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 *zeel, ii. 276; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 538; Kramm, iv. 1221; Michiels, x. 551; Rooses (Reber), 450; Van den Branden, 1347-75, 1388.

OMNIA VANITAS, Titian, Accademia di S. Luca, Rome; canvas, life-size. A woman lying, half raised on one arm, on a couch, with a vase near the shoulder and a crown and sceptre at the feet. Perhaps by Cesari Vecelli. Engraved by Lefèbre and by G. Saiter. Copy in Glasgow Museum called Danaë. Another at Kingston Lacy called Omnia Vanitas. Drawing in sepia in Düsseldorf Academy has some of the character of an original Titian.—C. & C., Titian, ii. 430; Hume, Titian, 65.

OMPHALION, painter, first the slave and afterwards the pupil of Nicias. He decorated the walls of the Temple of Messene, daughter of Tryopas, at Messene.—Paus., iv. 31, 11, 12; Brunn, ii. 201.

ONASIAS, painter and sculptor, about 460 B.C. Painted the First March of the Argives against Thebes, on the walls of the portico of the Temple of Athenia Areia at Platæa. Polygnotus was his associate in the decoration of the temple.—Paus., ix. 4, 2; Brunn, ii. 25.

O'NEIL, HENRY NELSON, born in St. Petersburg in 1817, died in London, March 13, 1880. Historic genre and portrait painter; taken by his parents, who were English, to London in 1823; student in 1836 at the Royal Academy, where he exhibited his first picture, Jephthah's Daughter, in 1839; accompanied Elmore to Italy in 1840; elected an A.R.A. in 1860. Works: Ruth and Naomi (1844); By the Waters of Babylon (1846); Death of Mozart (1849); Katherine's Dream (1853); Return of the Wanderer (1855); Eastward Ho! (1858); Home Again (1859); Death of Raphael (1865).—Art Journal (1880), 171; Portfolio (1880), 71; Athen., March, 1880, 384.

ONGHERS, OSWALD, born at Mechlin in 1628, died in Würzburg in 1706. Flemish school; history painter, formed himself after Van Dyck and settled in Würzburg in 1660. Works: Assumption, Stift Haug, Würzburg; Scoffing of Christ, Martyrdom of St. Kilian, Cathedral, ib.—D. Kunstbl. (1851), 414.

OOMS, KARL, born at Desschel, Antwerp, Jan. 27, 1845. History and genre painter, pupil of Antwerp Academy under N. de Keyser; visited Holland, England, Germany, France and Italy. Spanish Order of Charles III. Works: Forbidden Reading, Brussels Museum; Perfect Happiness; Judicial Visit in Plantin's Printing Office at Antwerp in 1566; Philip II. paying the Last Honours to his Brother.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 694; Müller, 401.

OORT. See Noort.

OOST, JACOB VAN, the elder, born at Bruges about 1600, died there in 1671. Flemish school; history, genre, and portrait painter, pupil of his brother Frans; master of the guild in 1621; visited Italy, where he took for his model Annibale Carracci, although in realistic conception and colouring remaining essentially true to his native school. Returned to Bruges in 1629. Painted large pictures with few figures in a style similar to that of the Carracci. Works: St. Augustine washing the Feet of Christ disguised as a Pilgrim, St. Anthony of Padua in Ecstasy, Legend in Life of St. Anthony of Padua, Priest dictating to Clerk (1668), Bruges Academy; Resurrection, Cathedral, Bruges; Baptism of Christ, Martyrdom of St. Godelive, St. Hubert invested by Virgin and St. Ann, St. Joseph and Infant Christ, Angels offering to Virgin Instruments of the Passion, Christ leaving his Mother to go to Calvary, St. John and St. Peter, Church of our Saviour, ib.; Presentation, St. James, ib.; Descent from the Cross (masterpiece), Jesuits, ib.; nine pictures, Abbey of St. Truijen, ib.; many others in several churches, ib.; Magistrates condemning a Criminal (1659), City Hall, ib.; St. Charles Borromeo, Louvre; Holy Family and Donors Adoring, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;