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KNILLE Senator Works : whence passed to W. Young Ottley, who sold it in 1801 to Sir Thomas Lawrence for 470 ; next passed to Sir M. Sykes, whose heir, Rev. Thomas Egerton, sold it in 1847 for 1,050 to National Gallery, which pos- sesses also the original sketch in pen and ink. Engraved by L. (iruuer. C. <fc C., Raphael, i. 199 ; Milntz, 95 ; Passavant, ii. 1C ; Perkins, 00 ; Richtcr, 5 KNILLE, OTTO, l>oni at Osuabriick, Sept. 10, 1832. History painter, pupil of Diissel- dorf A cade my under Karl Solm, Tli. Hilde- brandt, nnd Schadow ; studied then in Paris under Couture, lived four years in Munich, three years in Italy, nnd settled in 18f>G in Ber- lin, where, in 1875, ho became professor :t the Academy, in 1K82. Gold medal, Berlin, 1881. Death of Totila (1855) ; Corpse of the Cid frightening the Moors ; Nun led to be im- mured, Provinx.ial Museum, Hanover; Cycle from Thuringian Legends ; Fiesole in Mon- astery of San Marco ; T(iiii>h<'iin<er and Venus (1873), National Gallery, Berlin ; Emperor Hadrian and Anttnous ; Four Friezes rep- resenting Antique, Scholastic, Humanistic, and Modern Culture, Berlin University. Mdller, 302 ; Leixner, D. mod. K., ii. 87 ; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschnle, Ifi4 ; Wolf- gang Muller, DUsseldorfer K., 1(32 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 55 ; xx. 94. KNIP, HENRIETTE. See Ifonner. KNIP, JOSEPHUS AUGUSTUS, bom at Tilburg, Aug. 3, 1777, died at Berlicum, near Bois-le-due, Oct. 1, 1847. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Nicolaas Frederik Knip (flower painter, 1742-1809); went in 1801 to Paris, where he was befriended by Gerard van Spaendonck ; received a pension in 1808, from Louis Napoleon, King of Hol- land, and soon after went to Rome, whence he visited Naples and Calabria, and returned home with many sketches in 1813 ; lived at Amsterdam until 1821, went to Paris in 1823, painted much for the royal family ami received a gold medal, returned to Amster- dam in 1827, and In-came blind in 1832. Member of Amsterdam Academy. Italian Landscapes by him are in the Amsterdam (1818) and Rotterdam Museums. His sis- ter Henriette Geertruida (born at Tilburg, July 1!), 1783, died at Haarlem, May 211, IM'-'I, w:is a skilful flower painter, pupil in Paris of Spaendonck and of Jan Frans Dael. Medals. Paris, 181!) ; Amsterdam, 18-J2. Tnnner/.eel, ii. 117; 1). Kunstbl. (1852), 310. KNOLLKK, MAKTIN. born at Steinach, Tyrol, Nov. 8, 1725, died in Milan, July 24, 1801. History and portrait painter, tir.st instructed by an obscure artist in Innsbruck, then pupil of Paul Troger, who accidentally discovered his talent in passing through Steinach on his return from Italy in 1745, and took him to Vienna. Having obtained the great pri/.e at the Academy in 1753, re- turned to Tyrol, and after two years went to Home, where he studied the old masters, and freed himself from Troger's mannerism. He found an adviser in Raphael Mengs and a warm friend in Winckehnann. In 1755 appointed professor at the Academy of Mi- lan, where he spent, forty prosperous years. In 1790 92 he was in Vienna, and painted Leopold II. and Francis I. He excelled as a portrait and fresco painter, and decorated a number of churches in (lie villages of Tyrol, Bavaria, and Lombardy. and many palaces in Milan. Works: Young Tobias healing his Father's Eyes ; Stoning of St. Stephen (1754) ; Conception of Mary, Birth of Mary, Marriage of Mary ; Madonna, St. Joseph Dying ; Beheading of St. Catharine; St. Sebastian, Pieta (1790), Holy Family (1794), Kloster Ettal, Bavaria; St. Charles Borromeo(17(i4); liaising of Lazarus; Scipio at Carthage ; Christ at Einmaus ; Martyr- dom of St. Sebastian ; do. of John the Bap- tist ; Eight Altai-pieces in Stiftskirehe at Grips, near Botzen ; Christ on the Cross (1790), Holy Family, Joseph and Potiphar's