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 from nature, visited the East in 1846, then studied in Antwerp under Deichmann. In 1848-58 he travelled in America and lived in Philadelphia; after his return, visited Switzerland, France, and Great Britain, and settled in Munich. Many of his pictures are in America. Works: Twilight; Mill in Black Forest; Storm on Chiem Lake; View in Catskill Mountains; Beech Wood with Farm House; Forest Brook (1874), Darmstadt Museum; Herd returning from Pasture (1880); Autumn Morning in Park of Darmstadt (1883); Morning at Berchtesgaden (1884).—Illustr. Zeitg. (1865); Kunst-Chronik, xviii. 497.

WEBER, THEODOR ALEXANDER, born in Leipsic, May 11, 1838. Marine and landscape painter, pupil in Berlin of Krause; went in 1856 to Paris, where he studied under Isabey, and soon acquired great reputation; went to London in 1870, and settled in Brussels in 1874. Member of Societas Artis et Amicitiæ, Amsterdam, and other European art societies. Medals: Rouen, 1866; Havre, 1868; London, 1871; Philadelphia, 1876. Works: Mont Orgueil in Jersey; Spreewald; Sea View in Normandy; Coast near Étretat; Sassnitz in Rügen; Return in Winter; Shipwreck near Dieppe; Banks of Seine; Sunrise on Coast of Brittany; Rock of Léidé (1866); After the Storm; Harbour of Fécamp; Ebb at Ostend (1875); King of Belgium; Mail-Ship between Ostend and Dover; Shipwreck in Bay of Douarnenez, Evrard Gallery, London; Arrival of French Mail-Ship at Dover, Willis Gallery, ib.; In Harbour of Vlissingen, Lemmé Gallery, Antwerp; In Harbour of Ostend, Hauff Gallery, Paris; Shipwreck near Tréport, Avignon Museum; Twilight on Seashore, Thiem Collection, Berlin.—Illustr. Zeitg. (1864); Meyer, Conv. Lex., xix. 1022.

WEBSTER, THOMAS, born in Pimlico, March 20, 1800, died in 1886. Genre painter, student in 1821 of Royal Academy, where he took the first prize for painting in 1825; elected an A.R.A. in 1840, and R.A. in 1846; retired in 1877. In his pictures children are generally the principal actors. Works: Gunpowder Plot (1829); Village School (1833); Football (1839); Punch (1841); Sickness and Health (1843); Dame's School (1845); Village Choir (1847); Slide, See-Saw (1849); School Playground (1852); Hide and Seek (1856); Sunday Evening, Grace before Meat (1858); Autumn, Winter (1860); Politicians (1869); Volunteers at Artillery Practice (1871); Odd or Even (1872); Interested Adviser (1873); Wreck Ashore (1874); Youth and Age (1876); The Letter (1877); Released from School (1879).—Sandby, ii. 177; Art Journal (1886), 351.

WEDDED, Sir Frederick Leighton, Sydney Museum, New South Wales; canvas. Two figures walking under the arches of a terrace, in glow of orange and purple; background of blue sea and sky. Purchased for £1,500.—R. Acad., 1882.

WEDDING-FEAST, RUSSIAN, Konstantin Makovski, Charles W. Schumann. New York; canvas, H. 8 ft. × 13 ft.; signed, dated 1883. The wedding-banquet in the house of a wealthy Boyar in the seventeenth century. The company, gathered around a splendidly appointed table, have turned to greet the bride and groom, who stand at the head of the table at right, and wait with filled cups to drink to their happiness when the young husband, who now sees his wife for the first time unveiled, shall have given her the husband-kiss; at the left, a group are making merry over the bride's slipper, which they have secured and hidden; an attendant is entering with a large dish, and others are looking through the doorway. Exhibited at the International Exposition, Antwerp, 1885, where it was awarded the medal of honour.

WEDDING-GOWN, CHOOSING THE, William Mulready, South Kensington Museum; canvas, H. 1 ft. 9 in. × 1 ft. 5 in. Scene suggested by opening passage in "Vicar of Wakefield." Royal Academy, 1846; Sheepshanks Collection. Engraved by F. A. Heath.—Art Journal (1869), 4.