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OUVRIE a Gentleman (1868) ; A Halt (1879) ; Au- tumn Races (1880); The Sold Lamb (1882); Emigrant (1883) ; Souvenir (1884) ; Birth- day (1885) ; Women of Morocco, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis. OUVRIK, PIERRE JUSTIN, born in Par- is, May 9, 180G, died at Rouen, Oct. 21, 1870. Landscape, history, portrait, and genre painter, pupil of Abel do Pujol and Chatillon. Medals : 2d class, 1831 ; 1st class, 1843 ; 3d class, 1855 ; L. of Honour, 1854. Works : Funeral of Shelley (1831) ; Grand Canal at Venice, Hospital of St. Ber- nard (1833) ; Square of Old Palace in Flor- ence (1834) ; St. Lawrence of Nuremberg, Light-House of Aigues-Mortes (1835) ; St. Peter of Genoa (1836) ; Cathedral of Char- tres (1837) ; Heidelberg (1841) ; Court of Chateau of Fontainebleau (1842), Luxem- bourg Museum ; Castle of Pau (1844) ; Eaux Bonnes (1845) ; Windsor Castle, Som- erset House (1850); Amsterdam (1853), August Belmont, New York ; The Hague, Views on Rhine (1857) ; Rotterdam (1859); Mont Blanc, Antwerp, Road from Ancona to Bologna, Moselle near Bern Castel (1861); Salzburg, Walter Scott's Monument, Calton Hill and Canongate in Edinburgh (1863) ; Castle of Amet, Castle of Villepinte (1864) ; Castle of Picrrefonds (1865) ; Town and Castle of Heidelberg, Cathedral of Freiburg in Breisgau (1866) ; Castle of Montorgueil ; French Army marching on Mascara (1841), do. on Marengo, Taking of Ratisbon, 1809, Versailles Museum. Bellier, ii. 187 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1860), vi. 265 ; do. (1801), x. 30, 109. OUWATER, ALBERT VAN, flourished in Haarlem, 15th century. Dutch school ; history and landscape painter, was one of the first Dutch painters in oil, probably a contemporary of the Van Eycks. Nothing is known of his life. Works attributed to him : The Last Judgment, Dantzic Muse- um ; Descent from the Cross (1480?), Co- logne Museum. C. & C., Flemish Painters, 246 ; Dohme, li. ; Kramm, iv. 1238 ; Schnaase, viii. 215. OVENS, JURIAEN, born in Amsterdam in 1623, died at Friedrichstadt, Schleswig, Dec. 7, 1678. Dutch school ; history and portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt about 1640. His pictures, mostly night pieces, are full of spirit, his portraits truthful and of masterly execution, though less warm in tone than Rembrandt's. In 1675 he was employed at the court of the Duke of Hoi- stein. Works : Family of Ryklof van Goens (1650), Haarlem Museum ; Conspiracy of j Claudius Civilis, City Hall, Amsterdam ; Regents'- Piece (1656), Male Portrait, Muse- um, ib.; Portraits, Htiysittenhuis, ib.; Male and Female Portrait, Rotterdam Museum ; Departure of Tobias, Nantes Museum ; Male Portrait (1666), Musical Lovers, Copenhagen Gallery ; Taking of Christ, Bamberg Gal- lery ; Head of Christ, Brunswick Museum; Girl with Chicken, Girl with Grapes, Har- rach Gallery, Vienna. Fernow (Riegel), Carstens, 44 ; Kramm, iv. 1240 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 279 ; Vosmaer, Rembrandt, 161 ; Weilbach, 527. OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY, Sir John Everett Millais, Bart., Kay Knowles, Esq., England ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. x 6 ft. 2 in. Landscape-view of Strath Tay, aa seen from near Birnam, in Perthshire, with Ben-y-Gloe in the middle distance, the range of vision extending nearly to Dunkeld. Royal Academy, 1876 ; Exposition uniyer- selle, Paris, 1878 (Dans les montagnes d'Ecosse). OVERBECK, (JOHANN) FRIEDRICH, born at Liibeck, July 4, 1789, died in Rome, Nov. 12, 1869. His- tory painter, pu- pil of Vienna Academy under Fiiger ; but, at variance with its conventional rou- N tine, he was ex- pelled in 1810, and, accompanied by Franz Pforr, Ludwig Vogel, and Hottinger, went 878