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 Scourging of Christ, Venice Academy; Artist's Portrait, Shepherd playing the Shalm, Aglaia's Daughters led to Temple by Mercury, Hagar consoled by Angel, Uffizi, Florence; Six Landscapes with Story of Icarus, Naples Museum; Scoffing of Ceres, Madrid Museum; Flight into Egypt, Good Samaritan, Louvre, Paris; Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (copy?), National Gallery, London; Meeting of Elias and Obadiah, Marquis of Bute, ib.; Repose in Egypt, Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth; Eight small Landscapes with Saints, Earl of Leconfield, Petworth; Liberation of St. Peter, Lord Elgin, Broom Hall, near Edinburgh.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vi. 66; Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Bode, Studien, 231; Jahrb. der Köngl. preuss. Kunstsammlg., i. 51, 245.

ELST, PIETER VAN. See Verelst.

EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION, Francis B. Carpenter, staircase of House of Representatives, Capitol, Washington. President Lincoln signing the proclamation of emancipation of slaves in the United States, January 1, 1863. Painted in 1864; purchased for $25,000 in 1877 by Miss Mary Elizabeth Thompson, and presented to the Government.

EMBDE, AUGUST VON DER, born in Cassel, Dec. 2, 1780, died there, Aug. 10, 1862. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of Cassel Academy; studied the old masters at Dresden, Düsseldorf, Munich, and Vienna, painted portraits in Cassel until 1830, and then began to treat child and peasant life with much success. Works: Hessian Peasant Girl with Letter; Children playing on Ruins of their Burned Home; Girls at the Well; Cinderella; Children playing at the Brook.

EMELÉ, WILHELM, born at Buchen, in the Odenwald, in 1830. Battle painter, pupil in Munich of Feodor Dietz, studied afterwards in Antwerp and Paris. His pictures are good in colour and show thorough knowledge of military details. Since 1861 he has resided in Vienna. Works: Battle of Stockach, Assault on Heidelberg Bridge (1857); Skirmish near Aldenhoven (1859); Episode in Battle of Aspern (1860); Taking of Camp near Farmars, Park Scene with Horses, Attack of French Cuirassiers at Waterloo, Battle of Würzburg (1867); Battle of Neerwinden (1872); Attack of Division Bonnemain at Elsasshausen; Battle of Dijon; Meeting of Patrols; Headquarters of XIV. Army Corps in Battle of Belfort; Episode from Battle of Wörth; Victory of George II. at Dettingen (1879); Cavalry Flight near Langenbruck.—Kunst-Chronik, ii. 162; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 292.

ÉMINENCE GRISE, Jean Léon Gérôme, J. H. Stebbins, New York. His Gray Eminence, the Father Joseph of Bulwer's "Richelieu," is descending a broad flight of stairs; absorbed in his breviary, he is apparently as unconscious of the servile bows and genuflections of the courtiers before him as of the defiant and contemptuous glances of those who have passed him.

EMMET, ROSINA, born in the United States, contemporary. Figure painter, pupil of William Chase. Exhibits at the National Academy, New York, and is well known as an illustrator and designer. Studio at East Rockaway, L. I. Works: Portrait of Boy (1881), Alexander Stevens; Apple Blossoms, Haymaking, Waiting to see the Doctor (1882); Red Rose Land, Elder Flowers, La Mescicana (1883).

EMPOLI, JACOPO CHIMENTI DA, born at Empoli in 1554, died in Florence, Sept. 30, 1640. Florentine school; pupil of Tommaso da San Friano, but formed his style chiefly by studying the works of Andrea del Sarto, whose pictures he copied very cleverly. He painted many pictures, the best of which is Christ in the Garden of Olives, Madrid Museum. Other works are: