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 King Emerich taking his Brother Prisoner, St. Cecilia, and others, Pesth Museum; Scenes from Hungarian Legends, The Four Great Rivers of Hungary, Attila's Banquet, Redouten Saal, Pesth. In fresco: Episodes in Hungarian History, National Museum, ib.; Portraits of Emperor Francis Joseph and Empress Elizabeth (1868), Council Room, ib.; Portrait of Francis Deák (1877), Academy of Sciences, ib.; many altarpieces for churches in Hungary.—Wurzbach, xliv. 168; Graph. K., v. 16; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xii. (Mittheilungen, v. 12).

THAYER, ABBOTT HENDERSON, born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 12, 1849. Animal and landscape painter, pupil in Boston of Henry D. Morse, in Brooklyn of J. B. Whittaker (1867-68), and in Paris in the École des Beaux Arts under Lehmann and Gérôme (1875-79). Studio at Cornwall-on-Hudson. Works: Young Lions of Central Park; Cows coming from Pasture; Feeding the Cows; Boy and Dog; Shamming Sick (1876); Autumn Cornfield; View on the Seine; Alderney Herd in Guernsey; Mountain Pasture; Sleep, Childhood (1878); Autumn Morning on the Housatonic, Portrait of O. H. Palmer (1880).

THEODORICH OF PRAGUE, or Meister Dietrich, flourished in Prague during the reign of the Emperor Charles IV. (1348-78), as one of his court painters. German school. Probably of Czech rather than German origin, judging from the pictures attributed to him, which are of a Bohemian type. His name is mentioned as master of the guild as early as 1348, and again in a document of 1367. He evidently had a long and influential career, and may be considered as one of the founders of the school of Prague. Works: St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, Vienna Museum; series of one hundred and twenty-five half-length figures of Saints, Apostles, etc., Chapel of Karlstein, near Prague; two half-length Saints, University Library, Prague.—Kugler (Crowe), i. 38; Schnaase, vi. 438; W. & W., i. 396; Gaz. des B. Arts (1873), vii. 148.

THEODORUS, painter, of Samos or Ephesus (?). Mentioned by Theophanes in his essay on painting, according to Diogenes Laertius (ii. Arist., xix.). Two other painters of this name are spoken of by Diogenes, one as mentioned by Polemo and the other by Menodotus as of Athens.—Sillig, 439.

THEODORUS, painter, of Samos, pupil of Nicosthenes, mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. 40 [146]) as of some reputation.—Sillig, 443.

THEODOTUS, Greek painter of common subjects, lived at Rome first half of third century B.C. Mentioned in a comedy by Nævius as the painter of a rude picture of the Lares at play on an altar.—Nævius, in Festus (p. 250, ed. Müller); Brunn, ii. 503.

THEOLOGY, Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican; fresco, medallion on ceiling. Allegorical figure seated on clouds, with book in left hand. Two little genii, on either side, holding tablets, inscribed "Knowledge of Divine Things." Painted in 1512; shows hand of a pupil. Engraved by B. Audran; R. Morghen.—Passavant, ii. 88; Müntz, 311, 316, 350; Perkins, Essay, 120.

See, also, Dispute of the Sacrament.

THEOMNESTUS, Greek painter, 4th century B.C. Pliny says (xxxv. 36 [107]) that Mnason, tyrant of Elatea, paid twenty minæ apiece for his pictures of the heroes.—Brunn, ii. 256.

THEON (Theorus, Theodorus), painter, about 360 B.C. Pliny mentions (xxxv. 40 [138]) among his works: A Man anointing himself; Murder of Ægisthus and Clytemnestra by Orestes; Cassandra, in the Temple of Concord, Rome; Leontium, Mistress of Epicurus, in Meditation; King Demetrius; and a series of pictures of the Trojan War, in the Portico of Philippus at Rome. Brunn (ii. 255) thinks him probably identical with Theon of Samos.

THEON, a famous Greek painter, of Samos, contemporary of Apelles, 4th century B.C. Pliny mentions (xxxv. 40) among his works, The Frenzy of Orestes—which Plu