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 Wife, A Saint of the Servite Order, Portrait of Raphael Mengs, do. of Himself (2), Count Firmian and Suite in a Landscape, two other Male Portraits, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Judgment of Paris (1786), Palais Taxis, ib.; St. Benedict and St. Scholastica presented to the Trinity by the Virgin (1770), Schleissheim Gallery; Male Portrait (1791), Vienna Museum; Assumption, St. Sebastian restored by Irene, Portrait of Raphael Mengs, do. of Himself (1803), three other Male Portraits, Academy, Milan; over thirty pictures in Royal Palace and Chapel, ib.; others in Palazzo Groppi, Palazzo Melzi (4), Mainoni Collection (5), ib.; Portraits of Emperors Leopold II. and Francis II.; do. of Himself, Castle Leopoldkron, near Salzburg, and Sacristy of Stiftskirche at Gries. Frescos: The Heavenly Glory (1760, a model specimen of fresco painting), Kloster Ettal, Bavaria; Five Ceilings, Royal Palace, Milan; Apotheosis of Alberich the Great, Rinaldo in Gardens of Armida, Wedding of Rüdiger and Radamante, Palazzo Belgiojoso, ib.; Rape of Ganymede, and two others, Palazzo Groppi, ib.; Scenes in Life of St. Augustine, Stiftskirche at Gries; Descent from the Cross, Campo Santo, Rome.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 321; Göthe, Winkelmann, 280; Hormayr's Archiv. (1826), xvii. 800; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 557; D. Kunstbl. (1858), 99; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 421; Wurzbach, xii. 161.

KNORR, GEORG, born at Löbau, West-Prussia, in 1845. Genre painter, pupil of Königsberg Academy under Rosenfelder, studied then in Berlin and Düsseldorf, and afterwards visited Italy. His subjects are mostly humourous. Works: Invitation to Tea (1867); In the Museum (1872); New Inmates (1874); At Boarding School (1875); Taken in the Act (1877).

KNORR, HUGO, born in Königsberg in 1834. Landscape painter, pupil of Königsberg Academy; won first prize and completed his studies under Behrendsen, travelled in the Hartz Mountains in 1858, and in Norway in 1861. Professor at the Polytechnic School in Carlsruhe since 1873. Works: Before the Storm; After the Storm; View of Witches' Dancing-Ground in the Hartz; Norwegian Glacier; Norwegian Waterfall; Fjord in High Plain; Hardanger Fjord; Wreck on Norwegian Coast; Surf on Norwegian Coast; Flying Dutchman (1870).—Kaulen, 171; Müller, 303.

KNÜPFER, NICOLAUS, born at Leipsic in 1603, died at Utrecht or at The Hague in 1660 (?). Dutch school; history, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of Abraham Bloemaert at Utrecht, whither he came from Magdeburg in 1630, and where he soon became one of the best artists of the Dutch school, enjoying the favour of distinguished patrons, especially of the King of Denmark. He was the first master of Jan Steen, and, according to Kramm, removed afterwards to The Hague. Works: Solomon sacrificing to Strange Gods, Brunswick Museum; The Seven Works of Mercy, Cassel Gallery; Paul and Festus, Mercury and Psyche, Copenhagen Gallery; Artist and his Wife making Music, Dresden Museum; Venus asleep and Cupid, Oldenburg Gallery; Esther before Ahasuerus, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Allegory on Chase after Fortune (1651), Joseph explaining the Dreams, The Washing of Feet, Schwerin Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 331; Descamps, i. 293; Kramm, iii. 882; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 188; Schlie, 319.

KNYFF, ALFRED DE, born in Brussels in 1819, died in Paris, March 22, 1885. Landscape painter. Lives at Fontainebleau. Medals: 3d class, 1857, 1859, 1861; L. of Honour, 1861. Works: Souvenir of Chennevières; Dike of Champigny; Storm in the Campine; Old Willow; Oak at Fontainebleau; Sunset in the Campine in Belgium (1869); Moonlight; Scotch Heath; Evening; Villiers sur Mer; Clairvaux Village (1873); Mouth of the Meuse, Garden of Alfred Stevens, Marsh in the Campine (1875); Prairies of Lagrange, Forest of Stolen in the Campine (1877); Old Willow, Meadow (1880); Environs of Bruges (1883); Prairies