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 WALTHER, WILHELM, born at Neuhäusen, Saxony, in 1826. History painter, pupil of Dresden Academy under Julius Hübner. Works: Christ appearing to the Magdalen (1848), Flight into Egypt, Dresden Art Union. Sgraffito frieze: Festive Procession of Saxon Princes (1876), Royal Palace, ib.—Kaulen, 209.

WALTON, FRANK; contemporary. Landscape painter in water-colours. Studio in London. Works: From Unharboured Heaths (1877); Evening at Dorking; Near the Thames; Regatta at Bournemouth; Autumn, Copse on Furzefield Brow, Brick-*makers (1881); Noontide's Hush, Happy Valley (1882); Gentle Autumn (1883); Among Whispering Woods, World of Meadows, Kynance Cove (1884); Surrey's Pleasant Hills (1885); Summer Tide of Blossoming (1886).

WANING HONEYMOON, George H. Boughton, W. T. Walters, Baltimore; canvas, H. 1 ft. 8 in. × 2 ft. 6 in.; dated 1878. A young pair are seated under a tree in late autumn, the ground strewn with leaves; he is reading a book and carelessly caressing his dog, while she is pouting prettily, but thinking no pretty things of him.—Royal Academy, 1878.

WAPPERS, GUSTAAF, Baron, born in Antwerp, Aug. 23, 1803, died in Paris, Dec. 6, 1874. History and genre painter, pupil at Antwerp Academy of I. J. van Regemorter (1785-1873), then of Van Bree and of Herreyns; studied after Rubens, Van Dyck, and Jordaens; then in Amsterdam and The Hague the old Dutch, and in Paris the Venetian masters; returned to Antwerp in 1830, became professor at the Academy in 1832, and was its director in 1840-53; made court painter and baron in 1845; settled in Paris in 1853. Meeting with great success at his first appearance, he influenced modern Belgian art as the chief representative of romanticism, and formed many pupils; his works are meritorious in composition, poetical treatment, and colouring. Member of several Academies. Many medals: L. of Honour, 1842; Officer, 1855; Order of Red Eagle, 1847; Officer Order of Leopold, 1855. Works: Van Dyck in Love with his Model (1827), View of Citadel of Antwerp (1830), Amsterdam Museum; Self-Devotion of Burgomasters of Leyden (1830), Hague Museum; Christ at the Sepulchre (1833), St. Michael's, Louvain; The Populace of Brussels tearing down the Proclamation of Prince Frederick (1835); Charles I. taking leave of his Children (1836); Charles IX. on St. Bartholomew's Night; Temptation of St. Anthony; Héloise and Abelard; Charles VII. and Agnes Sorel; Execution of Anne Boleyn; Peter the Great at Saardam; Camoens (1842); Geneviève of Brabant (1843), Windsor Castle, Defence of Rhodes by Knights of St. John (1848), Versailles Gallery; Death of Columbus; The Ommeganck at Antwerp; Louis XI. at Plessis les Tours; Boccaccio and Joan of Naples; Louis XVII. in the Temple Prison; Charles I. on his way to the Scaffold, Episode of September Days of 1830, Brussels Museum; Mother's Joy, Museum, Antwerp; Invocation of the Virgin, St. Charles Borromeo's, ib.; Neuvaines of the Family of Egmont (1866), Mr. Probasco, Cincinnati.—Art Journal (1856), 124; (1860), 142; (1865), 268; (1873), 241; (1875), 76; Dioskuren (1875), 4; Immerzeel, iii. 217; Kramm, vi. (1826); Rooses (Reber), 466; Van den Branden, 1390.

WAR, Sir Edwin Landseer, National Gallery, London; H. 2 ft. 10 in. × 4 ft. 4 in. A dying and a dead horse, with their fallen riders, lying among the burning ruins of a cottage. Companion to Peace. Royal Academy, 1846. Engraved by T. L. Atkinson; Lumb Stocks.—Art Journal (1854), 144.

WAR, HORRORS OF, Rubens, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; canvas, H. 6 ft. 5 in. × 9 ft. 3 in. Mars, in armour and with sword and