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ODEVAERE, JOSEPH DIONISIUS, born in Bruges, Oct. 2, 1778, died in Brussels, Feb. 9, 1830. History painter, pupil of Bruges Academy, then in Paris of David, of Suvée, and of the École des Beaux Arts; won the grand prix de Rome in 1804, and after his return, in 1812, received the great gold medal. Member of Accademia di S. Luca in Rome; corresponding member of National Institute. Court painter, 1815; Order of Lion, 1817. Works: Sabinus and Epponina; Death of Phocion (1804); Sketch for this, and Three Male Portraits (1805), Bruges Academy; Coronation of Charlemagne (1810); Iphigenia in Aulis; Union of Utrecht (1815); Battle of Waterloo (1816); Battle of Nieuwpoort; Raphael introduced to Pope Julius II.; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence; Triumph of Cimabue; Phædra and Theseus; Narcissus; David in his Studio; Foundation of Power of the House of Orange (1823); Inauguration of the King at Brussels in 1815; Sacrifice of Themistocles and the Athenians; Last Day of Missolonghi (1826), Amsterdam Museum. In fresco: Romulus bringing back the Spolia opima, The Greeks and Trojans in Contest over the Body of Patroclus, Quirinal, Rome.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1830), 292; Immerzeel, ii. 273; Michaud, xxxi. 164; Raczynski, iii. 441.


ODIER, ÉDOUARD ALEXANDRE, born in Paris, Jan. 16, 1800. History painter. Medals: 2d class, 1831; 1st class, 1838; L. of Honour, 1846. Works: Dead Huntsman defended by his Dog against a Vulture (1831); Dragoon of the Imperial Guard (1833), Amiens Museum; Entry of Henri IV. into Fort Montmélian—1600 (1838), Raising of Siege of Rhodes in 1480 (1841), Portraits of Eustace III. Count of Boulogne, Baldwin II., King of Jerusalem, and three others, Versailles Museum; St. Francis of Assisi preaching and distributing Alms, Mass during Harvest in the Campagna (1844); Reception of Jean de Brienne at Ptolemais—1210 (1847); Massacre of the Mamelukes by Order of Mehemet Ali (1850).—Bellier, ii. 172.


ODONI, ANDREA, portrait, Lorenzo Lotto, Hampton Court; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 3 ft. 10 in.; signed, dated 1527. Half-*length, standing beside a table; left hand in breast, right holding a statuette; in background, antique statues and torsos. Painted in Venice, where Lotto took refuge in 1527, when war broke out between Clement VII. and Charles V. In possession, in 1653, of the Dutch collector Van Reyust, for whom engraved by C. Visscher. Formerly attributed to Correggio and erroneously called Baccio Bandinelli.—C. & C., N. Italy, 519; Law, Hist. Cat. Hampton Court, 45; Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 249; Waagen, Treasures, ii. 356.


OECHS, JOSEPH DOMINICUS, born at Erbach, Würtemberg, in 1776, died at Mitau, Courland, in 1836. History and portrait painter, pupil in Ratisbon of his brother Anton, in Nuremberg of Frost, and in Dresden of A. Graff and Klengel; went to Courland in 1804, and became professor of drawing at the gymnasium of Mitau in 1824. Works: Portraits of all Dukes and Duchesses of Courland, Provincial Museum, Mitau; Christ healing the Blind; Christ and the Woman of Samaria.


OEDER, GEORG, born at Aix-la-Chapelle, April 12, 1846. Landscape painter, self-taught; visited the Bavarian Highlands, Westphalia, and Holland. Medals: Düsseldorf, Vienna, 1873; London, 1878. Works: Autumn Landscape; Wood Landscape; Great Landscape with Hunting Party by Hünten; Country Road; Potato-Field; Souvenir of Bilker Busch; November Day (1880), National Gallery, Berlin; Springtime, View on Dutch Coast (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Jordan (1885), ii. 163.