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 Landscape with Cattle, Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Shepherd Family with Cattle and Sheep Resting, Similar Subject (1812), Darmstadt Museum; Inn Valley near Niederandorf, Ruin of Falkenstein (1828), View in Tyrol (1826), Königsberg Museum; Herd with Boy (1823), Leipsic Museum; Young Bull, Landscapes with Figures and Animals (5, three dated 1816, 1821, 1827), New Pinakothek, Munich; Sheep and Cattle-Pieces (6, three dated 1810, 1816), View near Munich, Schleissheim Gallery.—Jordan (1885), ii. 236.

WAGNER, ALEXANDER, born in Pesth, April 16, 1838. History and genre painter, pupil in Munich of Piloty. Won fame with his first large picture, Isabella Zápolya's Farewell to Transylvania, belonging to the Hungarian Academy; visited Spain, and is now professor at the Munich Academy. Works: Episode in Siege of Belgrade, Death of Titus Dugovich, Castle Vajda-Hunyád with Matthias Corvinus and Hunting Suite, Pesth Museum; Abduction of Women (1868); Csikos Race at Debreczin; Picadores at Bull-Fight; Spanish Mail at Toledo; Chariot Race (1876), G. Kirchner & Co., New York. In fresco: Entry of Gustavus Adolphus into Aschaffenburg, Marriage of Otto of Bavaria, National Museum, Munich; Banquet of Attila, Tournament of Matthias Corvinus, Redouten Saal, Pesth.—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 1013.

WAGNER, ELISE. See Puyroche.

WAGNER, FERDINAND, born at Schwabmünchen, Bavaria, in 1819, died in Augsburg, June 13, 1881. History painter, pupil of Munich Academy under Cornelius, Schlotthauer, and Schnorr; returned in 1818 to his native town, painted for different churches in Bavaria, and in succession the following works in fresco: Last Judgment, Church at Schwabmünchen; Homage of City of Augsburg to Rudolf von Hapsburg, Augsburg offering Protection to Louis the Bavarian, Foundation of the Fuggerei, Anton Fugger interceding for Augsburg, Emperor Max at Augsburg (1860-63), Fugger House, Augsburg; others at Constance (1864), and in the City Hall and Catholic Church at Breslau (1865-66); Palace at Monaco (1867); Church at Memmingen; New City Hall at Munich; Scenes from Life of Christ, Church at Friedberg, Suabia.—Kunst-Chronik, xvi. 618; Müller, 543.

WAGNER, FERDINAND, born at Passau, Jan. 25, 1847. History and genre painter, pupil of Munich Academy and of Quaglio; visited Rome, and in 1876 Venice; an artist of great imagination and exquisite humour, and an excellent colourist. Works: Children's Ball, Architect Baré, Hamburg; Lute Player; Evening Devotion; Doings of Modern Art. In fresco: Tannhäuser Scenes (1873); Walls and Ceiling (1874), Rathskeller, Munich; do., Café Roth, ib.; Five Senses (1881); Cycle of 17 pictures representing Influence of Ancient Gods on Aliments (1882); Hunting Train (1883), Drachenburg on the Rhine; Two Female Figures (1883).—Meyer, Conv. Lex., xviii. 993; Kunst-Chronik, xvii. 210, 739; xix. 183, 447; Illustr. Zeitg. (1875), ii. 83; Allgem. K. C., viii. 547.

WAGNER, JOHANN MARTIN VON, born at Würzburg, June 24, 1777, died in Rome, Aug. 8, 1858. History painter, pupil of Vienna Academy (1797-82) under Füger; won the first prize, and returned to Würzburg; went in 1803 to Paris and in 1804 to Rome, whither he returned in 1810 after a sojourn in Munich of two years. In 1812-13 he visited Greece, by order of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria, to buy antique works of art. Professor and secretary-general of Munich Academy. Commander of Order of Civil Merit and of St. Michael. Works: Holy Family, Holy Women returning from Christ's Tomb (1802); Council of Leaders before Troy (1808), Schleissheim Gallery; sketch to this in Darmstadt Museum; Portrait of Artist's Parents, Bearded Old Man, Mary on her Journey to Elizabeth, Christ