Scourging of Christ, Venice Academy; Artist's Portrait, Shepherd playing the Shalm, Aglaia's Daughters led to Temple by Mercury, Hagar consoled by Angel, Uffizi, Florence; Six Landscapes with Story of Icarus, Naples Museum; Scoffing of Ceres, Madrid Museum; Flight into Egypt, Good Samaritan, Louvre, Paris; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (copy?), National Gallery, London; Meeting of Elias and Obadiah, Marquis of Bute, ib.; Repose in Egypt, Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth; Eight small Landscapes with Saints, Earl of Leconfield, Petworth; Liberation of St. Peter, Lord Elgin, Broom Hall, near Edinburgh.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 66; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Bode, Studien, 231; Jahrb. der Köngl. preuss. Kunstsammlg., i. 51, 245.
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ELST, PIETER VAN. See Verelst.
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION,
Francis B. Carpenter, staircase of House of
Representatives, Capitol, Washington. President
Lincoln signing the proclamation of
emancipation of slaves in the United States,
January 1, 1863. Painted in 1864; purchased
for $25,000 in 1877 by Miss Mary
Elizabeth Thompson, and presented to the
Government.
EMBDE, AUGUST VON DER, born in
Cassel, Dec. 2, 1780, died there, Aug. 10,
1862. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of
Cassel Academy; studied the old masters at
Dresden, Düsseldorf, Munich, and Vienna,
painted portraits in Cassel until 1830, and
then began to treat child and peasant life
with much success. Works: Hessian Peasant
Girl with Letter; Children playing on
Ruins of their Burned Home; Girls at the
Well; Cinderella; Children playing at the
Brook.
EMELÉ, WILHELM, born at Buchen, in
the Odenwald, in 1830. Battle painter, pupil
in Munich of Feodor Dietz, studied
afterwards in Antwerp and Paris. His pictures
are good in colour and show thorough
knowledge of military details. Since 1861
he has resided in Vienna. Works: Battle
of Stockach, Assault on Heidelberg Bridge
(1857); Skirmish near Aldenhoven (1859);
Episode in Battle of Aspern (1860); Taking
of Camp near Farmars, Park Scene with
Horses, Attack of French Cuirassiers at
Waterloo, Battle of Würzburg (1867); Battle
of Neerwinden (1872); Attack of Division
Bonnemain at Elsasshausen; Battle of
Dijon; Meeting of Patrols; Headquarters
of XIV. Army Corps in Battle of Belfort;
Episode from Battle of Wörth; Victory of
George II. at Dettingen (1879); Cavalry
Flight near Langenbruck.—Kunst-Chronik,
ii. 162; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 292.
ÉMINENCE GRISE, Jean Léon Gérôme,
J. H. Stebbins, New York. His Gray Eminence,
the Father Joseph of Bulwer's "Richelieu,"
is descending a broad flight of stairs;
absorbed in his breviary, he is apparently as
unconscious of the servile bows and genuflections
of the courtiers before him as of
the defiant and contemptuous glances of
those who have passed him.
EMMET, ROSINA, born in the United
States, contemporary. Figure painter, pupil
of William Chase. Exhibits at the National
Academy, New York, and is well
known as an illustrator and designer. Studio
at East Rockaway, L. I. Works: Portrait
of Boy (1881), Alexander Stevens; Apple
Blossoms, Haymaking, Waiting to see the
Doctor (1882); Red Rose Land, Elder
Flowers, La Mescicana (1883).
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EMPOLI, JACOPO CHIMENTI DA,
born at Empoli in 1554, died in Florence,
Sept. 30, 1640. Florentine school; pupil
of Tommaso da San Friano, but formed his
style chiefly by studying the works of Andrea
del Sarto,
whose pictures he
copied very cleverly.
He painted
many pictures,
the best of which is Christ in the Garden of
Olives, Madrid Museum. Other works are:
