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 IRENE (Eirene), painter, daughter and pupil of Cratinus. Among her works were a Calypso, an Aged Man, and Alcisthenes the Dancer.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [147]; Clem. Alex., and Strom., iv. 124, 620, Pott.

IRIARTE, IGNACIO, born at Azcoitia, Guipuzcoa, in 1620, died in Seville in 1685. Spanish school; landscape painter, pupil of Herrera el Viejo; frequently worked in conjunction with Murillo, who painted the figures while Iriarte executed the backgrounds. Was an original member and first secretary of the Academy of Seville. Works: Landscapes (4), Madrid Museum; Landscape, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Stirling, ii. 931; Ch. Blanc, École espagnole; Madrazo; Curtis, 344; Washburn, 164.

IRMER, KARL, born at Babitz, Brandenburg, Aug. 28, 1834. Landscape painter, pupil in Dessau of August Becker, then of Düsseldorf Academy under Gude; after travelling through Germany, and visiting Vienna, Paris, and Brussels, he settled in Düsseldorf. Court-painter to the Duke of Anhalt. Medal in Vienna (1873). Works: Moonrise; Landscape with Cows; Dicksee in Holstein (1876), National Gallery, Berlin; View in Rügen (1876).—Müller, 275.

IRMINGER, VALDEMAR, born in Copenhagen, Dec. 29, 1850. Animal and military genre painter, pupil of Copenhagen Academy, where he won a prize in 1879; visited Paris in 1880, and Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 1882. Works: Geese Driven Home (1874); Brown Mare with Foal, Proclamation in War Time (1879); Dragoons returning from Reconnoitring, Dragoon making Inquiry of Old Woman, Dragoon Trumpeter (1880); Foot-Guards Resting in the Woods (1881); Battery Changing Position (1882); Infantry at Manœuvre, Puppies, Wounded Lioness (1883).—Sigurd Müller, 164.

IRVING, J. BEAUFAIN, born in Charleston, S.C., in 1826, died in 1877. Genre painter; in 1851 studied with Leutze in Düsseldorf, and after painting there several years, lived in Charleston until he finally settled in New York about 1865. Elected an A.N.A. in 1869 and N.A. in 1872. Works: Disclosure, L. W. Jerome, New York; The Splinter (1867); Wine-Tasters (1869), August Belmont, New York; Portrait of Mrs. August Belmont (1871); End of the game (1872), J. H. Sherwood; Book-Worm, Musketeer of the Seventeenth Century (1874); Connoisseurs; Cardinal Wolsey and his Friends (1875); Off the Track (1876); After the Siege, Banquet at Hampton Court in the Sixteenth Century (1877), J. J. Astor, New York; Waiting an Audience, R. L. Stuart Collection, ib.

ISAAC, HISTORY OF, Raphael. See Raphael's Bible.

ISAAC BLESSING JACOB (Gen. xxvii.), Murillo, Duke of Wellington, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. Isaac, seated in bed under a canopy, blesses Jacob, who kneels; on left, Rebekah; near centre, a girl carrying a basket of linen with pigeons around her; background, a valley and ruined castle.—Curtis, 118.

By Murillo, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; canvas, H. 8 ft. × 11 ft. 9 in. Isaac, seated in bed before an archway nearly filled by a red curtain, blesses Jacob, who kneels and is presented by Rebekah as Esau; beside the bed, a table with bread, game, and a bowl; opposite, a landscape and well; a servant-maid enters with a water-jar; in background, Esau is seen with a dog returning from the chase. Companion to Jacob's Dream, in Hermitage; the two belonged to Marqués de Santiago, Madrid; purchased in Paris in 1811 for Hermitage.—Curtis, 118.

ISAAC AND REBEKAH, MARRIAGE OF (Gen. xxiv.), Claude Lorrain, Palazzo Doria, Rome; canvas, H. 4 ft. 1 in. × 6 ft. 6 in. In centre, a river with its waters arrested by the dam of a mill situated at left, whence the picture is commonly called Il Molino (Le Moulin, The Mill). In fore-*ground, the marriage festival of Isaac and Rebekah. Liber Veritatis, No. 113. Engraved by Gmelin (1804), Vivarès (1766). Sketch, dated 1647, Seymour Haden, Lon