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 OLIVIER, MICHEL BARTHÉLEMY, born at Marseilles in 1712, died in Paris, June 15, 1784. French school; history, genre, and landscape painter, member of Academy of St. Luke, and court-painter to the Prince de Conti; lived for several years in Spain, where he left many pictures. Works: Massacre of the Innocents (1767); Death of Cleopatra (1769); Telemachus and Mentor conducted to Acestes (1777); Fête given by Prince de Conti to Prince of Brunswick, Stag-Hunt near Château de l'Ile-Adam, Little Mozart playing before Court of Prince de Conti, Supper in the Temple, Versailles Museum.—Bellier, ii. 176.

OLIVIER, (WOLDEMAR) FRIEDRICH VON, born at Dessau, April 23, 1791, died there, Sept. 5, 1859. History and landscape painter, brother and pupil of Ferdinand, with whom he went to Vienna in 1811; having joined Lützow's Volunteer-corps in the campaign of 1813-14, he went in 1815 from Vienna to the Netherlands and England, and in 1818 to Rome, where he studied under Cornelius and Overbeck. After his return to Vienna in 1824 he painted portraits until 1829, when he sought a wider sphere in Munich, and there painted some of the frescos in the Königsbau.—Works: Noah's Family entering the Ark (1818); Christ with the Tribute Money (1821), Naumburg Cathedral; House Altar with five Scenes referring to Nativity (1830); Marriage at Cana, Visitation of Mary (1832); two Italian Landscapes with Scriptural Subjects, Basle Museum.—Nagler, x. 342.

OLMENDORF (Olmdorf), HANS VON, flourished 1460-1518 as court painter to Dukes Sigmund and Albrecht IV. of Bavaria. German school; his works show a decided tendency to idealize, deviating from the then prevailing realism. Works: Passion of Christ, Altarpiece at Altenötting (1507-18); Triptych with Crucifixion (1492), National Museum, Munich; Triptych with Trinity, Baptism of Christ, and Coronation of Mary (1491), Chapel at Blutenburg, near Munich; Portrait of Duke Sigmund of Bavaria, Schleissheim Gallery.—Förster, ii. 250; Marggraff, München m. sein. Kunstschätzen, 76; Schnaase, viii. 465; Sighart, 570.

OLYMPIAS, painter, of whom Pliny only knew that she was the instructor of Autobulus.—Pliny, xxxv. 40 [147]; Brunn, ii. 300.

OMMEGANCK, BALTHAZAR PAUWEL, born in Antwerp, Dec. 26, 1755, died there, Jan. 18, 1826. Animal and landscape painter, pupil of H. J. Antonissen; painted especially sheep. Rector of Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp, in 1789, and professor in Academy in 1796. He was one of the envoys sent to Paris to procure the restitution of pictures taken by Napoleon. Works: Landscapes with Cattle (2), Louvre; do., and Crossing a Ford, Antwerp Museum; Sunset, Sunrise, Baroness Diert, Antwerp; Scene in the Ardennes, Brussels Museum; View in West Flanders, Museum, Amsterdam; Landscapes with Sheep (3), Museum Fodor, ib.; do. (4), Rotterdam Museum; do. (1), Hague Museum; Landscape and Shepherds, Leuchtenberg Gallery, St. Petersburg; Landscape with Sheep and Goat, Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Landscape with Hunter and Fishermen, Cassel Gallery; do. with Cattle, Brunswick Gallery; do., Leipsic Museum; Flemish Pasture, New York Museum; Landscape with Sheep (2), Historical Society, New York; do. (1), August Belmont, ib. His sister, Maria Jacoba, painted landscapes in his manner.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Cat. du Mus. d'Anvers (1874), 262; Immer