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 pageants; spent eight years (1860-68) in Hungary, the Danubian principalities, and in Paris; took part in the campaign of 1870-71. Works: Hungarian Inn (1861); Horses in the Rushes (1865); Csikos driving Horses back to the Herd (1865); Race-Course of Longchamps (1867); Hussar-Patrol, Steeple-Chase, Transportation of Horses (1868); Hungarian Market-Scene, Attack of Brigade Bredow in Battle of Vionville, Battle of Sedan (1872); Episode in Battle of Wörth (1875); Bay of Galata; Second Bavarian Army Corps crossing the Seine at Corbeil (1885); Catching Wild Horses in Hungarian Puszta, Dresden Museum.—Müller, 319.

LANG, LOUIS, born at Waldsee, Würtemberg, March 29, 1814. Portrait and figure painter; studied in Paris and Stuttgart in 1834; went to America in 1838, and has since lived in New York, making frequent visits for study to Venice, Rome, Florence, and Paris. Elected N.A. in 1832. Works: Asleep in Prayer (1869); Old Mill at Greenwich, Conn. (1870); Blind Nydia, Jephthah's Daughter (1871); Cinderella, Cleopatra (1875); Landing of Market-Boat at Capri (1876); Mary Stuart distributing Gifts, Maid of Saragossa, R. L. Stuart Collection, New York; Country Girl, Museum, ib.; Fresh Cherries, Neapolitan Fisher Family (1878); Romeo and Juliet (1882).—Tuckerman, 434.

LANGE, JAN. See Bockhorst.

LANGE, JULIUS, born in Darmstadt, Aug. 17, 1817, died in Munich, June 25, 1878. Landscape painter, pupil of the Munich Academy in 1834, then from 1835 of Schirmer in Düsseldorf. In 1840 he was attracted to Munich again by Rottmann, and soon became a favourite for his mountain landscapes. In 1854 he visited Upper Italy, where he painted studies for the Venice Academy and two large pictures for the Milan Academy, and was made a member of both institutions. Numerous orders from King Max induced him to return to Bavaria in 1858. He was appointed court-painter by Louis II. in 1867. Works: Village in Forest (1840); Wood in Evening Light; View in the Ramsau; Morning on the Alp (1848); Partenkirchen (1858); Landscape in North Italy (1860), Darmstadt Museum; Castle Kolovrat in Bohemia, Stuttgart Museum; View near Dachau (1869); Morning Landscape; Zugspitze; Part of Gosau Lake (2, 1865), View near Parten-*kirchen (1871), New Pinakothek, Munich; Seven Idyls from Amper, Föring on the Isar (1874).—Allgem. d. Biogr., xvii. 644; Kunst-Chronik, xiii. 687; Reber, ii. 290; Regnet, ii. 1.

LANGE-PIER. See Aertzen.

LANGENDYCK, DIRK, born in Rotterdam, March 8, 1748, died there, Dec. 15, 1805. Painter of battles and marine pieces, pupil of D. A. Bisschop. His pictures are rich in composition, of striking effect, and well drawn. Works: A Camp, Cavalry Fight, Wounded General, Rotterdam Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 156; Kramm, iii. 945.

LANGENHÖFFEL, JOHANN FRIEDRICH, born at Düsseldorf in 1750, died in Vienna, Dec. 31, 1807. History and portrait painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy; became court-painter at Mannheim in 1782, and afterwards director of the gallery in Vienna. Works: Rape of the Sabines (1783); Venus bringing Cupid to Bion, Homer; Calliope with Homer, Mannheim Gallery; Dancing Bacchantes (1796), Acis, Galatea and Polyphemus, Dessau Gallery; Portrait of Queen Augusta Wilhelmina of Bavaria, Schleissheim Gallery.—Wurzbach, xiv. 107; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xiv. 316.

LANGENMANTEL, LUDWIG VON, born on the Michaelsberg, near Kelheim, April 4, 1854. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Piloty; instructed in 1875 the Princess of Anhalt-Dessau. Medal in Munich in 1876. Works: Capture of the Chemist Lavoisier in 1794, Münster Gallery; Three Pictures with Amorettes, Savonarola's Sermon against Prodigality (1879).—Müller, 319; Leixner, D. mod. K., ii. 75.