LANGER, JOHANN PETER VON, born at Kalkum, near Düsseldorf, in 1756, died in Munich, Aug. 6, 1824. History painter, pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy under Krahe; became professor at the Academy in 1784, director in 1789, and in 1801 director of the Gallery. In 1806 was appointed director of the Munich Academy, which he reorganized. His antiquated school, which was extolled immoderately by his contemporaries, was superseded by that of Cornelius, and subsequently sank into undeserved oblivion. Works: Six scenes from Fable of Psyche; Christ blessing Little Children, Studienkirche, Munich; St. Luke painting Madonna; David before Saul; Philoctetes at Lemnos (1814); Small Family (1817); Cupid consoling Psyche (1820); Christ on Mount of Olives, Lady Jane Grey in the Tower (1823); Nativity, Christ blessing Little Children (sketch for painting in Studienkirche, Munich), Madonna and St. John, Death of Ananias and Sapphira, Expulsion from Paradise, Man about to Write, Chemist reading, Artist's Sons, Artist's Wife, Sons of Spanish Ambassador, Male Portrait, Head Studies (2), Schleissheim Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 678; Förster, iv. 168; Kunstbl. (1825), Jan. 6, No. 2; Nagler, Mon., iv. 100.
LANGER, ROBERT VON, born in Düsseldorf
in 1783, died at Haidhausen, Munich,
Oct. 6, 1846. History painter, son
and pupil of Johann Peter, and studied also
in Dresden, Berlin, and Cassel; accompanied
his father to Paris in 1799, and visited
Italy in 1804. Was professor at the newly
organized Munich Academy in 1806, secretary-general
in 1820, and director-general
of the Bavarian picture galleries; member
of the Vienna, Ghent, and Antwerp Academies.
Works: Christ healing the Lame
and Blind; Seven Works of Mercy; Madonna
with Saints; Descent from the Cross;
Adoration of the Magi, Düsseldorf Gallery;
Education of Bacchus, Royal Gallery, Stuttgart;
Virgil conducting Dante into the Lower
World, Museum, ib.; Great Mythological
Cycle of five subjects (fresco), Palace of
Duke Maximilian, Munich.—Allgem. d.
Biogr., xvii. 679.
LANGETTI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA,
born in Genoa in 1635, died in Venice, Sept.
21, 1676. Genoese school; pupil in Rome
of Pietro da Cortona, and in Venice of Giovanni
Francesco Cassanna; became a good
colourist in the Venetian style. Painted
some historical pieces, but chiefly portraits,
heads of old men, philosophers, and anchorets.
Work: Apollo and Marsyas, Dresden
Museum.—Lanzi, iii. 277; Ch. Blanc, École
génoise.
LANGKO, DIETRICH, born in Hamburg,
June 1, 1819. Landscape painter,
pupil in Hamburg of Martin and Jakob
Gensler; painted at first decorations, then
studied after the etchings of Dutch masters.
Removed to Munich in 1840. Works:
Moonlight Night on the Elbe (1861); View
on Chiem Lake, Carf Lake near Künigsdorf
(1862), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; View
near Road to Thalkirchen; The Elbe below
Hamburg by Moonlight; Evening Landscape
in Bavarian Oberland (1863); View in
Isar Valley; Swamp Landscape; Sunset in
Moorland.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 533;
Müller, 320.
LANGLEY, WALTER, born in England;
contemporary. Genre painter, water-colours.
Member of Institute of Painters
in Water-Colours. Works: Wandering
Thoughts, For Men must Work and
Women must Weep, A Crown of Years, My
Little Friend (1883); In Memoriam, Among
the Missing (1884); Waiting for the Boats
(1885); Fisher's Daughter, Sunny South
(1886).
LANGLOIS, JEAN CHARLES, born at
Beaumont-en-Auge (Calvados), July 22,
1789, died in Paris, March 24, 1870. Battle
painter, pupil of Girodet, Gros, and
Horace Vernet. Became a colonel in the
army in 1849. Medals: 2d class, 1822; 1st
class, 1834; L. of Honour, 1814; Officer,
1832; Commander, 1860. Works: Battle
of Larsobispo; Capture of the Great Re-
