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 *schläger, Thorwaldsen, and of royal family.—Brockhaus, v. 728; Weilbach, 140.

ECKERSBERG, JOHAN FREDERIK, born at Drammen, Norway, in 1822, died at Sandwik, July 13, 1870. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer. At the age of eighteen he had been placed in a mercantile office in Christiania, but during a previous sojourn of several years in Holland having imbibed a taste for art, relinquished his post and entered the technical drawing school, where he obtained a government stipend in 1824, and went to Düsseldorf. Returned to Christiania in 1848, lived and sketched in Madeira in 1852-54, and founded the Academy of Painting at Christiania in 1859. Works: View in Saeter Valley, Christiania Gallery; High Plain in Middle Norway; Peak of Romsdalshorn; View in Sigdal; Series of Views in Madeira.

EDDELIEN, MATTHIAS (HEINRICH ELIAS), born at Greifswalde, Pomerania, Jan. 22, 1803, died Dec. 24, 1852. History painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, and studied in Rome in 1839-44. Executed paintings for Christiansborg Castle in 1831-32, and after his return from Rome began to decorate the Chapel of Christian IV. in Roskilde Cathedral, but was paralyzed in 1852. Medals, 1827, 1831, 1833, 1837. Member of Copenhagen Academy in 1845. Works: David playing the Harp before Saul (1837); Christ blessing the Children (1840 and 1844); Staerkadder awaiting Angantyr for Combat; Young Faun (1830), Copenhagen Gallery.—Weilbach, 149.

EDELFELT, ALBERT, born at Helsingfors, Finland; contemporary. Genre painter, pupil of Gérôme. Lives in Paris. Medals: 3d class, 1880; 2d class, 1882. Works: Blanche de Namur and Prince Hacquin (1877); Duke Charles IX. of Sweden insulting the Dead Body of his Enemy Fleming (1878); Episode in Revolt of Finland Peasants, 1596, The Cherries (1879); Child's Funeral in Finland (1880); At the Artist's (1881); Divine Service on Sea-shore (1882); Old Finland Peasant Woman (1883); At Sea (1884); The Little Ship (1885); Under the Beeches, Charity (Seney Sale, New York, 1885).

EDEMA, GERARD, born in Friesland in 1652, died at Richmond, England, in 1700. Dutch School. Landscape painter, pupil of Allart van Everdingen, whom he imitated, and like whom painted chiefly views in Norway; went to England in 1670, and thence visited Norway and Newfoundland. The figures in his landscapes were generally supplied by Thomas Wyck. Works: River Scene, Landscape, Hampton Court Gallery.

EDEN, EXPULSION FROM (Genesis, iii. 24), Giuseppe Cesari, Louvre; copper, H. 1 ft. 6 in. × 1 ft. 2 in. Adam and Eve, nude, fleeing to right; at left, the angel with a sword. Collections of Prince de Carignan, of Prince de Conti, and of Louis XVI. Engraved by Levasseur in Musée français; Villerey in Filhol.—Landon, vii. 10; Filhol, ii. 134; Réveil, vi. 385.

Expulsion from Eden, Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, Carmine, Florence.

By Masaccio, Brancacci Chapel, Carmine, Florence; fresco on left wall. Adam and Eve, their loins covered with fig-*leaves, are fleeing before the Angel with a sword, who appears above.—Kugler (Eastlake), i. 222.

By Tintoretto, Venice Academy; canvas. Adam and Eve driven from Paradise. Companion piece to Death of Abel; both formerly in Scuola di SS. Trinità.—Zanotto, ii. Pl. 69.

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