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 WALTIIER WALTHER, WILHELM, born at Neu- liiiiiscn. Saxony, in 1826. History painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Julius Hdbner. Works : Christ appearing to the Magdalen (1848), Flight into Egypt, Dres- den Art Union. Sgraffito frieze : Festive Procession of Saxon Princes (1876), Koyal Palace, ib. Kaulen, 209. WALTON, FRANK ; contemporary. Landscape painter in water-colours. Studio in London. Works : From Unliarboured Heaths (1877) ; Evening at Dorking ; Near the Thames ; Regatta at Bournemouth ; Au- tumn, Copse on Furzefield Brow, Brick- makers (1881) ; Noontide's Hush, Happy Valley (1882) ; Gentle Autumn (1883) ; Among Whispering Woods, World of Mead- ows, Kynance Cove (1884) ; Surrey's Pleas- ant Hills (1885) ; Summer Tide of Blos- soming (1886). WANING HONEYMOON, George H. Boughton, W. T. Walters, Baltimore ; can- vas, H. 1 ft. 8 in. x 2 ft. 6 in.; dated 1878. A young pair are seated under a tree in late autumn, the ground strewn with leaves ; he is reading a book and carelessly caressing his dog, while she is pouting prettily, but thinking no pretty things of him. Royal Academy, 1878. WAPPERS, GUSTAAF, Baron, born in Antwerp, Aug. 23, 1803, died in Paris, Dec. 6, 1874. History and genre painter, pupil at Antwerp Academy of L J. van Regemorter (1785- 1873), then of Van Bree and of Herreyns ; studied after Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jor- daens ; then in Amsterdam and The Hague the old Dutch, and in Paris the Venetian masters ; returned to Antwerp in 1830, be- came professor at the Academy in 1832, and was its director in 1840-53 ; made court painter and baron in 1845 ; settled in Paris in 1853. Meeting with great success at his first appearance, he influenced modern Bel- gian art as the chief representative of roman- ticism, and formed many pupils ; his works are meritorious in composition, poetical treatment, and colouring. Member of sev- eral Academies. Many medals : L. of Hon- our, 1842 ; Officer, 1855 ; Order of lied Eagle, 1847; Officer Order of Leopold, 1855. Works : Van Dyck in Love with his Model (1827), View of Citadel of Antwerp (1830), Amsterdam Museum ; Self-Devotion of Burgomasters of Leyden (1830), Hague Museum ; Christ at the Sepulchre (1833), St. Michael's, Louvain ; The Populace of Brussels tearing down the Proclamation of Priuce Frederick (1835) ; Charles I. taking leave of his Children (1836) ; Charles IX. on St. Bartholomew's Night ; Temptation of St. Anthony ; Holoise and Abelard ; Charles VH. and Agnes Sorel ; Execution of Anne Boleyn ; Peter the Great at Saardam ; Ca- moens (1842) ; Genevicve of Brabant (1843), Windsor Castle, Defence of Rhodes by Knights of St. John (1848), Versailles Gal- lery ; Death of Columbus ; The Ommegauck at Antwerp ; Louis XL at Plessis les Tours ; Boccaccio and Joan of Naples ; Louis XVH. in the Temple Prison ; Charles I. on his way to the Scaffold, Episode of September Days of 1830, Brussels Museum ; Mother's Joy, Museum, Antwerp ; Invocation of the Virgin, St. Charles Borrorneo's, ib. ; Neuvaines of the Family of Eguiout (1866), Mr. Probas- co, Cincinnati. Art Journal (1856), 124 ; (1860), 142 ; (1865), 268 ; (1873), 241 ; (1875), 76 ; Dioskuren (1875), 4 ; Immer- zeel, iii. 217 ; Kramm, vi. (1826) ; Roosea (Reber), 466 ; Van den Branden, 1390. WAR, Sir Edwin Landsetr, National Gal- lery, London ; H. 2 ft. 10 in. x 4 f t. 4 in. A dying and a dead horse, with their fallen riders, lying among the burning ruins of a cottage. Companion to Peace. Royal Acad- emy, 1846. Engraved by T. L. Atkinson ; Lumb Stocks. Art Journal (1854), 144. WAR, HORRORS OF, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; canvas, H. 6 ft 5 in. x 9 ft. 3 in. Mai's, in armour and with sword and 405