,500; Landscape, $3,300; Environs of Lake Nemi (1865), $14,000; Wood Gatherers (1875), $15,000.


CRAMER, ALFONS VON, died at Pegli Multedo, Italy, Jan. 4, 1884.


  • CRANK, CHARLES ALEXANDRE

(vol. i., p. 348). Instead of CRANK read CRAUK.


CURTIS, CALVIN, born at Stratford, Conn., July 5, 1822. Portrait and landscape painter, pupil in 1841 of the National Academy and of Daniel Huntington. After painting for several years in New York, he returned in 1849 to Connecticut, and lived in Birmingham and Waterbury until 1859, when he settled in Bridgeport. Though hampered by disease, he has been able to accomplish much good work. Among his sitters have been Chief Justice Thomas B. Butler, Judge S. B. Beardsley, General William N. Noble, Gideon H. Hollister, Rev. Nathaniel Hewitt, and William R. Seeley.



  • DAGNAN-BOUVERET, PASCAL

ADOLPHE JEAN. Add: Legion of Honour, 1885.


  • DANBY, THOMAS (son of Francis),

died in London, March 25, 1886.


  • DAUBIGNY, CHARLES FRANÇOIS.

At the Morgan sale, New York, 1886, were sold the following: Boats on the Shore, $1,325; Cooper's Shop (1872), $5,300; On the Seine (1873), $6,200; On the Marne (1873), $5,500.


  • DAUBIGNY, KARL PIERRE, died at

Auvers-sur-Oise, in May, 1886.


  • DECAMPS, ALEXANDRE GABRIEL.

At the Morgan sale, New York, 1886, were sold the following: Bazaars in Cairo, $2,450; Walk to Emmaus, $3,100.


  • DELAUNAY, JULES ÉLIE. Add to

medals: 1st class, 1878; Officer L. of Honour, 1878; Member of Institute, 1879.


DELPÉRÉE, ÉMILE, genre and portrait painter in Liège; contemporary. Medal, Ghent, 1877; gold medal, Brussels, 1871; Order of Leopold, 1883. Works: Return from the Garden, Portrait of Professor van Beneden (Exposition universelle, Amsterdam, 1883); Interruption of Jubilee Procession at Liège in 1875 (Munich Exhibition, 1883).


  • DESTREM, CASIMIR. Awarded a 2d

class medal for his Ruth and Boaz, Salon, 1886.


  • DEVILLY, THÉODORE, died at Nancy,

France, Dec. 24, 1886.—Chronique des Arts (1887), 5.


  • DIAZ DE LA PEÑA, NARCISO VIRGILIO

(vol. i., p. 405, line 30). For Diana and Poictiers read Diana of Poitiers. At the Morgan sale, New York, 1886, were sold the following: Oriental Woman (1865), $1,550; Lane near Fontainebleau (1865), $2,500; Study of the Nude, $1,375; Edge of a Wood, $2,750; Moonlight Concert, $2,400; Pool in the Woods (1873), $2,600; Toilet of Venus (1877), $3,300; Flowers, $500; Île des Amours (1857), $3,900; Children and Kid (1860), $2,750; Persian Women (1860), $2,925; Repose after Bath, $1,600; Boy with Hunting Dogs (1855), $4,500; Holy Family (1853), $4,100; Sunset after Storm (1871), $8,650; Bathers, $2,400; Persian Woman and Child, $3,500.


DILL, LUDWIG, born at Gernsbach, Baden, Feb. 2, 1848. Marine painter in Munich; self-taught. Medal, Nuremberg; gold medal, Stuttgart; Munich, 2d class, 1883. Works: After the Storm (1882), Munich Art Union; Canal in Venice (1882), Stuttgart Museum; Sirocco, Lagoon Village (Exhibition, Munich, 1883); Venetian Fishing Boat (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 8, 386; xix. 447; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xix. 159.

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