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 Olives; Leibnitz submitting to Queen Sophie Charlotte the Plan for Academy of Sciences; Christ Crucified.—Müller, 400.

OËR, THEOBALD VON, Baron, born at Nottbeck, near Sternberg, Westphalia, Oct. 9, 1807, died in Dresden, Jan. 30, 1885. History and genre painter, pupil in Dresden, 1826-31, of Matthäi, then in 1832-36 of Düsseldorf Academy under Schadow. Having travelled in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Algiers, he settled in Dresden in 1839 and became professor and honorary member of the Academy. Works: Hans Sachs; Death of St. Elizabeth (1835); Dying Bedouin; Algerian Jewess; Camoens and his Negro; Italian Girl (1838), Lucas Cranach consoling Elector John Frederic in his Captivity at Innsbruck (1848), Leipsic Museum; Albert Dürer visiting Bellini in Venice (1853), Dresden Museum; Maria Theresa at the Coffin of her Husband; Death of Tasso, Frederic the Great in Rheinsberg, The Neapolitan Woman; First Reading of Schiller's Robbers (1845); Pulpit Candidate before the Old Dessauer; Young Officer reading aloud the Sorrows of Werther; Weimar's Golden Age; Winckelmann as Librarian of Count von Bünau, Leibnitz before Queen Sophie Charlotte (1875).—Müller, 399; Wiegmann, 154; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 315.

OESER, ADAM FRIEDRICH, born at Pressburg, Hungary, Feb. 18, 1717, died in Dresden, March 18, 1799. German school; history painter, pupil of Vienna Academy and of Raphael Donner, with whom he is said to have visited Italy; won the grand prize at the age of nineteen; went in 1739 to Dresden, and in 1749 decorated Castle Hubertsburg; lived for some time at Dahlen, painting for Count von Bünau, and in 1763 became director of the Leipsic Academy, professor at the Dresden Academy, and court painter. Works: Abraham's Sacrifice (1835); Noah and his Son; The Good Samaritan; Disciples at Emmaus; Isaac and Esau; Witch of Endor; Artist's Children (1766), Dresden Gallery; Solomon adoring Idols, Christ healing the Sick, Young Woman distributing Fruit, Allegory, Marriage at Cana, Leipsic Museum; Painter's Studio, Weimar Museum. Fresco paintings in St. Nicholas, Leipsic.—Dürr, A. Fr. Oeser (Leipsic, 1879); Huber, ii. 140; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 553; Larousse, xi. 1260; Wurzbach, xxi. 16; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xxi. 140, 286.

OESTERLEY, KARL (WILHELM FRIEDRICH), the elder, born at Göttingen, June 22, 1805. History and portrait painter, pupil of the Dresden Academy under Friedrich Matthäi; went in 1827 to Italy, where he studied the works of Fra Angelico, Giotto, Masaccio, and Perugino; returned to Göttingen in 1829, studied in Düsseldorf under Schadow in 1835-38, and after the frescos of Cornelius at Munich in 1838, visited Paris in 1842, Düsseldorf in 1844, and became court painter at Hanover in 1845. With Ottfried Müller he published the well-known work, "Monuments of Antique Art." Works: Götz von Berlichingen imprisoned and nursed by his Wife (1826); Departure of Tobias (1829); Wittekind converted to Christianity by Ludgerus (1833); Moses in Prayer between Hur and Aaron, Jephthah's Daughter (1835); Ruth, Naomi, and Orpah, Christ presenting to his Disciples a Child as Example (1836); Leonore (1839); Christ blessing the Children (1841); Christ and Ahasuerus (1844); Beatrice and Dante at the Gate of Paradise (1845); Moses beholding the Promised Land (1846); Leonore with her Mother (1847); St. Christopher, Samuel consecrated to the Service in the Temple (1849); Come ye that are Heavy Laden (1851); Christ Crucified (1852); The Two Brides (1855); Sleeping Beauty awakened by the Prince (1862); Memling nursed by Nuns (1866), Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Adoration of the Magi, Gypsies Resting (1867); Portraits of King Ernst August of Hanover, of Professor Gervinus, and many others. In fresco: Ascension (1838), Royal Chapel, Hanover.—Andresen, iii. 168; Förster, v. 529; Wiegmann, 186.