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 EXNER filled with prisoners going to the island, the hills of which are seen in the background ; at right, a galley from which prisoners are being transferred to another boat. Salon, 1859. EXNER, JOHANN JULIUS, born in Co- penhagen, Nov. 30, 1825. Genre and portrait painter, pu- ; pil of the Copenha- gen Academy under Lund and Eckers- berg. He painted portraits and scenes from Danish history, before devoting himself entirely to the representation of country life in Denmark. Member of Co- penhagen (1804), and Stockholm (1800), Academies. Professor at Copenhagen Acad- emy in 1870. Order of Danebrog, I860. Works : Old Woman (1852) ; Sunday Visit at Grandfather's (1853), Feast at Peasant's on Amager (1854), Grandmother's Greeting, Game of Black Peter (1803), Little Conva- lescent (1807), all in Copenhagen Gallery ; Peasants' Dance in Hedebo (1855) ; End of a Bout (1800); Blind Man's Buff (1800); Peasant Wedding (1807); Visiting the Sick (1870) ; Wooing (1877) ; Interrupted Nap (1881); A Discovery (1882). Sigurd Muller, 95 ; Weilbach, 155. EYBE, KARL GOTTFRIED, born in Hamburg, Dec. 17, 1813. History and por- trait painter, pupil of the Diisseldorf Acad- emy in 1839-47, under Karl Sohu and Schadow. Lived in Diisseldorf from 1851 to 1853, and afterwards settled in Hamburg. Works : Hagar and Ishmael (1845) ; Susanna at the Bath (1853), Kiel Gallery; Charity (1847), Children Bathing (1858), Hamburg Gallery. EYBEL, ADOLF, born in Berlin, Feb. 24, 1808, died there Oct. 12, 1882. His- tory, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of the Berlin Academy and of Kolbe ; studied then in Paris (1834-39) under Delaroche, became afterwards member of, and in 1849 professor at, the Berlin Academy. Works : Gleaner (183G); Battle of Fehrbellin (1840), Royal Palace, Berlin ; Twelve Reformers, Royal Chapel, ib. ; Scene from Scott's Wood- stock ; Richard Cceur de Lion listening to Blondel's Singing ; Scene from Faust. Brockhaus, vi. 493; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 24. EYBL, FRANZ, born in Vienna, April 1, 180G, died there April 29, 1880. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy ; member in 1843. Works : Smithy at Gos.au (1835) ; Strawberry Seller, Return of Husbandman (1844) ; Dressing the Bride (1845) ; Old Woman asleep in Arm Chair ; Old Woman leaving Church ; Old Woman Praying (1840) ; Austrian Peasant Woman (1847), Old Beggar (1850), Vienna Museum. -Wurzbach, iv. 119. EYCK, HUBERT or HUYBRECHT VAN, b o r 11 a t Maaseyck after 1300, died in Ghent Sept. 18, 1420. Flemish school. There are no authentic rec- ords of his life until 1424, when he was living in high repute as a painter in Ghent. The honour of perfecting oil painting, long known but hitherto undevel- oped, belongs to Hubert and his brother Jan. They invented a colourless varnish which could be applied with safety to oil colours, and thus obviated the only impedi- ment to their use, namely, their excessive slowness in drying, which had been before met by the use of a varnish which darkened many colours and was therefore objection- able. Their new method was that of paint- ing with wet upon wet colour. The tints were mixed with the drying medium upon the palette, and then applied. Hubert's one certainly authentic work is that part of