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 OESTERLEY, KARL (AUGUST HEINRICH FERDINAND), the younger, born at Göttingen, Jan. 23, 1839. Landscape painter, son of the preceding, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Deger, when he painted two pictures from sacred history; went to Lübeck in 1865, and thence visited Norway in 1870, and repeatedly afterwards; settled in Hamburg. Medal, 1st class, Munich, 1879. Works: Street in Lübeck by Moonlight; Midnight in the Loffoden; Ravine in Mountains of Norway; Romsdal Fjord; Norwegian Fjord; Raft Sund in North Norway (1879), Breslau Museum; View on Palten Fjord (1882), Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Oldenvand in the North Fjord (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Müller, 402; Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 679.

OEVER, HENDRIK TEN, born at Zwolle (?), flourished there second half of 17th century. Dutch school; landscape and portrait painter, about whose life and artistic training nothing is known; his rare landscapes with animals show him as one of the best masters of the Dutch school, who, misjudged in his time, probably took up portrait painting from necessity. Works: Family Group (1669), Amsterdam Museum; Dutch Landscape with Bathers and Cows (1675), National Gallery, Edinburgh; do. with Peasants and Cows, Mr. Cramer, Cologne; Groups of Church Wardens (1690), Sacristy, St. Michael's, Zwolle.—Kramm, iv. 1217; Kunst-Chronik, xx. 503.

OFFTERDINGER, KARL, born in Stuttgart, Jan. 8, 1829. History and genre painter, pupil of Stuttgart Art School under Rustige. Works: Ceiling in Church of Lauchheim; Frieze in Liederhalle, Stuttgart; Peasant Wedding; Gypsy Camp; In the Circus.

OGGIONO, MARCO DA. See Marco da Oggiono.

OGILVIE, CLINTON, born in New York in 1838. Landscape painter, pupil of James Hart in New York. Elected an A.N.A. in 1864. Has visited Europe twice and worked in Paris. Works: Path by the River; Farmington River Scenery; Near Brummer—Switzerland; Lake of Killarney; In the Woods (1876); Afternoon on the Avon (1879); Colline de la Madone at Mentone (1880); Landscape (1882); Mediterranean Coast near Cannes, Near Vichy—France (1883); Summer at Auteuil—France, Near Monaco—France, Argèles—France (1884); Down by the River (1885); Hyères (1886).

OLBIADES, painter of a picture in the Senate House of the Five Hundred, Athens, representing Calippus, who repulsed the invading Gauls at Thermopylæ (279 ).—Paus. i. 3, 5; Brunn, ii. 293.

OLD KENTUCKY HOME, Eastman Johnson, R. L. Stuart Collection, New York. A typical home in Kentucky, with the usual negro surroundings in the days before the war, exhibiting a phase of American plantation life now almost passed away. This picture first gave Mr. Johnson a reputation. Exposition universelle, Paris, 1867; Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876.

OLD MONARCH, Rosa Bonheur, W. H. Vanderbilt Collection, New York. The head, life-size, of a noble male lion. Engraved by W. H. Simmons.

OLIMPI. See Alimpi.

OLIS, JAN, born at Dordrecht (?) about 1610, died, probably at Amsterdam, after 1665. Dutch school; genre and portrait painter, entered the guild at Dordrecht in 1632; his pictures are similar in style to those of the followers of Gerard Honthorst, especially Cesar van Everdingen, Jacob van Loo, and Jan van Bronchorst. Works: Kitchen Interior (1645), Amsterdam Museum; Pastoral Scene (attributed to Jan Lys), Darmstadt Museum; Peasant with Beer-Mug (1655), Gotha Museum; The Visit, Wesselhoeft Collection, Hamburg; Male portrait, Victor de Stuers, The Hague.—Bode, Studien, 330; Kramm, iv. 1219; Rep. f. K., iii. 316.

OLIVARES, CONDE DE, portrait, Velasquez, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. 3 in. Bust, three-quarters left, in black dress, green cross of the Order of