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and this in turn may possibly be the canvas sent in 1571 by Titian to Philip II. of Spain. Much damaged by patching and repainting. Engraved by C. Cort.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 392; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 152.


LUCY, CHARLES, born at Hereford in 1814, died at Notting Hill, May 19, 1873. History painter; studied at École des Beaux Arts, Paris, and also under Paul Delaroche; afterwards pupil of Royal Academy, London. First became known by a series of large historical cartoons exhibited in 1844 at the Westminster Hall Competition, where he was awarded a premium of £100 for his Caractacus. His works are important on account of their subject and the scale on which they are painted, rather than for their originality. Many of them have been engraved. Works: Interview between Milton and Galileo (1840); Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers (1847); Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers (1848); Mrs. Claypole's Deathbed (1849); Parting of Charles I. and his Children (1850); Parting of Lord and Lady Russell (1852), Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia; Shakespeare before Sir Thomas Lucy, Nelson in the Cabin of the Victory, Lord Saye and Sele before Jack Cade (1860); Reconciliation of Gainsborough and Reynolds (1863); Garibaldi at Tomb of Foscolo (1865); Intercepted Embarkation of John Hampden (1867); Abdication of Mary Stuart (1868); Charlotte Corday (1871); Columbus at La Ràbida (1872); Portraits of Gladstone, Cobden, Bright, Hume, Garibaldi, and Nelson, South Kensington Museum.—Redgrave; Athenæum (1873); Art Journal (1873), 208.


LUDIUS, Roman painter, time of Augustus. He was the first, according to Pliny (xxxv. 37 [116]), to introduce the style of mural decoration known to us as Pompeian.


LUDWIG, AUGUSTE, born at Gräfenthal, Saxe-Meiningen, in 1834. Genre painter, pupil in Weimar of Martersteig, in Dresden of Julius Scholz, and in Düsseldorf, where she settled, of Jordan and Stever. Works: Children's Breakfast (1862); Young Love (1865); Surprise (1866); Student's Return (1867); First Walk to School, Mother's Joy (1868); Hard Separation, The Widower, Involuntary Sentry, Ungrateful Audience, Domestic Happiness, Palatable! (1872); Boys gathering Shavings (1875).—Müller, 343.


LUDWIG, KARL, born at Römhild, Saxe-Meiningen, Jan. 18, 1839. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Piloty; visited the Bavarian and Bohemian mountains and North Italy, settled in Düsseldorf in 1868, became professor at Stuttgart Art-School in 1877, and removed to Berlin in 1880. Medal, Berlin, 1883. Works: Dilapidated Park-Gate, Schack Gallery, Munich; Spring, Summer, and Autumn; Olive Grove on Garda Lake; Lake in Bohemian Forest; Old Park Gate in Winter (1868); Landscape in Hartz Mountains; Smugglers' Path in High Mountains; St. Gothard Pass, National Gallery, Berlin; Village View in the Eifel; Mountain Road in Thuringian Forest; Alpine Landscape (1882), Dresden Museum.—Kunst-Chronik, xv. 467; Müller, 343; Zeitsch. f. b. K., xiv. 160.


LUGARDON, JEAN LÉONARD, born at Geneva, Oct. 1, 1801, died there, Aug. 17, 1884. History painter, first instructed at the school of design of the Société des Arts at Geneva, then in Paris (1819) pupil of Gros; two years later in Florence he was much influenced by Ingres, and in 1826-29 studied in Rome; lived then in Geneva, excepting three years (1835-38) in Paris, where he had many commissions and brilliant success. Works: Deliverance of Bonivard at Chillon, Arnold von Melchthal defending his Bulls, The Oath on the Rütli, Portrait of Engraver Schenker-Scheener, Musée Rath, Geneva; Taking of Castle Rossberg; William Tell saving Baumgarten; Prisoner of Chillon; Calvin denying Communion to the Libertines; Ruth and Boas; Christ on the Cross; Hagar in the Desert; John II., and Louis XI. of France, Connétables Montmorency and Jean de Bourbon, Marshal d'Estampes, Duke of