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 1662. Excellent in perspective. Works: Interior of Palace (1666, figures by H. van Minderhout), Antwerp Museum; Architecture in Biset's William Tell, Brussels Museum; do. of Art Gallery (1671), Hague Museum; do. (1666), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Church Interior (1664), Vienna Museum.—Biog. nat. de Belgique, vi. 515; Cat. du Musée d'Anvers (1874), 464; Van den Branden, 875.

EHRHARDT, (KARL LUDWIG) ADOLF, born in Berlin, Nov. 21, 1813. History painter, pupil in the Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow (1832); after 1838 assisted Bendemann in decorating the Royal Palace at Dresden with frescos and became professor at the Academy in 1846. Works: Jephthah's Daughter (1836); Christ with Mary and Martha (1837); Death of the Troubadour Rudello; Rinaldo and Armida; Dante's Dream; Charles V. in the Monastery; Louis the Bavarian with Frederic the Fair; Luther as Squire George in Jena (1864), Leipsic Museum; Resurrection; Portrait of Ludwig Richter.—Müller, 155; Wiegmann, 152.

EHRMANN, FRANÇOIS ÉMILE, born in Strasburg, Sept. 5, 1833. History painter, pupil of Gleyre and of the École des B. Arts, studied two years in Italy, and returned to Paris in 1865. Medals: 1865 and 1868; 3d class, 1874; L. of Honour, 1879. Works: Siren Fishing (1865, burned in Strasburg, 1870); A Conqueror (Luxembourg Museum, copied at the Gobelins); Ariadne abandoned by Theseus (1873), water-colour, Luxembourg Museum; Greece, Rome, The Barbarians, The Middle Ages (1874), M. Girard, Paris; Venus passing before the Sun (1875); The Muses (1877); Republican France leading the Nations to Peace and Industry (1879); The Fates; The Fountain of Youth; Wisdom uniting Art and Industry (1884); The Manuscript (1885).—L'Art (1876), iii. 297; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 259.

EIBNER, FRIEDRICH, born at Hilpotstein, Palatinate, Feb. 25, 1825, died in Munich, Nov. 18, 1877. Architecture and landscape painter, self-taught, principally by copying after H. Schoenfeld; travelled through Bavaria (1847), Germany and France (1852), North Italy (1853-56), and Spain (1860-61), whither he accompanied Prince Metschersky, in whose possession is a valuable series of sixty-five great water-colour views from Spain. Among his best works are: Cathedrals of Burgos, Seville, and Segovia; Palace of Inquisition at Cordova; Ponte del Paradiso in Venice; St. Anastasia in Verona; Church of Our Lady at Esslingen.—Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 178.

EICHHORN, ALBERT, born at Freienwalde on the Oder, July 7, 1811, died at Potsdam, Oct. 19, 1851. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil, in Berlin, of Tempeltei and Biermann, travelled through Italy and Greece, settled in Potsdam, and was much employed by King Frederick William IV. Works: Views in and about Rome (1842); Taygetus, Temple of Phigalia (1842); St. Peter's in Rome; Temple of Corinth; Temple of Zeus, Road of Patras; City Views from Italy; The Campagna.—Allgem. d. Biogr., v. 728; Kunstblatt (1853), 2570.

EICHLER, HERMANN, born in Vienna in 1842. History painter, pupil of Christian Ruben, whose studio he entered in 1864. Works: Charles I. meeting Cromwell after the Sentence; Peter Hele the Inventor of Watches; Rudolph II.; Count von Helfenstein in the Peasants' War; Oberon; In the Shade of the Bormio; Picnic (1879).—Müller, 156; N. illustr. Zeitg. (1881), i. 339.

EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVEN, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, New York; canvas, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 8 ft. At first called Friedland, but finally named after the date of the battle. Scene—a ceremonial review of the exhausted victorious troops after the nine hours' fighting which made Napoleon dictator of Europe. The Twelfth Cuirassiers galloping