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 painter, pupil of Ziegler. Medal, 1868. Works: The Pond, The Garden (1861); Young Girl with Fish (1865); Garden Corner (1867); Flowers and Birds (1868); Chrysanthemums (1869), Luxembourg Museum; Autumn Flowers (1870); Spring Flowers (1872); Peaches and Grapes (1872), Dijon Museum; Decorative Panels for the Palais de la Légion d'honneur (1875).—Bellier-Auvray, i. 520.

ESCH, MATHILDE, born at Klattau, Bohemia, Jan. 18, 1828. Genre, landscape, and still-life painter, pupil in Vienna of Waldmüller, and in Munich of Moritz Müller; studied also in Düsseldorf and Paris, and settled in Vienna in 1855. Works: Farm House in Moravia, Market Scene in Moravia, Munich Girls in the Cemetery, Girl with Dog (1856); Unexpected Return (1857); Gate and Sarkander Pulpit in Brünn Cathedral; The Five Senses; Tancred baptizing Clorinda; Farewell of the Bride.—Wurzbach, iv. 78.

ESCHKE, (WILHELM BENJAMIN) HERMANN, born in Berlin, May 6, 1823. Landscape and marine painter, pupil of Wilhelm Krause, then in Paris of Le Poittevin; travelled through Europe before completing his studies in 1850, and then revisited the coast of the Mediterranean and the Pyrenees. Gold medal in 1879. Professor at the Berlin Academy since 1881. Works: Montorgueil from the Sea, St. Aubin's Castle (1860); Light-House near L'Etacq; Western Coast of Helgoland (1861); Elizabeth Castle on Jersey, Isle of Neuwerk (1863); Pond in Twilight; Dutch Landscape; Storm in open Sea; Blue Grotto at Capri; Isle of Amrum at Ebb Tide; Bergen on Rügen; St. Catherine on Isle of Jersey (1868); Baltic Sea in Winter, Life-Boat to Rescue of Schooner (1872); Steinbach Valley in the Hartz; Storm on Coast of Capri; Promontory of Arkona on Rügen; Whatcombe Bay on Isle of Wight; Light-House on Isle of Neuwerk; Eastern Pier at Swinemünde (1879); Light-House on the Cliff (1879), National Gallery, Berlin.—Brockhaus, vi. 350; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 340.

ESCOSURA. See Leon y Escosura.

ESCRIBANO, EL. See Primo, El.

ESKILSSON, PETER, born at Billeberga, Schonen, in 1820, died at Bremö, near Sigtuna, Jan. 29, 1872. Genre painter; sub-officer in a Gotha artillery regiment, and bookseller at Göthenberg, before he became the pupil of Tidemand (1853) in Düsseldorf. In 1859 he settled in Stockholm, and became member of the Academy in 1866. Works: Mollberg's Bowling Party at Faggens (1868), Stockholm Museum.

ESOP, Velasquez, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 5 ft. 10 in. × 3 ft. An old man, full length, standing, with a parchment folio in his right hand, his left thrust into the bosom of his grey dress. Probably painted, with its companion Menippus, for royal palace, by command of Philip IV. Copy by Prévost in École des Beaux Arts, Paris. Engraved by Esquivel; etched by Goya, C. Alabern; Galvan, and others.—Ford, Handbook, ii. 689; L'Art (1878); Curtis, 18; Madrazo, 633.

ESPALTER Y RULL, JOAQUIN, born in Barcelona; contemporary. History painter, pupil of Barcelona Art School, then studied in Rome and in Germany. Works: Tobias; Death of Moses; Dante's Purgatory; Discovery of America; The Moor's Sigh; Melancholia; Portrait of Don Buenaventura C. Aribau, Barcelona Museum; frescos in University and other Buildings at Madrid.—La Ilustracion, 1877.

ESPINAI, JUAN DE, born at Seville, died there in 1783. Spanish school; history painter, son and pupil of Gregoria E., then pupil of Domingo Martinez, whose daughter he married; was made director of the School of Design at Seville. Works: Scenes from Life of St. Jerome, Seville Museum; Frescos in Collegiate Church, San Salvador.

ESPINOS, DON BENITO, born at Valencia, died about 1817. Spanish school; flower painter, son of the history painter and engraver Josef Espinos (1721-1784); was appointed director of the Valencia Acad