1877 were: Dame Blanche, Ariel, Return of Dragon Slayer, Witch's Home, Enchanted Tree, Haunted Park, Fairy Rings, Kelpie Stone, and Haworth Rectory. Other works: Rose-Red and Snow-White, Fish out of Water (1878); Pied Piper of Hamelin, Peace or War (1879); Battle of Elves and Frogs (1880); Sailor and Monkeys, Triumphal Entry of the Queen (1881); Welsh Legend (1882); Home of Charlotte Bronté, Schwein-General of Nassau (1883).
DRAEGER, JOSEF ANTON, born at
Trèves in 1800, died in Rome in 1843.
History painter, pupil in Dresden of Kügelgen;
went in 1821 to Italy and settled in
Rome, where he painted religious and historical
subjects with unusual glow and brilliancy
of colour, in imitation of the Venetian
masters. Works: St. Matthew (1820);
St. Cecelia; The Shepherds; The two Roman
Women; Moses at the Well, National
Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, v. 519.
DREBER, FRANZ, born in Dresden,
Jan. 9, 1822, died at Articoli di Campagna,
Rome, Aug. 3, 1875. Landscape painter,
pupil of the Dresden Academy and of
Ludwig Richter; went in 1841 to Munich
and later to Rome, where he settled, visiting
Germany only temporarily in 1850-51
and 1866. His name was really Karl Heinrich,
but he called himself Franz after his
uncle and signed his pictures with that
name. Works: Ravine with bathing Nymph;
Wood-Landscape; Four Seasons, View in
the Campagna; Sea-Shore with Nymphs;
Psyche crowned by Eros; Ulysses by the
Sea; Group from Saturnian Age; Landscape
with Diana's Chase, Autumn in Sabine
Mountains, National Gallery, Berlin; Good
Samaritan (1848), Dresden Gallery; Sappho,
Schack Gallery, Munich.—Allgem. d. Biogr.,
v. 385; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 681.
DRESSLER, ADOLF, born at Breslau,
March 14, 1833, died there, Aug. 7, 1881.
Landscape painter, pupil in Breslau of König
and of Resch, and in Frankfort of the
Städel Institute under Jacob Becker; after
a trip to the Tyrol, settled in Breslau in
1862. Honorary member of the Société
belge des Aquarellistes in 1866. Professor
in 1880, at the newly-created Art-school at
Breslau. Works: Ideal Landscape; Sylvan
Solitude; View of Capri; Rothwasser Valley
in the Riesengebirge; View in the Eulengebirge;
River Landscape in Silesia; Flat
Country on the Oder with Landing; River
Landscape in Midsummer.—Kunst-Chronik,
xviii. 362.
DREUX, ALFRED DE, born in Paris
in 1812, died in March, 1860. Genre and
portrait painter, pupil of Léon Cogniet.
Became known chiefly through his hunting-pieces
and animated though exaggerated representations
of horses. Medals: 3d class,
1834; 2d class, 1844, 1848; L. of Honour, 1857.
Works: Interior of a Stable, Colt jumping
a Ditch (1831); Alone at the Rendezvous;
Race for a Kiss; Lady of the Castle (1847);
Rich and Poor, Breakfast too Hot, Dog and
Cat, Intimacy, The Return, The Death, Martyrdom
of St. Hippolytus, Battle of Baugé,
Hunting with a Falcon, Time of Charles
VII., Imperial Guard (1855); Portraits of
the Duke of Nemours on horseback, of
Napoleon III. and others.—Ch. Blanc, École
française; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 82; Gaz. des
B. Arts (1860), v. 26.
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DRÖLLING, MARTIN, born at Oberbergheim,
near Colmar, baptized Sept. 19,
1752, died in Paris, April 16, 1827. Genre
painter; formed himself without a teacher
by studying the pictures of Dutch masters,
and painted a great number of family
and conversation scenes in the style of
Greuze, which were very popular. Works:
Interior of a Kitchen (1815), Louvre; Broken
Pitcher; Curious Treasure; Village Family
hearing a Letter Read; Good Samaritan,
Lyons Museum; Little Commissionaire, and
others, M. Burat, Paris; Little Girl Drawing;
Going to Market; The Farmer; The
Good-Morning, Village Interior, Quilting
