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 Academy.—Ch. Blanc, Êcole hollandaise; Bode, Studien, 207; Dohme, 1ii.; Gower, Figure Painters, 45, 103; Immerzeel, ii. 288; Kramm, iv. 1234; Van der Willigen, 233; Zeitschr. f. b. K., vii. 351.

OSTENDORFER, MARTIN, first half of 16th century. German school; court painter to Duke William IV. of Bavaria. Works: Portraits of Duke William IV. and his Wife Maria Jacobäa.—D. Kunstbl. (1850), 316; Nagler, x. 411.

OSTENDORFER, MICHAEL, born in Suabia about 1490, lived in Ratisbon, 1519-59. German school; history and landscape painter of little individuality. Formed himself after Altdorfer. Works: Altarpiece (1553), Portrait (1523), Ratisbon Museum; Representation from the Apocalypse, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, do. of St. Andrew, Germanic Museum, Nuremberg; Christ on the Cross (1552), Portraits of Duke Albert V. of Bavaria (1543), and of Palatine Philip, Crucifixion, Schleissheim Gallery; Judith, Cologne Museum; Taking of Christ, Pietà, Execution of Brothers Ewald, Bathsheba, Altarpiece, formerly in Kränner-Müller Gallery, Ratisbon.—Keane, Early Masters, 173; Kugler (Crowe), i. 269; Nagler, x. 413; Niedermayer, 270; Schuegraf, Lebensgeschichtliche Nachrichten über den Maler M. O. (Ratisbon, 1849); Sighart, 587, 589; W. & W., ii. 417; Zeitschr. f. b. K., iv. 191, 193.

OSTER, MICHAEL, born in Strasburg in 1807. History painter, self-taught; his compositions distinguished for deep religious feeling and purity of form. Works: Madonna with Saints, Episcopal Seminary, Strasburg. Frescos: Archangel Michael and the Fallen Angels, Scenes from Passion of Christ, Souffelweyersheim, Alsace.

OSTERROHT, GUSTAV, born at Stensitz, West Prussia, in 1836. Landscape painter, pupil in Carlsruhe of J. W. Schirmer, visited the Baltic Coast, the Black Forest, Bavarian Alps, and Tyrol. Works: View in Baden Black Forest; Landscape from Inn Valley; Graveyard Chapel; Forest Stream, and others, mostly in the Art Union Galleries of Carlsruhe, Hanover, Cassel, and Munich.—Müller, 402.

OSTERWALD, GEORG, born at Rinteln, Weser Valley, Jan. 26, 1803, died at Cologne, July 1, 1884. Architecture, landscape, genre, and history painter, pupil in Munich (1822-25) of Gärtner, studied from nature in Switzerland and North Italy, then in Paris, 1830-32, lived for some years in Hanover, studied the Dresden Gallery in 1841, and settled in Cologne, where he became professor; visited Italy in 1854-59 and Scandinavia in 1864. Works: Bamberg Cathedral, Castle Ruin at Heidelberg (1834); Market Square at Lemgo (1837), Cassel Gallery; Faust in his Study (1836); City Hall of Cologne (1842); Jeremiah predicting Birth of Christ, Honour to Music! (1843); Henry the Lion (1844); Cologne Cathedral (1846); Siena Cathedral (1855), View of Rome, Cologne Museum.—Kunst-Chronik, xix. 643; Merlo, 309; Müller, 402.

OTINO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA D'. See Cima da Conegliano.

OTT, JOHANN NEPOMUK, born in Munich in 1804, died there in 1870. Landscape painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Wilhelm von Kobell; visited Italy in 1833. Works: Convent on Shore by Moonlight; Convent of Taormina in Sicily; View in Upper Inn Valley; Alp near Gastein; View of Castilani and Gaeta (1835), New Pinakothek, Munich.—D. Kunstbl. (1850), 386; (1854), 435; (1857), 61.

OTTER HUNT, Sir Edwin Landseer, private gallery, England. The huntsman, having speared the otter, holds him on high while the dogs, twenty or more, howl frantically around him. Painted in 1844 for the Earl of Aberdeen; at his sale, 2,375 guineas; bought later by Baron Albert Grant for 10,000 guineas; at his sale (1877), £5,932 10s., to Agnew, London; E. J. Coleman sale (1881), £3,097. En