Opening of the Dance (1868). Unsuccessful Water Excursion; Rafts on the Inn; Alpine Hunter and his Sweetheart; Fandango; Ambush.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xv. 768; Blanckarts, 106; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 498; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 494.
KINDT, ADÈLE, born in Brussels in
1805. History and genre painter, pupil of
Sophie Frémiet, then of Navez; won the
first prize of the Ghent Academy when
scarcely twenty-two, then received medals in
Douai (1827, 1831), Cambray (1828, 1834,
1838), Ghent (1835), and Brussels (1836);
member of Brussels (1827), Ghent (1835),
and Lisbon Academies. Works: Last Moments
of Egmont, Ghent Museum; Melancthon
predicting Prince Willem's Future,
Elizabeth sentencing Mary Stuart, Hague
Museum; Madonna; Obstinate Scholar;
Flower Girl; Happier than a King.—D.
Kunstbl. (1850), 263; Immerzeel, ii. 111;
Kramm, iii. 874; Müller, 299.
KINGS, ADORATION OF. See Magi.
KINSON (Kinsoen), FRANCISCUS JOSEPHUS,
born at Bruges in 1771, died there
in 1839. History and portrait painter, pupil
of Bruges Academy, where he won several
prizes and a gold medal; after painting
portraits at Bruges, Ghent, and Brussels,
went to Paris, where he acquired reputation,
was naturalized, and in 1809 appointed chief
painter to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia.
After the fall of the empire he returned
to Paris and in 1817 became painter
to the Duke of Angoulême. Medal, 1808;
L. of Honour. Works: Belisarius at the
Death of his Wife Antonina (1817), Bruges
Academy; Portrait of Duke of Angoulême
(1819), Bordeaux Museum; Portraits of
General Leclerc, of Bernadotte, King Jerome,
and Duke of Angoulême, Versailles
Museum.—Bellier, i. 854; Cotta's Kunstbl.
(1839), 404; Immerzeel, ii. 113.
KIÖRBOE, CARL FREDRIK, born at
Kristiansfeld, Schleswig, in 1800, died at Dijon,
France, Jan., 1876. Animal painter.
Member of Stockholm Academy in 1858;
court-painter. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1844;
2d class, 1846; L. of Honour, 1860; orders of
Wasa and Olaf. Works: Dogs from Tartary,
Foxes watching for Prey, Foxes devouring
their Booty (1870), Charles XV. on
Horseback, Stockholm Museum; Mutual
Surprise (1874); Inundation; Jumping Fox;
Pony and Dog in a Stable, Ravené Gallery,
Berlin.—Art Journal (1876), 106; Bellier,
i. 855; Tafior.
KIPRENSKY, OREST, born at Koporie,
Government of Petersburg, in 1783, died in
Rome in 1836. Portrait painter, real name
Schwalbe; pupil of St. Petersburg Academy,
then spent some time in France and Italy,
and revisited those countries in 1828. Is
called the Russian Van Dyck. Works: Portraits
of his Father, Adam Schwalbe, of
Thorwaldsen, of a Young Gardener, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg.—Cotta's Kunstbl.
(1836), 436; Waagen, Eremitage, 315.
KIRBERG, OTTO, born at Elberfeld,
May 16, 1850. Genre painter, pupil of
Düsseldorf Academy in 1869, continued
after the war of 1870-71, from which he returned
wounded, under Wilhelm Sohn until
1879; visited Holland, and has since taken
his subjects from life of Dutch fishermen.
Gold medal, Berlin, 1879. Works: Victim
of the Sea (1879), National Gallery, Berlin;
Anxious Hours (1880); Dutch Kirmess
(1883); Dutch Lovers (1884).—Meyer,
Conv. Lex., xxi. 499; Kunst-Chronik, xviii.
402.
KIRCHNER, (ALBERT) EMIL, born in
Leipsic, May 12, 1813, died in Munich, June
4, 1885. Architecture and landscape painter,
pupil of Leipsic Academy, then in Dresden
of Dahl and Friedrich, and finally studied
in Munich, whither he returned in 1834
with Genelli. Works: Bear-Pit (1840),
Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Tomb of Counts of
Castelbanco in Verona (1845), View in Verona
(1851), Three Views in Heidelberg
Castle (1852-54), Courtyard of Palace in
Venice (1858), New Pinakothek, Munich;
View of Verona, Piazzetta in Venice, Schack
Gallery, ib.; Lichtenberg Castle in Adige
Valley, Pompeii (1860); Cathedral at Worms,
