OLIVIER, MICHEL BARTHÉLEMY, born at Marseilles in 1712, died in Paris, June 15, 1784. French school; history, genre, and landscape painter, member of Academy of St. Luke, and court-painter to the Prince de Conti; lived for several years in Spain, where he left many pictures. Works: Massacre of the Innocents (1767); Death of Cleopatra (1769); Telemachus and Mentor conducted to Acestes (1777); Fête given by Prince de Conti to Prince of Brunswick, Stag-Hunt near Château de l'Ile-Adam, Little Mozart playing before Court of Prince de Conti, Supper in the Temple, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, ii. 176.
OLIVIER, (WOLDEMAR) FRIEDRICH
VON, born at Dessau, April 23, 1791, died
there, Sept. 5, 1859. History and landscape
painter, brother and pupil of Ferdinand,
with whom he went to Vienna in 1811; having
joined Lützow's Volunteer-corps in the
campaign of 1813-14, he went in 1815 from
Vienna to the Netherlands and England, and
in 1818 to Rome, where he studied under
Cornelius and Overbeck. After his return
to Vienna in 1824 he painted portraits until
1829, when he sought a wider sphere in
Munich, and there painted some of the frescos
in the Königsbau.—Works: Noah's
Family entering the Ark (1818); Christ
with the Tribute Money (1821), Naumburg
Cathedral; House Altar with five Scenes referring
to Nativity (1830); Marriage at Cana,
Visitation of Mary (1832); two Italian Landscapes
with Scriptural Subjects, Basle Museum.—Nagler,
x. 342.
OLMENDORF (Olmdorf), HANS VON,
flourished 1460-1518 as court painter to
Dukes Sigmund and Albrecht IV. of Bavaria.
German school; his works show a
decided tendency to idealize, deviating from
the then prevailing realism. Works: Passion
of Christ, Altarpiece at Altenötting
(1507-18); Triptych with Crucifixion (1492),
National Museum, Munich; Triptych with
Trinity, Baptism of Christ, and Coronation
of Mary (1491), Chapel at Blutenburg, near
Munich; Portrait of Duke Sigmund of Bavaria,
Schleissheim Gallery.—Förster, ii.
250; Marggraff, München m. sein. Kunstschätzen,
76; Schnaase, viii. 465; Sighart,
570.
OLYMPIAS, painter, of whom Pliny only
knew that she was the instructor of Autobulus.—Pliny,
xxxv. 40 [147]; Brunn, ii.
300.
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OMMEGANCK, BALTHAZAR PAUWEL,
born in
Antwerp, Dec. 26,
1755, died there,
Jan. 18, 1826. Animal
and landscape
painter, pupil of
H. J. Antonissen;
painted especially
sheep. Rector of
Guild of St. Luke,
Antwerp, in 1789,
and professor in Academy in 1796. He
was one of the envoys sent to Paris to
procure the restitution of pictures taken by
Napoleon. Works: Landscapes with Cattle
(2), Louvre; do., and Crossing a Ford,
Antwerp Museum; Sunset, Sunrise, Baroness
Diert, Antwerp; Scene in the Ardennes,
Brussels Museum; View in West Flanders,
Museum, Amsterdam; Landscapes with
Sheep (3), Museum Fodor, ib.; do. (4),
Rotterdam Museum; do. (1), Hague Museum;
Landscape and Shepherds, Leuchtenberg
Gallery, St. Petersburg; Landscape
with Sheep and Goat, Städel Gallery, Frankfort;
Landscape with Hunter and Fishermen,
Cassel Gallery; do. with Cattle, Brunswick
Gallery; do., Leipsic Museum; Flemish
Pasture, New York Museum; Landscape
with Sheep (2), Historical Society, New
York; do. (1), August Belmont, ib. His
sister, Maria Jacoba, painted landscapes in
his manner.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande;
Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 262; Immer-
