- çaise; Villot; Lejeune, Guide, iii. 82; Gaz.
des B. Arts, Chronique, 1883.
DROUGHT IN EGYPT, Jean François
Portaels, Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas,
H. 9 ft. × 7 ft. 3 in. Illustration of Psalms,
lxxviii. 44. Painted in 1873. Awarded
the gold medal, Exhibition at Crystal Palace,
Sydenham, for the best picture, without regard
to school or subject.—Art Journal
(1874), 30.
DROVE AT THE FORD, William Hart,
Corcoran Gallery, Washington; canvas, H.
4 ft. 6 in. × 3 ft. 2 in. A drove of cattle leaving
a dusty road, at close of day, to cross a
stream overarched by trees. Painted in
1874.
DRUMMOND, JAMES, born in Edinburgh
in 1816, died there, Aug. 12, 1877.
History painter, pupil of Sir Wm. Allan; exhibited
first at Scottish Academy in 1835;
became an A.S.A. in 1846, and S.A. in 1852;
curator of National Gallery, Edinburgh, in
1868. Works: Return of Queen Mary to
Edinburgh after Surrender at Carberry Hill,
James I. of Scotland seeing his Future Wife
at Windsor, Porteous Mob, Montrose on
Way to Execution, National Gallery, Edinburgh;
Peace, War, Queen Victoria; Old
Mortality, Cromwell in Edinburgh; Claverhouse
and Duke of Gordon (1865).—Redgrave.
DRUMMOND, SAMUEL, born in London,
Dec. 15, 1763, died there in August,
1844. History painter, pupil of Royal
Academy; became an A.R.A. in 1808; afterwards
curator of painting school. Works:
Woodman (1801); Drunken Seaman Ashore,
Crazy Jane (1804); Battle of Trafalgar;
Death of Nelson; Admiral Duncan receiving
Sword of Admiral De Winter, Greenwich
Hospital; Portrait of Sir Isambard Brunel,
do. of Mrs. Fry, National Portrait Gallery;
Portrait of Charles Mathews, elder.—Redgrave.
DUBBELS, HENDRIK, second half of
17th century. Dutch school; marine painter,
of whose life so little is known that he alternately
passes for the master and the scholar
of L. Backhuysen. Painted sea-coasts, calms,
and storms with great truth, masterly aerial
perspective, beauty of lighting, and breadth
and softness of execution. His sea-pieces
are frequently attributed to Backhuysen.
Works: River Landscape, Coast Scene, National
Museum, Amsterdam; do., Palazzo
Pitti, Florence; Marine View, Duke of Bedford,
London; Calm, Cassel Gallery; Dutch
Men-of-War, Copenhagen Gallery; Ship-*wreck
and
Storm,
Stockholm
Museum;
Marine
Views (2),
Dresden Gallery.—Kugler (Crowe), ii. 500;
Kunst-Chronik, xix. 424.
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DUBOIS, AMBROISE, born in Antwerp in 1543, died at Avon, near Fontainebleau, Jan. 29, 1614. Flemish school; history painter; went to Paris in 1568, already an able artist, and was extensively employed by Henry IV. at Fontainebleau, in the Louvre, and the Luxembourg. Works: Charicles enduring the Test of Fire, Louvre; Theagenes and Charicles, Fontainebleau; 14 pictures in the Oval Room at Fontainebleau, in which Louis XIII. was born (dated 1600).—Ch. Blanc, École française; Fétis, Les Artistes belges, à l'étranger, i. 359; Jal, 509; Lejeune, i. 408.
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DUBOIS, CHARLES EDWARD, born in New York; contemporary. Landscape painter, pupil of Gleyre and Français in Paris. Sketched in Venice and Rome. Works: Cottages of Zeeland, Village of Auvernier (1873); Windmill near Dordrecht—Netherlands; Willows at East Hampton (1876); Morning on the Prairie, Autumn, Morning in Venice, Evening at East Hampton (1878); Under the Olives at Mentone (1884); At the Foot of Monte Pelegrino—*
