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 filled with prisoners going to the island, the hills of which are seen in the background; at right, a galley from which prisoners are being transferred to another boat. Salon, 1859.

EXNER, JOHANN JULIUS, born in Copenhagen, Nov. 30, 1825. Genre and portrait painter, pupil of the Copenhagen Academy under Lund and Eckersberg. He painted portraits and scenes from Danish history, before devoting himself entirely to the representation of country life in Denmark. Member of Copenhagen (1864), and Stockholm (1866), Academies. Professor at Copenhagen Academy in 1876. Order of Danebrog, 1869. Works: Old Woman (1852); Sunday Visit at Grandfather's (1853), Feast at Peasant's on Amager (1854), Grandmother's Greeting, Game of Black Peter (1863), Little Convalescent (1867), all in Copenhagen Gallery; Peasants' Dance in Hedebo (1855); End of a Bout (1860); Blind Man's Buff (1866); Peasant Wedding (1867); Visiting the Sick (1876); Wooing (1877); Interrupted Nap (1881); A Discovery (1882).—Sigurd Müller, 95; Weilbach, 155.

EYBE, KARL GOTTFRIED, born in Hamburg, Dec. 17, 1813. History and portrait painter, pupil of the Düsseldorf Academy in 1839-47, under Karl Sohn and Schadow. Lived in Düsseldorf from 1851 to 1853, and afterwards settled in Hamburg. Works: Hagar and Ishmael (1845); Susanna at the Bath (1853), Kiel Gallery; Charity (1847), Children Bathing (1858), Hamburg Gallery.

EYBEL, ADOLF, born in Berlin, Feb. 24, 1808, died there Oct. 12, 1882. History, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of the Berlin Academy and of Kolbe; studied then in Paris (1834-39) under Delaroche, became afterwards member of, and in 1849 professor at, the Berlin Academy. Works: Gleaner (1836); Battle of Fehrbellin (1846), Royal Palace, Berlin; Twelve Reformers, Royal Chapel, ib.; Scene from Scott's Woodstock; Richard Cœur de Lion listening to Blondel's Singing; Scene from Faust.—Brockhaus, vi. 493; Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 24.

EYBL, FRANZ, born in Vienna, April 1, 1806, died there April 29, 1880. Portrait and genre painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy; member in 1843. Works: Smithy at Gosau (1835); Strawberry Seller, Return of Husbandman (1844); Dressing the Bride (1845); Old Woman asleep in Arm Chair; Old Woman leaving Church; Old Woman Praying (1846); Austrian Peasant Woman (1847), Old Beggar (1856), Vienna Museum.—Wurzbach, iv. 119.

EYCK, HUBERT or HUYBRECHT VAN, born at Maaseyck after 1366, died in Ghent Sept. 18, 1426. Flemish school. There are no authentic records of his life until 1424, when he was living in high repute as a painter in Ghent. The honour of perfecting oil painting, long known but hitherto undeveloped, belongs to Hubert and his brother Jan. They invented a colourless varnish which could be applied with safety to oil colours, and thus obviated the only impediment to their use, namely, their excessive slowness in drying, which had been before met by the use of a varnish which darkened many colours and was therefore objectionable. Their new method was that of painting with wet upon wet colour. The tints were mixed with the drying medium upon the palette, and then applied. Hubert's one certainly authentic work is that part of