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 Gallery, afterwards fused with the Academy, and acquired the reputation of the foremost genre painter in Austria. In 1820 he visited Italy, in 1821 Dresden, where he copied after Ruisdael and Correggio; thence to Leipsic, where he had great success with his portraits (1827); visited Italy and Sicily again in 1844. Order of Francis Joseph. Works: Old Woman in Arm-Chair (1822), Tyrolese Riflemen (1829), Beggar Boy on High Bridge in Vienna (1830), Vienna Museum; Child learning to Walk (1831); Rabbi teaching Girl; Tyrolese Family Resting (1834); Travelling Beggar Family (1834); Return of Husbandman to his Family (1835); Dog beside Basket with Grapes (1840); After School (1841), National Gallery, Berlin; Austrian Wedding; New Life in Spring (1844); Return from Harvest; Congratulation of Grandchildren, Pilgrims before Statue of St. John (1845); Ave Maria; Evening Devotions in Peasant's Cottage (1846), Provinzial Museum, Hanover; Sunday Afternoon (1846), Königsberg Museum; Harvest (1846); Supper in Peasant's Cottage; Bay of Messina (1847); Convent Soup, Vienna Academy; Spring Landscape (1862); Portrait of Emperor Francis I. (1836); do. of Centenarian, Pesth Museum.—Jordan (1885), ii. 237; Nagler, xxi. 90; Wurzbach, li.; Zeitschr. f. b. K., i. 35; iv. 91.

WALDO, SAMUEL, born in Connecticut in 1783, died in 1861. Portrait painter, first practised art in Charleston, S. C.; painted in London in 1806-9, and spent the rest of his professional life in New York. Pictures in Historical Society, and in City Hall, New York.

WALDORP, ANTOINE, born at Huis in 't Bosch, near The Hague, March 22, 1803, died in Amsterdam in 1866. Marine and city view painter, pupil of Breckenheymer; visited France in 1833, afterwards Germany and Belgium; lived for several years in Amsterdam, and returned to The Hague. Member of Amsterdam (1836) and other Academies. Order of Leopold, 1845; Order of Lion, 1847; Order of Oaken Crown, 1849. Works: View of Dordrecht (1836), Calm Sea, Museum, Amsterdam; Drawbridge over City Canal, Harbour in Calm Weather, View of Spaarnwoude, Interior of Protestant Church, Museum Fodor, ib.; Escape of Hugo Grotius from Castle Loevestein, Rotterdam Museum; View of Dutch City, Leipsic Museum; do., Weimar Museum; Dutch Fishermen's Boats in Storm; View of Jewish Quarter in Amsterdam; Haarlem Sluice; Calm in Zealand (1853); Boats Meeting (1861).—Immerzeel, iii. 214; Kramm, vi. 1823.

WALKER, FREDERICK, born in London, May 24, 1840, died at St. Fillan's, Perthshire, June 5, 1875. Subject and landscape painter in oil and water-colours; pupil in London of Mr. Baker, architect, and of the Royal Academy; afterwards studied two years with Mr. Whymper, wood engraver. Exhibited first work, The Lost Path, at Royal Academy in 1863. Associate of Water Colour Society, 1864; member, 1867; A.R.A., 1871. Works in water-colour: Spring (1864); Autumn (1865); Wayfarers, The Street—Cookham (1866); Designs for Miss Thackeray's Jack the Giant Killer (1868); Fishmonger's Shop (1872); The Village (1873); The Fireside (1876). Works in oil: The Bathers (1867); Vagrants in the Glen (1868); Old Gate (1869); The Plough (1870); Harbour of Refuge (1872); Right of Way (1875). At William Graham sale, London, 1886: The Bathers, £2,625; The Vagrants, £1,858; The Lilies, £1,365; Sunny Thames, £1,218; Stobhall Garden, £567.—Art Journal (1876), 300; Portfolio (1870), 35; (1875), 117.

WALKER, ROBERT, died in London about 1658. Studied the works of Van Dyck and became a portrait painter of great