of Mortefontaine, Isle of Césambre (1884).—Journal des B. Arts (1860), 150; Müller, 304.
KNYFF, WOUTER, born at Wesel, of a
Haarlem family; living in 1679. Dutch
school. Painted city views and landscapes
in the style of Van Goyen; received into
Haarlem Guild in 1641. Pictures very rare.
Work: View of a City on a River, Ghent
Museum.—Kramm, iii. 882.
KÖBEL, GEORG, born at Worms in
1807. Landscape painter, pupil of Dresden
and Munich Academies; visited North Italy
several times, and Rome in 1836 and 1838,
and was greatly influenced by Markó; returned
to Munich in 1840. Works: Views
of Lake Garda; Views in the Ramsau; San
Gregorio in Sabine Mountains; Cloister
Andechs in Bavaria; Passenhofen; Ober-Ammergau;
Grotto of Egeria, Schack Gallery,
Munich; Königsee near Berchtesgaden;
Porta Nomentana; View of St. Peter's, Rome,
Carlsruhe Gallery.—Müller, 304.
KOBELL, FERDINAND, born in Mannheim,
June 7, 1740, died in Munich, Feb. 1,
1799. Landscape painter, pupil in Mannheim
of Verschaffelt. Studied from 1768 in
Paris, and after his return became court-painter
and professor at the Mannheim
Academy. In 1793 he was made director
of the Munich galleries. His landscapes,
in the style of Berchem, are effective and
truthful studies from nature. Works: Views
in and near Aschaffenburg (6), Aschaffenburg
Gallery; Four Landscapes (one dated 1785),
Schleissheim Gallery; Six do., Carlsruhe
Gallery; Three do. (1784, 1791), Darmstadt
Museum; Five do., Stuttgart Museum; others
in Augsburg Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvi. 350; Kugler, kl. Schriften, iii. 363;
Kunstblatt (1858), 280; Lipowsky, 155.
KOBELL, FRANZ, born at Mannheim,
Nov. 23, 1749, died in Munich, Jan. 14,
1822. Landscape painter, pupil of Mannheim
Academy, went in 1776 to Italy, where
he spent nine years, chiefly at Rome, and
on his return in 1785 settled in Munich,
and was made court-painter and honorary
member of the Academy; afterwards devoted
himself entirely to drawing, and is
said to have left over 10,000 productions of
his pencil. Works: Rocky Landscape with
Waterfalls, Bamberg Gallery; Morning
Landscape, Evening Landscape, do. (1778),
Cart-Horse and Figures, Boy feeding Horses,
Horse Stable (1780), Mountainous Landscape,
Weimar Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
xvi. 355; Goethe, Winkelmann, ii.; D.
Kunstbl. (1822), 181.
KOBELL, JAN, born at Delftshaven in
1779, died at Amsterdam, Sept. 23, 1814.
Animal and landscape painter, son of Hendrik
Kobell (landscape and marine painter,
1751-99, by whom there is a Storm at Sea
(1773) in the Gotha Museum); pupil at
Utrecht of Willem Rutgaart van der Wall,
and took Paul Potter for his model; went
in 1812 to Paris, where, in the same year,
he won a gold medal, and rapidly attained
popularity. His fellow-artists at Amsterdam
honoured him as their foremost animal
painter. In 1813-14 he lived in London
until shortly before his death. Works:
Landscape with Cattle, View in Gelders,
Oxen at Pasture (1806), Museum, Amsterdam;
Landscape with Cattle, Horse and
Goats by a Barn, Landscape with Peasants
Milking, Museum Fodor, ib.; Oxen and
Sheep in a Meadow, Rotterdam Museum.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xvi. 354; Immerzeel, ii.
120; Kramm, iii. 885.
KOBELL, JAN, born at Rotterdam, April
13, 1800, died there, Nov. 8, 1838. Animal
and landscape painter, son of the engraver
Jan Kobell (1756-1833, a brother of Hendrik),
pupil of Rotterdam Academy; painted
at the age of seventeen a Cow Stable, which
was placed in the Hague Museum. His
principal work, a life-size Cattle-piece (1830),
was immediately sold in Paris. His sister,
Anna (1795-1847), was also an esteemed
artist, whose works are in private collections
in Holland.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi.
355.
KOBELL, WILHELM VON, born in
Mannheim, April 6, 1766, died in Munich,
