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 WYLIE Bagneres de Bigorre ; View of Bayonne ; Elcantara in Algiers ; Milan Cathedral ; Piazetta in Venice ; Corso Vittorio Emanu- ele in Milan ; Strada Nuova in Genoa ; Street in Prague ; Forest Border near Tours, Ghent Museum ; Mont Saint-Michel (18C9), Luxembourg Museum ; Ideal Land- scape, Berne Museum ; Armenian Convent in Venice (1883); Sunset near Tarent (1884); Isle of St. George Venice (1885) ; Palm- Trees of Bordighera, Bab-a-Zoun Street in Algiers (1886). WYLIE, ROBERT, born in the Isle of Man in 1839, died in Brittany in 1877. Genre painter, brought to America when a child ; pupil of the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, by the directors of which he was sent in 1863 to France to study. Med- al : 2d class, Paris Salon, 1872. Works : Reading the Letter from the Bridegroom (1869); Breton Fortune-Teller (1872); Bre- ton Neighbours reading Hugo's '"93," D. H. McAlpine, New York ; Five Brittany Chil- dren, J. H. Stebbins, ib.; Breton Group, Mrs. W. P. Wilstach, Philadelphia ; Mendi- cants in Brittany, Card-Players in Brittany, G. A. Drummond, Baltimore ; Death of a Vendean Chief (1876-77), Metropolitan Mu- seum, New York. WYNANTS, JAN, born in Haarlem about 1615, died after 1679. Dutch school ; land- scape painter, whose pictures are character- ized by a certain prosaic truthfulness, fine aerial perspective, silvery toned backgrounds, and careful execution of details. Adriaan van de Velde, Lingelbach, and Wouwerman, also Barent Gael, Schellinks, and Helt- Stockade, supplied his foreground figures. Works : Landscapes (4), Sandbank in a River, National Gallery, London ; others in Buckingham Palace, and in collections of Lord Ashburton and Mr. Baring, ib.; For- est Border (1668), Landscapes (2), Louvre ; Landscapes (4), Brussels Museum ; do. (2), Antwerp Museum ; do. (2, 1659, 1675), Hague Museum ; do. (8, one dated 1669), Amsterdam Museum ; do. (8, three dated 1651, 1666, 1672), Munich Gallery ; do. (3), Dresden Gallery; do. (2, one dated 1674), Vienna Museum ; do. (1666), Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna ; do. (2), Czernin Gallery, ib. ; do. (3) Schonborn Historical Society, ib.; do. (8, three dated 1656, 1675, 1679), . Hermitage, St. Pe- /** A / tersburg ; others in ^^ Yf^y Augsburg, Copenha- -' gen (1660), Stock- holm > Gotha ( 1661 )> Aschaffenburg, Darmstadt (1671), and Stadel (1671) Galleries. I m m e r - zeel, iii. 253 ; Kramm, vi. 1891 ; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 463 ; Dohme, Iii. ; Burger, Musues, i. 138 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K, xiii. 63. WYNFIELD, DAVID WELKIE, born in 1837. Grand-nephew of David Wilkie. History painter, pupil in London of J. M. Leigh ; exhibited first in 1859, Undine. Works : Meeting of Edward IV. and Eliza- beth Woodville (1863); Rival Queens (1864); Last Days of Elizabeth (1865) ; Death of Cromwell (1867) ; Cromwell's First Appear- ance in Parliament (1868) ; Rich Widow (1869); Communication of Importance (1870); Round the Fountain ; Confidences (1871) ; Arrest of Anne Boleyn (1872) ; The Ladye's Knight (1873); Visit from Inquisitors (1874); Queen Elizabeth and Essex (1875) ; New Curate, Market Morning (1876) ; David be- fore Saul, Discovery of Gold in Australia, Harvest Decorations (1877) ; Joseph and his Brethren, Sunny Hours (1878) ; Ruth and Boaz (1879) ; At Traitor's Gate (1880) ; Origin of the English Woollen Trade (1881); Royal Musician (1882) ; Courtship of Will- iam H. of Orange (1883); Last "On dit" (1884) ; Fall of Queen Elizabeth Woodville (1886). Portfolio (1871), 84. WYNTRACK, D., 17th century, born in Drenthe, Netherlands. Dutch school ; ani- mal and landscape painter ; very skilfully represented poultry, with which he often supplied the landscapes of Wynants and Ruisdael. His own landscapes are animated 454