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powers of invention and characterization, with fine qualities of colour. Works: The Story-Teller (1867); Fugitives Overtaken (1868), Vienna Museum; Rejected Suitor (1871); Old Mother; Rural Feast (1873), New Pinakothek, Munich; First Picture-Book, Stuttgart Museum; A Stormy Betrothal-Day, Tasting Wine, Groundless Jealousy (1874); Sunday Sportsman, Before Election, Christmas Tree, Fortune-Teller (1875); The First Step (1877); The Dispute (1877), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Spinning Room in Black Forest, Dresden Gallery; Calumny (1878); Small Washing; Wreath Binders; Before the Funeral, Vienna Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 431; Illustr. Zeitg. (1878), i. 156; N. ill. Zeitg. (1881), i. 46, 110; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 466; xiv. 302; Zeitschr. f. b. K., ix. 32; ix. 556; (Mittheilungen, ii. 41); do., x. (iii. 1).


KÜRZINGER, MARIANNE, born in Munich in 1770, died in 1809. History and genre painter, daughter and pupil of Franz Kürzinger (history painter, 1730-90), then studied under Jakob Dorner with such success that she was called the Angelica Kauffman of Bavaria. She married the actor and singer, Johann Kunz, in Munich. Works: Circassian Woman introduced to the Sultan; Circassian Woman Dressing; Death of French Grenadier Latour d'Auvergne; Christ on Mount of Olives.—Lipowsky.


KUWASSEG, KARL, born in Trieste, March 16, 1802, died in Paris, Jan., 1877. Landscape painter, pupil of Gratz Academy under Stark; painted in water-colours in Vienna, and after travelling with Count Schomburg in Southern Europe and in America went to Paris, where he became a naturalized Frenchman. About 1835 Louis Philippe and Baron Rothschild bought some of his pictures and opened the road to success. Medals: 3d class, 1841, 1861, 1863; L. of Honour. Works: Landscape (1835); View of Rio de Janeiro (1837); Chamois-Hunting (1840); View of Villeneuve Saint-George (1841); View of Machemont (1842); River Yères (1844); Views of Ermenonville (1845); Souvenir of South America (1846); View of Guayaquil (1847); View of Tréport (1848); Environs of Grenoble (1852); View in Carinthia (1857); Valley of Angus (1859); Cliffs of Flamborough Head (1861); Cliffs of Scotch Coast (1863); Return from Hunting (1864); Moro Castle (1865); Cordilleras near Santiago (1866); Cliffs on the Mediterranean (1867); Souvenirs of Switzerland (1868); The Estrelle after a Storm, View in the Cordilleras (1869); Environs of Valauris (1870); View in the Tyrol (1872); Hohenberg (1873); Huts of South American Indians, Sea View (1874); Rocks of Stocksfelsen-Tyrol, Glacier of Friolay (1876); View in the Canton of Grisons (1877). His son and pupil, Charles Euphraise, born at Draveil (Seine-et-Oise), pupil also of Durand-Brager, paints landscapes, city views, and sea-ports.—Bellier, i. 858; Gaz. des B. Arts (1861), xi. 191; (1866), xxi. 52; Larousse; Wurzbach, xiii. 436.


KUYCK, (JEAN) LOUIS VAN, born in Antwerp in 1821, died there in 1875. Animal painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under Van Bree and Wappers; painted at first genre scenes. Gold medal in Brussels in 1866. Works: Flemish Inn Yard; Horse Stable (1859), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; do. (1852), New Pinakothek, Munich; Departure for the Fields (1870), Antwerp Museum.—Art Journal (1866), 335.


KUYP. See Cuyp.


KUYTENBROUWER, MARTINUS ANTONIUS, born at Amersfoort, Holland, Nov. 21, 1821. Landscape and animal painter, first instructed by his father, a skilful dilettante; completed his studies during travels in Belgium and France, and settled in Brussels. Court-painter and member of Amsterdam Academy. Officer of Order of Oak