whence passed to W. Young Ottley, who sold it in 1801 to Sir Thomas Lawrence for £470; next passed to Sir M. Sykes, whose heir, Rev. Thomas Egerton, sold it in 1847 for £1,050 to National Gallery, which possesses also the original sketch in pen and ink. Engraved by L. Gruner.—C. & C., Raphael, i. 199; Müntz, 95; Passavant, ii. 16; Perkins, 60; Richter, 53.
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KNILLE, OTTO, born at Osnabrück,
Sept. 10, 1832. History
painter, pupil of Düsseldorf
Academy under
Karl Sohn, Th. Hildebrandt,
and Schadow;
studied then in Paris
under Couture, lived
four years in Munich,
three years in Italy, and
settled in 1866 in Berlin,
where, in 1875, he
became professor at the Academy. Senator
in 1882. Gold medal, Berlin, 1881. Works:
Death of Totila (1855); Corpse of the Cid
frightening the Moors; Nun led to be immured,
Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Cycle
from Thuringian Legends; Fiesole in Monastery
of San Marco; Tannhäuser and Venus
(1873), National Gallery, Berlin; Emperor
Hadrian and Antïnous; Four Friezes representing
Antique, Scholastic, Humanistic,
and Modern Culture, Berlin University.—Müller,
302; Leixner, D. mod. K., ii. 87;
Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 164; Wolfgang
Müller, Düsseldorfer K., 162; Zeitschr.
f. b. K., xvii. 55; xx. 94.
KNIP, HENRIETTE. See Ronner.
KNIP, JOSEPHUS AUGUSTUS, born at
Tilburg, Aug. 3, 1777, died at Berlicum,
near Bois-le-duc, Oct. 1, 1847. Landscape
painter, son and pupil of Nicolaas Frederik
Knip (flower painter, 1742-1809); went in
1801 to Paris, where he was befriended by
Gerard van Spaendonck; received a pension
in 1808, from Louis Napoleon, King of Holland,
and soon after went to Rome, whence
he visited Naples and Calabria, and returned
home with many sketches in 1813; lived at
Amsterdam until 1821, went to Paris in
1823, painted much for the royal family and
received a gold medal, returned to Amsterdam
in 1827, and became blind in 1832.
Member of Amsterdam Academy. Italian
Landscapes by him are in the Amsterdam
(1818) and Rotterdam Museums. His sister
Henriette Geertruida (born at Tilburg,
July 19, 1783, died at Haarlem, May 29,
1842), was a skilful flower painter, pupil in
Paris of Spaendonck and of Jan Frans Dael.
Medals, Paris, 1819; Amsterdam, 1822.—Immerzeel,
ii. 117; D. Kunstbl. (1852),
310.
KNOLLER, MARTIN, born at Steinach,
Tyrol, Nov. 8, 1725, died in Milan, July 24,
1804. History and portrait painter, first
instructed by an obscure artist in Innsbruck,
then pupil of Paul Troger, who accidentally
discovered his talent in passing through
Steinach on his return from Italy in 1745,
and took him to Vienna. Having obtained
the great prize at the Academy in 1753, returned
to Tyrol, and after two years went
to Rome, where he studied the old masters,
and freed himself from Troger's mannerism.
He found an adviser in Raphael Mengs and
a warm friend in Winckelmann. In 1755
appointed professor at the Academy of Milan,
where he spent forty prosperous years.
In 1790-92 he was in Vienna, and painted
Leopold II. and Francis I. He excelled as
a portrait and fresco painter, and decorated
a number of churches in the villages of
Tyrol, Bavaria, and Lombardy, and many
palaces in Milan. Works: Young Tobias
healing his Father's Eyes; Stoning of St.
Stephen (1754); Conception of Mary, Birth
of Mary, Marriage of Mary; Madonna, St.
Joseph Dying; Beheading of St. Catharine;
St. Sebastian, Pietà (1790), Holy Family
(1794), Kloster Ettal, Bavaria; St. Charles
Borromeo (1764); Raising of Lazarus; Scipio
at Carthage; Christ at Emmaus; Martyrdom
of St. Sebastian; do. of John the Baptist;
Eight Altarpieces in Stiftskirche at
Gries, near Botzen; Christ on the Cross
(1796), Holy Family, Joseph and Potiphar's
