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 Crefeld, Bremen, Erfurt, and in the National Gallery of Berlin. In 1877 he became professor, and in 1880 director, of the Düsseldorf Academy. Medals: Düsseldorf, 1880; Vienna, 1882; Munich, 1883. Member of Berlin Academy, 1885. Works: Peter's Denial (1868); Seven Scenes from History of Arminius the Cheruskian (1869-73), City Hall, Crefeld; Foundation of Riga (1872), Exchange, Bremen; Prayer of the Swiss before Battle of Sempach (1874); Portrait of Fieldmarshal Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1883), Twelve Scenes from Myth of Prometheus (fresco), National Gallery, Berlin; Battle at Fehrbellin (fresco), Arsenal, ib.; Cycle from History of Erfurt, City Hall, Erfurt; Cycle of Frieze Paintings (1885), Aula, Düsseldorf Academy.—Jordan (1885), ii. 108; Kunst-Chronik, vi. 159; vii. 206; ix. 613; xii. 498; Müller, 280.

JANSSENS or JANSON, CORNELIS. See Ceulen.

JANSSENS, H. (Hieronymus), born at Antwerp, baptized Oct. 1, 1624, died there, summer 1693. Flemish school; genre painter, pupil of Christoffel Jacob van der Lamen; master of the guild in 1644. The pictures by this artist were formerly attributed to Victor Honoré Janssens, who was not born until 1664. The subjects are taken from Flemish court life of the times, and are treated in an original, truthful, refined manner; drawing correct, colouring excellent. Works: La Main Chaude, Louvre (attributed to Victor Honoré); Ball at Court (1658), Lille Museum; Trictrac (1659), La Main Chaude (1660), M. Le Brun Dalbanne, Paris; Prince of Orange (1663), Misses Giebens, Antwerp; Ladies and Gentlemen escorting Married Couple to Travelling Coach, Theodor van Lerius, ib.; Women fighting about a Pair of Trousers, Ghent Museum; Assembly of Noblemen before a Palace (1672), Dunkirk Museum.—Gaz. des B. Arts (1865), xviii. 524; Rooses (Reber), 384; Van den Branden, 1024.

JANSSENS, VICTOR HONORÉ, born in Brussels in 1664, died there in 1739. Flemish school; history painter, pupil of Lancelot Volders, became master in 1689, then spent four years at the court of the Duke of Holstein, who sent him to Rome, where he stayed eleven years, imitating Albani and allied in friendship with Tempesta, in whose landscapes he supplied the figures. Returned to Brussels, and executed many altarpieces; in 1718 went to Vienna as court-painter to the Emperor Charles VI., and thence to London in 1721. His small historical pictures are superior to his large works. Works: Apparition of the Virgin, St. Charles Borromeo, Sacrifice of Æneas, Dido building Carthage, Brussels Museum; Assembly of the Gods, Allegory of Events of 1708, City Hall, ib.; St. Roch curing the Diseased, St. Nicholas, ib.; Venus and Adonis, Copenhagen Gallery.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Immerzeel, ii. 79.

JANSSENS VAN NUYSSEN, ABRAHAM, born in Antwerp in 1575, died there, buried Jan. 25, 1632. Flemish school; painter of religious subjects and allegories, pupil of Jan Snellinck, and studied in Italy; in 1601 admitted to the guild, its dean in 1606-7. After Rubens, he was one of the most famous of the great Flemish painters of the 17th century. According to recent documentary discoveries the accounts of his enmity against Rubens, and the misery into which he fell, are devoid of truth. Works: Madonna, Adoration of Magi, River God of the Scheldt, Museum, Antwerp; Entombment, Madonna and Saints, Carmelites, ib.; The Four Fathers of the Church, Cathedral, ib.; St. Luke painting the Virgin, St. Rombold's, Mechlin; Adoration of the Shepherds, Bruges Cathedral; Descent from the Cross, Ecce Homo, St. Bavon's, Ghent; Miraculous Draught of Fishes, St. Peter's, ib.; Allegory on Age, Brussels Museum; Descent from Cross, St. Bavon's Church, Ghent; Meleager and Atalanta, Vertumnus and Pomona, Berlin Museum; Venus and Adonis, Vienna Museum; Tobias and the