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DEMETRIUS one mentioned by Diodorus (Excerpt. Vat. xxxi. 534), who lived iu Rome about 163 B.C.; or with the Alexandrian painter of the name (Val. Max., v. 1. 1.) R-Rochette, Schorn, 271. DEMETRIUS, ST., Tintoretto, S. Felice, Venice ; canvas. St. Demetrius armed and accompanied by a person of the Casa Ghigi. Zanotto, 364. DEMONT, ADRIEN LOUIS, born at Douai (Nord), France; contemporary. Land- scape painter, pupil of E. Breton. Medals : 3d class, 1879; 2d class, 1882. Works: Canal, Village Square (1878); August (1879); Brickfield, La Scarpe near Douai (1880) ; The Landes of Finisterre (1881), A Mill (1882), Luxembourg Museum ; Morning in March (1882); Brook, Hyacinths in Bloom (1883) ; Jardin du Vieux (1884) ; Kitchen Garden in Springtime, Approche du gros Temps (1885). DEMONT -BRETON, Mme. VIRGINIE fiLODIE, born at Courrieres (Pas-de-Calais); contemporary. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of Jules Breton. Medals : 3d class, 1881 ; 2d class, 1883. Works : The Little Spring, April Flowers (1880); Woman bath- ing her Children (1881) ; The First Step, The Family (1882) ; Flat Shore (1883), Lux- embourg Museum ; The Calm, Little Birds'- Nester (1884) ; Wolves of the Sea (1885). DEMOPHILUS, painter, of Himera, Si- cily, about 424 B.C. Supposed to have been the master of Zeuxis. Pliny, xxxv. 36 [61]. DENIS, SIMON, surnamed den Schelen (the squint-eyed), born at Antwerp, baptized April 14, 1755, died in Naples, Jan. 1, 1813. Flemish school ; landscape painter, pupil of H. J. Antonissen, went to Italy in 1786, and afterwards settled in Naples, where he was made first painter to the king. Works : View of Arpino, Louvre, Paris ; Cascade (1793), Landscape, Sunset, Antwerp Museum. Biog. nat. de Belgique, v. 595. DENNELLE, DOMINIQUE ALEXAN- DRE, born in Paris in 1818, died in Florence, Italy, Dec. 4, 1879. History painter in fresco ; went to Germany when seventeen to study ceramics, then studied monumental painting under Delaroche and Duban, and decorative painting in Italy. L. of Honour, 1859 ; Officer, 1874. Works : Paintings in St. Germain des Pres, St. Clo- tilde, St. Trinito, St. Sulpice, St. Eustache, Paris ; Church of the Abbey, St. Denis ; St. Paul's, Nimes ; others in Lyons, Beauvais, Carcassone, and Orleans. Mailer, 132. DENNER, BALTHASAR, born at Altona, Nov. 15, 1685, died in Rostock, April 14, 1749. German school ; portrait painter ; studied under obscure masters in Altona and Dantzic, then, in 1707, at the Berlin Acad- emy. In 1709 he began his career by paint- ing the portraits of Duke Christian Augustus of Holstein and his sister. At the age of twenty-four his name was famous, and he received numberless orders from princes and nobles of Northern Germany, Denmark, Hol- land, and England, which he executed with microscopic accuracy and infinite elaboration of detail. Works : Portraits of Duke Chris- jtian August of Holstein and Sister (1709); Group of Holstein Princes and Courtiers (1712); Princess of Schleswig (1713); Prince Mentschikoff (1713); Several Portraits of I King Frederic IV. of Denmark (1712 and 1717); Duchess of Brunswick (1720); Duke J and Duchess of Blankenburg (1729); King Augustus H. of Poland (1729); Christian VI. of Denmark (1734); Duke Cliristiau Lud- wig of Mecklen- burgandFamily 1735); Prin- cess Sophie Charlotte of Denmark (1736); Peter HI. of Russia as Duke of Holstein (1740) ; Adolphus Frederic of Hol- steiu-Gottorp (1743); Elector of Cologne (1744); Duke of Holstein (1747); Duchess of Brunswick (1747); Artist's por- trait, six others, Kunsthalle, Hamburg ; Por. 891