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 Opening of the Dance (1868). Unsuccessful Water Excursion; Rafts on the Inn; Alpine Hunter and his Sweetheart; Fandango; Ambush.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xv. 768; Blanckarts, 106; Kunst-Chronik, xi. 498; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 494.

KINDT, ADÈLE, born in Brussels in 1805. History and genre painter, pupil of Sophie Frémiet, then of Navez; won the first prize of the Ghent Academy when scarcely twenty-two, then received medals in Douai (1827, 1831), Cambray (1828, 1834, 1838), Ghent (1835), and Brussels (1836); member of Brussels (1827), Ghent (1835), and Lisbon Academies. Works: Last Moments of Egmont, Ghent Museum; Melancthon predicting Prince Willem's Future, Elizabeth sentencing Mary Stuart, Hague Museum; Madonna; Obstinate Scholar; Flower Girl; Happier than a King.—D. Kunstbl. (1850), 263; Immerzeel, ii. 111; Kramm, iii. 874; Müller, 299.

KINGS, ADORATION OF. See Magi.

KINSON (Kinsoen), FRANCISCUS JOSEPHUS, born at Bruges in 1771, died there in 1839. History and portrait painter, pupil of Bruges Academy, where he won several prizes and a gold medal; after painting portraits at Bruges, Ghent, and Brussels, went to Paris, where he acquired reputation, was naturalized, and in 1809 appointed chief painter to Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia. After the fall of the empire he returned to Paris and in 1817 became painter to the Duke of Angoulême. Medal, 1808; L. of Honour. Works: Belisarius at the Death of his Wife Antonina (1817), Bruges Academy; Portrait of Duke of Angoulême (1819), Bordeaux Museum; Portraits of General Leclerc, of Bernadotte, King Jerome, and Duke of Angoulême, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, i. 854; Cotta's Kunstbl. (1839), 404; Immerzeel, ii. 113.

KIÖRBOE, CARL FREDRIK, born at Kristiansfeld, Schleswig, in 1800, died at Dijon, France, Jan., 1876. Animal painter. Member of Stockholm Academy in 1858; court-painter. Medals: Paris, 3d class, 1844; 2d class, 1846; L. of Honour, 1860; orders of Wasa and Olaf. Works: Dogs from Tartary, Foxes watching for Prey, Foxes devouring their Booty (1870), Charles XV. on Horseback, Stockholm Museum; Mutual Surprise (1874); Inundation; Jumping Fox; Pony and Dog in a Stable, Ravené Gallery, Berlin.—Art Journal (1876), 106; Bellier, i. 855; Tafior.

KIPRENSKY, OREST, born at Koporie, Government of Petersburg, in 1783, died in Rome in 1836. Portrait painter, real name Schwalbe; pupil of St. Petersburg Academy, then spent some time in France and Italy, and revisited those countries in 1828. Is called the Russian Van Dyck. Works: Portraits of his Father, Adam Schwalbe, of Thorwaldsen, of a Young Gardener, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1836), 436; Waagen, Eremitage, 315.

KIRBERG, OTTO, born at Elberfeld, May 16, 1850. Genre painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy in 1869, continued after the war of 1870-71, from which he returned wounded, under Wilhelm Sohn until 1879; visited Holland, and has since taken his subjects from life of Dutch fishermen. Gold medal, Berlin, 1879. Works: Victim of the Sea (1879), National Gallery, Berlin; Anxious Hours (1880); Dutch Kirmess (1883); Dutch Lovers (1884).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 499; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 402.

KIRCHNER, (ALBERT) EMIL, born in Leipsic, May 12, 1813, died in Munich, June 4, 1885. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil of Leipsic Academy, then in Dresden of Dahl and Friedrich, and finally studied in Munich, whither he returned in 1834 with Genelli. Works: Bear-Pit (1840), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Tomb of Counts of Castelbanco in Verona (1845), View in Verona (1851), Three Views in Heidelberg Castle (1852-54), Courtyard of Palace in Venice (1858), New Pinakothek, Munich; View of Verona, Piazzetta in Venice, Schack Gallery, ib.; Lichtenberg Castle in Adige Valley, Pompeii (1860); Cathedral at Worms,