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YKENS YKENS, PEETER, born at Antwerp, baptized Jan. 30, 1648, died there shortly after July, 1695. Flemish school ; history and portrait painter, son and pupil of Jan Ykens (1613-79, sculptor and painter); mas- ter of the guild in 1673, dean in 1689. Works : St. Catharine disputing with the Philosophers (1684), Two Portraits (1690, 1693), Museum, Antwerp ; Last Supper (1687), St. Andrew's, ib.; Portrait of Canon Emanuel van Horenbeeck, St. James's, ib.; Christ giving the Keys to St. Peter (1690), Church at Wommelghem ; Christ appearing to the Husband of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Two Episodes in Life of St. Francis Xavier, St. Mary's Hospital, Mechlin ; Christ ap- pearing to St. Theresa, Lille Museum. His sister, Catharine (born in February, 1659), was a flower and fruit painter, pupil of her father, and master of the guild in 1688. In the Madrid Museum are by her a Festoon of Flowers and Fruits, and a Garland, both around small landscapes. His son, Jan Peeter (born in 1673), was also a good painter. Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers, 548; Rooses (Reber), 431; Van den Branden, 951, 1146. YON, EDMOND CHARLES, born at Montmartre, Paris, Feb. 2,1836. Land- scape painter, pupil of Lequien. At first practised wood en- graving, but since 1875 has painted many charming views from the en- virons of Paris. Medals : 3d class, 1875 ; 2d class, 1879 ; L. of Honour, 1886. Works : Two Views near Montereau (1875) ; Branch of the Marne, Seine near Gravon (1876) ; Before the Rain (1878); Banks of the Marne (1879); Canal of La Villette, Isle-les-Villenoy on the Marne (1880) ; Villerville, Marsh of Cricque- bceuf (1881); River Eure (1882), Luxem- bourg Museum ; San Marco (1882) ; The Squall (1883); The Dune, Mouth of the Dive (1884); The Meuse at Dordrecht (1885); Frog Fishers, The Carp Hole (1886). Bellier, ii. 728. YORICK AND THE GRISETTE, Gil- bert Stuart Newlon, National Gallery, Lon- don ; canvas, H. 2 ft. 5 in. x 1 ft. 10 in. Interior of a hosier's shop. Yorick pur- chasing gloves, the beautiful grisette menu uring them one by one across his hand (Sterne's " Sentimental Journey "). Royal Academy, 1830. Vernon Collection. En- graved by W. Watt ; H. Bourne. YOSEMITE VALLEY, Albert Bierttadl, Lenox Library, New York. Painted in 1866. Bierstadt painted also Looking down the Yosemite (1865), W. H. Crosby, New York ; and Domes of the Yosemite, an al- most panoramic picture, formerly owned by Le Grand Lockwood. By Thomas Hill, Charles Crocker, San Francisco. Painted in 1871 ; Philadelphia Exhibition, 1876. YOUNG BULL, Paul Potter, Hague Mu- seum ; canvas, H. 8 ft. x 12 f t ; signed, dated 1647. The young bull, brownish-red with patches of white, standing on rising ground under a tree, beside which a cow and a ewe and her lamb are lying down, and a ram is standing ; behind a fence is a herdsman, with one hand on thejree, look- ing at the bull ; background, a Dutch dairy farm, with cattle. A masterpiece ; the ani- mals, of life-size, appear to live and breathe. Sold in Fabricius Collection, Haarlem, in 1749, for 630 florins ; carried to Paris ; re- turned in 1816. Engraved by Le Bas ; Coucho ; Battard ; etched by Denon. Smith, v. 118 ; Ch. Blanc, ficole hollan- daise ; Reveil, xi. 789. YOUNG, EDUARD, born in Prague in 1823. Genre and landscape painter, pupil in Munich of Piloty in 1864, having first studied at Linz, Upper Austria, and in Vi- enna, then (1855) in Munich, and been in- structor in drawing of King Frederick VH. in Copenhagen, where he received the great 457