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 DEIG DEIG (Taig), SEBASTIAN, German school, 16th century, 1516-1544. A crude imitator of Diirer and Schiiufelin, whose pictures may be seen in Nuremberg, Schleiss- heim, and the Town TT^II of Nordlingen. Nagler, Mon., v. 69 ; W. & W., ii. 403. DEIKER, JOHANNES CHRISTIAN, born at Wetzlar, Rhenish Prussia, May 27, 1822. Painter of animals and hunts ; pupil of his father Friedrich, a portrait painter, then of the Hauau Academy, and at the Stadel Institute in Frankfort under Jakob Becker ; entered the service of Prince Salms, on whose estates he made the forest and its animal life his special study, and then went for a year to Antwerp. In 1868 he settled in Diisseldorf. Works : Stags iu Calving Time, Dog with Hares, Dog at the Chase, Pointer and Partridgea Mttller, 129. DFJKER, KARL FRIEDRICH, born at Wetzlar, April 3, 1836. Painter of animals and hunts, brother of Johannes ; pupil of the Hanau Academy, and from 1858 in Carls- ruhe of Schirmer ; settled in 1864 in Dtissel- dorf. Works : Wounded Stag (1858); Two Boar-Hunts (1859); Fighting Stags (1861); Stag-Hunt, Boar-Hunt (1870), Cologne Mu- seum ; Deer in the Mountains (1876); Con- test for the Herd (1879). Ulustr. Zeitg. (1872), L 67 ; (1873), i. 99; (1877), ii. 267 ; (1880), ii. 481; MUller, 129 ; Land und Meer (1873), ii. 751. DETTERS, HEINRICH, born at Miinster, Westphalia, Sept. 5, 1840. Landscape painter, pupil of the Diisseldorf Academy under Alex. Michelis, and much influenced by Andreas Achenbach ; studied from nat- ure in Belgium, Holland, France, and Southern Germany, but especially in West- phalia. Works: After the Rain (1865); Westphalian Village, Dordrecht, Wood In- terior, River Plain ; View in Amsterdam, Gravelotte, April Weather, Before the Storm (1868) ; Mill, Evening Landscape. Mttller, 130. DEJANIRA, RAPE OF, Guido Reni, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 8 ft.7 in. x 6 ft. 6 in.
 * Hercules having entrusted Dejanira to the

i Centaur Nessus to be carried across the River Evenus, slays him with a poisoned arrow when he perceives that he is about to carry her off Same history as Hercules and Ache- lous of Guido. Engraved by G. Rousselet ; Bervic. Landou, Musue, i. PI. 35 ; Villot, Cat. Louvre. DEJUINNE, FRANCOIS LOUIS, born ' in Paris in 1786, died there in 1844. His- tory painter, pupil of Girodet ; won grand prix de Rome in 1817, and then studied at the French Academy in Rome. L. of Hou- ' our, 1824. Works : Death of Hector ; As- sumption, St. Genevii-ve, Notre Dame de Lo- rette ; Christ healing the Blind, St. Vincent de Paul ; St. Fiacre declining the Crown, St. Sulpice ; Four Seasons, Trianon Palace ; Baptism of Clovis, Versailles Museum ; St. Aignan invoking Heaven for besieged Orleans ; Michelangelo's House, Tasso's House, Girodet painting Galatea, Inez at the Feet of Childe Harold. DEKKER See Decker. DELABORDE, HENRI, Vicomte, born ' at Renues, May 2, 1811. History painter, 1 pupil of Delaroche ; in 1855 was made con- ! servator of the Imperial Cabinet of Engrav- ings, afterwards its vice-director ; member of Academy, 1868, perpetual secretary since 1 1874 ; distinguished as a writer upon art. Medals : 2d class, 1837; 1st class, 1847 ; L. of Honour, 1860; Officer, 1870. Works: Ha- gar in the Desert (1836), Dijon Museum ; j Conversion of Si Augustine (1837) ; Death of St. Monica (1838); Conquest of Damietta (1841), Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (1845), Versailles Museum ; Passion of Christ (1848), Amiens Cathedral. Meyer, Con. Lex., xviii. 229 ; Muller, 130. DELACROIX, AUGUSTE, born at Bou- logue-sur-Mer, Jan. 27, 1809, died there, Nov., 1868. Genre and marine painter. Paralyzed during several years before his death, he painted his last works with his left hand. Medals : 3d class, 1839 ; 2d class, 1841 ; 1st class, 1846. Works: Coast of Boulogne, Interior of Boulogne Harbour (1835), De-