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 WUEST roe, Denmark, in May, 1683. Dutch school ; history and portrait painter ; called to Den- mark in 1638 by Christian IV., and went there, probably in company with his brother- in-law, Karel van Mander, the younger ; was court painter for twenty-five years, then re- tired to Soroe. Works : Prince Waldemar Christian of Denmark, Male Portrait, Co- penhagen Gallery ; Female Portrait, Chris- tiania Gallery ; Portrait of a Jeweller (1644), Darmstadt Museum (?) ; Continence of Scipio, Konigsberg Museum (?) ; Christian IV. of Denmark, Vienna Museum. Kramm, vi. 1883 ; Nagler, xxii. 122 ; Weilbach, 760. WUEST, ALEXANDER, born in Amer- ica ; contemporary. Landscape painter in Brussels ; paints mountain views from Scan- dinavia and North America, with good col- ouring. Medals : Brussels and The Hague, 1866 ; Vienna, 1873. Works : Mountain Torrent in Norway, New York Museum ; The Catskills, New Haven Gallery ; Nor- wegian Waterfall ; Huntsmen on Sogne Fjord ; Life in Canadian Woods. WULFFAEET, ADRIANUS, born at Ter Goes, Zealand, in September, 1804. History and genre painter, pupil of Ducq and of Bruges Academy, then studied in Paris (1829-32), and after his return won the first prize at Ghent. Works : Corps-de-Garde of Bruges (1831), Child leaving the Bath, Bruges Academy ; Venus at Grave of Adonis (1832) ; Foster Brothers (1838), Ghent Mu- seum ; Kirmess, Brussels Museum ; Death of Admiral Buy ter ; Waking and Sleeping ; Christ at Gethsemane ; Maria Consolatrix. His wife Clara, nee Eooman, is a good genre painter ; medal, Ghent, 1835, for Maternal Lesson. Immerzeel, iii. 251. WUNNENBERG, KARL, born in Diis- seldorf, Nov. 10, 1850. Genre painter, pu- pil of Diisseldorf Academy under Deger and Eduard von Gebhardt ; went in 1876 to Rome, and became professor at the Cassel Academy in 1882. Works : Praying Wom- an in Choir of Church ; In the Confession- al ; In the Park ; Lady with Kittens (1878); Centaur ; Old Italian Idyl. Miiller, 567. WURMSER, NICOLAUS, of Strassburg, 14th century. German school ; history painter, who came to Bohemia in 1348, en- tered the service of Charles IV. in 1359, and in the year following was appointed court painter. His figures are hard in tone, and weak in the extremities, but de- spite these defects his pictures are notable for independent thought, ideality, and pow- erful colour. Works : Scenes from the Apoc- alypse, Chapel of Burg Karlstein, near Prague ; Christ on the Cross, Vienna Mu- seum. Kugler (Crowe), i. 38; do., Kl. Schriften, ii. 498 ; Schnaase, vi. 439 ; W. & W., i. 394 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (1873), vii. 148 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, x. 366. WURZINGER, KARL, bom in Vienna in 1817, died at Dobling, near Vienna, March 16, 1883. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy ; won the grand prize in 1845, and went to Rome in 1847, where he remained ten years ; afterwards became pro- fessor at Vienna Academy. Medals : Ber- lin, 1866 ; Paris, 3d class, 1867. Orders of Francis Joseph and of St. Michael. Works : Joseph explaining the Dream ; Death of King Ottokar (1847) ; Emperor Ferdinand H. refusing his Signature to the Protestant Delegation (1856), Vienna Museum ; Saul and David ; Count Starhemberg wounded at Siege of Vienna. Mtlller, 567 ; Kunst- Chronik, xviii. 431. WUST, (JOHANN) HEINRICH, born at Zurich, May 14, 1741, died there in 1821. Landscape painter ; for six years appren- ticed to a house painter, then went to Hol- land, destitute of means, and at Amsterdam was befriended by the portrait painter Ja- cob Maurer, of Schaffhausen, and the art patron Ploos van Amstel, who procured for him commissions there and in Rotterdam. After five years in Holland he spent two in Paris, and returned home in 1769, when his landscapes found immediately great favour. Works : Forest Idyl, Berne Museum ; Even- ing Landscape, two others, Zurich Gallery ; Moonlight, Huts and Oaks by a Brook, Aschaffenburg Gallery; Waterfall (1797), 452