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 OWEN to Borne, where, with Cornelius, Schadow,, degli Angeli, near Assisi ; Oil Study for do., Veit, and Schnorr, he formed the brother- Leipsic Museum. Atkinson, Overbeck, Lon- hood of Pre-Baphaelites, aspiring to the re-, don, 1882 ; Brockhaus, xii. 596 ; Dohme, vival of German art on a religious basis, K. u. K. des xix. Jahrli., ii. ; Forster, Denk- who, through their exclusiveness and sane- male, ix. 15 ; do. Geseh., iv. 174 ; v. 540 ; tity won the epithet of Nazarites. In pur- ' Gaz. des B. Arts (1859), i. 321 ; (18(50), vi. suance of these views, Overbeck shortly | 86 ; (1864), xvii. 133 ; (1870), iii. 201 ; Ha- (1813) became a proselyte to the Roman ' gen, Die deutsche Kunst in unserem Jahrli. Church and devoted himself exclusively to I (Berlin, 1857), i. 141 ; Jordan (1885), ii. Christian art. All his paintings in oil as 164 ; Organ f. christl. K. (1860), 179 ; Per- well as in fresco are distinguished for beau- rier, Etudes, 243 ; lleber, i. 250, 302, 315 ; ty of composition, simplicity of expression, Riegel, D. Kunststud., 418 ; do. Gesch. des grace, and deep religious feeling, but are : "~iederauflebens, der d. K., 241, 247, 2(59, lacking in force, vividness, and harmony of, 287, 322, 324, 346; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vi. colour. United in closest friendship with 217 ; xvii. 112. Cornelius for more than half a century, he j OWEN, WILLIAM, born at Ludlow in also entertained intimate relations with Nit'- ! 1769, died in London, Feb. 11, 1825. buhr, Bunsen, and Friedrich Schlegel. He, Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Charles married in 1821, visited Germany in 1831 - Catton, and of the lloyal Academy in 1791. 33, and again in 1855. Works : Adoration He exhibited the Blind Beggar of Bethnal of the Magi (1811) ; Jesus in the House of Green, Fortune-Teller, Schoolmistress, and Martha and Mary (1812) ; The Preaching of St. John ; Raising of Lazarus (1822), Carls- other works of this class, but his real strength lay in portraiture, in which he was ruhe Gallery ; Italia and Ger mania (1820), the rival of Lawrence, of Hoppner, and of Portrait of Vittoria Caldoni (1821), Holy Beechey ; and he had many distinguished Family (1825), Feast of Pentecost, New | sitters. In 1804 he became an A.R.A., in Pinakothek, Munich ; Christ blessing Little 1806 R.A., and in 1810 was appointed por- Children ; Ave Maria ; Christ's Entry into trait painter to the Prince of Wales, and in Jerusalem (1809-24) ; Pietd (1846), Marion, 1813 principal portrait painter to the Prince Kirche, Liibeck ; Holy Family (1825), as Prince Regent. Some of his pictures Preaching of St. John (1831), Diisseldorf were engraved. Works : Wilson Croker, Academy ; Death of St. Joseph (1836), Basle f Lord Loughborough, National Portrait Gal- Museum ; replica (1838); Christ in the lerv ; Ernst August, Duke of Cumber- Garden (about 1831-35), Hamburg Hospi- ' laud, Hanover Gallery. Redgrave ; F. de tal ; Marriage of the Virgin (1836), Raczyn- Conches, 312 ; Ch. Blanc, ficole anglaise ; ski Gallery, Berlin ; Triumph of Religion in Sandbv, i. 328 ; Kuust-Chronik, xxi. 95. kAAPE (Pape), ADRIAAN DE, 17th the Arts (1831-40), Stiidel Gallery, Frank- fort ; Incredulity of St. Thomas (1851), Mr. P^ century. Dutch school ; genre paint- (.100 1), yuiiiuai, itome ; replica (laua;, | er, probably pupil of Dou or Mieris ; one of the best masters of his period, true and speaking in action, harmonious in col- ouring, and very careful in execution. Lived at Leyden. Works : Woman plucking a Hen, Hague Museum ; Drawing Lesson, Berlin Museum ; Peasant Company, Amali- Antwerp Museum ; Portrait of himself, Uffizi, Florence. In fresco : Joseph sold by his Brethren, (Cartoon in Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort), The Seven Years of Famine (1818), Casa Bartholdi, Rome ; Jerusalem Delivered (1817-27), Villa Massimo, ib. Vision of St. Francis (1830), Santa Maria enstift, Dessau ; Mother's Joy, Schwerin
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