NYMPHS AND SATYRS, Rubens, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. 2 in. × 10 ft. 3 in. Nymphs of Diana surprised by satyrs. Same subject, 4 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. 5 in., in same Museum. Collection of Philip IV.—Madrazo.
OAKES, JOHN WRIGHT, born at
Sproston House, near Middlewich,
Cheshire, in 1822. Landscape painter,
pupil of W. J. Bishop, Liverpool, where
he resided until 1856, when he went to London.
Elected an A.R.A. in 1876. Works:
On the Greta (1848); Moel-gronw from
Cwm-y-Glo (1849); Fresh Breeze (1854);
Morning—Lowestoft Beach, Fallow Field
(1875); The Border Countrie, Quiet Morning
(1877); River Mouth, Sussex Village,
Woodland Road (1879); Gorse Cutting, Miller's
Boat, For Sale (1881); Porchester Pool,
Mew Stone (1882); Adder's Rock, Salmon
River (1883); Fishing Boats, Going for Turf,
Old Roman Bridge over the Ogwen, Mill-Dam
(1884).—Art Journal (1879), 193.
OAKEY, MARIA R. See Dewing.
OBERMÜLLNER, ADOLF, born at Wels,
Upper Austria, in 1833. Landscape painter,
pupil of the Vienna Academy under
Steinfeld, then in Munich of Richard Zimmermann.
After travelling he returned to
Vienna in 1860 and painted chiefly Arctic
scenes; also some humourous genre pieces.
Works: Mont Blanc; Obersee; Achensee;
Ortler; Himmelswand near Gastein; Grave-*yard
of Nature; Königsee; Goldberg Glacier,
Vienna Museum; View on the Inn;
Traunkirchen; twelve North Pole Views;
Nahrungssorgen und Wohnungsnoth; Cemetery
in Nature, Entrance to Woods in Autumn
(Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Kunst-Chronik,
x.; Müller, 398; Wurzbach,
xx. 459; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. (Mittheilungen,
iii. 69).
O'BRIEN, NELLY, portrait, Sir Joshua
Reynolds, Hertford House, London; canvas.
Famous beauty, rival of Kitty Fisher; sitting,
seen to knees, with hands crossed in
lap, in which lies a poodle; wears a broad
straw hat. Painted in 1760; exhibited in
1763. Engraved by J. Watson, S. W. Reynolds,
and in Graves's Sir J. Reynolds's
Works; mezzotint by Ch. Phillips. A second
portrait of her, dated 1773, in possession
of Viscountess Clifden; a third, sold at Wynn
Ellis sale (1876), for £609.—Redgrave, Century,
i. 141; Gower, Hist. Gal. of England.
OCHTERVELT (Uchtervelt), JACOB,
born at Rotterdam (?), flourished there second
half of 17th century, died before 1710.
Genre painter, supposed pupil of Frans van
Mieris, the elder, though also said to have
frequented the studio of Berchem at the
same time as Pieter de Hooch, and apparently
influenced by Metsu and Terburg;
mentioned as member of Rotterdam Guild
in 1667-72. Works: Lady and Fish-Seller,
Hague Museum; Kitchen Interior, Aremberg
Gallery, Brussels; Regents of Leprozenhuis
(1674), Museum, Amsterdam; Group
of Three at Table, Six Collection, ib.; do.,
Rotterdam Museum; Wooing, Carlsruhe
Gallery; Male Portrait, Städel Gallery,
Frankfort; Morning Music, Copenhagen
Gallery; Signing Last Will, Berlin Museum;
Lady with Lap-Dog (1669), Dresden
Gallery; Spinning Woman conversing with
Peasant, Leipsic Museum; Buying a Fish,
Buying Grapes (1669), A Concert, Dutch
Girl's Breakfast, Soldier at Breakfast, Hermitage,
St. Petersburg; Lady playing with
Dog, Historical Society, New York.—Ch.
Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées,
ii. 249; Immerzeel, iii. 149; Kugler (Crowe),
ii. 400; Kramm, vi. 1653; De Stuers, 168.
OCKEL, EDUARD, born at Schwante,
Brandenburg, Feb. 1, 1834. Animal and
landscape painter, pupil in Berlin of Steffeck
in 1852-56; went in 1858 to Paris,
where he studied several years under Couture,
visited Normandy, and in 1859 settled
at Barbizon, in the forest of Fontainebleau;
has lately returned to Berlin. Works:
Cows at the Fairy Pond in Fontainebleau,
Autumn Evening in the Mark, Deer at Sunrise
in Autumn, Cows in Forest, National
