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 ET/DORF National Gallery, Edinburgh ; Ulysses and ' school, pupil of Arixtul of Thebes or of the Sirens (1837), Manchester Gallery ; Or- j his son ami pupil Ariston, about 370-336 igin of Marriage, Bevy of Fair Women (1828), B.C. Master of all artspainter, sculptor, .Stafford House, London ; Venus and Cupid, chaser of metals, and writer 011 symmetry Henry Bicknell, Cavendish House, Clapham and colour (Pliny, xxxiv. 19 ; Quiu, xii. 10, Common ; Eape of Proserpine (1839), Ve- G). He united the traditions of his Theban nus Anad'yomene, Three Graces, J. Gillott master with those of the Sicyonic school, Collection ; Judgment of Paris ; Venus and, and painted many famous works, both at her Satellites (1835); Wise and Foolish Vir- Corinth and at Athens. Upon one wall in gins ; Hylas and Nymphs ; Prodigal Son ; | the Stoa Basilicas at Athens he painted Prodigal's Return ; Destruction of Temple Theseus with personifications of Democracy of Vice ; Adam and Eve ; Pandora ; Parting j and the Demos, and upon the opposite one of Hero' and Leander ; Death of do. ; Diana j the twelve great gods. There also he repre- aud Endvmion ; Amoret freed by Britomart ; sented a tiglit between the Athenian and /ephvr and Aurora ; Robinson Crusoe re- Bu-otiaii cavalry at the battle of Mantimea, turning Thanks for Deliverance; Joan of with portraits of Epaminoiidas and of Gryl- Arc (3 pictures, 1847). Gik-hrist, Life (Lon-lus, son of Xenophon (Pans. i. 3. 2, 3). don, 1855); Redgrave; Art Jour. (1849), 13; With reference to the first-named picture (1858), 233 ; Sandby, ii. 49; Cli. Blanc, Ecole Euphranor remarked that the Theseus of anglaise; Portfolio (1875), 88, 107, 142, 149, Parrhasius had been fed on roses, but his own on beef (Pliny, xxxv. 40). Some fa- 172, 180 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1862), xiii. 208. ETZDORF. See Eulorf. EUCHEIR, of Athens, mythic painter, spoken of as the discoverer of painting in Greece, and as related to Diedalus. Pliny, vii. 57 [205]. EUDORUS, scene-painter and statuary, place and date unknown. Pliny, xxxv. 40 11411. EUMARUS, monochrome painter, of Ath- ens, latter part of Cth century n.c. Said to have been the first to distinguish men from women in his pictures by colour, by which is meant, probably, that he painted the flesh inous pictures of his at Ephesus are also mentioned : Ulysses in his feigned Madness, yoking together an Ox and a Horse ; and a Warrior sheathing his Sword. EUPOMPUS, a noted Greek painter, of Sicyon, founder of the Sicyonic school, con- temporary and rival of Farrhasiiis and Ti- manlhux, about 400 n.c. (Pliny, xxv. 36 [61, 64, 75 1). Before his time only two schools of painting were recognized in Greece, the Ionic (Asiatic) and the Attic (Hellenic). We know the subject of but one of his works, a winner in the Olympic games car- ol' the former of a reddish brown and that ! rying a palm of victory in his hand. This of the latter white. Also said to have first picture was so marked in its individuality marked the differences in age between the persons whom he painted. Painting in Greece, up to his time on a level with that in Assyria and Egypt, took with him the first steps iu the path of progress. Pliny, xxxv. 34 [55]. EUMELUS, painter, of Caria, probably about A.D. 190. His picture of Helen was in the Roman Forum. Philost. Vita Sophist., ii. 5. EUPHRANOR, one of the greatest of Greek artists, of Corinth, Thebaii-Attic that the painter was conceded to have founded a third school, the Sicyonic, at the head of which stands his scholar PamjjhUtts, the mas- ter of Apelles. EURIPIDES, painter and poet (485-406 li.c.). The great tragic poet was a painter in his youth, and several of his works were preserved in Megara. Snidas, v. and Vita Eurip. in Vitas scriptores Grseci minores (ed. Westerm. 134, 15). EUROPA, RAPE OF, Claude Lorraiu, Buckingham Palace ; canvas, H. 4 f t. x 4 ft.