a Gentleman (1868); A Halt (1879); Autumn Races (1880); The Sold Lamb (1882); Emigrant (1883); Souvenir (1884); Birthday (1885); Women of Morocco, H. L. Dousman, St. Louis.
OUVRIÉ, PIERRE JUSTIN, born in Paris,
May 9, 1806, died at Rouen, Oct. 21,
1879. Landscape, history, portrait, and
genre painter, pupil of Abel de Pujol and
Chatillon. Medals: 2d class, 1831; 1st
class, 1843; 3d class, 1855; L. of Honour,
1854. Works: Funeral of Shelley (1831);
Grand Canal at Venice, Hospital of St. Bernard
(1833); Square of Old Palace in Florence
(1834); St. Lawrence of Nuremberg,
Light-House of Aigues-Mortes (1835); St.
Peter of Genoa (1836); Cathedral of Chartres
(1837); Heidelberg (1841); Court of
Château of Fontainebleau (1842), Luxembourg
Museum; Castle of Pau (1844);
Eaux Bonnes (1845); Windsor Castle, Somerset
House (1850); Amsterdam (1853),
August Belmont, New York; The Hague,
Views on Rhine (1857); Rotterdam (1859);
Mont Blanc, Antwerp, Road from Ancona
to Bologna, Moselle near Bern Castel (1861);
Salzburg, Walter Scott's Monument, Calton
Hill and Canongate in Edinburgh (1863);
Castle of Amet, Castle of Villepinte (1864);
Castle of Pierrefonds (1865); Town and
Castle of Heidelberg, Cathedral of Freiburg
in Breisgau (1866); Castle of Montorgueil;
French Army marching on Mascara (1841),
do. on Marengo, Taking of Ratisbon, 1809,
Versailles Museum.—Bellier, ii. 187; Gaz.
des B. Arts (1860), vi. 265; do. (1861), x.
30, 109.
OUWATER, ALBERT VAN, flourished
in Haarlem, 15th century. Dutch school;
history and landscape painter, was one of
the first Dutch painters in oil, probably a
contemporary of the Van Eycks. Nothing
is known of his life. Works attributed to
him: The Last Judgment, Dantzic Museum;
Descent from the Cross (1480?), Cologne
Museum.—C. & C., Flemish Painters,
246; Dohme, 1i.; Kramm, iv. 1238; Schnaase,
viii. 215.
OVENS, JURIAEN, born in Amsterdam
in 1623, died at Friedrichstadt, Schleswig,
Dec. 7, 1678. Dutch school; history and
portrait painter, pupil of Rembrandt about
1640. His pictures, mostly night pieces,
are full of spirit, his portraits truthful and
of masterly execution, though less warm in
tone than Rembrandt's. In 1675 he was
employed at the court of the Duke of Holstein.
Works: Family of Ryklof van Goens
(1650), Haarlem Museum; Conspiracy of
Claudius Civilis, City Hall, Amsterdam;
Regents'-Piece (1656), Male Portrait, Museum,
ib.; Portraits, Hùysittenhuis, ib.; Male
and Female Portrait, Rotterdam Museum;
Departure of Tobias, Nantes Museum; Male
Portrait (1666), Musical Lovers, Copenhagen
Gallery; Taking of Christ, Bamberg Gallery;
Head of Christ, Brunswick Museum;
Girl with Chicken, Girl with Grapes, Harrach
Gallery, Vienna.—Fernow (Riegel),
Carstens, 44; Kramm, iv. 1240; Riegel,
Beiträge, ii. 279; Vosmaer, Rembrandt,
161; Weilbach, 527.
OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY,
Sir John Everett Millais, Bart., Kay Knowles,
Esq., England; canvas, H. 4 ft. 3 in. × 6 ft.
2 in. Landscape-view of Strath Tay, as
seen from near Birnam, in Perthshire, with
Ben-y-Gloe in the middle distance, the
range of vision extending nearly to Dunkeld.
Royal Academy, 1876; Exposition universelle,
Paris, 1878 (Dans les montagnes
d'Écosse).
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OVERBECK, (JOHANN) FRIEDRICH,
born at Lübeck,
July 4, 1789, died
in Rome, Nov.
12, 1869. History
painter, pupil
of Vienna
Academy under
Füger; but, at
variance with its
conventional routine,
he was expelled
in 1810, and, accompanied by Franz
Pforr, Ludwig Vogel, and Hottinger, went
