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WKIll Piece (1881) ; Dutch Peasant (1883), Muse of Music, Metropolitan Museum, New York ; Breton Interior, The Mother, Flow- ers (1884). Water-colours : An Interior ; Sunday Morning, Portrait of Sleeping Dog (1884). Portraits : Robert Weir (1880) ; Warren Delano (1881); Richard Grant White (1883) ; Peter Cooper (1884) ; A Revery (1886). WEIR, ROBERT WALTER, born in New Rochelle, June 18, 1803. History paint- er, pupil of Jarvis ; began to paint por- traits in 1821, and in 1824 went to Florence, where he studied with Ben- venuti ; afterwards studied nature and old masters in Rome (1825). Elected N.A. in 1829, and profes- sor of drawing at the West Point Military Academy in 1837, which position he held for forty-two years. Studio in New York. Works : Belle of the Carnival (1836) ; Land- ing of Hendrik Hudson (1842) ; Embarka- tion of the Pilgrims (1845), Capitol at Wash- ington ; Evening of the Crucifixion (1867) ; Virgil and Dante crossing the Styx (1869) ; Titian in his Studio, Christ in the Garden (1873) ; Our Lord on the Mount of Olives (1877) ; Columbus before the Council of Salamanca (1884). WEIROTTER, FRANZ EDMUND, born at Innsbruck, May 11, 1730, died in Vienna in 1771. German school ; landscape paint- er, studied at Innsbruck, Vienna, and Mentz, then in Paris under the engraver Johann Georg Wille ; visited Italy, and became pro- fessor at the Vienna Academy in 1767. Land- scapes by him are in the Bamberg Gallery (2), the Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck (2), and the Stuttgart Museum. Wurzbach. WEISER, JOSEF (EMANUEL), born at Patschkau, Silesia, May 10, 1847. Genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Wilhelm Diez ; visited Germany, Austria, and Italy ; paints with striking humour and keen satire. Works : Visit to Nunnery ; Theatre in Eighteenth Century ; Acquitted ; Harvest Festival in Silesia ; Defence of Monastery ; Full Glasses Warm Heads ! Last Refuge, Dresden Gallery ; Church Militant (1879) ; Storming of Maidens' Cas- tle (1882) ; After the Surprise (1883) ; Plun- dering Scene in Thirty Years' War (1884) ; Outpost, Hay for the Monastery (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886). Allgem. K. C., viii. 378 ; Illustr. Zeitg. (1877), ii. 9 ; (1884), ii. 37; (1885), i. 412 ; Kuust-Chronik, xv. 432 ; xvii. 632 ; xix. 630 ; xx. 744. WEISHAUPT, VIKTOR, born in Munich, March 6, 1848. Animal painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Wilhelm Diez, after having served in the war of 1870-71. Gold medal, London. Works : Cattle Herd by a Windmill (1876) ; Wild Bull (1879) ; Water- ing Place for Cattle, Herd returning Home (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886). Illustr. Zeitg. (1880), ii. 72; Kunst-Cronik, xxii. 39 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xv. 224. WEISS, FERDINAND, born at Magde- burg, Aug. 10, 1814, died in Berlin, Jan. 23, 1878. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Berlin and Diisseldorf Academies under Schadow. Made himself especially known through his excellent illustrations for his brother Hermann's splendid history of cos- tume. In the National Gallery at Berlin is by him : The Return of the Knight (1837). Jordan (1885), ii. 239. WEISS, JOSEF ANDREAS, born at Freising, Bavaria, in 1814. Architecture painter, first instructed by his father, an amateur, then pupil of Domeiiico Quaglio in Munich. Lived for some time at St. Pe- tersburg as court painter to the Duke of Leuchtenberg, travelled in Russia, then set- tled in Munich. Works : Views in Munich (4, 1873, 1877, 1879, 1884, two with military groups), New Pinakothek, Munich ; St. Isaac's in St. Petersburg ; The Kremlin in Moscow. Mflller, 551. WEISSENBRUCH, JAN, born at The Hague, March 18, 1822, died there, Feb. 15, 419