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 where he became a member of the Academy of S. Luca, and in 1814 inspector of the Papal Cabinet of Mosaics. Works: History of Achilles (in 14 pictures, after which was executed the famous mosaic table presented by Pope Leo XII. to the King of France), St. Paul before King Agrippa, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck; Frescos in Municipal Hall in Rome.—Hormayr's Archiv. (1826), xvii. 206; Tyrol. K. Lex. (1830), 131; Wurzbach, xii. 207.

KOEDYCK, NICOLAAS, born in Zaandam in 1681. Dutch school; portrait and genre painter, after the style of Pieter de Hooch. He was the last good Dutch painter of the old period, and the favourite of Peter the Great in Zaandam (Sardam). Works: Portrait of an Admiral, Amsterdam Museum; Dutch Interior, Brussels Museum; Man with Wineglass, in Background a Concert, Hermitage, St. Petersburg.—Immerzeel, ii. 122; Kramm, iii. 893.

KOEHLER, ROBERT, born in Hamburg in 1850. Brought to America in 1854. Genre painter, pupil of the National Academy under Professor Wilmarth, and of the Art Students' League under Walter Shirlaw; afterward studied in Munich under Lœftz and Defregger. Exhibited first in National Academy in 1878. Works: Her only Support (1883); Socialist (1885).

KOEKKOEK, BAREND CORNELIS, born at Middelburg, Zeeland, Oct. 11, 1803, died at Cleves, April 5, 1862. Landscape painter, son and pupil of Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek (marine painter, 1778-1851, by whom there is a Sea View, 1847, in the New Pinakothek at Munich), and student of Amsterdam Academy under Schelfhout and Van Oos; travelled in Belgium, in the Ardennes, on the Rhine, and Moselle, visited Paris, afterwards settled at Beck in Gelderland, and in 1841 founded an Academy of Design at Cleves. Member of Rotterdam and St. Petersburg Academies in 1840. Orders of the Lion (1839) and of Leopold (1842); L. of Honour; gold medals in Amsterdam (1840), Paris (1840 and 1843), and The Hague. Works: Wood-Interior (1840); do. (1843); Oak-Wood in Damp Weather; Landscape on Nether Rhine; Summer Landscape, Winter Landscape (1843), National Gallery, Berlin; Landscapes (2, one dated 1853), Ravené Gallery, ib.; do. (1), Carlsruhe Gallery; do. (2, 1851, 1852), Leipsic Museum; do. (1838, 1848), Museum, Amsterdam; Landscape with Cattle, City on a River, Four others, Museum Fodor, ib.; Forest, View in Guelders, Winter, Rotterdam Museum; View near Cleves (1846), Antwerp Museum; Marines (2), South Kensington Museum; View on the Moselle, Historical Society, New York; Dutch Landscape, W. H. Vanderbilt, ib.; Landscape, J. W. Drexel, ib.; Street in Antwerp, M. K. Jesup, ib.; Landscape, Market, Church, R. L. Stuart Collection, ib.; Landscape, J. T. Martin, Brooklyn.—Cotta's Kunstbl. (1836), 187; (1840), 361; D. Kunstbl. (1856), 52, 407; Immerzeel, ii. 123; Kramm, iii. 896; vii. 95; Larousse, ix. 1238.

KOEKKOEK, HERMANUS, born at Middelburg, March 13, 1815, died at Haarlem, Nov. 5, 1882. Landscape and marine painter, son and pupil of Johannes Hermanus, and brother of preceding. Member of Amsterdam Academy in 1840. Works: Calm Water with Fishing Smacks (2), River View, View on Zuyder-Zee, three others, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam; Agitated Sea, Rotterdam Museum; Sea on Dutch Coast, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.—Immerzeel, ii. 126.

KOELBL, ALOIS, born in Munich, Jan. 14, 1820, died there, March 28, 1871. Genre painter, pupil of the Munich Academy under Heinrich von Hess, then of Bernhard in portrait painting; visited Italy in Michael Echter's company, and finally devoted himself to small genre subjects. Works: Clerks in a Sacristy (1852); Walk (1859); Preparing for a Sunday Walk (1860); Recruit in the Kitchen; Palatine Rudolph I. and Duke Otto in the Battle of Göllheim (large fresco), National Museum, Munich.