Wife, A Saint of the Servite Order, Portrait of Raphael Mengs, do. of Himself (2), Count Firmian and Suite in a Landscape, two other Male Portraits, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Judgment of Paris (1786), Palais Taxis, ib.; St. Benedict and St. Scholastica presented to the Trinity by the Virgin (1770), Schleissheim Gallery; Male Portrait (1791), Vienna Museum; Assumption, St. Sebastian restored by Irene, Portrait of Raphael Mengs, do. of Himself (1803), three other Male Portraits, Academy, Milan; over thirty pictures in Royal Palace and Chapel, ib.; others in Palazzo Groppi, Palazzo Melzi (4), Mainoni Collection (5), ib.; Portraits of Emperors Leopold II. and Francis II.; do. of Himself, Castle Leopoldkron, near Salzburg, and Sacristy of Stiftskirche at Gries. Frescos: The Heavenly Glory (1760, a model specimen of fresco painting), Kloster Ettal, Bavaria; Five Ceilings, Royal Palace, Milan; Apotheosis of Alberich the Great, Rinaldo in Gardens of Armida, Wedding of Rüdiger and Radamante, Palazzo Belgiojoso, ib.; Rape of Ganymede, and two others, Palazzo Groppi, ib.; Scenes in Life of St. Augustine, Stiftskirche at Gries; Descent from the Cross, Campo Santo, Rome.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 321; Göthe, Winkelmann, 280; Hormayr's Archiv. (1826), xvii. 800; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 557; D. Kunstbl. (1858), 99; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 421; Wurzbach, xii. 161.
KNORR, GEORG, born at Löbau, West-Prussia,
in 1845. Genre painter, pupil of
Königsberg Academy under Rosenfelder,
studied then in Berlin and Düsseldorf, and
afterwards visited Italy. His subjects are
mostly humourous. Works: Invitation to
Tea (1867); In the Museum (1872); New
Inmates (1874); At Boarding School (1875);
Taken in the Act (1877).
KNORR, HUGO, born in Königsberg in
1834. Landscape painter, pupil of Königsberg
Academy; won first prize and completed
his studies under Behrendsen, travelled
in the Hartz Mountains in 1858, and
in Norway in 1861. Professor at the Polytechnic
School in Carlsruhe since 1873.
Works: Before the Storm; After the Storm;
View of Witches' Dancing-Ground in the
Hartz; Norwegian Glacier; Norwegian
Waterfall; Fjord in High Plain; Hardanger
Fjord; Wreck on Norwegian Coast; Surf
on Norwegian Coast; Flying Dutchman
(1870).—Kaulen, 171; Müller, 303.
KNÜPFER, NICOLAUS, born at Leipsic
in 1603, died at Utrecht or at The Hague
in 1660 (?). Dutch school; history, genre,
and portrait painter, pupil of Abraham
Bloemaert at Utrecht, whither he came from
Magdeburg in 1630, and where he soon became
one of the best artists of the Dutch
school, enjoying the favour of distinguished
patrons, especially of the King of Denmark.
He was the first master of Jan Steen, and,
according to Kramm, removed afterwards
to The Hague. Works: Solomon sacrificing
to Strange Gods, Brunswick Museum;
The Seven Works of Mercy, Cassel Gallery;
Paul and Festus, Mercury and Psyche,
Copenhagen Gallery; Artist and his Wife
making Music, Dresden Museum; Venus
asleep and Cupid, Oldenburg Gallery; Esther
before Ahasuerus, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Allegory on Chase after Fortune
(1651), Joseph explaining the Dreams, The
Washing of Feet, Schwerin Gallery.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvi. 331; Descamps, i. 293;
Kramm, iii. 882; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 188;
Schlie, 319.
KNYFF, ALFRED DE, born in Brussels
in 1819, died in Paris, March 22, 1885.
Landscape painter. Lives at Fontainebleau.
Medals: 3d class, 1857, 1859, 1861; L. of
Honour, 1861. Works: Souvenir of Chennevières;
Dike of Champigny; Storm in the
Campine; Old Willow; Oak at Fontainebleau;
Sunset in the Campine in Belgium
(1869); Moonlight; Scotch Heath; Evening;
Villiers sur Mer; Clairvaux Village (1873);
Mouth of the Meuse, Garden of Alfred
Stevens, Marsh in the Campine (1875);
Prairies of Lagrange, Forest of Stolen in
the Campine (1877); Old Willow, Meadow
(1880); Environs of Bruges (1883); Prairies
