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 Francis Joseph. Works: Morning after Battle of Hastings (1868); Mary of Burgundy interceding for her Ministers (1870), Liège Museum; Madness of Hugh van der Goes (1871), Museum, Brussels; Mary of Burgundy's Oath to respect Privileges of the Commons (1876, original owned by John G. Johnson, Philadelphia), Citizens of Brussels demanding Constitution of Duke John IV., City Hall, ib.; Scene in Cairo; Burial of a Monk.—Müller, 547.

WAVE, THE (La vague), Gustave Courbet, Luxembourg Museum; canvas, H. 3 ft. 9 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. A strip of sandy, pebbly beach in foreground, with two fishing-boats drawn up at left; in background, the sea, with a single sail in the offing and a long crested wave rolling inward and about to break on the shore. Salon, 1870.

WAY, A. J. H., born in Washington, D. C., in 1826. Still-life painter, pupil of J. P. Frankenstein in Cincinnati, of Alfred Müller in Baltimore, and of Drölling in Paris (1850). Entered the Academy at Florence in 1851. After four years' absence in Europe, he opened a studio in Baltimore, and became vice-president of the Maryland Academy, which he was instrumental in founding. Exhibits at the National Academy, New York. Works: Christmas Morning (1870); Purity, Flora and Pomona, Dr. Zollicoffer, Baltimore; Prince Albert Grapes (1874), W. T. Walters, ib.; Black Grapes, White Grapes, E. P. C. Lewis; Flamme de Tokay Grapes—California (1880); Pomona's Offering (1881); Red Head Duck (1882); Cherries, Oysters, and Ale (1883); Gros Colmo Grapes, Canvas-Back Ducks (1884); Under the Vines (1885).

WEBER, ADOLPHE, born at Boulay (Lorraine), March 4, 1842. History and portrait painter, pupil of Laurent Maréchal, of Cogniet, and of Cabanel. Medal, 1867. Works: Child's Slumber (1866); Awakening of Psyche (1867), Orléans Museum; Venus carried by Zephyr to Cyprus (1868); Echo and Narcissus (1869), Metz Museum; Mystical Marriage of St. Catharine (1870); Grandmother, Ischys and Coronis—Victims of Apollo's Jealousy (1872); Cupid and Psyche (1880); In the Country (1881); Psyche whipped by Order of Venus (1884); Temptation (1885); Legend of St. Herman of Steinfeld (1886).

WEBER, AUGUST, born in Frankfort, Jan. 10, 1817, died in Düsseldorf, Sept. 9, 1873. Landscape painter, pupil of Rosenkranz, then in Darmstadt of Schilbach, with whom he visited Switzerland; then studied two years at the Städel Institute in Frankfort, and one year at the Düsseldorf Academy. Cultivated ideal landscape painting and formed many pupils at Düsseldorf, where he settled; made professor by King of Prussia. Works: Westphalian Landscape (1868), National Gallery, Berlin; Italian do. (1849), Evening do. (1851), Ravené Gallery, ib.; do., Düsseldorf Gallery; others in Museums of Cologne, Leipsic, Königsberg (1855), and Stettin.—Blanckarts, 67; Cat. Cologne Mus., 232; Jordan (1885), ii. 238; Wolfg. Müller, Düsseldf. K., 327.

WEBER, OTTO, born in Berlin, killed in the war of 1870. Genre, landscape, and animal painter, pupil in Berlin of Steffeck, and in Paris of Couture; settled in Milan. Medals: Paris, 1864, 1869; Utrecht, 1866. Works: Wedding in Brittany (1864); On the Bleachery; Colts; First Snow on the Alp (1866); In Fontainebleau Forest; Cattle Grazing; The Ploughing, Under the Chestnut Trees (1867); Deer Quarry, Rentrée du Bois de Chauffage (1868); Ox-Team (1869); Springtime, Annunziata (1870); Hay Gatherers, Fête in Brittany, Mr. Walters, Baltimore.—Hamerton, Painting in France.

WEBER, PAUL, born in Darmstadt in 1823. Landscape painter, pupil of Lucas, and in Frankfort of the Städel Institute; went to Munich, where he studied chiefly