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 Landscape after Rain.—Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldorfer K., 359.

KLENGEL, JOHANN CHRISTIAN, born at Kesselsdorf near Dresden, May 5, 1751, died at Dresden, Dec. 19, 1824. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Dietrich, then studied in Italy (1790-92), and was for many years at the head of the Dresden landscape painters; especially successful in giving morning and evening light-effects, and a close imitator of nature. Member of and professor at Dresden Academy. Works: Apollo tending Herd of Admetus, Similar Subject, Dresden Museum; Winter Landscape with Skaters, Shepherdess and Herd at Sunset, Gotha Museum; Landscape with Herd (copy after Berghem), Leipsic Museum; Cows in Pasture (1779), Schwerin Gallery; Animals driven by Peasant Boy across Water, Shepherd Family with Cattle Resting, Stuttgart Museum.—Allgem. Zeitg. (1825), Beilage No. 51; Nagler, vii. 51.

KLENZE, LEO VON, born near Hildesheim, Feb. 29, 1784, died at Munich, Jan. 26, 1864. Architecture and landscape painter, pupil in Paris of Bourgeois, but more famous as an architect; visited England, Italy, Greece, and seven times St. Petersburg, where he built the Hermitage and St. Isaac's Cathedral. Works: View of Agrigentum; Zanthe in the 8th Century; Ideal View of Athens under Hadrian, New Pinakothek, Munich; Interior of Saracen Palace at Ravello, Schack Gallery, ib.; Pirano in Istria, Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen.—Brockhaus, x. 336; Dioskuren (1864), 49; Nagler, vii. 53; Regnet, i. 296; Schack, Meine Gemäldesammlung (1884), 232.

KLEVER, JULIUS VON, born at Dorpat, Jan. 19 (31), 1850. Landscape painter, pupil of St. Petersburg Academy under Michael Clodt and Warjabjoff, and studied from nature in the Baltic provinces. Member of St. Petersburg Academy in 1878, professor in 1881. Many of his best pictures are in the St. Petersburg Academy. Works: Esthonian Fisherman's Hut; Twenty Degrees Réaumur; Russian Autumn; Twilight by the Sea; Calm; Esthonian Mill; Isle of Nargö near Revel; Deserted Park in Livonia; Russian Forest in Winter; Still Life in the Woods; Wilted Leaves.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xxi. 502.

KLEYN, LORENZ LUDWIG, born at Demarara, British Guiana, in 1826. History and portrait painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy and student of the works of the old masters in Amsterdam. Went in 1851 to Italy, spent many years at Rome and, after a sojourn in Stuttgart, returned to Holland in 1868. Works: Eliezer and Rebekah; Samaritan Woman at the Well; Hagar and Ishmael; Banquet of Belshazzar; Wedding at Cana (1864); Portraits of Princess Alexandrine of Prussia and Pope Pius IX.—Christl. Kunstbl. (1864); Meyer, Conv. Lex., xvii. 501.

KLINKENBERG, JOHANNES CHRISTIAAN KAREL, born at The Hague, Jan. 14, 1852. Painter of city views, pupil of Christoffel Bisschop; studio at The Hague. Works: Great Square at Nymwegen (1877), Episode in Siege of Leyden, Amsterdam Museum; Fish-Pond at The Hague, Rotterdam Museum; Spanish Quay at Rotterdam, View at The Hague (1880); Old Women's Hospital at The Hague (1881).

KLÖCKER VON EHRENSTRAHL, DAVID, born in Hamburg in 1620, died in Stockholm in 1698. German school; history and portrait painter, pupil in Amsterdam of Georg Jacobs, then in Italy of Pietro da Cortona; became Swedish court-painter in 1661, was ennobled by Charles XI. in 1674, and made court-intendant in 1690. Works: Descent from the Cross, Last Judgment (1694), St. Nicholas, Stockholm; Coronation of Charles XI., Drottningholm; Portrait of Charles XI.—Faber, iii. 378.