of Juno at Praeneste; Rising of Tabea, Judgment of Paris (1885).—D. illustr. Zeitg. (1885), i. 151; Leixner, Mod. K., i. 106.
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KELLER, FERDINAND, born in Carlsruhe,
Aug. 5, 1842.
Landscape, history,
portrait, and
genre painter, pupil
of Carlsruhe
Art School under
Schirmer, then of
Canon; visited, in
1866, and later,
France and Italy.
In 1858 he accompanied
his father and brother to Brazil,
whence he brought studies for his tropical
landscapes. His first historical painting,
the Death of Philip II., exhibited in Paris
in 1867, excited general admiration, and won
the first prize at Rio Janeiro. Professor
and, since 1880, director of Carlsruhe Art
School. Medal, Vienna, 1873. Works:
From the Primeval Forest; Bay of Rio de
Janeiro; Alchymist; Carrier-Pigeon; Nero
at Conflagration of Rome (1873); Lohengrin
and Telramund; Scene in Marriage of
Figaro; Humboldt on the Orinoco (1875);
Sketch for Curtain in Royal Theatre (1875),
Dresden Museum; Entombment; Victory
of Margrave Louis William of Baden at
Salankemen in 1691, Carlsruhe Gallery;
Hero and Leander (1880); Portrait of Grand-*duchess
of Oldenburg and little Daughter
(1884). Fresco, Annunciation (1870),
Jesuit Church, Heidelberg; Classic and
Romantic Art and Science (1885), cycle in
staircase of United Collections at Carlsruhe.—Kunst-Chronik,
x. 580; xx. 657; Kunst.
f. Alle, i. 163; Müller, 295; Illustr. Zeitg.
(1874), i. 207; (1875), i. 13, 47; (1881), ii.
368; Land und Meer (1878), i. 251.
KELLERHOVEN, MORITZ, born at Altenrath,
Duchy of Berg, in 1758, died in
Munich in 1830. Portrait painter, studied
in Düsseldorf under Krahe, and in Antwerp;
went to Vienna in 1779, and to Italy in
1782. Made court-painter in 1784 to the
Elector Charles Theodor in Munich, and
first professor at the reorganized Academy
there, in 1808. Works: Max I. of Bavaria,
Munich University; Gustavus Adolphus IV.
of Sweden, and his Queen; Archduke
Charles of Austria; Crown Prince Ludwig;
Augusta Amalia von Leuchtenberg; Bishop
von Streber; Archbishop von Gebsattel;
Last Abbot of Steingaden, New Pinakothek,
Munich; Portrait of a Singer, do. of a
Prelate, Schleissheim Gallery.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., xv. 584; Cotta's Kunstblatt (1831),
173; Nagler, vi. 553.
KELS, FRANZ, born at Derendorf, Westphalia,
in 1828. Genre painter, pupil of
Düsseldorf Academy. Works: Girl with
Goat (1849); Peasant Woman with Child
before Madonna (1852); Westphalian Peasant
Wedding (1856); Domestic Happiness
(1857); Spring Offering (1860); Apple Harvest
(1862); Girls at the Brook.—D. Kunstbl.
(1856), 405; (1857), 18; Müller, 296.
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KENSETT, JOHN FREDERICK, born
in Cheshire, Conn.,
March 22, 1818, died
in New York, Dec.
16, 1872. Landscape
painter; after studying
engraving under
Daggett, he spent
seven years abroad
(1840-47), painting
in England, Rome,
Naples, Switzerland,
on the Rhine, and among the Italian lakes.
First exhibited at Royal Academy, London,
in 1845. Elected N.A. in New York, in
1849. In 1859, appointed member of the
commission to superintend the decoration
of the Capitol at Washington. Professional
life spent in New York. Works: Mount
Washington from North Conway (1849);
Sketch of Mount Washington (1851), High
Bank on Genesee River (1857), October Afternoon
(1864), Corcoran Gallery, Washington;
Franconia Mountains (1853); Sunset
on the Coast (1858); Sunset in the Adirondacks
(1860); Twenty-four Landscapes and