OPIE Anth., 91, 2 (PaL vi. 315, 316) ; Brunn, ii. 287. OPIE (Oppy), JOHN, born at St. Agnes, near Truro, Corn- wall, May, 1761, died in London, April 9, 1807. Son of a carpenter ; be- gan to paint when ten years old and sold portraits at six- teen. About 1780 he went to London, heralded by Dr. John Wolcot (Peter ' Pindar) as the Cornish Genius, was intro- duced to Sir Joshua Reynolds, and became the wonder of the hour ; but as his popu- larity was based upon admiration for the relative excellence of the painter's works to his years, it proved a misfortune, as it pre- vented him from obtaining a solid training in art. Opie painted some historical sub- jects, such as the Murder of James I. (1786) and the Death of Eizzio (1787), but his best work was in portraiture. He became an A.R.A. in 1787 and R.A. in 1788 ; in 1805 he was chosen professor of painting in the Royal Academy, anil his lectures, delivered in 1807, show good literary ability, though, like Northcote, he excelled in conversation rather tbnn in writing. His portrait of himself at the age of twenty-four (1785) is in the National Portrait Gallery, and his Troilus, Cressida, and Pandarus, and his portrait of 'William Siddous are in the Na- tional Gallery, London ; Gil Bias securing the Cook in the Robbers' Cave, Pennsylva- fj n i a Academy,
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' Rogers, Opie and his Works (London, 1878) ; F. de Conches, 308 ; Ch. Blanc, F^ole anglaise ; Sandbv, i. 198. OPPENHEIM,.MORITZ, born at Hanau in 1801, died in Frankfort, Feb. 26, 1882. Genre painter, pupil in Hanau of Wester- mayer and of Munich Academy ; then stud- ied, 1821-25, in Paris under J. B. Regnault and in Rome, and settled in Frankfort. Works: Return of Young Tobias ; Susanna at the Bath ; Return of Jewish. Volunteer to his Family ; Italian Genre Scene (1832), Kunst- halle, Hamburg ; A Les- son ; Noah and his Fam- ily ; Lavater and Lessing ' at Moses Mendelssohn's (1846) ; Cycle from Jew- ish Family Life ; Portrait of Heine ; Inter- ior of Sculptor's Studio (1852), Cross- Ex- ' animation (1866), Portrait of Borne (1827), Sttidel Gallery, Frankfort ; Mignon and the Harper, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Scene during Entry of Archduke John into Frankfort in 1848 (1852), Leipsic Museum. Cotta's Kunstbl. (1838), 45 ; D. Kuustbl. (1853), 186 ; (1854), 190 ; (1855), 328; Kau- len, 44 ; Meyer, Coiiv. Lex., xix. 697 ; Miil- ler, 401. OPSTAL, CASPAR JACOBUS VAN, the younger, born in Antwerp, July 2, 1054, died there, buried Jan. 12, 1717. Flemish school ; | history and portrait painter, son and probably pupil of Caspar, the elder, a pupil of Simon ! de Vos ; master of the guild in 1676, dean ! in 1698-99. Works : Holy Family (1692), Darmstadt Gallery ; Two Children blowing Bubbles, Brunswick Gallery ; Infant Christ adored by Angels (1693), Jesuit Church, Antwerp ; Mary Magdalen kneeling before the Crucified, St. Joseph with Infant Christ, Female Portrait, Orphanage, ib.; Male Por- traits (2. one dated 1699), Museum, ib. ; Venus and ^/SUULJL/. Cupid (1706), / Hague Muse- ' um. Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 491 ; Kramm, iv. 1225 ; Michiels, ix. 93 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 134 ; Van den Branden, 957. ORBETTO. See Turchi, Alessaudro. 367
