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 Pipe, Städel Gallery, Frankfort.—Immerzeel, i. 220.

EKWALL, KNUT, born at Säby, Småland, April 3, 1843. Genre painter and illustrator, pupil of Stockholm Academy; devoted himself to illustration in 1870, and was engaged in it at Munich and Leipsic until 1875, when he studied genre painting under Knaus in Berlin, and settled there. Works: Ten Minutes for Refreshments; Family Scene in Dalecarlia; After Midnight; Sailor's Return; After the Bath; Berlin Fire Department; Sub Rosa (1880); Honeymoon (1882); He is Coming (1883); Morning after Wedding, Jolly Morning Hour (1884).

ELAINE, Toby Rosenthal, Mrs. R. C. Johnson, San Francisco. Illustration of Tennyson's "Lancelot and Elaine," where the "lily maid of Astolat," stretched upon her bier on the funeral galley, "Oar'd by the dumb, went upward with the flood." Painted in 1874.

ELASIPPUS, Greek painter, date unknown. One of many reputed inventors of encaustic painting.—Pliny, xxxv. 39 [122].

ELECTION, Hogarth, Soane Museum, London; four pictures, canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 4 ft. 4 in. 1. The Election Entertainment; 2. Canvassing for Votes; 3. Polling at the Hustings; 4. The Chairing of the Successful Candidate. These pictures formerly belonged to Garrick; bought of his widow in 1823 for £1,732 10s.—Jameson's Handbook, ii. 572.

Elevation of Cross, Rubens, Antwerp Cathedral.

ELEVATION OF CROSS, Rubens, Antwerp Cathedral; H. 14 ft. × 15 ft. In three parts: centre, the Saviour on the Cross, which nine powerful men are elevating; left wing, the Virgin, the Holy Women, and St. John, the latter standing by the Virgin; right wing, mounted Roman soldiers superintending the crucifixion of the two thieves. The groups on the wings are painted on the inside of the covers of the middle part. On the exterior of the covers are: St. Catherine on one side, and St. Eloi on the other. Painted in 1610 for S. Walburge, Antwerp; retouched in 1627 by Rubens, who then introduced the Newfoundland dog in the corner. Carried to Paris in 1796; returned