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WILT pointed its librarian. "Works : Villa of Mro- ceuas at Tivoli, Destruction of Niobe's Chil- dren, Lake Avernus, On the River Wye, and other landscapes, National Gallery, London ; Apollo and the Seasons, River Dee, Grosven- or House ; View of Tivoli, Dulwich Gallery ; Landscape, Earl of Wemyss ; Italian Land- scape, R. C. L. Bevau ; Landscape with Mill, Rev. W. H. Wayne; Italian Land- scape, River Scene with Figures, National Gallery, Einburgh. Cat. Nat. Gal. ; Red- grave ; Wright, Life (London, 1824) ; Cun- ningham ; F. de Conches, 179 ; Ch. Blanc, cole anglaise ; Sandby, i. 106 ; Portfolio (1872), 82. WILT, THOMAS VAN DER, born at Piershil, Holland, Oct. 29, 1659, died at Delft in 1733. Dutch school. Genre paint- er, pupil of Jan Verkolje at Delft, where he was repeatedly one of the trustees of the guild in 1690-1714. His works show also the influence of Ter Borch and Ochtervelt. In the Berlin Museum is one of his princi- pal works : Lady and two Gentlemen at Game of Draughts. Kramrn, vi. 1870 ; Meyer, Gem. kongl. Mus., 536. WINDSOR BEAUTIES, Sir Peter Lely, Hampton Court Palace, England ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 1 in. x 3 ft 4 in. each. Portraits of beauties of the Court of Charles H., so called because they were formerly hung in the queen's bedchamber at Windsor Castle. All of them are three-quarters lengths, in landscapes, and all of one type bare-head- ed, with hair arranged in coquettish curls on the forehead, short sleeves, and with draperies disposed in graceful negligence, freely exposing the busts. Lely painted eleven originally : 1. Barbara Villiers, Duch- ess of Cleveland, as Minerva ; daughter and heiress of Viscount Graudisou and wife of Roger Palmer, afterwards Earl of Castle- maine. 2. Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond ; daughter of Captain Walter Stewart and wife of Duke of Richmond. 3. Mrs. Jane Middleton, daughter of Sir Roger Needham. 4. Elizabeth Wriothesley, Count- ess of Northumberland ; daughter of the Earl of Southampton and wife of Joscelin, Lord Percy ; married second, Ralph, Lord Montague, but retained her first title. 5. Anne Digby, Countess of Sunderland ; daughter of the Earl of Bristol and wife of Robert Spencer, Earl of Suuderland. 6. Elizabeth Bagot, Countess of Falraouth ; daughter of Colonel Hervey Bagot, wife of Lord Falmouth and afterwards of Lord Dorset. 7. Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Den- ham ; daughter of Sir William Brooke and wife of Sir John Denham, the poet. 8. Frances Brooke, afterwards Lady Whitmore ; sister of Elizabeth Brooke and wife of Sir Thomas Whitmore. 9. Henrietta Boyle, Countess of Rochester ; daughter of Rich- ard, Earl of Cork and Burlington, and wife of Lawrence Hyde, afterwards Earl of Rochester. 10. Eliza Hamilton, Countess de Gramont, as St. Catherine ; sister of Count Anthony Hamilton and wife of the Chevalier de Gramont. 11. Madame d'Or- leans. This picture is lost. Law, Hist Cat. Hampton Court, 56 ; Mrs. Jameson, Beauties of Court of Charles H. ; Hamilton, Memoires du comte de Gramont ; Pepys's Diary. WINGE, MARTEN ESKTL, born in Stockholm, Sept. 21, 1825. History paint- er, pupil of Stockholm Academy, where ho took the first prize in 1857 ; then studied in Diisseldorf, and under Couture in Paris ; went to Rome, and returned in 1803 via Munich to Sweden ; became member of Stockholm Academy and court painter in 1864, and professor in 1867. Works : Kraka (1862), Hjalmar and Orvar Odd (1865), Loke and Sigyn, Thor's Fight with the Giants (1868), Stockholm Museum ; In- geborg, Gothenburg Museum ; Olof Tryg- gvesson and Sigrid Storrada at Konghiill ; Christ on Mount of Olives ; Resurrection ; Descent from the Cross. His wife Hauna, nee Sengelin (born Dec. 4, 1838), is a good genre painter, pupil of Boklund and of Stockholm Academy. Mtlller, 561. 437