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 NYMPHS AND SATYRS, Rubens, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. 2 in. × 10 ft. 3 in. Nymphs of Diana surprised by satyrs. Same subject, 4 ft. 6 in. × 5 ft. 5 in., in same Museum. Collection of Philip IV.—Madrazo.

OAKES, JOHN WRIGHT, born at Sproston House, near Middlewich, Cheshire, in 1822. Landscape painter, pupil of W. J. Bishop, Liverpool, where he resided until 1856, when he went to London. Elected an A.R.A. in 1876. Works: On the Greta (1848); Moel-gronw from Cwm-y-Glo (1849); Fresh Breeze (1854); Morning—Lowestoft Beach, Fallow Field (1875); The Border Countrie, Quiet Morning (1877); River Mouth, Sussex Village, Woodland Road (1879); Gorse Cutting, Miller's Boat, For Sale (1881); Porchester Pool, Mew Stone (1882); Adder's Rock, Salmon River (1883); Fishing Boats, Going for Turf, Old Roman Bridge over the Ogwen, Mill-Dam (1884).—Art Journal (1879), 193.

OAKEY, MARIA R. See Dewing.

OBERMÜLLNER, ADOLF, born at Wels, Upper Austria, in 1833. Landscape painter, pupil of the Vienna Academy under Steinfeld, then in Munich of Richard Zimmermann. After travelling he returned to Vienna in 1860 and painted chiefly Arctic scenes; also some humourous genre pieces. Works: Mont Blanc; Obersee; Achensee; Ortler; Himmelswand near Gastein; Grave-*yard of Nature; Königsee; Goldberg Glacier, Vienna Museum; View on the Inn; Traunkirchen; twelve North Pole Views; Nahrungssorgen und Wohnungsnoth; Cemetery in Nature, Entrance to Woods in Autumn (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Kunst-Chronik, x.; Müller, 398; Wurzbach, xx. 459; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. (Mittheilungen, iii. 69).

O'BRIEN, NELLY, portrait, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hertford House, London; canvas. Famous beauty, rival of Kitty Fisher; sitting, seen to knees, with hands crossed in lap, in which lies a poodle; wears a broad straw hat. Painted in 1760; exhibited in 1763. Engraved by J. Watson, S. W. Reynolds, and in Graves's Sir J. Reynolds's Works; mezzotint by Ch. Phillips. A second portrait of her, dated 1773, in possession of Viscountess Clifden; a third, sold at Wynn Ellis sale (1876), for £609.—Redgrave, Century, i. 141; Gower, Hist. Gal. of England.

OCHTERVELT (Uchtervelt), JACOB, born at Rotterdam (?), flourished there second half of 17th century, died before 1710. Genre painter, supposed pupil of Frans van Mieris, the elder, though also said to have frequented the studio of Berchem at the same time as Pieter de Hooch, and apparently influenced by Metsu and Terburg; mentioned as member of Rotterdam Guild in 1667-72. Works: Lady and Fish-Seller, Hague Museum; Kitchen Interior, Aremberg Gallery, Brussels; Regents of Leprozenhuis (1674), Museum, Amsterdam; Group of Three at Table, Six Collection, ib.; do., Rotterdam Museum; Wooing, Carlsruhe Gallery; Male Portrait, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Morning Music, Copenhagen Gallery; Signing Last Will, Berlin Museum; Lady with Lap-Dog (1669), Dresden Gallery; Spinning Woman conversing with Peasant, Leipsic Museum; Buying a Fish, Buying Grapes (1669), A Concert, Dutch Girl's Breakfast, Soldier at Breakfast, Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Lady playing with Dog, Historical Society, New York.—Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Burger, Musées, ii. 249; Immerzeel, iii. 149; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 400; Kramm, vi. 1653; De Stuers, 168.

OCKEL, EDUARD, born at Schwante, Brandenburg, Feb. 1, 1834. Animal and landscape painter, pupil in Berlin of Steffeck in 1852-56; went in 1858 to Paris, where he studied several years under Couture, visited Normandy, and in 1859 settled at Barbizon, in the forest of Fontainebleau; has lately returned to Berlin. Works: Cows at the Fairy Pond in Fontainebleau, Autumn Evening in the Mark, Deer at Sunrise in Autumn, Cows in Forest, National