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 Nativity, Vienna Museum; Male Portrait, New York Museum; Carnival Scene, Historical Society, New York.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Deschamps (Marseilles ed., 1840), i. 280; Immerzeel, ii. 279; Michiels, viii. 421; Weale, Cat. Mus. de Bruges, 75.

OOST, JACOB VAN, the younger, born in Bruges, baptized, Feb. 11, 1639, died there, Sept. 29, 1713. Flemish school; history painter, son and pupil of Jacob the elder; studied several years in Italy, after having passed two years in Paris. Soon after his return to Flanders he went to Lille, where he lived for forty years. Painted like his father, but in a broader style; in colouring somewhat like Van Dyck. Works: Friar dressing Monk's Wound, Holy Family, two others, Museum, Lille; Martyrdom of St. Barbara, St. Stephen's, ib.; Infant Christ offering to God Emblems of his Sacrifice, Virgin giving Scapulary to St. Francis, St. Andrew's, ib.; St. Francis carrying Infant Christ (1687), St. Maurice's, ib.; Virgin giving Stole to St. Hubert (1668), Cathedral, Bruges; Death of the Virgin, Christ Victor over Death and Time, Conversion of St. Hubert, Adoration of the Magi, Church of our Saviour, ib.; Three portraits of Directors, St. John's Hospital, ib.; Male Portrait, Brussels Museum; do. (1697), Bruges Academy; Nativity, Vienna Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École flamande; Immerzeel, ii. 279; Michiels, ix. 83; Weale, Cat. Bruges Academy, 86.

OOSTEN, IZAAK VAN, born at Antwerp, Dec. 10, 1613, died there in December, 1661. Flemish school; landscape and animal painter; worked many years for his father, an art dealer, and did not register in the guild until 1652. He painted so nearly in the manner of Jan Brueghel the elder, that undoubtedly many of his pictures pass under the name of that master. Works: Earthly Paradise with all Kinds of Animals, Baron de Wit, Wommelgem, near Antwerp; do., with Adam and Eve and many Birds.—Van den Branden, 1092.

OOSTERWYCK, MARIA VAN, born at Nootdorp about 1630, died at Eutdam in 1693. Dutch school; flower and fruit painter, pupil of Jan David de Heem. Her pictures were bought at high prices by the Emperor Leopold, the King of Poland, and William III. of England. They are remarkable for high finish, brilliant combination of hues, and truth of local colour. Works: Flowers in a Glass Vessel, Carlsruhe Gallery; do. (1685), Copenhagen Gallery; do., Schwerin Gallery; do., and Fruit Piece, Dresden Gallery; Flower Piece, Still-Life (1668), Vienna Museum; Flowers in Vase with Fruits and Insects, Uffizi, Florence; do., New York Museum.—Immerzeel, ii. 281; Kugler (Crowe), ii. 517; Kramm, iv. 1223.

OPHELIA, Sir John E. Millais, Bart., Mrs. Fuller-Maitland, London; canvas, H. 2 ft. 4-1/2 in. × 3 ft. 7 in. Immersed in a deep stream, through whose clear waters her richly brocaded gown and a tangled mass of half-floating weeds are visible, Ophelia, her head just above the surface, with her auburn hair spread out like threads of gold, is singing her last song. The background was painted on the Ewell River, near Kingston. Miss Siddal, afterwards Mrs. D. G. Rossetti, sat for the face of Ophelia. Royal Academy, 1852. Engraved by J. Stephenson (1866).

OPHELION, painter, date and country unknown. His pictures of Pan, and of Aërope, wife of Atreus, are mentioned in the epigrams of Nicodemus of Heraclea.—*