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 of Mortefontaine, Isle of Césambre (1884).—Journal des B. Arts (1860), 150; Müller, 304.

KNYFF, WOUTER, born at Wesel, of a Haarlem family; living in 1679. Dutch school. Painted city views and landscapes in the style of Van Goyen; received into Haarlem Guild in 1641. Pictures very rare. Work: View of a City on a River, Ghent Museum.—Kramm, iii. 882.

KÖBEL, GEORG, born at Worms in 1807. Landscape painter, pupil of Dresden and Munich Academies; visited North Italy several times, and Rome in 1836 and 1838, and was greatly influenced by Markó; returned to Munich in 1840. Works: Views of Lake Garda; Views in the Ramsau; San Gregorio in Sabine Mountains; Cloister Andechs in Bavaria; Passenhofen; Ober-Ammergau; Grotto of Egeria, Schack Gallery, Munich; Königsee near Berchtesgaden; Porta Nomentana; View of St. Peter's, Rome, Carlsruhe Gallery.—Müller, 304.

KOBELL, FERDINAND, born in Mannheim, June 7, 1740, died in Munich, Feb. 1, 1799. Landscape painter, pupil in Mannheim of Verschaffelt. Studied from 1768 in Paris, and after his return became court-painter and professor at the Mannheim Academy. In 1793 he was made director of the Munich galleries. His landscapes, in the style of Berchem, are effective and truthful studies from nature. Works: Views in and near Aschaffenburg (6), Aschaffenburg Gallery; Four Landscapes (one dated 1785), Schleissheim Gallery; Six do., Carlsruhe Gallery; Three do. (1784, 1791), Darmstadt Museum; Five do., Stuttgart Museum; others in Augsburg Gallery.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 350; Kugler, kl. Schriften, iii. 363; Kunstblatt (1858), 280; Lipowsky, 155.

KOBELL, FRANZ, born at Mannheim, Nov. 23, 1749, died in Munich, Jan. 14, 1822. Landscape painter, pupil of Mannheim Academy, went in 1776 to Italy, where he spent nine years, chiefly at Rome, and on his return in 1785 settled in Munich, and was made court-painter and honorary member of the Academy; afterwards devoted himself entirely to drawing, and is said to have left over 10,000 productions of his pencil. Works: Rocky Landscape with Waterfalls, Bamberg Gallery; Morning Landscape, Evening Landscape, do. (1778), Cart-Horse and Figures, Boy feeding Horses, Horse Stable (1780), Mountainous Landscape, Weimar Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 355; Goethe, Winkelmann, ii.; D. Kunstbl. (1822), 181.

KOBELL, JAN, born at Delftshaven in 1779, died at Amsterdam, Sept. 23, 1814. Animal and landscape painter, son of Hendrik Kobell (landscape and marine painter, 1751-99, by whom there is a Storm at Sea (1773) in the Gotha Museum); pupil at Utrecht of Willem Rutgaart van der Wall, and took Paul Potter for his model; went in 1812 to Paris, where, in the same year, he won a gold medal, and rapidly attained popularity. His fellow-artists at Amsterdam honoured him as their foremost animal painter. In 1813-14 he lived in London until shortly before his death. Works: Landscape with Cattle, View in Gelders, Oxen at Pasture (1806), Museum, Amsterdam; Landscape with Cattle, Horse and Goats by a Barn, Landscape with Peasants Milking, Museum Fodor, ib.; Oxen and Sheep in a Meadow, Rotterdam Museum.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 354; Immerzeel, ii. 120; Kramm, iii. 885.

KOBELL, JAN, born at Rotterdam, April 13, 1800, died there, Nov. 8, 1838. Animal and landscape painter, son of the engraver Jan Kobell (1756-1833, a brother of Hendrik), pupil of Rotterdam Academy; painted at the age of seventeen a Cow Stable, which was placed in the Hague Museum. His principal work, a life-size Cattle-piece (1830), was immediately sold in Paris. His sister, Anna (1795-1847), was also an esteemed artist, whose works are in private collections in Holland.—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvi. 355.

KOBELL, WILHELM VON, born in Mannheim, April 6, 1766, died in Munich,