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 whence passed to W. Young Ottley, who sold it in 1801 to Sir Thomas Lawrence for £470; next passed to Sir M. Sykes, whose heir, Rev. Thomas Egerton, sold it in 1847 for £1,050 to National Gallery, which possesses also the original sketch in pen and ink. Engraved by L. Gruner.—C. & C., Raphael, i. 199; Müntz, 95; Passavant, ii. 16; Perkins, 60; Richter, 53.

KNILLE, OTTO, born at Osnabrück, Sept. 10, 1832. History painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Sohn, Th. Hildebrandt, and Schadow; studied then in Paris under Couture, lived four years in Munich, three years in Italy, and settled in 1866 in Berlin, where, in 1875, he became professor at the Academy. Senator in 1882. Gold medal, Berlin, 1881. Works: Death of Totila (1855); Corpse of the Cid frightening the Moors; Nun led to be immured, Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Cycle from Thuringian Legends; Fiesole in Monastery of San Marco; Tannhäuser and Venus (1873), National Gallery, Berlin; Emperor Hadrian and Antïnous; Four Friezes representing Antique, Scholastic, Humanistic, and Modern Culture, Berlin University.—Müller, 302; Leixner, D. mod. K., ii. 87; Rosenberg, Berliner Malerschule, 164; Wolfgang Müller, Düsseldorfer K., 162; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xvii. 55; xx. 94.

KNIP, HENRIETTE. See Ronner.

KNIP, JOSEPHUS AUGUSTUS, born at Tilburg, Aug. 3, 1777, died at Berlicum, near Bois-le-duc, Oct. 1, 1847. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Nicolaas Frederik Knip (flower painter, 1742-1809); went in 1801 to Paris, where he was befriended by Gerard van Spaendonck; received a pension in 1808, from Louis Napoleon, King of Holland, and soon after went to Rome, whence he visited Naples and Calabria, and returned home with many sketches in 1813; lived at Amsterdam until 1821, went to Paris in 1823, painted much for the royal family and received a gold medal, returned to Amsterdam in 1827, and became blind in 1832. Member of Amsterdam Academy. Italian Landscapes by him are in the Amsterdam (1818) and Rotterdam Museums. His sister Henriette Geertruida (born at Tilburg, July 19, 1783, died at Haarlem, May 29, 1842), was a skilful flower painter, pupil in Paris of Spaendonck and of Jan Frans Dael. Medals, Paris, 1819; Amsterdam, 1822.—Immerzeel, ii. 117; D. Kunstbl. (1852), 310.

KNOLLER, MARTIN, born at Steinach, Tyrol, Nov. 8, 1725, died in Milan, July 24, 1804. History and portrait painter, first instructed by an obscure artist in Innsbruck, then pupil of Paul Troger, who accidentally discovered his talent in passing through Steinach on his return from Italy in 1745, and took him to Vienna. Having obtained the great prize at the Academy in 1753, returned to Tyrol, and after two years went to Rome, where he studied the old masters, and freed himself from Troger's mannerism. He found an adviser in Raphael Mengs and a warm friend in Winckelmann. In 1755 appointed professor at the Academy of Milan, where he spent forty prosperous years. In 1790-92 he was in Vienna, and painted Leopold II. and Francis I. He excelled as a portrait and fresco painter, and decorated a number of churches in the villages of Tyrol, Bavaria, and Lombardy, and many palaces in Milan. Works: Young Tobias healing his Father's Eyes; Stoning of St. Stephen (1754); Conception of Mary, Birth of Mary, Marriage of Mary; Madonna, St. Joseph Dying; Beheading of St. Catharine; St. Sebastian, Pietà (1790), Holy Family (1794), Kloster Ettal, Bavaria; St. Charles Borromeo (1764); Raising of Lazarus; Scipio at Carthage; Christ at Emmaus; Martyrdom of St. Sebastian; do. of John the Baptist; Eight Altarpieces in Stiftskirche at Gries, near Botzen; Christ on the Cross (1796), Holy Family, Joseph and Potiphar's